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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

March 16 has been set apart as Indian
lay at the New OGleaaS exposition.
The losses of cattle in Indian territory
this wi..ta- are place "a, nigh a. Is pr cent
Thirty five dollars were paid for a scat
in the house to hear tue eratio,ls on Wash
ington
There are go periodicals printed iu the
different u1tive ian sIlgo; IN lGdia, AMI
about - 1900 copies in AL
The Harvard annex for women is a
success. l. hc-au ",s4 twenty stui-
ents, aEi now ia, ortr fifty.
john r. Mclean, the Cincinnati jour
nails, has been appointed receiver of the
Cincinnati Is Eastern railroad, and will
promptly assume lis new duties.
Mrs Ann Bowling. IS years old. wa 5
burned to dsath Monday morning at Balti-
more. Roberta ami Christophine Clay, sis
tiers, aged II and IS. were fatally burned at
Petersburg. Va.
c. H. Cushman, of Philadelphia; d.
T. Sullivan, of Chicago; S. NJ. Decker, and
J. II. Gafnsy, Of Worcester, Mas. have
| been appointed umlireS for the league ball
games next sea on.
The right arm an leg Of Miss Emma
| Bond, the victim vi the Taylorviile, His,
outrage, are paralyzed, and she can open
her mouth but sufficiently to admit a spoon.
| Slight hopes Of her recovery are entertained.
Near Indianola junction Saturday even.
| ing a Chicago, Burlington * Quincy train
| jumped the track, the passenger coach
plunging down low grade and resting on
its roof Six passengers were slightly
wounded
A negro child was born near Shelby,
| \. C., IL day or Two ago, with eyes in the
forehead, two incaes and half above the
proper place. Its face looked very much
like that of an owl, and the eyes themselves
were like frogs eyes,
Instead of sending his eldest boy to
| Florida, "a the physician, recommended, II.
p Hubbard, of New Haven, has built con-
| seryatory over his kitchen addition, and the
boy spends six or seven hours in the sunshine
every day, aud is growing strong again.
Upon information given by his aged
mother Philip Blizzard. IS years old, was
arrested Monday at Reisteriown, Md, for
the murder of William Russell, a me reliant.
| two yeats ago. a quantity Of silks stolen
from the store of the murdered man were
found concealed in Billiards. premises
Gen McAdaras. of st. Louis, formerly
known a M H. believes that Irish Ma
tionaIlst should make efforts to help the
False Prophet in the Soudan, and assert,
that the man who could get a dozen gatllng
guns to the Blahdi woull 10 doing more for
Ireland than dynamiters could effect in hall
a century.
p. p Lespenasse, of Harverstraw, N.
Y, who is paying an election wager by car
rying IA pig and rooster to Washington.
reached Baltimore Monday, and espresso:
himself as being greatly pleased Mt the man
ner in which the peo lie have treated him
along the Route The fowl and porkei
weigh ninety pounds
In the section of Oregon and Washing
ton territory lying east of the Cascades the
winter wheat plant Is in prime condition
with an acreage OF 81 per cent greater thar
last year, and in the district the surplus fol
export will reach, it is believed, l70,00t
tons, while the Willamette valley will have
a surplus of 2O9, 900 tons.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

The New York Legislature spends most
of its time passing special laws to enable
localities to evade the operation of gener-
al laws. Among other measures it is now
considering a bill to make the present
president of the New York city fire com>
missiOuers member of the aqueduct
board; also bills to authorize the tax com
missioners to pay $4,000 for maps OF
two wards in the metropolis; To require
the park commissioners to build $3.50, =
900 bridge at Second avenue, where the
commissioners already have power to
bridge if they desire; also to alter the
plans of streets in the northern part of
the city in the interest of certain property
holders. All these things the city is able
to attend to itself
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

