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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-05-19
Yankee doodle and ir.ss. !.

4 ySft 4
s. I Weuse Uncle Sam as a facetlous name
for the .sU United States; Afr. S. Grant
| 5Oliphant explains, it origin thus; :" Uncle
Sam ilSonn was the government,
E2inspector Of supplies at Troy in theyWaf
sof1912 Those edibles Of which he alI-
proved, were labelled U. S., then q. iteW
slgnsfor Omitted States; the workbench
supposed that these letters, were the ir-
iitials of S Uncle am, . and the mistake
became lasj jolteaitl q Listing one.s So
i!I3rot( her - onathann HAD a simplesort-
lgip;g shingfep thought very, highly
|fof the Judgment Of Jonathan q srtllm-i
lbnllsthe elder then Governor OF Con-.
,necticut and constantly remarked,
tssWe must consult Brother Jonathan:Yq
The name soon BECAME regarded as d
national sobriinet., Mr. Southwlck, in
l:"QuizzIsm, '!Rgives some curious infor.t
nation about the term Yankee; OF
course, we ll:know that itlis the word
English as pronounced by the Ameri-
cantTndians,s 6 but I'VE do not all know
that's In n c1riouss book on the Round
Towers of Ireland" the origin Of the
term Yankee doodle was traced to the
Persian phrase Yanlli-dooniah, or in
habitants Of the new world. Layard,
in hiss bookEon, Il N ineveh and it's Re-
mans,' also mentions Nahghidunia as
tho Persian name Of America.'a The
song Yankee Doodle, Mr.. Southwick
tells us, IS as sso1d as CromMell's IS time;
itsswas.S the protector himself who
l5"'stucls IL feather in his hat'' when GO
Ing to Oxford; the bunch of ribbon
which held the .featherwas maccaro-
mi. We know that maccaronl was a
cant term forGa dandy, that feathers
were worn in5tlie hats Of royalists, and
that Oxford was a town Of the highest
Importance during The civil war. I do
mot quite see low round towers, the
ISPersian Language and Old Noll come to
be- so intimately connected, even
though, as Mr. Southwick tells, the
song was at first known as Yankee
lsDoodle. The Americans must not, as
some of her sons have done, imagine
that the dollar mark $stands@iIJ IS. !,
tile S. being written upon The u. For
both the dollar and the slgn,of it were
in use long before there were any Unit
ed States. Both Mr.. Southwick and
Mr.. Oliphant gave the very probable
origin indicated by the design on the
reverse Of the Spanish dollar-th pill
lars of Hercules with scroll round
each pillar, the scrolls perhaps repre-
senting the serpents which Hercules
strangled while yet he was child in
his cradle. There is also another
theory that the dollar mark is form
of the figure s, because in old times the
dollar was a piece Of eight reals. The
expression ''almightly dollar'' was
FIRST used by Washington Irving in his
sketch Of s''Creole Village" 1887.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-05-19

Tie remarkable finish Of American
papers ts Inparted by the addition Of q
mineral called agalith silicate OF mag.
nesia somewhat resembling asbestos Ii
texture 1t is found only In the United
States, y
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1888-12-13

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Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1888-12-13

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6ann ees 4ltsn.
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Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1888-12-13

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uuter mernen Ratisntsn iebr SufrieSeHfeueuo II.
Horsey Mfg Co., Utica, n. Z.
Sn allen Aputbesel 90 tchen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
The Sci. After, New Line,

CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-H. r. Bishop, Benj t..
min Bre VISITOR, r, 7. Flower ~ Co, aud ii,
II. Porter, owners of more than one-fourth
of the stock of the Chicago ~ Eastern llinoi,
Railroad company, senr out to stockholders
a request for proxies to he used at n special
meeting on Feb. At thi, meeting 1t is pro-
posed to amend the articles of consohia-
tion, dated Nov. II, 1887, 50
as ito authoriz5 the issue Of the
companys stock by exchange or
otherwise for the acquisition of the stock Of
other railroad companies whose railroads
may advantageousy be made part of its
system" 1t is understood That under the
authority here asked for, it is the purpose to
issue preferred aud common stock of the
Eastern Illinois in exchange for and thereby
purchase the preferred and common stock of
the Chicago Il Indiana Coal railway. The
exchange will be share for share OF each
class of stock
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
THE DAILY ARGUS
JOHN W. POTTER.
FRIDAY, JANUARY go. 1888,
THE Marine Journal says. As BIT o

