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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

The Chillicothe Journal dishes out
plain talk in this manner:
The impression has become prevalent
to certain degree that publishers run
their papers for their health. We, for
one, are not in that LAY we publish
this paper for the dollars and cents there
are in it, Now to the point Election
is coming on; the positions to be filled
bring good salaries, honor, or both to the
successful candidates. Our politics heing
republican, we shall support the republi>
can ticket in general. but individual can
didates will be expected 20 pay US in ad-
vance for editorial service. A candidate
never hesitates TO pay some ward pollti
clan from S. to $50 for his influence, :"
while he rarely thinks of paying the pa
per anything for a clear argumentative
article that goes to hundreds Of voters
As said before. We shall do orr part for
the party, but individuals will be expects
ed TO return the compliments in that with
which We can pay the devil for his
weeks work The laborer is worthy OF
his hire
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
MOLINE.


Mayor Hosford of Genesso was in the
city to-day on business.
Iron Is being laid to-day on the east
end of the Union Street Railway, and Will
be put down to its eastern town lines as
fast as possible.
1t is reported mat counter charges of
some kind are to he brought against Mt
Guyer if Mrs. Guyer persists IN the
prosecution Of Gle orge Bausche and that
the LIQUOR association will defend the case
Philip Huering went TO Rock Island to
get his naturalization papers and got
drunk on poor whisky, came IN here and
for once Moline got ahead of the western
burg by making him donate IS, and costs
to the city
A prominent saloon keeper said last
evening that there are no bigger fools on
earth than those who pay $500 per year
license to retail liquors" and it may he
the intention of some of them to take out
a 500 government permit and DO as he
said "a respectable business.
Another gate will be put in the dan
for the use of the Moline Plow Cos. new
| turbn wheel The addition of this
| wheel, and the replacing OF one of thu
three old ones with a new one OF quarter
power, will add more than one half Il
| the volume of power to be TRANSMITTED
than there was before,
On next Wednesday evening Company
T will elect first lieutenant to fill va
cancy caused by promotion. ltwould be
| about the right thing TO promote The
second lieutenant to first and elect a
| second from the file, il they do not wish
to give the orderly sergeant his just de
scrts by letting him have the office which
according to military ways should be his
reward for faithful services.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Harvest Excursions West.

Now is the merry Harvest Time
when the magnificent crops Of wheat,
corn. oats, barley. hops, fruit, vegetables
and herds of fat cattle horses. sheep and
swine in Illinois, Iowa. Minnesota, OAK
ota, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas can
be seen to the best advantage. To facili-
tate the wishes of Eastern friends who
desire to acquaint themselves with the
vast productive capacities of the West,
the management of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific Railway announces
that tickets will be sold on September 8
and %, 1886. to principle points in Min
nesota, Dakota. Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska at greatly reduced rates,
and with stop,over privileges. For fur
Their information apply TO your nearest
ticket agent, or to E A. Holbrook, Gen
eral Ticket and Passenger Agent, c.. r.
|. & P. Ry., Chicago, Ills.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Average expenditure at Yale college.


The authorities of Yale give an estimate
ir,the college catalogue of the necessary eI-
lr-ses of attendance at the university. The
figures for the four items of room rent, board,
fuel and light and textbooks are put down as
ranging from $3.50 to $500. This estimate,
which is described in the catalogue as near,
is in reality absurd 1t implies that $500 is
liberal allowance for the necessary annual
expenses, although no mention is made OF
such really necessary items as clothes, raul
way fares and, most of all, the stlndries
1t is found on careful investigation that the
average expenditure at Yale for the college
wear of nine months is over 81 200 Some
men spend five times this amount, while
others do not spend one-fifth, strictly speak
ing. There is no college in the country
where so much assistance is at the service Of
the very poor student rs at Yale. In addi-
ton to the many scholarships founded by
persons of wealth, there are various bene
ficiary funds designed to enable poor young
men to attain an education without direct
cost to themselves-New York World.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
WORSHIP In THE WOODS.
Opening Of the Camp Meeting at Tin
dall's Grove


