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Daily Republican., 1886-04-12

Coughs may be soothed by opiates,
but they are hurtful. Red Star Cough
Cure is free from such, and promptly
.emoves coughs.
Daily Republican., 1886-04-12

You saw by the bonnets
yesterday. Some were new
and frisky; some were tardy.
The turbans are in the ma
jority. Everything else is
here though.
East of the Arcade steps.
Easter cards are ready;
under glass. You can see
them all, if you take the
time; and you get them un-
ouched- nobody touches a
card here. ..
North Of the Thirteenth.streetd door.
If you wish to avoid the
perfume that more American
women use than any other,
It's Mary Stuart by ALFRED
WRIGHT. What can there
be in a smell that gives it
such precedencel
White Rose is another.
Think of avoiding White
Rose!
Altered WRIGHT makes
several such. Anne Boleyn
is his latest. Don't know
yet how the world is going
to rate it.
At the center Of the store.
The world outside is just
beginning to realize that
spring is coming. We knew
it two months ago. We
knew it the first of February.
Paris began about that time
to send us dress-stuffs. She
has kept us busy ever since
recording arrivals, picking
them out and gauging FASH
ion by them.
One, two, three, four, FIVE
six, seven, eight long couu-
tiers with rows OF shelves
behind them full of novelties
long ago. Where shall we
put newcomers! Right by
the side of the others One
is new as the other. The
shelves have been emptied
dozens of times already.
Spring is going; no sooner
come than going. So are the
dress stuffs.
! Southwest, southeast, northwest, north
east from the center-all around tn
store.
Dressmaking also active
but that goes on so quietly
nobody knows what is doing
or done but the fair fol-
whom it is done.
1905 and Chestnut, second floor. TAX
car in Arcade OF in 1903; or stairwa,
In Arcade or East Transept.
Readymade dresses ar
quite another thing by nj
means q uiet; everybo6,,
knows; such a dress as tina
for So! There's a row c
such surprises along tn
!, Arcade today.
Our dressmaking work
: room is full of sewing-ms
: chimes and workers; ever
inch we can give them.
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Black Jersey, skirts weigh
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a So so and s.; worth twice IL
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is and cuffs are moved to Il
Arcade, east side, next II
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OF were.
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81. Braids have gone whe
in brushes were; have dout
~ room there; they need it.
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circle.
81 Black fringes and DIRE:
~ trimmings have the whole
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pain In the n0wels, kidneys or bladder, etc
Very valuable In dyspepsia, malaria iover OF
dumb ague, ehills and fever, general weak
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for weakly females as an assistance 70 keeE
the system healthy .Tney a-tendorsed and re.
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gative and splendid liver medicine. Lie.
gsntly sugar-coated. 20 cents a box; family
boxes, six in one, OIL. Sent by mail. Sold by
leading dealers In medicine. Main depot
Fourth and King streets, wilmington, Del,
and No. COZ Arch street Philadelphia,
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

COLUMBIA, S C., Dec. 2 A mass-neeting OF
landlords and their colored tenants has been
held in Chester county for the purpose OF
discussing the situation and taking action
which would lead, if possible, TO the relief OF
the suffering people of the county, The col
ored people related their unfortunate condi-
ton. They were without money, without
corn, wheat, meal-in short, without every
thing for the support of life. Tho spring
floods had devastated the country The land
lords present informed their suffering col
ored friends of their inability to help them,
as their condition was almost equally unfort-
innate A committee was appointed to in
vestigat3 further the condition of the people
and to appeal to all state governments foI
aid, and if such appeal was not successful tc
apply to the national government.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21
Men and Women IN LIES Prime.

Who rise unfresbed, feel languid
through the day, have little appetite, and
whose faces exhibit q sailow TINT, are on
the short route TO the grave. Unless
they can enact radical change in their
condition they will not reach old age.
Inauguration is the only means of their
physical salvation. Upon Hostetter's
Stomach bitters they can rely to furnish
them with stamina, which is prerequisite
Of health, and TO remove that prime
cause of continued debility, indigestion
and REPRESENTATION of the food. We
class these causes as one, since they are
joint functions of one organ, the stomach
chiefly. Built up and rehabilitated with
this superb restorative of vigor, the sys>
TEN may bid defiance to malaria, rheuma-
tism, bladder and kidney diseases, and
other maladies prone to ATTACK the en-
feebled. The bitters not only affords a
safeguard against disease of virtual
type, but effects prompt reform in the
condition Of drowsy or disordered liver
and irregular bowels,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21
A DUEL IN CANADA.
An Editor Avenges His Honor by Shoot
ing a Machine Agent.