THE Marine Journa! says: As bit Of
warning to those Of our Washington
authorities who would blindly follow the
lines laid down by foreign builders Of war
ships and great guns, 1t is well 10 note
that the English papers state that the
machinery trials of the new steel armorH
plated cruiser Narcissus have "again
proved unsuccessful" Viewed in the
light of Captain Bunce's late report on
the defects of the Atlanta, and its sister
ship, the Boston, built on the same lines,
yet INFESTED, this information shows that
absolute perfection is not yet assured by
following foreign models, Aud it is also
interesting to note that American ship,
builders foretod number Of the defects
in the Atlanta demonstrated by the late
trials. Would It not be well to build one
war ship on thoroughly American
model, untramplod by foreign precedents
where counter to our own ideas1
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
The Admission OF Utnh.

The proposition to erect Utah into q
state should not be entertained, Unu
the United States government has stamped
out polygamy 1t is itself II failure, and
the admission of the territory rs sover
eign state would be a surrender on the
part of the nation which should not for an
instant be considered For over quar-.
ter of century the government at Wash
ington has been irving by force 40 com
pei the MOrmons to abandon their vicious
practices 2n American soil--to behave
themselves properly or get out Open
resistance and defiance by the heads OF
the Mormon church having failed to over
come the national persistence. cunning,
treacheTy and .faeSSs have been resorted
TO. Armed resistance, murder. perjury
have been in turn tried; while presidents
and congresses have striven to stop the
practice of polygamy in vain. Now Utah
asks to be admitted as state; to be ha>
bi;tated with the sovereignty and equality
of state upon pledges in her state
constitution TO do, after she is en-
endowed with sovereignty, what she has
solemnly made pledges again and again to
do, which pledges she has violated as
often as they were made. Once in the
union, who would see to the enforcement
of the anti-polygamy pledges2 With
Mormons for governors, legislators and
judges; with MormOns for sherfTs and
jurors and magistrates, the accursed sect
would soon have polygamous state that
would be a stain upon our nineteenth cen.
fury civilization and foul blot upon
American morality. No; let the Nor
mons first yield obedience to the United
States, and attest that obedience and 10y
atty by the suppression within their
limits of the practice as well as the preach.
ing of polygamy, and then it will be time
to treat upon the subject of admission.
Until then the national government can
offer or accept no terms. Unqualified
submission and obedience to the laws of
the land must be the unrelenting condir
ton precedent to any consideration of
the subject of admission. The republic
would be Inundated by such surrender
as is implied by the proposition, and the
fight with the monster has gone on too
long for such q surrender now. Let the
Mormans make proper submission, and
then it may be well to talk of further
guarantees. AS it is they evidently seek
to secure By trick what they begin to
despair of keeping by force and fraud.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

BUTLER, Pa, Jan. 20. Thursday morning
John Mathio a Freuchman, and Belgian
named Alx or Elliott, foreman at the Stand
ard Plate-Glass works in this place, were al
most instantly killed while placing a sheet of
glass in position on the grinding table, They
were standing on the table with John Ken.
nick, an Irishman, when the grinders were
set in motion. kennick saw the danger and
leaped to the center of the table, and a min
ute later was thrown off into pit by the We
locity of the machine, escaping with few in
juries Alix's legs were ground off close to
his body, while Mathio was cut i'll the back
through the scapula into the thorax, both
men dying soon afterward.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
HANGED FOR ANoTHgR's CRIME.
1t Is Now In Order for Mr.. Hook to Ex-
plain His Long Silence.

