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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19
judge Bagby,

There is geleral sorrow in this county
over the serious illness of Judge John G.
Bagby. He is suffering dreadfully, and
almost without hope 1--WE are assured)
from kidney and bladder trouble. A
pure and upright jurist, blameworthy
alone for gentleness of heart that
makes him pi,iful towards criminals from
whose misdesds he revots, he has wen
the sincere regard of all just men. To
know Judge Bagby is to trust and honor
him. We trust there may yet be favor
able turn TO lis disease and he may long
he spared to wife, family and Friends.
Lewistown Democrat.
Judge Bagby lives at Rushville, Schuy.
Ter county, and is well known to the bal
of Rock Island county, having presided
at court Que session in place of one of the
regular judges
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19

moralizing as the yellowest of yellow
covered romances 1t is an unquestiona-
BILE fact that with all its ecceptricities the
Salvation Army is doing much good in
its way; and yet when an ex drunkard
and criminal becomes the hero of his own
highly colored variations, the educative
effect on the minds of many youthful
listeners is far from healthy.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19

The time honored Notre Dame. Balti.
more, Md.-We have had ample oppor>
tunity to convince ourselves of the
efficacy of Salvation Oil. We cheerfully
submit our names to the public as refer
ence. Respectfully, Sisters Of Notre
Dame, Alsquith and Eager streets, Balti-
more, Md.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19

The new course 10 journalism at Cor
nell university Is pronounced great sue
cess.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19
Mig for Plows.

The Rock Island Plow company has
been experiencing an unusually active
time of it this winter and has been
really crowded to fill ita orders. The
forces have been increased constantly
during the past two weeks. the company
having engag ed all the reliable mea that
it could get. Monday still more men will
be put on and the probabilities are that
q ten hour time system will be adopted.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19
For Sale.

An eighty acre farm in Bowling town
ship. being the south half Of the north
west quarter of section twenty>one. and
being portion of the farm formerly
owned by James Todd. all under cultiva
ton. and will be sold on easy terms Fol
particulars call or address E E. Par
menter. attorney at law. Rock Island,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19
Sir Knish.s-Important.

Attention Sir Knig h s-Important
There will be a special conclave of
Evarts' Commsndery No. 10, K. T.
this evening at half past o'clock
All Sir Knights are earnestly requested
to be present to make arrangements tc
attend the funeral of our late deceased
Sir Knight, w. P. Blackeston, of Gen
eseo, Ill. By order of
II. G. CLEAvELAND, E. G.
r. G.. WIlLKRToN, Recorder
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-19
I'VE EmpIoy No Agents. "

Some agents have been representing
themselves as being in our employ. We
wish to state that we ''do not" employ
agents. They are an expensive luxury
at best. They charge from IS to so per
cent more than we do.
The ADAMS.
1922 Brady street, Davenport, Iowa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19

A WHEELING merchant bought tub Of but
ter, in the middle of which he found small
skim milk cheese. Concealed in the cheese
was stone to make 1t weigh heavier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
PLAYS THAT ARE COMING.

AT the Bijou Theater next week "The q. 8.
Mail" which has been so much talked of, will
be seen for the first time in Pittsburg. 1t is a
farce comedy in the nature of good-tempered
skit on the postal service Wherever it has
been seen it has been hailed with roars of
laughter and its novelty in plot, style and
specialties have been highly praised. In the
cast is that wonderfully clever actress. Miss
Kate Davis, and Frank David, the comedian,
beside a dozen other actors of note. It will be
staged with great care-the postoffice scene is
carried by the company-and the dresses of
the customary band of pretty girls are said to
be astonishing. The box office sale of seats be-
gins to-day. There has been a great demand
for seats already.
MISS MARIE WAINWRIGHT will present
herself to the Pittsburg public alone tins year.
She will be at the Grand Opera House next
week. With good company she intends to
give us Shakespeare's Twelfth Night" In
other cities where she has played this season,
notably in Chicago, the press has praised her
production OF the play highly. 1t is stated
that the scenery and costumes will be accurate
and rich.
Oracle EMMETT, in "The Waits of New
York." is the attraction underlined for Harris,
Theater next week. The advance sale begins
this morning.
AT Harry Williams Academy next week the
favorite, Tony Pastor, will appear at the head
of his own company,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
POLITICAL CIGARS,