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 2l.-The first duel
fought in Canada in many years occurred
here at IL o'clock Saturday night The
principals were John I. White, an old tims
Canadian journalist and poet, editor of a
weekly paper called The Investigator, and ].
Hanrahan a machine agent, who White al
legged had ruined his aftianced, and whom he
therefore challenged. The duel was fought
in a small wood on the outskirts of the city.
Promptly at the hour, White appeared, at
tended by his second, T. II. Russell Snow
was silently falling through the air, and the
ground was covered to the depth Of foot.
Hanrahan was early in attendance, and took
things very coolly, but the sangfroid OF
Editor White surpassed everything.
Overtures looking toward patch
ing up of the difficulty We're made by the
seconds, but with no avail.
His HONOR White said, had been
wounded to the quick. and nothing short OF
an appeal to the god of battles would satisfy
him. The ground, therefore, was at once
paced Off, and the men were placed in posi-
ton at ten PAGES, with their backs turned
toward each other. The men fought with
revolvers of 32-caliber At the word "Firer
two pistols ran out simultaneously, The eff
feet was nil. White got ahead with his sec
ond shot and the machine agent fell. AT
once his second and the doctor ran up to the
wounded man, and it was announced to the
victor that his enemy was struck in the
groin. He then expressed satisfaction with
the result and left the field in hurry, his
honor fully avenged.
The wounded man was taken to the hos
pital, and he is said to be doing we'll His
wound is not dangerous. White is under
stood to have fed TO the United States. The
police are on the lookout for him
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 2i-A few re-
cent instances of the administration of justice
IN this city are exciting pretty general at
tention. Eight years ago two men, Hitz and
Prentiss, wrecked the German American
National bank, which was mainly savings
bank and several hundred poor people lost
$4,000. Hitz and Prentiss have succeeded
in keeping their case in the cour,s and them
selves out Of the peniteutiary until last week,
when, it being too late TO procure a new in
djctment, Judge Merrick discovered that the
indictment that has been hanging over them
for eight years was worthless, because it
omitted TO specify that the German-Amer-
lean National bank was doing business here
az the time the crime charged occurred On
the same day an old man was sent to jail for
six months for stealing five chickens
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. Miss Anna
Eva Fay and her company of English me
diums essayed an illustrated religious lecture
on spiritualism at the National theatre here
Sunday night. There was crowded house
Tables were to float in mid-air, and a spirit
hand was to answer questions. Skepticism
was rampant in the audience Washington
Irving Bishop, the noted mind reader, in
terrupted Miss Fay while she was executing
the floating table part of the programme,
and asked her to remove the ring from her
finger by which, he said, she held it up.
Other interruptions followed. in which her
mysterious manifestations were denounced
as frauds and tricks Finally, before the
programme was half carried out, Miss Fay
refused to proceed any further, and the audi
ence, a good natured crowd, dispersed, well
pleased with the fraud and fun that they had
witnessed
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21
RouMANlA,S CUPID JIG.
A Wedding Dance That Tests Wind an
Limb of Jolly Participants.

A. Wedding Dance That Tests Wind and
Limb of Jolly Participants.
A Roumanian wedding party is one Of the
nosiest and joliiest gatherings that can be i'm
aginei. Tho chief feature of the celebration
is the dance held after the tying Of the nup-
tial knot. A reporter was present fer short
time at a dance of this description held ct q
hall en- the Bowery The couple had been
united at the synagogue in the afternoon.
The wedding feast was eaten shortly after
st the home of the bride Everybody IT,
Gliding the children, then proceeded to the
hall and the dancing went on continuously
until : O'Clock the next day
At about II o'clock the fun was at its
height The favoritc national dance was or.
l. IS called a Jig, though bearing little rcsen-
hiance to good old Irish dance Of that name
The orchestra struck up a monotonoas but
not unpleasing one two tunl-tllm melody
The dancers fJlGr ii in q circle, the men and
women being placed alternately, and joining
their outstTetched arms. the hands Of each
person clasPing the shoulder OF his partners
OIL the right and left.
The conpoEents of the living ring or circle
thus formed then began stepping time to the
music. slowly at first, but with increasing
speed, the circle moving now to the right,
now to the left, the step now becoming all the
time more lively and less regular until it was
a hop backward, a skip forward and jump
sideways. This was continued until some
links of the human endless chain abruptly
broke off from exhaustion
The bride, a very pretty girl of about ~,
was attired in en- old gold bronze dress walk,
Inc length, and elaborately lounced and en-
)G.lishod Over her head she wore white
ichu- The groom was "A regulation full dress.
\ peculiar feature of the affair was that
3ue OF the walters, attired in uniform of
short white coat and long apron was the
brides brother. He danced the jig With
great gusto and was sid to be the best Rou-
nanian jigger in this eountly.-New York
JOnrpaI
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec 2I-The presi-
dent sent TO the senate Monday the following
nominations: William A. Walker, Of Wis
consin, tc be attorney of the United States
for me eastern district Of Wisconsin. Post
masters: Daniel NJ. Donehoe, Beaver, Pa.
Richard Welsh, Annapolis, Md; Mary Nc
Aztec, Bardstown, Ky; Sam W Mcfarland,
Wapakoneta, Ohio; Robert T. Abraham,
East Liverpool, Ohio; c. S. Verwert, Lorenzo,
Ohio; Alexander H. Irwin, Cairo.
His; Samuel s. Jack, Decatur, Ills.
James B. Dale, Edwardsville, HIS; William
c. Green, Fulton, his; Richard 7. Gill, At
lanta, His. William F. White. Barry, Ills
Reginald F. Beecher, Wenona, His; Thomas
Garner. Paris, Ills: John D. Sourwiue.
Brazil, Ind Charley [. Timmonds, Hart
ford City, Ind. Michael McHugh. Hastings.
MINI Uriel NJ. Tobey, Sank Centre, MINI.
William P. AinsIey. Williamson, Mich.
Samuel +. Robinson, White Pigeon, Mich.
John NJ Mstthewson, Lowell, Mich George
W Lewis. Black River Falls, Wis.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