BALTIMORE, Feb 25 The annual reunion
of the Maryland Line COME deratel was
held Monday night 2, b. Vance delivered
an address on The Last Days Of the War in
North Carolina in which he said that
Sherman made "laue of deSolatiOu sixty
miles wide through the heart of three great
states, marked by more burning and
destruction than ever followed in the wake
of the widest cyclone that ever laid
forest low, and all done, not to support an
Invading army, bat for pure waste and de
struction, to punish the crime of rebellion
not in the persons of those who
had brought these things about, but the
peaceful tillers of the soil, the women and
children. the aged and feeble and the poor
slaves. + In vain dii the terrified
people secrete their valuables upon the APP
preach of Sherman's army. With Internal
skill this corps of bummerS maintained their
high reputation as the most expert thieves
on earth by ransacking every conceiva-
Die place of concealment. =
Sometimes, with noble rage at their dis
appointment the victims were left as
warning to the others who should dare to
hide a Jewel or family trinket from the
cupidity of the soldiers of the Union.
When Sherman cut loose from AT
lanta. everybody had license to throw aside
restraint and make Georgia drain the bitter
cup" He added that these things met the
appreciation of the officers, who stool by
ami saw them done in hundreds of instances
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
PURE SPECULATION
ABOUT WHAT CLEVELAND is GOING
TO DO NEXT.
Alleged Protests Against the Selection Of
So Many Southern Men for the
Cabinet-A Long Talk
with Lamar.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The Tribune's special
from Albany, N. Y. says Senator Lamar
arrived there Monday noon, as Col.
Lamont intimated, entirely unexpected,
and proceeded Immediately TO Mr.. Cle9e
lands residence and remained closeted with
him for long time. Lamar would not talk
as to tie object of his visit.
The Journal has the following from its
Albany correspondent:
Up TO moon Tuesday Senator Lamar had
not returned to the Kenmore hotel from
Governor Clevelands residence on Willett
street At that hour it was be-
lieved he was still in confer
ence with Mr. Cleveland, but some
persons asserted that he had quietly left
Albany, and that Col. Lamont had gone
with him. Mono pretend to be able to eX
plain the reason for such mysterious move
ments In consequence of his failure to
appear at his hotel some remarkable
rumors got il. circulation. 1t was said that
a crisis has been reached in the making of
the cabinet, and it has been brought about
by the protests sent to Mr.. Cleve
land by leading northern Demo-
Gratis against tho impolicy of placing
advisers In consequence of this, SO the
story runs, Mr.. Cleveland had determine
to let Senator Lamer go, on the ground
that, as postmaster general, he would seri-
ously cmbarrass the administration. 1t was
said however, that Lamar might get
the interior department, to which Judge
Thurman no longer appears to have
any chance. In any event, Mr.. Lamar, ac-
cording to the Albany political goSsips, will
not be postmaster general. 1t is also said
that Judge "Reminiscences for a cabinet
position have almost disappeared, and that
the western member Of the new admiuistra-
ton will be Governor Hoadly.
Frank Jones, of New Hampshire, who it is
still believed, is slated for the navy depart
ment, is now on his way to Albany and
will be the next visiting statesman to call on
Cleveland.
"Mr. Cleveland will begin his journey to
Washing ton early next Tuesday morning,
March 3 He will leave by the West Shore
road and reach Washington late in the
evening"
Carl SEIZURE called on the president-elect
Monday, and when asked about his visit
said it had no political significance, he had
been lecturing in the south and taking notes
of the feeling in that section, and called to
give Mr. Cleveland his impressions on the
subject
1t is understood that John II. Oberly wants
the collectorship of the port Of Chicago and
the impression is that he will get it. He
would not accept the position of public
printer, the Office which he has been cred
itei with hunting
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