CAMP MEETING GROUNDS, August, 10.
The services of the Rock Island District
Camp Meeting were opened at 2 80 p. m,
today by singing Just as am and" With
out One Plea" Rev J. D. Smith led in
PRAYER after which Rom. xii was read.
Appropriate remarks having been made
by the presiding elder, Rev. W. Ii. Wit
ter, preached from Rev. iii, s. showing
the irresistible influence of the Mightiest
At Ais p. m. childrens. service was
held, conducted by Rev. Kerr of Milan.
At 7:45 preaching by ]. B. Ollie from ex
xxi, 80 on the subject of conservation
Could every christian within the bounds
of the district have heard and apprecia>
ted it, Rock Island district would have
no spiritual nor progressive rival.
The following biogra phical sketch of
Presiding Elder Rev. P. A Cool, who
has charge of the camp meeting. will be
of interest. He was born in Ohio In
1850, graduated from Hedding college in
1870 and has the degree A. NJ. from that
institution For sixteen years he has
been in the ministry and is now presiding
elder of the Rock Island district. Since
1870 he has visited England and Scots
land. Rev. J. ID. Smith, now pastor al
Buda, is a native of New Jersey. Since
$50 he has been in the itineracy Rev.
W. II. Hunter was born in Pennsylvania
in 1918. BY improving circumstances has
made himself what he now is-honored
and esteemed By all. For fifty years hi
has preached the gospel, aud now living
example of its power, and is still preach
ing it in word and act. These are only {
few of the prominent christian workers or
hand
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
ALL THE RAGE.
Progressive Lawn Tennis. Which is
Very PonuIar Just Now.

The young people of the arsenal and
some of their friends have derived much
pleasure this summer from lawn tennis.
They organized club of dozen mem
bers from Rock Island and Daven-
port composed of young folks and elect
ed Mr.. Lawrence Butler president Mr..
Spencer Robinson vice president. and MIR.
Gorden Varney secretary. The young
ladies declined all Office, but volunteered
to be badge makers. The president then
offered suggestion to the effect that in
asmuch as the progressive principal of
euchre had seemed TO invest that game
with a peculiar fascination for their
elders, the same feature might, if applied
to lawn tennis enhance the interest of tn
game, and the proposition being put be
fore the club was unanimously carried.
Rules were at once proposed, the ground
staked out and play began at Captain
DUIltT tGSidCuNCE 1uC SiOuuuS Auob
be large enough for several courts; a head
court, bloody" court and one or more
intermediate courts.
When the club assemblies at 5 p. m,
each member is presented with a badge
or score>card of appropriate design; these
are numbered and pinned upon the dress
es of the players and partners as in pro-
gressive euchre. Play begins simultan-
eously at all the courts aud when one of
the couples at the head court have
won two games-not seats--a bell or the
clear notes of horn conveys the in
formation TO all the other courts where
play must Immediately cease aud
the couples having the greater number of
points proceed to the next higher court.
The losing couple at the head court go
partners; the losing couple at all the
other courts remain where they are, but
exchange partners also; the winning
couple at the head court remain and can
win three times before going down.
Each player decorates his or her card
with gold star for each game won, and
with green star for each game lost.
Appropriate prizes may be awarded. bnt
they were voted down this season.
The Young people have derived a great
amount of fun from the game and pro-
nounce the club a great success. They
meet weekly, alternately at the arsenal,
and after playing until dark, light refresh
mentS are served and the evening winds
up with song and dance 1t is pretty
sight indeed, to see dozen or sixteen
youths and maidens in their neat dresses,
and the gay c0lors and changing posi-
tions make very pretty Kaleidoscope
effect upon the lawn and under the
shadows of the trees. Some of the tally.
cards or badges are very pretty. and con-
Siderable ingenuity is displayed in giving
them appropriate forms; the rackets
courts, nets, and even the balls anC
stakes are brought into requlsition tt
serve as models. 1t is probable that this
new feature in lawn tennis will become
very popular; it is certainly much more
sociable than the old form, and forces the
shy and timid equally to the front with
their Drawer and more skillful compan-
| ions
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

A young man from Davenport was
driving.a Domestic sewing machine wa@>
on along Twentieth street this morning,
when his horse took fright at locomo-
tive and became unmauageable. The
machine was thrown out and smashed,
and the boy badly bruised. The horse
was cut about the feet and the harness
broken. When driving back TO Daven>
port drawer fell from the machine upon
the slough bridge. and the horse put
off across the bridge. coliding with a
wagon at the north end. The boy stuck
to the reins, and when the collision oc-
CURED, the wagon went up in the air and
part of it landed ir the water. The boys
right limb was broken, and one of the
horses legs was also fractured.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
A FRACTIONAL FIGHT.
ventiOn Ends in Row-TwO
Tickets Nominated.

