Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-31
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JosLIN, Oct 80.
Soft, unsound corn seems TO be the
complaint among farmers.
Hogs are still dying and the prospect is
we shall be pretty thoroughly cleaned
out.
A bet of 800 was made this morning
at Joslin upon the general result of the
election.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Hubbart made
very pleasant visit with Mr.. and Mrs. F.
E. Crompton and family on Sunday last
There is getting to be an ominous still
ness in the political atmosphere. Some>
thing is going to happen. What is its
DR.. Truesdale came to Joslin on Thurs
day morning last to visit Mr.. Peter Mold.
DR.. Fleming should have been there like.
wise, but he telephoned he could not
come.
Mr. Hiram Walker. one of our first set
tiers, who is eighty-two years Of age, had
the misfortune to fall upon his shoulder
and put it out of joint. DR.. Morgan ad-
iusted the dislocation.
Said a friend of ours the other day:
Farmers are getting their heyes hopen
and are becoming better heddycated on
this tariff question than they used to be. !"
Some Washington dude who crosses his
hair in the middle has figured it up to q
peck, how much merchantable corn will
| be put in the cribs this years.. 600 900, =
600 bushels.
1t is frequently somewhat amusing to
see two neighbors meet, and after inquir-
ing after each others health, it does not
seem to be ten seconds before one or the
other is laying something off very ear>
nestly and the colloquy generally comes
to climax by one or the other calling
somebody nothing but an old crank
Detectives have been placed upon the
scent and it has been etinitely ascer-
tanned that no scheme that INSCRIPTIONS
leadership can devise will be left untried
to stampede our vote or fraudulently
count it for other candidates as was done
in Michigan. Roorbacks are to be cir
culated at the last moment Efforts Of
the most dastardly and cowardly charac'
ter are abroad devised by the republicans
to reduce the prohibition vote and to cir
culate eleventh hour falsehoods
Republicans are issuing from thei
headquarters, 81 Fifth avenue, New
: York, documents chiefly printed in til,
: German language, denouncing the demo
cratic party as the friend of prohibition
and assuring the supporters OF the saloon
that their safety lies in endorsing the re
publican party and securing the defeat o
! democracy. This is being done by tn,
1 great Temperance and morality" part
who sympathiZ-s wi all well directe
efforts for the suppression of the li4uo
i traffic. Prof. Samuel Dickie, chairma
5 of the prohibition national committee
: cOrrObOrates the above over his own sig
9 nature and holds himself responsible &c
the statement.
What intelligent farmers now ask &c
: is simply this-that as supply and d.
msnd Gas a rule govern the price {
, wheat they have to cell, that supply an
demand shall govern the price of VIII
they have to purchase, and we defy
: half dozen James G. Blaine's and Fiji
o thrown in to show that this is an III
4 reasonable request Farmers, vote f
your own self preservation and the pre-
y tectIon of your own families.
Wouldn't it be blessing though,
y Pat O'Mara would join the Good Ten
l. plars'
:. Miss Flora Sheppard, daughter of NJ
70 VIM Sheppard. of Yuma, arose early Il
D. other morning and informed the fami
t. that she was leaving home. She accor
Or ingly left upol the morning train fro
- Joslin. A day or two afterwards b
folks received intelligence that she a
t rived safely at Denver, Colorado, and W
il married in less than an hour after her a
or rival to q young man by the name
Da James, former resident of this place.
Another old resident vino lives with
Vi sight of Joslin station, who has voted t
is republican ticket 10! these many yea
u says: III live until election day sh
be either vote for Cleveland or Fisk"
-, Some one reminds Blaine of his brin
III ing upwards OF thirty trunks across t
nd ocean packed full of English goods, a
so necessity Jeems' retorts by calling him
- ass and to mind his own business. Blai
is reported to have said that "thC
trunks cantained goods that can
I'm purchased just as cheap in this countr
FOR If so, why proclaim it to the world Il
&c. we cannot compete with Eng land on
10 count of psuper labor? Was Blain
luggage examined
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