The bright and shining New York Sun
turns the light of its rays upon the fact that
the illness of Private Secretary Halford is
due to the polite endeavor of that accommo-
dating functionary to smoke the cigars
which Office seekers have brought to the
White House. This is declared to be all
wrong by the Sun, which asserts "Mr. Hal
ford is too precious tc be wasted on rank
cigars. Give 'em to Wanamaker.''
The fell purpose of the Sun in proposing
that the noxious nicotine shall be exhibited
to the Postmaster General is only too clear
Having met with failure in its demand that
the Postmaster General shall be turned out
of the Cabinet, it desires to see him removed
by the slow and painful agonies of bad
cigars. But such an effort to introduce
Borgian methods into our public affairs is
baked in the outset by the irreproachable
character Of the Postmaster General. Mr..
Wanamaker has no small vices, and while
he may thus be deprived of the pleasure and
pain alike of knowing bad cigars from good
ones, he is also protected from insidicus at
tempts to wreck his public usefulness by
making him the recipient of the nicotian
offerings of ambitious fine workers.
Nevertheless the esteemed Sun made
nearly a center shot designating the Post
Office Department as the place where Mr..
Halford should send the bad cigars, in self
protection. Mr.. Wanamaker can pass on
the political cigars to his assistant Moth
ing is too rank for Clarkson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
Startling Effects on Drinkers.
PATENTS ON DIVERS DEVICES.
What Inventors of Three States Have Be,
TinkerinG With of Late.

What Inventors of Three States Have Been
Tinkering With of Late.
The following patents were granted to West
ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and West
Virginia inventors on Tuesday. September II,
as furnished by o. D. Lewis, patent attorney,
No. 131 Fifth avenue. Pittsburg:
Wilson Alger, Bloomsbury, Pa, securing and
decorating cereals; Henry Aiken, Homestead,
machine for shaping metal sheets and for making
metal ties; Amos Boucher. Monclova, o.. railway
G. A. Donals, GAINESVILLE, o., automatic pole
changer: John Dick, Meadvile, steam boiler;
J. z. Gates, Duryea. Pa, spring motor; u. A.
East Berlin, Pa, hay fork; W: w; Hightree, Hub
ford, Pa, woven fabric. O.. s. King and H. II.
swapey, Mc,keesport regulator and cutoff; % Will
kleeman. Pittsourg, mt lock; z: Fl; and
G. Ling. Pittsburg forming the necks of fruit jars:
q. A. Mahle, Cory, machine for making wooden
currycombs and for brush block boring machine;
G. McKensie, w. Van Port and W. 1. Miller:
Beaver, advertising and street announcing ap-
paratus; H. e.. Morrow. Bradford, mead pro-
Christ Peifer, Allegheny, metallurgical furnace;
]. W. Penfeld, Willoughby, o., brick. machine;
Ernest Rost, Dayton, o.. hydrocarbOn burner;
Herman Schulze- -Berge, Rochester. Pa, furnace
glassware; Frank l.. Slocumi and H. W. Lash,
Pittsburg, treating molten metal with natural gas;
r. W. Starr, Cory. multiple boring machine;
David Steiner, Adamsburg. Pa, nut lock; }. Z.
Streeper, Norristown, high and low water alarm:
Charles and +. Symons. Lafayette. Pa, paper
making machine; Warren Van Vleet Strouds-
burg. Pa, combination tool; William Williams,
Jermyn, Pa, steam actuated valve; Byron Zim-
norman, Belle Center, o., farm gate; W. W. Huff
man, Houston, o.. shock bundle tier; b. b.
ByhaIia, o., harness loop; Joseph Rapp. Akron.
ro0fng tile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
OUR STEAMSHIP LINES.

