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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

The second concert and drive of the
Davenport Driving club took place at
Central park across the river last even
ing, Restorff's great Western band fur
nishing the music. Many went over
from this city and enjoyed the pleasure
afforded by the well kept track. A good
sprinkling allayed the dust and the affair
proved as enjoyable as was the opening
night week ago. The fence and grand
and band stands have been handsomely
painted and the amphltheatre repaired
for the comfort and convenience of spec
tatOrs
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24


A question Of interest to lobster dealers ID
whether the lobster shrinks in boiling 50 that
an innocent fisherman who catches only
those of the required length may find him
self with supply Of short Holsters when he
takes them from the pot A jury who have
been investigating the matter in the Cum
berland superior court have not yet been
able to settle the matter, although several
live Holsters have been brought in, measured,
and marked by the jury, then cooked under
the direction and charge of the sheriff, and
measured again by the jury, to see what if
any, shrinkage there had boon by the cook.
ing. The fault was in the Holsters -Four
of them shrank from one sixteenth to three
sixteenths of an inch, and the other obsti-
nately refused to agree with the majority
and measured the same as when alive
Under these circumstance there was nothing
left for the jury but to follow suit and dis
agree Lewiston (Me.) Journal
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
1T CAME, WAS SEEN. IT WENT.
This Mornings Rainfall--The Pro.
gramme for Tonight and To-

II rainedl Seven drops of real water
one for every day in the week-fell on
east Seventeenth street in front of the
ARGUS office this morning at fifteen and
a half minutes to 9 o'clock. A reporter
was Immediately dispatched to the street
to make full investigation of the water
fall and report it accordingly. But nc
sooner had the rain begun to fall
than it ceased and the clouds which
had come together accidentally with
such startling effect, broke away
again, and opened up as if smiling in lie,
tiance upon long suffering community
which had been greatly fooled. The
rain, light as it was-for the drops only
measured forty-fiftietEs of an inch in Gil,
cumference-is deserving of place in
Rock Island county's history, and doubt,
less will be given due prominence in a
forthcoming edition supplementary to
the present volume.
The rain started most of our citizena
to specializing as to how much rain was
actually needed, and in what shape and
quantity it would come, and, though all
anticipations were squaShed this mern
Ing, it was decided to call it hope de
ferred' until this evening, and group Of
citizens having in mind the need aud vel
fare of the community, mapped out this
programme for tonight and tomorrow.
At 7:30 this evening the rain is &c
come, and pour down in torrents for hall
an hour, when it is to cease somewhat,
and turn into steady down-pouring
water fall, which shall continue all day
Sunday until midnight, when IT shall
stop. At 9 o'clock Monday morning q
mass meeting shall be held to draf
suitable resolutions expressing the graft,
tude of the people for the abundant raiG
fall and asking forgiveness for anything
harsh that mayhave been said about the
weather during the past two weeks. a
copy of these resolutions is to be sent to
Mansill, one to the clerk of the wea theI
and another published in the daily papers
in the vicinity
If anyone hiuders the carrying out Of
the programme above given, he shall be-
banished to the Sahara desert, and reso,
lutions will be adopted to the effect that
all signs fail"
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
Warm.

From steaming street. from sitting shop.
To sail for CULTS Of soda pop.
And ere the dog days thirsty date,
Fit snowwards and refrigerate;
To swim In claret pun Oh, to wade
Through icy sire ans of lemonade,
Or where the arctic surges roll
Loaf in the shadow Of :he pole;
Or following some iceberg's wake.
Careless of heats that burn and bake.
And lapt in cool. delightful airs,
Mid walrnses and polar bears,
Through the northwest passage slip
An ice foe of our trusty ship;
Within some crystal lighted cave
In frozen tides to lie and lave,
Or on some In onntain summit frore,
Through tranquil days to snooze and snore
Deep down III oceans ooZy fens
To flirt with merry mermaiiens,
Or through the irmam. mt to glide
Into the reservoir inside;
Somewhere. somehow q cool to seek
More frigid than the mugwumps cheek
Hos SWEET were these Respite, retreat,
And bower from the accnrsed heat
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
Lament of a Lawyers Scrivener.