1t Is Now In Order for Mr.. Hook to Ex-
plain His Long Silence.
PITTsBURG Pa, Jan. 20-Joe Hook, a
noted man about town, made a voluntary
statement Thursday to The Evening Leader
that In a measure clears away the mystery
connected with the verbal expression from
Frank Small, just as he stepped on the trap
at the time of his execution for the murder
of Mic Jacoby, two or three years ago. Frank
Smalls last words were:
"Ihere is one man in this audience that
knows that die an innocent man."
Joe Hook says that Small told him in con-
fidence that the real murderer Of Jacoby
was Ell CofFey, who attempted to take his
own life in his cell in the county jail Wednes =
day, when informed that the state pardon
board had declined to commute his sentence
for the murder of Police Officer Evans.
Small and Coffey were chums and COM
panions in crime Small and Jacoby became
involved in quarrel, but Small it seems,
went home in time to allege an alibi at The
hour Jacoby was murdered. Hook states
that Cofey took SnRlls part and subse-
quently waylaid Jacoby, killing him and es-
Gaping into the darkness. Small was arrested
AMI charged with the murder. Cotfey told
Small to never mind, that he would furnish
the money to see him through, and that
there was no danger of his hanging. Cotfey
furnished the money for the defense, obtain
ing it by the robbery of bank in Allegheny
City. The prosecution was vigorous, cir
cumstantal evidence abundant, and Small
was convicted Of the crime which Coffey
committed and eIpiated it on the gallows.
Coffey is also charged with five other muir
ders, for one Of which a man is now serving
a life sentence in Madison, Ind, and another
in Columbus, o.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
BEEN TAKING NOTES.
SENATOR BUTLER GOES ON A RAIL
WAY OBSERVATION TOUR,

And Embodies tho Result of His Exper-
fence in IL Bill That win Make the
Railway Maguates Weep II 1t Passes
Mchdoo scorns British Courtesy for
ProAt-CapitaI city omcial Budget.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 10 Senator But
Ter has introduced bill amendatory OF the
interstate commerce law, which provides
that no railroad shall charge for transporta-
ton of passengers more than 9 cents per
mile for any distance over 200 miles; also
that no common carrier subject to the pro-
visions of the Interstate act shall require any
employe engaged in or connected with the
transportation OF passengers to work more
than twelve hours c1nsecutively.
During the recess of congress- in his travels
over different railroads, Butler from actual
experience in railroad accidents became con-
WINGED that one of the chief causes Of the fire.
quent catastrophes was the overworking of
employees on passenger trains; that engineers
conductors, and brakemen are kept steadily
on duty for more hours than human nature
can endure and maintain the alertness neces-
sary to the safety of passenger trains.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
TOAST AND WATER.
WISCONSIN PRoHlBlTloNISTS FORE
GATHER AT A BANQUET.

Long List OF Toasts and Those Who
Responded Thereto-The Ladies' the Sue
cess of the Anair-what the Protective
Tariff League Is Doing for Its Cause
Local Option Headed on.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 20.-The Prohi-
bitionists OF Wisconsin gave their first ban
quet in Milwaukee Thursday evening. The
affair was given under the auspices of the
Young Mems Prohibition club, of Milwau-
kee, and gentlemen and ladies prominent in
temperance work throughout the state were
invited There was large attendance. Over
200 guests sat down to the feast and nearly
fifty Others were obliged to enjoy it standing
list of toasts had been prepared, but the
toast master, DIR. Birney Hand, of this city
made brevity and promptness a feature, and
the last speaker had taken his seat before the
clock struck IL Two of the responses were
by ladies, and it is but just to say that they
carried Off the honors OF the evening.
The toasys responded to were as follows:
"The Prohibition Party, Heroic in Its Con-
ception, Grand in Its Youth, Iuvincible in
Its Nature and Manhood" response by the
Hon. Samuel D. Hastings, OF Madison; "The
United States Supreme Court, the Peo-
ple's Tribune, by Recent Decision Prohibi-
tion Rests on the Firm Rock Of Justice and
f-o,..i.,,,;.,,a, 1)IL,u ..,,. l., a. p
u''oH" n y Iue Ny 9,,
~ iieii' a ~ lhac'e papt'sD enulcn, hl.
temperance educators for all ages, sexes, ma
tons and conditions, "-response by E. W.
Chain, grand chief templar of Wisconsin;
"The Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Jus rover Denihu Tue Inrohe Oh nlcn ntVS
Ihe Ame ~ 'oler response py mrs mrs
d. ~ herr' preSiuenT Oh tne MI
Waukee uhioh' Iersona' liberty Elk
tIngulsneu ny the onI'eI states supreme
urt-respohse py II. u. ComstocK; Inc
LABOR frooieni, fron'pitlon Oh .ne liquor
franc 1reat Sup Toward lts ooiutlon
response oy the rev T. u. opolRe' Inc
Irohipltioh fTeSS scattering Leaves OF Tue
Tree LOT tne deannR OF tne NaUiohs re
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 2O.-When the
resolution accepting the invitation to this
country to take part in the Melbourne, Aus
tralia, exposition was up in the house Thurs
day MacAdoo OF New York tried to have the
appropriation cut down to 5000, which
would have practically killed the bill. He COM
planned that precedence should have been
given to the French invitation to participate
in the celebration Of the fall of the Bastile.
When Belmont told him that the Bastile
business would be promptly attentei
to MacAdoo was glad to hear it,
and added that it would be
disgrace to this country if the great Eu-
ropean republic did not get the support of
Uncle Sam in its celebration. He was 10th,
he said, to accept "a secondhand Invitation
from the government of Downing street."
which is the official headquarters of the Brit
ish ministry in London.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
TRYING TO TANGLe PERKINS.
Some Damaging Testimony Against the
indianapolis Fine Workers.


