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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-31

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan 31.-A day or
two ago, Paige introduced 4 resolution
directing the committee ON elections to III
quiro INTO the status Of Hon. J. $ Robinson,
secretary of the state Of Ohio, whose name
was still borne on the roll as a member OF
the house and Fri lay morning Keifer, as .
question Of privilege attempted toread, or
have read by the clerk tae following
telegram;
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan 3J-To Hon WAR
GEE kEIFER, Washington, d. C.; Members
Of congress are state officers. Gen. Robinson
handed mo his resignation as member of con
gTes5 10 the governor of Ohio at II o'clock,
Jan, II, and the same is now on record in
that Office. Tho governor sent Paige of
Ohio, certified copy Of he resignation sew
erai days ago.
[SignedJ W L. WALKER.
keifar was interrupted by loud cries of
order and finally ruled out Of order, the
subject having been referred to a COM
mittee Paige says he has not received the
certified copy Of the resignation referred to
in the telegram.
fraudulent Claims Against Foreign Nations
WAsFEGToN CITY, Jan. 3l.-A bill was
reported to the house from the committee on
/. foreign affairs by Deusfer, Of Wisconsin,
Thursday, ''to prevent and punish the pros
ecution under the protection of the United
States of fraudulent claims against foreign
government In the report accompanying
the bill the committee says 1t appears
from documents sent to the house last
session, that over ,0a3 claims, aggregating
more than $40 0)g,0D0 we're presented by
citizens of the United States to the depart
{ .
cent International commissions. Over four
fifths Of these claims were dismissed as un-
founded. The total sum awarded was less
| than ] per cent. Of tie total sum claimed.
OF this percentage, It has been asserted ever
| since the commission adjourned, nearly one
third was obtaiGel by fraud.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-31

Hoods Sarsaparlla, acting through the
blood, reaches every part of the system,
and in this way positively cures catarrh.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-31
IF 1T qCerc possible

to get the testimony of the multitude who
have used HOOPS SARsAPARILLA for de-
bility, languor, lassitude, and that general
feeling of stupidity, WEAKNESS and exhaus-
ton which every one feels during this season,
we should be able to present to our readers
such an overwhelming mass Of commend
atory messages, that the few who have not
tried il would do so at once. ltis positive
fact, and has been so cffectually demon
strated that no one to-day denies it, that
Hoods Sarsaparilla contains mere real med
cinalyalue than any article before the people
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New York.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.
Wheat Unsettled 4@Kc lower; mod
erately active speculative business; No.
white, 93c; No. red Febru.
airy, SS24@S91sc; March, 9t1s490%c;
April, 93@92Ac; May, 9312Q93$4c;
June, 94h@944c Corn-3s@$sc lower;
dull; mixed western spot 5J@524c; future,
4SM@5lc. OatS-i4W - lower; we,tern
3GM40c. Provisons-Beef, quiet and ua-
changed; new extra, Sll.00@l1.5l Pork,
quiet; new mes, $l395@I354 Lard, dull
and easier; steam $7.I2I5.
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THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 50.