Depot, Moline Avcnue.
J. F. COOK, Agent, Rock Island
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

NEwBURGH, n. Y, Dec. 2l.-Alden Gold
smith, the famous horseman, died at mid
night Sunday night at Walnut Grove farm,
in the town of Blooming Grove, Orange
county, after an Illness Of three weeks. Mr..
Goldsmith was born Dec 4, 1920 Early ii
life he began to breed fine horses Goldsmith
Maid, trained and developed by him, has
linked the name of her owner forever with
the horse interests of the country He aisc
brought out Gloster, Huntless, Powers,
Driver, Alley, Volunteer, Heptago1, Domes-
tic, CASTELAR, and scores OF other noted trot-
tiers. For nineteen years lie owned Volun.
America
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Dec 2)-Tht
chief of police Sunday received the follow
ing:
"MASsILLoN, Ohio, Dec. CHEF Oh
POLICE, Parhersbarg, W. a.-Was man
named Fred Watkins murdered near Vol
cans several years ago, and was a child muir
dered and property stolen il a house IL
Parkersburg about the same time. If so,
Lucy Berry, the woman who committed tbs
crime. is here. IDA pFIFFER "
All the crimes named in the telegram are
matters of record here. Lucy Berry lived il
the neighborhood, but disappeared after The
murders. Interest in the tragedies has beer
revived and it IS thought the woman can b,
convicted Of two other Gaarder5 Officers
are on their way to MassillCu
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21
ANOTHER BooDLEMAN SENTENCED
McQuade to Go to Prison for Seven Years
and Pay a Fine of $500.

uc<uduc " oo w AAsoth Aoi oe'OsA @~s~AH
and Pay a Fine of $1,000.
NEW York, Dec. 2l.-Arthur ]. McQuade
the Doodle alderman, was Monday sentenced
to imprisonment for a term of seven year,
and to pay fine of 5000.
In pronouncing sentence, Recorder Smythe
said:
Arthur ]. McQuade, you have been fairly
and justly convicted Of bribery. You were
elected to perform a public duty and public
trust. Instead of doing SO you violated that
trust Your character as a business man.
citizen, father, husband, is good l have
sympathy for your wife and family. You
should have considered them before you did
wrong You did not add to the crime OF
which you have been convicted Of, as Jaehne
did by taking the, stand and committing per
jury have reason to believe that you re-
ceived as much money as Duffy dd-sl0, 900
That money is not yours; it is not the prop
erty of your family If it is left with them
it will work the inevitable result of ill-gotten
gain. would advise you to give up and pay
back to the city the money which you re-
ceived, and have no doubt it would work to
your benefit. The sentence of the court is
that you be confined in states prison at hard
labor for term Of seven years, and that you
pay fine of 5000
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 81. - Philadelphia
Typographical Union No. 9 has appointed a
committee to prepare circular calling th
attention of the members to May as
George ", Childs' birthday. On that day
every union printer east of the Mississippi
viii be expected to contribute the price Of
900 ems toward swelling the fund for tins
erection of a big hail in this city, the nucleus
of which was the $1,000 check presented
jointly by George ", Childs and A J.
DreNel On the birthday OF A. j Drexel he
compo5itors west Of the Mississippi contributed
about 5000
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

New ORLEANS, Dec 2I.-In accordance
with the resolution adopted at the recent
meeting of citizens of Kinds county. Missis.
sippi, warning emigration agents not tc
come to that county a number Of citizens
waited Saturday on some Of these agents
who were trying TO get hands for planters,
and requested them to desist. On their re
fusing 20 do so they We're visited by the ex-
ecutve committee Of fifteen, which was in
structed to see the resolutions carried ont
The agents were told 10 leave town within
ten minutes. They left.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 2l-The condi-
ton of Cen Logan docs not improve, and
the infammatory rheumatism has now
spread to both legs, his right arm and right
shoulder A trip to Hot Springs has been
advised by his physicians. and in the mean
time Professor Collins, "the cast-iron man"
is giving him daily massage treatment
A crank has sent him some asbestos or mis-
eral wool to take, and he is said to be taking
1t his physician having no sort of objection
to the indulgence of the harmless whiul.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