The most exciting convention the re-
publicans in this Second district OF Iowa
have known in many years, if not, indeed,
the most fierce, and angry, and sensational
ever convened in the Hawkeye state,
met in Turner hall, Davenport, yesterday
afternoon. 1t was great entertainment
for the spectators, great sport for tine
democrats to see their old foes going for
each other with broad axes, each faction
making the air ring with denunciations
of the other faction.
The delegates on entering the conven'
ton stood forty-seven for endorsement
of T. J. OMeara, the Knights of Labor
candidate, and thirty seven for the nom
ination of Ex-Governor S. J. kirkwood
straightout. OF the former faction,
Muscatine, Clinton and Jackson counties
were solid. while Scott, iowa and john
son counties were equally as strong in
feeling for Kirkwood, though not SO
much so in numbers The convention
wraugled all day over motion and couu-
ter motion; resolution was offset by res
olution, and finally at o'clock in the
afternoon broke up in what may be
termed nothing less than general row.
The O'Meara delegates felt that the en-
dorsement of his candidacy would make
the defeat of Hayes certain aud repre-
seuting as they 10, the prohibition wing
of the party in the district, they were
willing to take any steps, OF
adopt any measures which might
down the democratic candidate, who
is pronounced aud ardent foe of pro-
hibiIion The Kirkwood delegates were
willing to accept OMesrs if he would
come into the convention and ackaowl>
edge the principles of the republicans,
and swear never To enter another eau
Gus of the democratic party he had so
long, and always affiliated With. The
convention would not hear to this how.
ever, and motion to make OMeara the
nominee of the convention finally pre-
vailed; whereupon Scott. Iowa and John,
son counties rose and left the room in a
body. and passing through the lobby
into an aBti-room, organized aud nom
mated the Old war 60 vernon.
This eruption, of course only increases
Hayes chances for election, and under
the circumstances it is not likely that
Kirk wood will consent to run.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Forest and stream, Fables.

OF the Fables which attracted so much
attention in the Forest and Stream, seven
have been reprinted with capital illustra-
tons, and are published by the Forest
and Stream Publishing Company 80
Park Row, New York (price 10 cents
The Fables are intended primarily for tho
men who handle shotgun or fishing rod
but in every one of them are pith and
point which will give them wide popular
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

A welcome reception was rendered to
F. W. Lang the new secretary of the Y
NJ. G.. A. and his wife at the association
rooms last evening President Nc. Kown
made brief, hut pleasant address well
coming the new secretary and intro
ducipr him to the members of the asso>
ciatioa. Music and song followed and re-
freshments we're served.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

The new version of "Fanchon the
Cricket" was presented by the Warren
Comedy company at Harper's theatre last
evening, Miss Warren appearing in the
leading role to perfection. This
evening '.St. Patfieks Eve" will be play
ed.
Manager Knell il putting in some good
troups for the futufs, and Is deserving Of
tuucl1 praise for bis excellent manage
rspst
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Labar,s Ward Caucuses.

The labor caucuses of the Fourth and
Fifth wards were held last evening, with
the following result:
Fifth ward C. j. Lrkin, chairm an,
L f. Whelan secretary. Delegates
NJ. J. Murphy, I. F. Whelan.
Fourth warl-Bers Cook, chairman
aud secretary. Drlegates-E. E. Zeigler
J. b. Dauforth.
The 5other wards hold caucuses to-
night
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
County Building.


TRANSFERS.
1S-David o, Reid TO John Deere, pi
lot4, block is. Old Town, Moline, S4,-
$50, and Dewitt c. Dimock 10 John
Deere, same, 81.
Lizzie NJ Tanner to Fred Appelquist
and Mary J. Teller. lot 10 and pit lot 20
W. A. Nourse's addition, Moline, 81, 500
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Hard Coal Market .