ShlCAHt Jdu OO.
NJ. II. Crapser s. Co 5 market circular of
this evening gives tie following quotations
on the boart oA trade to-day: Wheat--Feb-
ruary. opened fG$4c, closed 96%c; March,
opened T$sc, clo=ed 71c; May, opened
Sc, closed o3N as -. Cora-February,
opened 3615c, closed 36 sc; March, opened
30S @363s, closed 36$se; May, opened 404c,
closed 59%c. Oats-May, opened and
closed 39Hc Pork-FeDruary, opened
$l2,O5, closed sl2O915; March, opened
$l2. l7l5, closed $l2. 10; May, opened Sl235,
closed $123715 Lard-March, opened
s. S61z, closed So 81; May, opened SL05,
closed Sz02L.
Live Stock-The Union Stock Yards re.
ports the following range Of prices: Hogs
Market opened rather slow and weak, with
prices lO@l5c lower, shippers being the
principal buyers; light grades, 81 21@ 450;
rough packing grades, 81 20@+4O; heavy
packing and shipping grades, $4.4574S
Cattle-Market slow and lOc lower; shipping,
S4@6, mainly S5@t5 50; butchers, 50 065
l. 25; stockers, $3Gl4 90 Sheep Market slow;
81 251t50, mainly s.. 75@3,50.
Produce: Butter-F Fine creamery, 32Cd33c;
held stock, 22W2jc; good to choice dairy, 20
025c; good roll, l4GllGc; packing, S@l0c
Eggs-Fre5h laid, 27M2Sc; good ice house or
picked, l5@24c. PotatoeS-Good early rose,
peachblow or burbank, 4SG45c. Poultry
Good to choice dressed turkeys, l20l25c;
do chickens, S@9c; do ducks IG1219c;
do geese, G@Sc. Apples-Fair to fine, 81
az 50 per bbl. Hay-Good to choice timo-
thy or upland prairie, S9@l2 per ton; very
fine Iowa, $l3.
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Lands.
WASHINGTON CTR. Jan. %j-The house
committee on putllc lands has instructed
Nj Cobb TO report favorably the bill which
provides that wherever lands have Leen
Withdrawn from sale or disposition on the
part Of the United States by reason of
grants made to aid in the construction Of
railroads or other works Of internal improve.
ment, and such Withdrawals have been ter
minated by act Of congress, executive
order, or order Of the land department,
or where lands have been by operation
OF law reduced in price to Sis
per acre, and the lands have been purchased
IN good faith at that price or entered with
warrants or scrip, and the officers of the
land department have issued certificates CT
patents thereon in accordance with such
purchase or entry, without such lands
having leen first proclaimed by the presi-
dent and offered ut public auction, and
where on the 18th day Of January. 1885,
there are no conflicting claims thereto, all
such entries and the certificates and patents
issual thereon shall be confirmed and de-
clarad valid and legal
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THE ILLINOIS STATESMEN.

They Set Down to Business-or Organization
Complcte-state Officers Swon-Hamii-
toms Message.
SPRINGFIELD. His, Jan 3l.-Ths house
met Friday per adjournment, aai completed
It's organization hy the election Of the Dem
cratic caucus nominees except in the case of
reading clerk, for which position Doherty,
Republican, was chosen 1t is stated that
ae will decline the position.
The senate met with the house at l;30 =.
III. AMI the vote for state officers was can
vassed and the result declared Governor
Oslesby and the other otiicials-elect appeared,
and in the presence OF the two houses were
duly sworn in for their respective terms.
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR At Law
Il Rock Island, His. Office in Post Office Build-
ing, over Mitchell " Lynde's Bank, Rooms. No
and 10 nov-2i-dW1y
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J. FL. BEARDSLEY.
II q CNNNEI.IY

4 TTORNEY AT LAW-Oflce with J. T. Ken
II worthy. l125 Second avenue. aug-1-dw6m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-31

THE NlCARAGUAN TREATY LAID ON
THE SHELF.
Not Good Year fer Such Legislation This
House Dynamite Resolutions to BE
Throtticd Comforting with Sic
Culloch-Capital Notes.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan 3l.-The senate
thursday afternoon reached q final vote ON
the Nicaraguan treaty, and the ratifca-
ton failed. The vote was-yeas, 50;
nays. %. There is sentsment in the senate
in favor, however, OF some modification of
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, as was shown
by the adoption of Sherman's amendment to
that effect by vote of 30 to 10 before the
treaty was Re jected, The vote as nearly as
can be ascertain9d was as follows:
Yeas--Aldrich, Allison, Bromn, Cameron
tWis), Chase, Conger, Cullom, Edmunds,
Frye, Hale, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar Jonas,
Jones lFla.), Jones tNev.) Lap ham, McMil-
Ian, Mahone, Manderson, Maxey, Miller
Call, Morgan, Palmer, Plumb Pen
dleton, Pike Platt, Pugh, Sawyer,
Sherman, Van Wyck, and Wilson-33
Nays-Bayarl, Beck, Butler, Call, Camden,
CFkTel, Coke, Colquitt, Garland, George
Gibson, German, Groeme, Hampton, Har-
riS. Jackson, kenna, Lamar, Ransom, Rid
dieberger, salisbury, Vance, Vest-23.
This action is believed to foreshadow the
vote of all the treaties now under considera-
ton.
On Friday the senate adopted the house
resolution providing for the count of the
electoral vote on February II. Hoar then
called up tie bin recently reported in regard
to the Pacific railways and proceeded
to urge its Importance and ex-
plain it, At the conclusion Of his remarks
the bill was laid over and the Interstate
commerce bill taken up.
| The house Thursday debated the river and
! harbor bill until adjournment
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GUIDO BECK.
NOTICE.