II am one Of the starvers These are the
times in which man Of skill and brains
has to humble his pride and get down and
run some thimble-rigging machine, or else
60 without bread l am hungry. Why do
talk this wayf. Because l am a lawyers
scrivener, without job For many years
my handwriting was the pride Of the bench
and bar, and scores Of cases have been won
just because the briefs were in my chirog-
raphy. Lawyers use to make engagements
with me weeks ahead to write their briefs
for EN- and pay me my own prices, was
a scrivener and an artist But now nobody
wants me- There is no writing to be done
Whenever l apply for work the first inquiry
is il can run typewriter. l cannot run
typewriter, and l never will learn will
starve first These chits of girls with their
rattlety clickety machines have got the
floor, and we poor old artists have got to SIT
down Chicago Herald
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
CHANCERY NOTICE.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, %
Rock Island County,
In the Circuit Court Of said Rock Island County
In Chancery.
James nj. Barnard VS.. Morty Slattery,-Bill.
To said defendant, Moriy Slattery: Affidavit oil
your non-residence having been filed, no1ice il
hereby given that the above entitled snit IS now
pending in said court, and that summons has beer
issued against You therein.
Now unless you shall personally be and appea
before the said circuit court the first day Of tb,
next term thereof. to be holden in the court hous,
in the city Of Rock Island, in the county OF Rocl
Island state Of Illinois. on the first Mondal
of September, AID, 1886, to which time and plac,
said summons is made returnable, and plead
answer " demur to the bill of complaint in sait
suit file the same will be taken for confessed al
against Gou and decree entered accordingly.
Dated at Rock Islaud, Illinois, this Esd day O
July, A. D., 1886.
E. b. BOWMAN, Jr.,
Clerk Of said Court
HnsFY CURTIS, soi'tt for Complt as-dzw
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

Broadway Presbyterian church: No
morning service. At 7:45 p. m, serm on
by the pastor, the Rev. W. s. Marquis
Sunday school at 9:10 a. m. DR.. J. W.
Stewart, superintendent. Young peo-
pies meeting at 6:45 p. m,
Christian chapel: At 10:45 a. m.
The Supreme Authority and at 7;45
p. m, Doing in Salvation" by the
Rev. j. II. Wright, pastor Sunday
school at 9:15 a. m, F. III. Kaupke, su-
perintendent. Young peoples meeting
at 6 AS p. IN.
First Methodist Episcopal church
At 10:45 a. m, sermon by the Rev. W.
T. Boughton, of Edgington. No even.
ing service. Sunday school at 9:15 al
E. W. Spencer, superintendent Young
peoples meeting at p. m.
ELSEWHERE.
The subject at the young mems meet
ing in the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms at $50 D.
m, will be: Are You Guarding the
Issues of Your Life2"=-Prov ives
Mark +iiet.s.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24


Biehl's orchestra returned home this
morning from lengthy engagement on
the Josephine.
The clipper St Paul, the best side
wheel steamer on the Upper Mississippi.
will touch lending here for the city of her
name. Monday afternoon.
The floating palace Pittsburg, is en-
tered on Agent Lamonts books as due
for St. Louis tomorrow night, and she
will be here.
The Centennial is up high and dry be-
low Burlington. The War Eagle going
down aud the Sidney coming up, both
pulled at her. but could not bulge her
She is there to stay
Diamond JOS grain elevator at East
Dubuque burned yesterday morning
Sixty thousand bushels of wheat were
burnel aud the total loss will be 500 =
900.
The handsome Sidney came from below
this morning with large consignment
OF freight, and fine list of passengers,
Captain Corbett complains OF the con
tinued fall in the water, and says con-
siderable difficulty was experienced in
getting over Burlington bar.
The War Eagle blowed off cylinder
head while passing Canton, bound down,
Thursday morning at O'CLOCK. Of
course she was forced to go to the bank
at once The Gem City, which was just
about to clear for Quincy, bound down,
turned back TO Canton and took off the
War Eagles passengers-eighty in num-
Der. The War Eagle seems to have lost
her Mascotte this season.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

The growth OF the Knights of Py thias
since 1884, as shown by the report of the
supreme chancellor, just received, is I'M
precedented The total membership in
1884 was 10000. The increase since
then has been at the rate of between four
and fine hundred members a week, being,
now, including the new grand jurisdic-
ton of New Brunswick, nearly $4,000
members. 1t has 45 grand lodges and
$500 subordinate lodges. Between three
and four million dollars have been paid
out to widows and orphans by the order
since its organization. Hereafter the
term Of the Major General will he four
years and be will be appointed by the
supreme chancellor. 1t has been decided
that Chinaman cannot be knight OF
Pythias. the supreme lodge having ruled
that only Caucasians shall be admitted TO
membership.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
County Building.