The information that New York steam
ship company, operating a line OF steamers
running between New York and the Cuban
and Mexican ports has added three fine
American built vessels to Its feet, as given
in our special dispatches, has an interesting
bearing on the subject of our trade with
South and Central American countries.
The first step in the development of such
trade is, obviously, the improvement of
communication with the countries to which
we desire to furnish manufactured goods in
exchange for tropical products and raw
materials. The enlargement of just such
lines as this one is, therefore, progress di-
rectly in the line of the objects to be con-
sidered by the n-Ameriean Congress.
The encouragement and stimulation of
such lines is an essential feature of a ma
tional policy intelligently directed to the
extension of South American trade.
The declaration of the President of this
steamship company, that it would not have
made this increase of its fleet except for its
reliance on what the Republican admins
tration will do for such enterprises, looks
like confident discounting of the future
But the fact that this American company
must carry on business in competition with
Spanish company which receives large
subsidy from the Spanish Government and
offers but about one-third the facilities of
the American line tells the whole story. If
our Government does not encourage and aid |
American steamships in the needed work,
foreign steamers which receive that aid and |
encouragement will of course crowd the |
American marine to the wall.
The question thus assumes at the start a |
condition in which steamers of the United |
States must be aided either by bounties or
or the foreign steamers will con-
tinue to hold the supremacy. Congress
must decide which shall continue to be our
choice
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
MRS. LoGAE's NOMINATION.

The suggestion has been made and is
widely taken up by papers throughout the
country that Mrs. John A. Logan be ap-
pointed to the place in the pension bureau,
which the President is finding rather diff
cult to fill. While the idea may have been
intended as joke in the first place it has
caught the fancy of the press so much that
it is now seriously urged. AS a joke it
was barren effort of wit. In its serious
aspect it represents the public respect and
good will for Mrs. Logan, but is open to
two objections. First. the position is be-
meath lady of national standing and dig
nifty like Mrs. Logan, and second. in view
of the fact that the real trouble in the pen
sion Office is its arrearages of business, there
is more reason for filling it with a person
whose application will catch up with the
business, than with a lady whose sex and
age would make it nearly impossible to dis
charge the volume of work that crowds that
bureau. Mrs. Logan's own utteranees show
that she is not disposed to descend to the po-
sition of bureau chief at Washington.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
THE ASSESSMENT MUDDLE.

The recently reported decision of the
courts against the rule of assessing real
estate on the valuation shown by the last
recorded sale, leaves the matter of assess
ments in a rather anomalous condition. A
thorough revision OF assessments has Just
been made by the city in which this rule is
supposed to have been observed throughout
II the rule is completely set aside does it
not call for an entire going over of the lists
and scaling down the assessments. That
seems to be the view taken by one of the
assessors, who, 1T is said. does not think that
the task will be as great as might be thought
likely, because ''the assessors have already
the names of nearly all the kickers in the
CITY," But are only the kickers to have
their assessments reduced, while the nom
kickers are left to pay the advanced assess
ments? That would place decided prem
ium on the development of kicking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
CHAIRMAN KISNER PERPLEXED.
He Finds 1t Dinncult to Figure Out Demo
cratic Majority.


cratic Majority.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.J
Up in one of the dimly-lighted rooms in the
Girard House Chairman e. p. Kisner and
Candidate E. A. Bigler sat at a little table
figuring in rather disconsolate manner on
how the Republican majority in PENNSYLVANIA
could be kept below $1,000. The problem was
evidently difficult one for both statesmen.
Mr.. Bigier's hair stood on end worse than
Ranalers when his fathers ghost unfoIded its
pitiful tale. and the cheerful Chairman was
mopping his forehead with towel in Drdef to
save the hotel from q general inundation.
Scattered about the floor were several sheets
of paper, showing how easy ii would be to
make Pennsylvania Democratic il the people
would only vote that way. Two ice water
pitchers on the door, that had been filed to the
brlm, were as dry as the desert of Sahara.
Finally both mathematicians leaned back,
looked at each other. and sighed.
Pretty tough" remarked Bigler, with .
painful smile.
Rather" replied the Chairman. 81 had a
tussle with 1t last year, you know"
An indolent breeze stole In through the eur
tains, swept across both faces and gave the
workers little hope. In another minute they
had begun figuring again; in two more they had
Maybe Wallace could figure this OUT said
Bieler, finally .'he isn't slouch at figures
Afraid not" answered Kisner, sadly. BE
Sides he isn't here" ~
Let's send for Coke, then. He went all
through the confounded universities in Troy.
Freiberg and Paris, and translated Wiseback's
Mechanics when he was only is A FELLOW who
could do that ought to be able to work out
this"
The Chairman made no reply. He was think
ing doubtless Of Mr.. Coxe's previous efforts in
this direction.
lyon see, Bigler," he finally said, at isn't
figuring we want"
sNos' echoed the candidate, inquiringly.
"Vores'' was the laconic reply
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
MR.. HuNTINGToN,s BuGABoos.