indianapolis Fine Workers.
INDIANAPoIIs, Ind, Jan 20 in the trial
of the tnlks sheet cases Thursday Samuel E.
Perkins, lie chief witness for the prosecution,
was on the stand all day. His direct evil
dence was short and in substance as follows:
On Thursday following the general cleo
ton in November, 1855, he went to the court
house, where the canvassing board was called
to meet and upon entering the room Coy
came to him and said that the Democratic
candidate for criminal judge was behind and
votes must be had to elect him. lie then
asked witness to go to Allen Hi
sey, Inspector in the witness pre-
cinct, and get his tally sheets Upon
securing Hisey's papers under the pretense
that he wanted to see if they were all right,
the witness and Coy went to room In the
east end of the court house and, taking key
from his pocket, Coy unlocked the door and
the two entered. "Coy then said" continued
the witness, "that precinct would stand
change OF sixteen votes each way, making
total change of thirty-two, and lie asked me
to make the changes. / had no knife and he
took his from his pocket and lent it to me.
While was at work upon the taly-sheet
Coy left the room saying he would return
presently, and in few moments Steve Mat.
Ter came in with his tally.sheets under his
arm In the meantime Coy returned and
either he or Matter, l do not remember now,
gave me Matters tally sheets and changed
them twenty five or thirty votes. "
The witness was then put through most
vigorous, rapid and skllful cross-examina-
ton by Judge McNutt. of counsel for the de-
Tense, hut it failed to find weak spot at
any place.
Morgan II. Weir, Democratic senator
from LaPorte county, testified that Coy, the
chief defendant, had come to him during the
last session of the legislature and told him
that place must be found for Counselman,
one of the defendants In the senate; that
Counseman was dangerous man, and his
mouth must be stopped. McNutt asked him if
he had not written a letter offering to testify
in this case to get the per diem and mileag
of witness. He admitted having written
some such letter and copy was handed
McNutt who, after perusing it, laid it aside.
Judge Claypool, for the prosecution, insisted
that the letter should be read to the jury,
and it was done. In it, after detailing Coy's
conversation with him and his willingness to
testify thereto, Weir closed by hoping tn at
the scoundrels would be pushed to the
wall and punished at they deserved.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20
DULL DAY IN CONGRESS.
Very Little Done in Either Housewife
kins's Bank Bill stiu Obstruoted.


WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 1.-The urgent
deficiency bill, with few amendments, was
reported to the senate Thursday. A resolu-
ton was adopted directing the interior office
to report plan to preserve the forests at
river headwaters, while not depriving set
tiers of timber for homes. Several petitions
in favor of postal telegraph were presented
A motion was adopted that when the senate
adjourns it be to Monday, and at 1910 p IN.
an executive session began which did not
close until 4:36, when the senate adjourned.
The house passed a resolution appropriat-
ing $50, 600 and accepting the invitation to
take part in the Melbourne, Australia, expo
sition, aud also a resolution accepting a SIM
liar invitation from France, the event to take
place next year The invalid pension bill
was reported and referred to committee of
the whole. Wilkins made another attempt
TO get up his banking bill, but though he Of
fered to throw it open to debate and let its
opponents say when the previous question
should be called, time was hlibustered away
until $50 when recess was taken until 8
o'clock, at which time the ceremony took
place of accepting portraits of Theodore
Sedgwick, J. b. Varnum, and Nathaniel
Banks, Massachusetts men who have occu-
pied the speakers chair. There was a season
of speechmaking, and when the business was
completed the house ad iournel
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