Jay Gould is lard working man. He
goes down to Wall street early in the
day and stays there late. Not a three
days vacation has he taken in just a
year He has a thousand bits of details
to occupy his attention in the manage
ment of his vast fortune and the various
corporations and business schemes with
which he is identified, and he is yet an
active trader in the Wall street markets
The past year has been trying enough to
men OF money, and Gould has more than
earned his vacation. Hardly one day in
missed from his place. He keeps the run
of the stock market as completely as any
man could, knows just what his brother
operators are doing, answers thous~
sand questions as to policy, gives twenty
orders to buy or sell stocks or bonds, sees
fifty different men who have axes to
grind, directs how a score OF letters and
hundred kilograms shall be answered,
eats lunch, runs up TO the Western IN
ion building and goes through the same
performance there, never for IN instant
in all this busy day has an instant to spare
or a quarter of an hour on his hands. No
riding in the park for Mr.. Gould-he has
not the time When at length things are
over for the day, Mr.. Gould gets into the
Elevated railroad and hurries home.
Prestol No business now. The day is
ended and the evening is devoted to tie
family. Mr.. Gould has six children, and,
as the entire family with the exception Of
George. the eldest son, stay at home
almost invariably, they have no end of
fun. Gould never could endure So
ciety or social life. He goes nowhere
of an evening. His wife is not in any
sense woman of society. She goes
somewhat with a little circle of ladies
with whom she is Interested in the
church, but you never hear of her at balls
or parties. The Astors or the Wander
bits or the best society folks in town
might send her invitati ons forever. She
wonld not respond TO them. 1t seems to
We Il hobby of the family TO keep away
from other people; not but that other
people are most delightfully."- treated when
they are met by the Goulds, for the
Goulds are as cordial and as unaffected
and as we'll hammered as could be desired,
but they seem not to seek publicity in any
manner, much less in public places. Yet
at home or on the yacht or wherever they
are as jolly as the jolliest, and every one
who meets them likes them very much
The entire family are TO go on the triE
except George, and they are TO board The
yacht at Charleston. George is going tC
stay at home and run his fathers bust
ness.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
AT PISTOLS POINT.
A KENTUCKY OFFICIAL TAKES A GIRL
AWAY FROM HOME.
He Afterward Gets into Little Difficulty
and Kills a Man, Is Arrested and
JaiIed-H His Sanguinary
T. reer.

MOUNT STERLING. Ky, Feb. IS. Deputy
Marshals j. d. WYATT ami John Gill Monday
night arrested Mr.. BOY |, "A merchant OF
Free7tone Station, for bsia; drunk. A NJ.
Bowling, a friend of Boyl's also drunk, de
manded his release aud secured it by cover
ing the officers with pistol. The two went
to the railroad station, where large crowd
was awaiting tie train. The officers
summoned posse and surrounded
them Bowling drew pistol ami
killed Officer Gill and painfully wounded
Howard Wilson. The two shots were fired
without effect at Lindsey Anderson, who
ran To got pistol, Anderson, returning
loyoled his pistol at Bowling, who was in the
act of shooting James Graves Bowling
then surrendered ami was placed in jail
Bowling is town marshal of Farmers
Rowan county, and a man WHO has
frequently stained his hands with human
blood, and was the officer who had John
Martin i'll ly when Martin was being
taken from Winchester to Morehead Mar
tin was riddlel with lHlllct5 when the train
stopped at Farmers, and with his
dying breath he accused Bowling Of his
murder. Bowling is said to have boosted
Martin Sunday night, at | o'clock. Bowling
entered the home IF the parents of Miss Mat
lie Scott, and with drawn revolver fore
IDLY abducted her, took the east-bound
passenger with the girl. with whom he has
enjoyed illicit relations. and got off
at Olive Hill They then awaited the
coming of west-b bound passenger
train, which comes by early in the morning.
Meanwhile the story of the abduction had
got out, and when the train passed through
Farmers armed men were waiting to make
Bowling pay the penalty with his life if they
found him aboard The cars were hastily
searched, but the guilty couple escaped de-
lection by hiding i'll a water-cioset Bowling
is married man and has two children.
Miss Scott is 10 years old, AMI passably
good looking. Her parents are highly re-
spected. They arrived here Monday morn
ing and put up at hotel, where they
registered rs man and wife, They intended
taking the afternoon express train for Gin
cinnati. After the shooting the girl re
turned to the hotel, and left at night for her
home
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Oar Regula: Correspondent.