1t is not all pie to be millionaire, Mr.. c.
P. Huntington has discovered. He has sew
eral Nightmares at present. The suitor for
his daughters hand, Prince Hatzfeldt. is
one of them, and newspaper that does not
pay is another. The paper is consuming Mr..
Huntington's money at a rapid rate. and
Prince Hatzfeldt is looking for a chance to
do the same. He is not likely to get the
chance, however. Mr.. Huntington has de-
clined to furnish his princely would-be SON.
in-Iaw with the 81 ,0OO, 900 to pay his debts of
honor, and has further Intimated that Miss
Huntington's marriage portion would not
exceed reasonable allowance yearly. 1t is
said that Prince Hatzfeldt, who is as proud
as the average penniless blackleg of royal
blood, has cooled in his courtship, and Miss
Huntington is likely to escape the frightful
peril of marriage with the scamp.
If Prince Hatzfeldt cannot be scared away
by Mr.. Huntington's chilling remarks about
money matters, there is still way to save
the lady in the case. Let Mr.. Huntington
give Prince Hatzfeldt the Improbable news
paper and take back to his arms his charm
ing daughter in exchange. Millionaires
will never learn that 1t is no easier to find a
decent prince than to run a newspaper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19

with regard to many alleged trusts, that the
really damaging allegation is that the pres
ent Democratic leader was trying to shape
the deal solely with reference to deluding
British investors with bogus values.
The affidavit referred to alleges that the
brewer was offered about 500, 600 more tnan
his property was worth, ,on condition that he
was to make deed for that sum and pay
back the 100000 to Campbell. The pur-
pose according to the declaration is to
enable them to sell the property to English
investors at an immense advance over its
true value. In other words the business of
Campbell and his partner was to make $780,
600, by selling brewery which cost $780,
600 to the Englishmen for $3.50, 900 or more.
Now, this is hard on the Englishmen; but
except for the reputation of national busi-
ness honesty, it is not matter to which the
Americans need object. The Englishmen
who are buying large breweries at 80 per
cent above their true value will not control
the beer business. So long as bricks and
mortar are at the disposal of the general
public, anyone who chooses can put up new
brewerles to compete with those owned by
the Englishmen at much less cost than their
property represents. We doubt if the Com
nlercidl Gazette is able to make very much
more out of this assault on its opponent
than to make him out stock jobber.
But the light it throws on the brewery
trust negotiation is important as classifying
a large portion of the multitudinous So
called trust schemes. They are simply pro-
jects to feed the gudgeons in investing and
speculating circles with paper values,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