WASHINGTON, CITY, Jan 20 The senate
publishes a number of combinations, among
them several consuls, and also "A batch of col
lectors of customs, appraisers, receivers Of
public moneys and pension agents for eastern
and Pacific slope states Also the following:
f. Semple, governor Of Washington terri
tory; w. c. Hall, secretary of Utah terri
tory; s. D. Shannon. secretary Of Wyoming
territory; James Sheakley, commissioner for
Alaska. Postmasters: Nebraska-J. GAL
ley, Nelson; j. A. Hanning, Cambridge; D.
MacCuaig, Nebraska City; Carrie Patton,
Ogallala; L, A. Ryon, Falls City; NJ. o.
Sullivan, West Point; C. NJ. Walworth,
Loup City; ]. II. WEIGH Paramount; II.
Baltenburg, Haysprings; Frank Pay,
Bankeman; W. J. Boulware, Valentine; w.
H. Cooksey, Geneva; IL E. Galbraith, AL
bion; C. V. Gallagher, Omaha. illinois,
c. L. Jack, Winchester; $, Berry, Peru; II.
s. Corwin, Waverly; T. G. Dennis, Newton.
Wi5consin-T. B. Coon, Kiborne City.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

ABsISTHE, the lavorite intoXicant OF
the French, is almost always msnufac'
tured with alcohols of industry, iil-recti-
fed, rendered green by the addition OF
the sulphate of copper, and saturated
with resin, so as to give it the beautiful
greenish white precipitate produced by
pouring water on it, and which drinkers
80 much admire. "Vermouth," another
favorite liquor, is aduIteratcd with
hydro>chloric or sulphuric acid, IN order
to give it a pungcnt taste, 'Kirsch' is
extracted from the leaves of the cherry
laurel and contains as much as twenty
two centigrams of prussic acid per liter,
instead of five or six centlgrims Rum
is manufactured always with alcohol dis
titled from beet root, TO which Is added
ether and formic acid, The bouquets
of brandies are manufactured by the
action of sulphuric acid on castor OIL.
The coloring matters employed are ex~
tracted from logwood, the elder, sorrcl,
fuchsine and coal. Such is the trash
which Is daily consumed by the PArisians.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

Mr. d. |. WilCoXson, of Horse Cave,
KY says he wassfor many years. badly
afflicted with phthisc, also diabetes; the
pains were almost unenduIable and
would sometimes almost throw him into
commissions. He tried Electric bitters
and got relief from the first bottle and
after taking six bottles, was entirely
cured, and bad gained in flesh egtcen
pounds. Says he positively believes he
would have died, had it not been for the
relief afforded by Electric bitters. Sold
at fifty cents bottle by Hartz Il Balm
sen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 20. The senate
committee on mines and mining has per-
fected an amendment to the alien land law,
exempting mining property from its opera
tion-that is allowing foreigners to purchase
and own mines in this country.
The pension bill is nearly ready, and it
provides for $50, G75 800, of which $40 900, COO
is for pensions and the remainder for official
work.
An attempt by Mckinley OF Ohio to get his
bill repeating the tobacco tax before the ways
and means committee was voted down Thurs
day. The Democratic majority desires to
leave that matter until they go into the gem
eral subject of tariff reform
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-20

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 90. The formal
acceptance by the house Thursday of por-
traits of Sedg wick, Varnum and Banks, dis
tinguished Bay state men who have served
as speaker Of the house, was an interesting
event. The portraits, handsomely framed,
were ranged side by side in front of the
clerks desk, and attracted much attention.
Eulogistic speeches we're made by Long,
Rockwell, Allen, Collins, Hayden and Lodge
of the Massachusetts delegation, and by
Randall, and Breckenridge of Kentucky.
Randall offered the resolution formally ac-
cepting on behalf Of the house the portraits.
and it was seconded by Breckenridge.