IRA NsFERS.
21-Theodore W. Summons to Andrew
A. Jones, lot and 5, block 81, Andalu-
sis, $325
Catharine Fisher and Paulina c. Mohl
to August Yost, nj lot 7. block Z. Hamp'
ton, $50.
Annette H Guyer ct al to Henry F
Norton. by meets and bounds, sec /, H.
2w. 1925.
Emma Ottman and Eva Winter tc
Josephine CIolona, lot 8 and 10, block H.
Spencer & Cases addition to Rock Isl
and, $500
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

All Masons are cordially invited to at
tend the burial services of our. late Broth
er James Manley, Sunday, July 25, at
O'Clock, from bis late residence, Fourth
avenue and Eighth street, in Moline.
Those desiring to attend will meet at
Masonic Temple at 1890, where carriages
vii be in readiness By order of the W.
Vi. W B. PETIT. Sec.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
The Canal

A Washington dispatch says;
There IS lively fight in the river and
harbor conference committee over the
Hennepn canal amendment. They are
equally divided, Mcmillan. Conger and
Henderson being in favor of retaining the
measure in the bill, and Willis, Blanchard
and Ransom being anxious to have ii
stricken out. The three last named are
the most likely to stick, and the first
three are more likely to yield. Hender-
son, of Illinois, is very much interested
in fighting it through, but is not 50 much
of bulldozer, while his Colleagues OPP
posing it are. Mcmillan and Conger
have no special interest in the fight, bui
Cullom is looking after them. Murphy,
Springer, and other Illinois gentlemen,
have served notice on Willis that if the
Heunepin canal provision is stricken out,
they will filibuster to beat the entire bill.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

After consulting with many of my
friends throughout the county, have
concluded to announce myself as candi
date for county judge, and request the
support of my friends.
Z. H. JOHNSTON.
Port Byron, H., July IL, 1886.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
Hard Coal Market.

Pea coal, 500; CRATE and egg, 1926
range, nut and No. 4, $3.50 per ton
screened and delivered all best quality
of anthracite. Extra carriage charged on
orders of less than one ton. Blacksmith e
caol, Conncllsville coke and charcoal
1908 Second avenue E. q. FRAZER
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
AVeteran to be Relieved.

Doctor Gregg. who has been Post Sur
geon for twenty-five, and altogether
twenty-five years in the Rock Island ar
senal service, is to be relieved from duty
and Doctor Grant of Davenport II is said,
has taken bis plscs,
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

The girls that bioomed in the spring,
Ira, la;
Are sweltering down with the heat.
They think it quite nice thing,
Ira. la;
To meet young man who'll treat,
Ira Ia,
And set mp the soda and cream.
And that's what they mean
When they say or they sing,
An evening stroll is just the thing,
Ira, Ia, etc,
To the treating young men they cling.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
Public Notice.

Anyone having business with the ARGUS
office after 6 p. m. (In the event that the
office is ciosed) will please call at vii,
mans & Gslts news stand in the postoffice
building. who are authorized to transact
business Of every nature for the ARGUS.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

Insure in the Boylston Insurance Co. of
Boston. Mass. organized 1872. Assets
nearly 81 100000. e. W. Hurst, agent
Office over Rock Island National Bank.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

E. E. Parmenter, attorney at law
Makes collections, loans money, and will
attend to any legal business intrusted to
him. Office, postoffice block, Rock ISL
and. Ill ds&w1y
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

Attorney at law, loans money on good
security, makes collections. Reference,
Mitchell Il Lynde. bankers, Office in
post office block.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

No. 1924 Second avenue Special alteu-
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
inserting teeth without plates.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt wore her
500, 900 diamond necklace at her last
court presentation.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24

You can get cut rates over any railroad
at Blake's ticket office 1908 Second
avenue. div
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-24
HALF-CENT A WORN.