FROM " ltt8uIa. JOtltH lOltucIt.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 30. 1885.
Whatever difference of opinion there
may be about the justice or the injustice
of retiring General Grant, there is no
small amount Of sentiment in the country
that points to the solemn conclusion that
the government has done all that it ought
to do in the way of comforting favors up
On the ex>president. l am inclined to
think that some of Grants predecessors
in the Executive chair, whose military
services to the country were as valuable
as his, should have some national recog-
milton in the way of exaltatiou, and the
fact that a grand daughter Of the anthor
of the declaration of independence is now
living in comparative indulgence right here
in Washington city, should mantle the
cheek of every Grant admlrer in the coun-
try. The very graves of Jefferson, of
Jackson, of Harrison and Taylor have re-
ceived no mark of public appreciation of
the services of these men through any
action of congress which favorably con-
siders proposition to invest living ex>
president with an exOrbitant salary, after
he has fully demonstrated his incapacity
TO take care of the wealth which has al
ready been lavished upon him.
| cen scarcely see Why there should be
SO much ado over the composition of Mr.
Cleveland's cabinet. No president elect
in the last forty years has given even a
sign of his intentions as to the formation
of bis cabinet until the time of Inaugural
ton. We all remember what surprise
Grant gave us by the announcement OF
his cabinet on the afternoon of inaugura>
ton day in 1869. People knew who Mr..
Washburne, for secretary of state, was,
and they knew who A. r. Stewart, as sec
rotary of the treasury, was, but when 1t
came to A. NJ. Borie, for secretary of the
navy, not man in Washington had ever
heard of him, and nobody discovered his
origin until it was found out that he had
been making presents to the Grant family.
1t is not likely then that Mr.. Cleveland is
going to be so stupid as to make his cab
met known single hour before the time
comes for its necessity, and furthermore
firmly believe that he has not decided up>
on one single member SO far as to invite
him TO a seat as one of the presidential
family.
The devices of Washington people for
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
Glassware Reporter.

This variety of glass, which has become Sc
fashionable on account Of its effective and
cracked appearance, is produced by cover
ing one side of piece Of plate-glaSs with a
thick stratum Of hux or readily fusible
glass, mixed with coarse fragments of glass
In this condition it is placed in a muffis or
an open furnace, where it Is strongly heated.
AS soon as the flux Is melted, and the glass
itself has become red hot, it is removed from
the furnace, and rapidly cooled
The hux Tor fusible glass under this treat.
ment cracks and splits, leaving innumersble
fine lines of fracture over its surface. having
much the appearance of scales or irregular
crystals, which cross and intersect each
other in every direction, producing very
striking and beautiful effects when the light
fails upon its surface.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. q. -Glenmore NJ.
Todd, who was charged with the embezzIe-
ment of 81, S92 50 belonging to the Provi-
dent Life and Trust company, was on Tues
day morning arraigred before Judge
Wilson and entered q plea of guilty.
Judge Wilson said thai the defendant
had held position of confidence
and trust AMI in abusing it he had COM
mitted great crime. From what he knew
of the defendant, he hal no doubt he felt
keenly the position he was in, and he hoped
that after the Judgment of the law has been
carried out the defendant would do his best
to regain the position in society which he
formerly occupied. He was then sentenced
to two years and eight months in the Eastern
penitentiary
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
TIL. British Tory Programme.

LONDON, Feb 25-The Tory leaders have
deci led to make vigorous onslaught upon
the government The attack will he made
in the l,rds The resolution will declare
that the disastrous failure of the
Nile relief expedition was due to
the governments culpebe delays and
divided councils, and it will protest
sharply against any plan of future opera
lions which will involve the abandonment Of
the Soudan. The language of the resolu-
ton will be much stronger than that OF Sir
Stafford Northcote's, aud in fact it will be
rs bitterly aggressive as the literary talent
of the Tory leaders can make it, 1t
will be moved by the marquis of Sails
bury in the house of lords Thursday
evening, and it is certain to be carried by an
overwhelming ma jority Sir Stafford North
cote still sticks to the belief that the mod
crate tone of his resolution will split the
Liberal party by catching the votes of those
members Of the Wing section Of that party
who are already wavering between their
fealty to their premier and their desire for a
more vigorous prosecution OF the war.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

from india, Russia and the colonies, II the
SPECTATORS in Chicago think they can
engineer any upward movement on the
basis of the war in the Soudan, or even
in Afghanistan, they may possibly fool the
public for q little while, but not for long.
OF tie stock market there is nothing
to say except that it was very strong last
week and will probably be sustained this
week But efforts of this kind must have a
limit There is nothing to bull on. All the
reports of a syndicate having been formed
to harmonic the interests Of the West Shore
and the New York Central are not likely TO
result in anything better than what Disraeli
once termed "a sort of bad tempered good
understanding.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
Organization of independents,

NEW YoRK, Feb. y. "A new political
movement which aims at the correction of
sundry evils in both the principal parties
and this state was inaugurated at meet
ing held here Tuesday The meeting or
ganized as tho IN dependent Citizens
association of the state of New
York, The question unler dis
cussion was how II bring together
the different independent political organize
ions in the different parts of the state, SO
That all may work as unit toward nomin-
iting and electing the best men to Office 1t
wa> especially urged that the cooperation
If the forces which acted when Mayo: Low,
Of Brooklyn, and Mayor Grace, of New
York, were elected be sought, and the prin-
cinles then cnunciated carried out
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
THREE OCEAN VESSELS MISSING.
Relieved to Have Gone Down with All
on Board.