WANTED-A wen trained Swedish servant
neat and honest, at ST. Lrke's Cottage Hospital
tf
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milwaukee,.


Wheat - Easier; Ne =. 75., January, 76.,
February, 15e; March, 7G$:c; AR! 71t5r;
May, Se2sc. Corn Neg gIectad; No. ,. 3jlssc.
Uats-Quirt; NJ. ,, 2714c. Rye Easier;
No. l, G51sc. Barley -DJii No =, 54c;
extra No. = 81.
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HOODS sARsAPARILLA

Works through the blood, regulating, tonfng
and inmgoratng all the functions of the body.
Sold by druggists. Price 81, or six for IS.
C. I. HOOD & Co, Lowell Mass.
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E. D. SWEENEY. c. L. WALhkk
SWEENEY g. WALKER,

hTTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT La
dOffice in Bengston's block, Reck Island, Ill.
aug-1-dwy
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-03-07
WOMEN AND MEN.

The Difference in the Manifestations of
Sense and Faculty in the Sexes.
Not all the virtues are common to
men and women alike, without change
Of function or proportion. For the
most part there is as much difference in
them as there is in the manifestations
Of brain power or the natural assign
ment of the work of the world; and the
same virtue changes its name and color
as it passes through the alembic of sex.
Take order as the first example.
The order of a man and that of a
woman are different things in manipu-
lation, if the original stuff, the mental
paste" is the same. A man has Or
ganization, a woman management; a
man of business carries his exactness of
arrangement and classification to the
point where it becomes automatic, and
makes of his workmen unindiyidualized
if intelligent machines, who do what
they are told to do and have no con-
Germ with therest; good housekeeper
is methodical and knows how to clear
ly define duties and parts, but her power
to allow for individual idiosyncrasies is
part of her success as mistress, and
no house would go well where, under
stress, these parts could not be rear
ranged and the duties shifted from one
pair of hands to another.
A sailor understands the art of neat
storage, o lady's maid that of deft COM
bination. The original quality is the
same all through, but the special work
ings differentiated by the condition of
things, and are not Identical; just as a
pointer and aretrievcrar are not identical,
though the original ancestor is COM
mon to both.
In the material affairs of life it is
for the man to take the initiative and
for the woman to second his action. 1t
is for him to endoavor to improve bad
conditions, and for her to make the
best of what she has.
The man who would content himself
with patiently polishingup few shah
by old spoons, when vigorous exertion
would give him dozens more, would
be a mean spirited, unenterprising
fool who would never gain success be-
cause he would never deserve it. But
woman who should leave the spoons
she already has, furnished and use
less, because uncleansed, while going
out of her way to add to the amount
of her already neglected possessions,
would be just as far out on the other
side.
A woman who should neglect her
home and children that she might
make out of doors the money she
could save by personal superintend-
ence within would be mistake; but
the man had better go and dig his
neighbours field for wages than give
his time to trimming his own home
bushes and cutting his old yews into
fantastic shapes.
1t is for the man to construct and for
the woman to perfect; he builds and
she decorates; he gains and she dis
penses. We are speaking now Of
the normal condition of things, not
of women who have to make their
own living in the departments hitherto
reserved for men-that is, outside the
home, and in those professions which
sill now have been called specially
mems work. N. y Herald.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-03-07
HOG KILLING.
1t Is Not. Profitable to Keep Fat Hogs
Through the Winter.