Pea coal. 500; crate and egg, 1895
range, nut and No. A. $3.50 per ton
screened and delivered all best quality
of anthracite. Extra carriage charged on
orders of less than one ton. Blacksmith Z
c,lol, Conpellsville coke and charcoal.
1903 Second avenue E. u. FRAZIER
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Flgures Don'L LIE,

Neither do the many fine business
blocks and the many elegant residences
going up. fail to tell of the prosperity OF
the county seat of the best county in
Kansas. will sell good four-room
house and fifty foot lot with good well
and trees, for only S1,000-if taken soon.
Address E. G. TAYLOR,
Mcpherson, Kan,
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Yesterday at Muscatine the U. s. nine
beat the Moline Browns; the score being
II to1. The game was for 500 side
and the gate money, smoausing Alto
esther I'd atott $3.50.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Public Notice.

Anyone having business with the ARGUS
office after p. M On the event that the
Office is ciosed) will please call at Viii,
mans g. Galt's 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, 1886-08-20
Comrades q. A. R. Attention.

A special meeting of Buford Post, No.
243, is called to meet at the Post hall
Rock Island, at 1880 o'clock this evening
for the transaction of important business
By order of Commander.
THOMAS SMITH, Adjutant.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Churches and societies desiring spectral
rates or transportation, should apply
early to Eli j. FARMLAND, p. o. drawer
E, Rock Island, H., or call at the island.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Pure blood is absolutely necessary in
order to enjoy perfect health. Hoods
Sarsaparila purifies the blood and streng-
thens the system.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Attorney at law, loans money on good
security, makes collections. Reference,
Mitchell & Lynde, bankers. Office in
post office block,
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Insure in the Boylston Insurance Co. of
Boston, Mass. organized 1872. Assets
nearly sl,000000. Z. W. Hurst, agent.
Office over Rock Island National Bank.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Barth & Babcoek, Dentists.

No. 1924 Second avenue. Special atteB-
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
inserting teeth without plates.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

We wish to purchase within the mex,
fave days two carloads of horses from 4
to Is years Of age.
LoRToN Eaes,, pstthphtti
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
THE LONG JOURNEY.
Mrs. Sebastian Exner Passes From
Earth-A. G.. Baxter Dead.

EXNER
At the residence of ex-Alderman j. H.
Ladders, on Fourteenth and a-half street
between Eighth and Ninth avenues. at
$50 yesterday afternoon, died Mrs.
Sebastian Exner at the ripe old age Of
seventysone years and eleven months.
She was born in Bavsria; came to Amer.
lea In 1858, and five years later to Rock
Island, which has been her home con-
stantly since. Her husband survives her
with FIVE children: Charles, Mennas and
Joseph, Mrs. Baumgaurtner and Mrs. ].
H. Ladders, all of this city.
She had been for some time a sufferer
from asthma and palpitation of the heart,
and her death had been often expected
before. She was truly good woman in
all the applications of the term, and had a
wide acquaintance in the city. The fu'
| neral will be held from the residence of
j. II. ladders at 2 O'Clock Sunday alters
| noon.
BAXTER.
There died. August Z, at the residence
of his son-in-law, Rev. E. P. Elton, in
Fort Collins, Col, A. G. Baxter. eighty
one years of age. Mr.. Baxter moved
With his family from New York state to
Edgington. H., in the spring of 1916,
where be made his home until the fall OF
1875, when be went to Cordova, Ill -, to
live with his youngest daughter, Mrs L.
p. Elton. In the fall of 1888 he went
with his daughters family TO Fort Col
Inns, where he lived the remainder of his
days. Many will remember him as the
| fifer, who with Uncle Reymour, went
with the old Edgington martial band to
so many of the war meetings when sol>
diers were being enlisted to put down the
rebellion.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

You can get cut rates over any railroad
at Blake's ticket Office 1903 Second
avenue. div
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Milk Drinking Having a Eoom.