THE ARGUS hereafter will publish in this col
ann all advertisements Of Lost. Found. For Rent
For Sale, Bosrd or Rooms, Wanted. and similar
notices. at the low rate of 0ns half cent icord
each figure word, but no advertisement Iess
than ten cents
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

The yGarI" exports OF umbrellas f-o-a
England arc valued ct $4,000 pounds
sterling
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
Nothing Can 30 More Foolish.

Every now and then we hear Ct a busi-
ness man beginning the labor of the day
at O'Clock in the morning and expecting
his clerks and employees also to rise with
the lark. no matter if they have gone to
bed with that gay bird but few hours
previously. 1t is considered an energetic,
glorious, q praiseworthy proceeding to
tack on to the first of the day, what, by
every law Of hygiene, should be condensed
in the latter portion of our working hours.
In reality nothing can be more foolish.
Men who do not find the twelve hours
allotted to digging and delving
sufficient to cover the ground had
letter leave it uncovered, or If
they see fit to alter the programme by
,ramming the business of day into that
lime devoted to cock growing, don't flatter
hem BY aAmiring their misdirected force
There IS dissipation in work as well as III
,ther tastes, and the results are as disas-
irous, though perhaps more virtuous,
han some others wot of.--Boston Herald.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
Sailing of the Fnlnons Chrysolite.

have seen mines salted when the best
Of them were fooled. A man they call
aChicken Bill" salted the famous Chryso-
lite, in Leadville, and sold it to Tabor for,
I think, $4,000. He worked days and
weeks on it, and finally had it fixed to his
satisfaction. Then Tabor was approached,
and, not trusting any one else, went down
into the shaft himself. He had been in
mines twenty years, and was well quail
fed to act as his own expert. He was i'm
pressed with the property and bought 1t,
but the vein was small and he concluded
to 60 lower. He had only sunk ten feet
further when he struck the bonanza, and
the property was Immediately recognized
rs being worth millions.
The sailing was not noticed until later,
snd Tabor was so impressed with it that
instead Of having the man arrested and
sentenced to the penitentiary, he began to
stake him, and has him in his employ to-
lay. While prospecting for Tabor he dis
covered the Tam O'Shanter, another rich
strike. But while there is sailing, there
IS not as much of 1t as formerly. There
laye been numerous instances where it
aas not been profitable. For instance, II
Chicken Bill" had used less ingenuity
and less time, and sunk his shaft ten feet
further, he instead of Tabor would have
struck the bonanza, and have had million
instead of $40, ,O00.-W. II. Wilson in Globe
Damocrat
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
4 Modern Beau Brummell's Outfit.

White vests are very much the fashion
lust nov, and a collar turned sharply
down il front Patent leather shoes,
trousers. twenty-five inches round the bot
tom, iour button cutaway coat OF dag
onal cloth, and silk hat with halt
weed, are included in tho outfit OF the
modern Brummen, not to mention bam-
boo stick with buckhorn head, and q
pair of taH-colored gloves broadly stitched
on the back with black He wears a wide
black silk ribbon with q gold buckle
hanging Iom mis- fob pocket, half dozen
rings upon his fingers, scarf pin worth
small fortune, and carries q single eye
glass, which he seldom looks through,
and sees nothing when he does. Such Is
the exquisite youth, who has nothing in
tho world to 10 but help to spend his faith
ers millions, and marry girl with as
many more. He is ever present at the
casino, on the beach, in his tandem dog
cart on the avenue, at dinners, receptions
and balls, and nobody denies that he is at
once the choicest and most remarkable
production Of advanced civilization.-New
York Cor. Boston Herald.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
A-cd Dy an Ear-Trumpet.

Some years ago well-known Presby-
lerian divine was spending his summer
vacation with his family in the Adiron-
dacks. One Sunday he accepted an in
vitation to preach in one of the simple
meeting houses of that region. In the
congregation was a man who apparently
was very deaf, for he came to the service
armed and equipped with On immense
brass ear-trumpet, and as soon as the SER
mon began Went forward and took his
seat well up on the p'' pit stairs. The
clergyman's little da liter was among
the auditors; she had never seen an ear
trumpet, and the spectacle of the form on
the pulpit stairs steadily holding that in
strument to his head filled her with awe
and wonder. On her way home from
church the first thing she said to her
father when they were alone was:
Papa, was that au archangel by your"
Boston Herald.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
The Rule Of Railroad Promotion.