1t Is Not. Profitable to Keep Fat Hogs
Through the Winter.
1t is expensive to keep large hog in
cold weather, and in fact at any season
it is rarely profitable to keep hog
after he is year old; the most profit is
to kill when from nine months to a
year old. A pound of pork is
made on hog cheaper before than
after he weighs hundred pounds;
therefore, as soon as hog is large
enough to make good pork, it is best to
kill him, if the weather is cool enough.
For home use pork from hog that
will dress three hundred is better than
from one that will dress six hundred.
The old practice of getting a pig in the
autumn to keep over winter, and not
killing him until he is about eighteen
months old is being generally aban-
doned, and the practice of killing twice
year is becoming very general. Apig
at eight or nine months old, if he eats
well, will dress two hundred and fifty
to three hundred pounds, which is large
enough to make good, sweet pork.
No doubt it is more profitable to fat
ten hogs in the summer than in the win
ter, because in cold weather it requires
considerable food to keep up the heat
of the body, much more than in the
summer.
Our ancestors were very particular
not to kill their hogs, or their beef
cattle, in the old of the moon, believ-
ing that if they did, the meat would
shrink in the pot; but this, with many
other moon theories, have passed away,
and but little is thought about the size
of the moon when. killing time comes,
or when it is thought to be time to
NOV bushes; even the weather is
not considered so much now as it
| formerly was. Fifty years ago every
farmer killed his own meat, and,
having no ice houses, if he did not wait
and kill in cold weather, his season for
eating fresh meat would be very short;
but now all is changed; fresh meat can
be kept long time at any season, and
can be bought in small quantities in
almost every town; therefore, if the
farmer desires to kill a hog before cold
weather sets in, he can sell most of the
lean pieces, and buy when he wants it.
We do not realize the value of this
change. Should we be Obliged to go
back to the practice of fifty years ago,
we should find it to be serious ques-
ton, when was the best time to kill
hogs, and a still more serious question
as to how to keep the pork if warm
weather should set in after killing time.
Massachusetts Poughman.
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Chinese Child Vendors.

In Nankin and Kai-fun children from
six to twelve years of age are sold by
tens of thousands. Not hired out or
transferred, but sold for small sum in
cash, in consideration of which the
progenitor, by q tacit understanding,
renounces all parental rights, even the
right of inquiring into the fate of his
offspring. The purchasing trader may
be the middleman of g well-to-do child
less couple, or the agent of wholesale
tea-planter, or cooley breeder, raising
and training slaves for a foreign
market For the equivalent of $15 any
commission peddler will undertake to
"adopt the same number of young
Mongols in the name of any employer,
and at very short notice. The author
tiles might object to formal and pub
lie purchase, but the meaning of the
adopting transaction is well under
stood and connived at. 1t is lesser
evil, and few parents ask any questions.
Rather than see their children starve,
they will resign them to any fate-with
one exception. The orthodox Bud
dhists seem to have evinced occasional
scruples in delivering up their young.
sters to the proselytizing missionaries,
whom they suspect of all sorts OF
damnable practices. But even such
scruples can be readily outweighed by
few extra dollars.-H0ng Ko1g Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-03-07
soILlNe. THE SECRET.
Some Sound Advice to Farmers who KeeT
COws-What Brings Success.