Relieved to Have Gone Down with All
Board.
New YORK, Feb 25.-The British freight
steamship Clandon left this port for Leith
Jan %, and has not since been heard from.
A dispatch from London says great anxiety
is felt there about the missing vessel Simp-
son, Spence q Young, the New York agents
of the Clandon, SAID they feared she had
foundered at sea with all on board. She left
this port only few days before the great
hurricanes in which the Servia and other
large European steamships suffered. The
Clandon was commanded by Capt. Pittick,
an experienced English ship master, who
had crew of about thirty men, all Of whom
shipped in England II was owned by J.
d. Milburn, of London, also owner
of the steamship Fernwood, which left this
pert for Avonmouth Jan. % but has prob
ably been lost with al! on board. Simpson,
Spence q Co now fear the steamship Pres
ton, for which they are agents, which left
for AvonmouLh Jan. 20, has also foundered
with all on board. Until within day or
two they entertained some hopes that the
Preston had merely broken her machinery.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
HE DAILY ARGUS.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25. 1885.

';nly Democratic Daily In the Eleventh Con-
gressional District
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

SALEM, Ore, Feb. Ex-Governor Moody
said Monday that he thought he had right
to he indignant at being placed in doubt
Cul and perplexmg position through the neg
Ieet of the legislature to do its duty,
lie added; This much, however,
IS certau--I shall not appoint a senator
ill there is vacancy, which does
not occur till tho 4th of March 1t would be
impossible for any man whom | could name
at that time to arrive in Washington to at
tend the short executive session, so that IN
less the new president calls an extra session
there will b. no need of a senator till Deem
Der | shall lie in no haste to fill the
vacancy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

The great popularity of DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder is its own best evil
dcnce of its worth. Whenever q sweet,
white biscuit is wanted, or alight pot pie,
an elegant cake, or delicious pudding,
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder should
be used, as its purity and uniformity is
certain TO produce such results. Buy il
in tin cans securely labeled.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

NEW YORK, Feb. % Mrs. Dudley, the
aSsailant of ODonovan Rosa, is still Il
prisoner in the ToInts, having thus far been
unable to procure bail. Mr. Butts one of
her counsel, stated to n United Press reporter
that he expected to procare bail for her in a
day or two. He said the great trouble about
procuring bail for her is the fear that the
moment she gains her liberty she will lice to
England, where she expects TO be lioniz ID
for her attempt on Rossa's life
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 25.-The legi la
ture has passed a new penal code for the
state similar TO that of New York. The
most important change from the old code is
making hanging the penalty for murder in
the hst degree The last hanging in Min
nesota was in 1855. This was when Mime
sofa was territory. Heretofore the pas
sage of a death-scntence was left to the
option Of the court, but no judge has ever
exercised that privilege
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-25
The Iron Market.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 25.-S0ui bern iron is
still competing with Pennsylvania iron, and
contracts of more or less magnitude are lie
ing quietly entered into, for delivery during
he spring and summer, on basis of Sl4 80
Tor southern forge. and SIG and SIT for foun-
lrieS. About 10, 900 tons of rails have been
ordered within few days in small lots
aud there IRE inquiries for $4,000 or
1000 tons in two or three large
iots, one of which will likely be
placed here, and the rest will SO
west Several railroad enterprises are on
the market Several new companies have
been organized to build short lines running
from ten to forty miles, and work rill be
begun early i'll the season. The probabilities
are that orders for rails will be placed early
IN March at about S25 for large lots and ST
Tor small let's and for light sections range
from $50 to S55, according to weight. Old
rails are in active demand at $ll50. Small
lots Of ferromanganese are made at $40.
Merchant iron is $50 TO SI75; iron nails,
81 10; steel nails, 81 20 Steel slabs are in
active request