got my information from young man
who has been for some time brakeman
on suburban passenger train OF the
Northwestern railway. He is 4 very eff
fcient and popular man, and when he told
me he meant to resign asked him what the
reason could be. "Welll," he said, II have
been told by the superintendent that I
stand no chance of promotion, as didn't
begin right. was fool enough to think
that if I took this place and behaved my
self I would one day be the conductor Of
the train.
"But 7 d1d that III ave been euchred by q
sort of civil service rule that is en-
forced in all the companies. This rule
Is that IN order to become conductor
Of a passenger train fellow must begin
rs brakeman on freight train, then ne
must be brakeman on passenger train,
as am now; taen a conductor on a
freight train, and then conductor on q
passenger train. If fellow begins as a
brakeman on a passenger train, the way 1
did, he will not be promoted in a century.
never knew it until the other day, but 1
am told that this rule is so well estab-
lished that the company do not dare to
violate it, except in case Of obvious neces-
sity. So l guess I will go."-Chicago
Journal.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
AGONY or BEING scALPED.
How It Feels to Have the Skin Torn FROM
the SI.ull-Terrible Torture.

HoW It Feels to aave the Skin Torn irona
the slsuIl-Terrible Torture.
A sick and sorry looking specimen OF
humanity stepped from the passenger
train last night and climbed into wait
ing wagon and was driven to the country.
his name was Samuel Nef. He Is man
If about 80 years Of age, and his parents
reside in Pine Creek. Young NeR is just
home from Arizona, where he has been
prospecting in the mines and acting as
scout,o the hunt for Indians. Unfort-
unately for him, he found the murderous
red devils, and they almost made mince-
meat of him. One day while riding
through q canon he was shot through the
shoulder and fell from his horse. His as
seilants, finding that he was not dead,
tortured him outrageously. They cut
gashes. In his face and all over his body,
applied fire to his feet and hands, and
ended their brutality by scalping him. He
suffered untold agonies, and prayed that
death might relieve him. Finally he fell
into faint, and upon awakening ne
found himself being kindly cared for In
miners cabin. The miner had picked
him up and carried him long distance on
horseback Neff suffered weeks Of excru-
ciating pain and raved with fever, and
as soon as he was able to travel he TOOK
the road for home.
A reporter asked Neff how it felt to have
his hair lifted.
ut is a dreadful sensation" he said.
aOne thinks, as the skin Is being torn
from the skull, that his feet are coming
right up through his body to the top OF
his head. Oh, it is terrible. It is so pain
ful that you can not utter cry; thousands
Of stars dance before your eyes. You
imagine red-hot needles are darting in and
out of your flesh, and you clasp your
hands so closely that the finger mills cut
into the flesh. I would rather be run
through thrashing machine, ground up
in sausage mill or thrown under
locomotive than to ever undergo such an
other ordeal. It makes me shudder to
think of the tortures have gone through
with, and ] never want to look upon the
face Of another Indian"
"Do many persons survive the opera
tion?" interrupted the reporter.
"No; have only heard of two or three
men besides myself who have lost their
hair by the scalping-knife and then 1--we 10
tell Of It,"
"Do YOU think the hair will ever grow
out again?" :.
I aOh, no; I shall always have bald spot
up there. Tho skin was torn OIL Tor q
space Of four inches square, and I'm afraid
it will never heal entirely. Even If it does
heal over the bare place will always be SO
painful that I can not touch it. keep
my head tied up in cotton and sweet oil.
You can see my beauty has been entirely
marred. These frightful gashes across
my face will go with me to the grave. -
Chicago (Cal.) Chronicle.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
English Ar,stocrats Going into Trade.

Tho Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot,
who scnndalized the British aristoracy
some time ago by engaging in trade, hav-
ing put 600 900 into the cab business in
London, has now added to his commercial
undertaking by retailing coal The nobil-
ity at last ire beginning to make them
selves useful A number Of younger sons
of noblemen follow agricultural pursuits,
and have opened milk and butter shops in
London. Lords and dukes now dabble
openly in the stock exchange. a duchess
resigned her place as lady-ip-waiting to
the queen some time ago to open millin-
cry shop, because there was more money
IN it; and the earl Of Kenmare, chamber
lain to her majesty the queen, whose Irish
tenants cau not or will not pay him any
rent Oh his deeply incumbered estates, is
about to establish number OF gin-shops
in Loutivu.-Cuicago Tribune.