Some Sound Advice to Farmers Who Keep
COws-what Brings Success.
1t seems little strange that dairy
men should continue to keep the same
number of cows, or even less, year
after year, when they might add not
only to the number, but also to the
product, by adopting soiling, in part,
at least. To-day the most successful
are those who have recognized the i'm
portance of the full ration for their
cows. and maintain it as long as the
profitable flow continues. 1t is fact
that with some dairymen their cows
are for several weeks each year in
sight of famine land, !" and the messes
of milk are not in the aggregate suffi-
cient to pay for attention, let alone a
profit to make dairying a paying
business. 1t seems to be a modern
fact that sueeulent foods do prolong
the milking period of a COW, and this
Is one of the chief things farmer
should strive after. There are two
losses, | think, made at this very point.
There is loss in the condition and
thrift of q cow, which has to be re-
gained to secure the hoped for result,
and the other is, that for the COW to
give ''little mess' for four months,
where she might be made with proper
food to give three times the quantity,
and finally dry off and Incorporate"
for four months or SO, is to break
down the milking habit and destroy
what better food and longer seasons in
milk would have stimulated into
greater activity. OF course all this
implies breaking out of old orthodox
ways, but progress is as apparent
Tor should be) in the dairy as anywhere.
The expense account of a farmer knows
no halt, and if the income stops there
has to be mad rush. in the spring
TO assist this item that stopped to rest,
and overtake the other which never
stops or tires. One of the principal
causes why so many farmers fail is be-
cause they do not make the income ac-
count continuous, or by special exer-
tion make it proportionately larger, so
as to leave surplus at the end of the
year. From this, one is led to believe
that 1t is in securing ones self against
these lessening of yields that will in the
future make dairying pay. One of the
chief causes for the small average yield
of milk is from the fact that the last
half of the season there is a steady de-
crease in the feeding value of the pas
ture, by the ripening of the grasses, the
woody character, and hence indigesti-
bility of the greater part of the food,
and. finally, made almost worthless by
frost and washing rains. Then it is
that forethought guards against all this
by providing bridges over what is abso-
Lutte loss to so many. Are the cows we
regard as phenomenal mixers SUBJ
jected to all the ups and downs of
summer pasture? On the contrary,
they are fed to certain standard of
and the yield is maintained.
The lavish feeder also has his harvest
in ease of drought, for by feeding he
has his average yield, while other
dairies arai only giving starvation
nesseS; and even if the good Lord
should send abundant September rains.
The dairy that has shrunk so badly will
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not return to great flow; but the
granted dairy that has been tided
over, and paid for its grain twice over
at that, does show great gain,
and therefore a double profit. | am
inclined to think the New England
farmer is making big point with
means we in Ohio are laughing at,
soothing at, calling "sour-krout
factory and all that, and that is the
silo. If they can fill their great pits,
and by the 1st of October begin feeding
their ensilage and keep up the flow of
milk until far into the winter, and by
having a few fresh cows to bridge the
chasm between the two ends of the
milking season sell forty-two-cent but
ter all winter in Boston and New York,
it seems to me that we had better ex-
pertinent at little before calling them
lunatics, and declaring that they are
feeding injurious food to their stock.
Did any one everhear of New England
farmer having his ensilage butter re-
! turned to him as unsalablep Did any
one ever hear of his dairy getting off
their feed, and dying from hunger and
other dire calamities, by feeding en-
silage? If he, with ensilage, can make
No. l butter, and have his COWS look
and appear as if 'on summer grass,
should not we Western farmers look a
little more thoroughly into this matter
before we decide against it? There is
not a doubt but Ohio dairymen have
got to make longer seasons and get a
larger average yield, and make dairy
ing more continuous, or else we will
hear something drop, and to our dis
advantage. We can not longer afford
to laugh at the success of other dairy
men, and dismiss it as ''new-fangled"
and visionary" Their success is from
more and abundant foods, calculated
to stimulate the milk flow, and is Sc
cured by soiling in some of its forms,
and by that, and that alone, is the sue
cess secured.-Thomas EmsIey, in Ohio
Farmer.
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An Arizona Fair.

The first Territorial fair of Arizoni
closed few days ago, The feature
that attracted most attention was the
display made by the Indians. Theil
exhibit comprised every form of vegeta.
BILE and cereal product entering into
their domestic economy, such as dried
green peppers, dried fruit, Spanish
bayonet, dried fruit of the sahuara, OF
the giant cactus, buds and seeds Of
the careless weed Ca small brown
seed something like mustard, but
smaller), Indian wheat, beans, corn,
etc. The Indian wheat took the first
and second premiums. Numerous
utensils were also exhibited. Canteens,
rattles, baskets, and all sorts of war
toggery were displayed. One curious
article was an Indian pillow, an exact
counterpart of those used 1000 years
ago in the Valley of the Nile, while,
strangely enough, the Indians also took
the first premium for the best moder.
pillow displayed Tombstone Epuaph.