Tie celebrated DR.. Tanner, who made quite
& STIR several years ago by a prolonged fast
Of forty days, is uow a member Of the COM
maIit9 Of FGithists at ShalaIa, y NJ. In q
recent letter be lays down the broad proPo
sition that nine-tenths of all the crime and
disease II this world is due to the human
stomach. Keep the stomach Uadeilci with
meat, especially free from the fesh of the
swine, and there is hope that man may live
Up TO his highest aspirations. This is the
doctrine which the Fairhists are trying to en-
force practically III their colony, but the re-
suit thus Tar has not ben encoura Sing.-
Chicago Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec 2f-Mrs. EGzsbatt
Gist, living near Westminster. Carroll
county, Nd, sacrificed her 6fe to save he,
children. Her ~ ear-old bog upset a can OF
oil which caught fire The clothing OF the
child and of his little baby sister caught the
flame The mother took tha baby and rush
ing out rolled it in the snoS and then re-
turned to the house, when, in rescung the
second child, her own clothes caught FIRE,
She saved both children and then threw her
self in a snow-drift and extinglisaed the
flames The physicians say she can not live.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

ii tie Pare Leopold. Brussels, on the 18th
inst, Leona Dare actually performed the feat
Of holding on by her teeth to a sling suspend
ed from the car Of balloon as it rose in the
air. The balloon of 81, 3l6 cubic feet capacity,
carrying in its Ger the impresario Spelterini
a1i the French aoronaut Lacharnbre. rose at
6;l5 and it was only when Leona Dare
colii no longer be distinguished except with
the aid of glasses that she drew herself up to
the trapeze and entered the car by trap
door il the bottom The balloon descended
sa.oiyon the estate Of the Comte dc Beaufort,
at LinGien.-LoEdon Err.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

LITTLE Rock, Dec. @l.-John and Joseph
Harris, brothers, We're ambushcd and shot
dead at Warren Saturday by Alexander
Hamilton and Nathaniel Sedbury, Hamil-
toms servant, who afterward gave them
selves up and are now in jail The whole
country around Warren IS angergd by the
rhine The Harris brothers and Hamilton
were rich planters VINO had been at enmity
for lcng time. Hamilton'5 friends say he
is crazy and that he paid Sedba:y So to JOIN
in the crime
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

Boston, Dec. 2l.-The enforcement of the
Sunday law is marked at the north and west
ends, and the mandates of the police are
most thoroughly observed A truly Puritan
sabbath is now the rule in these sections, and
the lack of DRINKS pulled in by the police
since the closing Of the liquor dispensaries is
particularly noticeable, The streets are
clearer Of people and no serious complaints
are heard from law-abiding citizens as to
any annoyance caused be being Obliged to
lay in the luxuries Of life Saturday night.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21-The trial Of the
men charged with vrecking the Missouri Pa
ciic train near the county bridge, this city,
on the 2lst Of April last, began Monday
morning. The case, in consequence of the
enormity of the crime, causes revival of
the intense interest which existed at the
time of its commission. Elk Governor
Charles P. Johnston, of St. Louis, and Con
gresham Warner, of this city, VIII defend
the accused.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

The greatest foe of America people is
consumption; It's victims number many
thousands each year. Physicians and
druggists have at last found a remedy
which they feel justified IN Recommend
ing. This is DR.. Bigelow's Cure, which
cures consumption in stages that other
remedies are of no benefit 1t cures
coughs, colds, and all throat and lung
diseases speedily and safely. Price so
cents and 81, of druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21
Scarlet Fever and plphrheria

are spread by contagion, by the transfer
of living matter. These particles come
from the skin, the membrauous lining of
the mouth, nose and throat, and from the
intestines and urinary organs, Disinfect
promptly and thoroughly with Darbys
Prophylactic fluid, the great germ des,
troyer.
Prof. H. T. Lupton, of the Vanderbilt
University, Tenn. says: As disin-
fectant Darys Propbylactic fluid is supe>
rior to any preparation with which l am
acquainted"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-21

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 81 Representa-
tive James of Brooklyn made an argument
Monday morning before the house commit
tee on public buildings and grounds in favor
of his bill appropriating ss,O00,0OO for
prison reformatory for persons con victed of
violation Of laws of the United States. 1t
provides for the appointment Of commits
sion of five men, one of whom shall be con-
nected with the department of justice, to
locate the reformatory, superintend its con-
struCtipn etc