Milk drinking is having a very popular
boom in New York and Brooklyn, and is sold
BY the glass at sidewalk stands, drinking bars,
restaurants, and drug stores.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Offsrman Island Picnic Grounds

Massachusetts, added only 81 wsses lss
year TO its previous ,973 miles of railway.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

Dor SALE, SIXTY LOTS INMY AD-
l. ditlons o the city of Rock Island on four year.
ly payments, with interest at six per cent per an
uuin d DAVENPORT
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20

There is about s. gallon profit on the
whisky sold st most of the Atlantic City
hotels
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
FOR THE BENEFIT

from pedlers, | give the folloyi nuS'
retail price at which | baya
sold Smyrna Rugs for the
last twelve months
2 # Axe f. size 6. without fringe
Pedler's prices, 81 20 to 3 Co ~
#. ex5ft. without fringe -.
Feeders prices, IS 60 10 $40 20 - IL
3 # x6ft without fringe .......-..... g.
Pedler's prices, $40 20 10 si2 o. -
You will readily see that it win
to patronize our own establishmfr,
in every line of business. and n.
throw away your money to even fax,
that comes around. yet some ueopIe
look at this in a very philosophjcal
way, as the lady told me the othcr dav
she only had TO pay SOC week on q
rug that she bought for 300, ard if
she had bought 1t of US, it would have
cost her all told. 81 80 all at once
c. e. kNFLL
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
HALF-CENT A W0Gh.

THE ARGUS hereafter will publish III this col
ann all advertisements OF Lost, Found. For Rent
For Sale, Bosrd or Rooms, Wanted. and similar
notices. at the low rate of one half c6at lG0rd,
each figure word. but no advertisement less
than ten cents
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-20
Advertised List of Letters. No. :

List af letters uncalled Tor. al the Postot1ice Il
Rock Island, Rock Island county, Illinois Aus
~ ISSh
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
JUNEAU.
JUSTICE.

Circuit court adjourned on Saturday
morning last after session OF two weeks,
during which time all the jury cases
civil and criminal-were disposed of. A
few court cases still remain to be heard,
which will be disposed of during vacation.
The case that attracted the most atten-
ton was the State of Wisconsin against
VIM. O. Hughes for rape, brought here
on change of venue from Fond Gu Lac
county The complaining witness in the
case was little girl less than 10 years
old. and the defendant young man I6
years old. After hearing the evidence
the Judge refused to submit the question
of rape to the jury, and the latter found
the defendant guilty of assault only.
Not term of the circuit court passes
but what Judge Sloan grows in the esti-
nation and popularity of the people OF
the county. No one who sees him and
watches him on the bench can help but
be impressed by his eminent legal learn
ing. his overpowering sense of fairness
and instice, his courteous demeanor to-
wards all classes of people and bis cyl
dent desire to keep the Judicial ermine
unspotted and unsulied from the dirty
pool Of politics. Were all judges like
him, our courts of justice would enjoy
the respect and confidence of the people,
instead of being, as they unfortunately
often are, objects of feelings very near
akin to contempt and ridicule.
To Judge from the number OF deputy
sherifs attending court here, some people
have been led to believe that it takes one
deputy 10 take care of each individual
iuror--and perhaps 1t does, sometimes.
Richard Mertz, who has been under
medical treatment in Milwaukee for sey-
eral weeks, returned home Saturday much
improved and able to walk on clutches.
The attendance at the public school
for the past week has been very mucn
diminished on account OF the prevalence
of colds among the young people. oeV-
eral cases of scarlet fever of light type
are also reported.
c. + Bower aud S. Hampstead, two
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-02-24
PERSONAL.

Edward Moore, of Milwaukee, one of
the most reliable and popular engineers
on the Wisconsin Central railway, 10
lying dangerously i'll at the residence of
his mother, Mrs. M. Moore, in the Third
ward.
Frank Bishop of Milwaukee, was in
town Monday on sudden call to the
bedside of his mother, who is seriously
i'll at her home in the Third ward.
Mrs. E. Sweeney is visiting friends in
Chicago.
Mrs. R. Lindon, of Rockford. Iowa, is
a visitor in the city.
Mrs. Daniel Hall returned Thursday
from FIVE weeks visit at Lockport, New
York.
W.. G. Of, of Blue Mounds, spent
several days at his home here last week,
returning Saturday.
Julius Goeldner, of Milwaukee, for
merly connected with Mays gallery. is
in town on visit.
William Dennis, connected with the
B. & M. Railway at Lincoln, Nebraska,
is in town on visit at his home.
O. M. Wagner, of Minneapolis, agent
for the Dixon Crucible company, Jersey
City, is visiting friends in this city and at
bis old home in the town of Lebanon.
JAS. Bannon, reporter of the Milwau-
kee Sentinel, was among the interested
spectators at the Greenaway entertain
meilf last Wedneslav evening. He was
the CUES! o. 81 and Mrs G z Sialhes.