GEORGE ELIOT was so religious when a
young woman that she would not 60 to the
theater or opera even an oratorio, although
she was devoted to music.
MR.. HENRY JAMES is sometimes spoken of
as an American novelist. Mr.. James, it is true,
was born in the United States, but his father
was an Englishman, and he himself tries to
pass for one.
REV. j. W. HARDY, author of "How to be
Happy Though Married." is military chap
lain, with ruddy complexion and long, flow
ing beard. He keeps his good things for his
books, and his conversation is without wit or
cleyerness.
GEORGE w. CABLE made himself so un-
popular by his Creole caricatures that the
French children of New Orleans used to hoot
at him on the streets and pelt him with stones.
He was finally compelled to leave the city to
escape this intolerable annoyance. Mr.. Cable
is small, delicate-looking man.
AMELIE RIvES who won an unenviable
reputation by her kissing novel, s'The Quick or
the Dead" has an ungraceful figure, crowned
by beautiful face. Indeed, if the truth must
be told, she is short. somewhat dumpty, and
although she is very fond of horseback riding,
she does not look at all well in the saddle.
TX MARVEL said, 80 years ago, that the liter-
ary men of New York were forever quarrel
=
apes of SIAM" That has all been changed.
New York literary men nowadays are en-
gagged in the more graceful, but less interest
ing, occupation of blowing each others trum-
pets by the complaisant permission of the
magazine editors.
BISHOP Fl. PINCKNEY NoRTHRoP of Char
1eston S. C., is one of the few genuine Ameri-
caps who have been raised to the purple in the
Catholic Church in this country. He is men,
ber of an old Charleston family and is con-
nected with the Pinckneys, Bellingers andg
other South Carolina families. He is 45 years
old, tall, straight as an Indian, with very dis
tingushed air. He is splendid talker fine
horseman, and manages his see with great
ability.
LADY BLANCHE MURPHY, the eldest daugh-
ter of the proud Earl of Gainsborough, eloped
with her fathers organist, Thomas T. Murphy,
a blonde young Irishman. When the Earl
heard of the mesalliance made by his daughter.
he disowned her, forbade her return to her an
cestral home, and cut her off from all the |
heritage of the family. Lady Blanche and her |
husband came to this country where she made |
a poor living by writing for magazines. She |
experienced in its full the transformation that |
takes place when an earl's daughter becomes a |
Door mans wife, |
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
a HALT TO CHINESE FLIRTs.

Washington society has never Joined in
the cry "The Chinese must CO." 1t has
been quite the thing to entertain the young
Chinese attaches of the Celestial Embassy.
and although it is a serious statement to
make of-hand, we believe the clothes of
Washington's greatest have been washed in
Chinese laundries. Society at the Capital
may continue its intercourse with the pig
tailed laundrymen, but the Chinese Minis
ter has ordered that his young men shall no
longer look upon the maidens who are not
almond-eyed. 1t is a sort of left-handed
compliment to the Washington women.
The Chinese Minister has issued the order
formally that members of his Legation shall
cease their incursions into American society.
1t is not the custom of Chinese statesmen
to explain their motives, but in this case
they are too plain to be misunderstood.
The order was issued because the budding
diplomats of China took too kindly to flirta-
ton. They fell victims to the fascination of
the Washington firt of the feminine gender.
Possibly in the pursuit of this graceful art
the unsuspecting Mongolians allowed state
secrets to escape. In some quiet corner of
dimly-lighted conservatory the fate of an
Imperial plan may have been jeopardized.
The potency of cup of tea is we'll known
when charming woman pours it. It is
small wonder that the impressionable young
men in blue silks have been indiscreet over
their cups-tea cups we mean. So it comes
to pass that the fair danes and maidens of
Washington will have to content themselves
with the Japanese or the curious Coreans
when they desire change of color in firta-
tion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
IRISH FOLK SONG.

Did stand on the bald top of NeAn,
And my hundred times loved one with me,
We should nestle together as safe in
This shade as the birds on one tree.
From your mouth such music is shaken
When you speak, 1t has sharpened my pain,
And my eyellds by sleep are fOrsaken,
And seek for my slumber in vain.
But were on the fields of the ocean
should sport on its Infinite room,
l should plow through the billows' commotion.
Though my friends should look dark at my
doom,
For the flower of all maidens of magic
Is beside me where'e 'er may be,
And my heart like coal Is extinguisheds
Not woman takes pity on me.
OBJ, how well for the birds in all weather,
How they rise up on high in the air,
And then sleep upon one bough together
Without sorrow or trouble care.
But SO 1t is not in this world
For myself and my thousand times fair,
Far away, far apart from each other,
How each day rises barren and barrel
Say what dost thou think of the heavens
When the heat oyermasters the day,
Or what when the stream of the tide
Rises up in the face of the bay?
Even SO Is the man who has given
An inordinate loye-gift away.
Like a tree on a mountain, all riven,
Without blossom or Ieafiet or spray.
-Bostoa Pilot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
A APreacher Turn. ThIsf.

The Rev. George Washington Williams,
colored politician, orator, carpet cleaner, book
agent and preacher, was charged with larceny
in Brooklyn police court this morning. Mrs
Adelaide Bushnell gave the Rev. Williams Is
of her brussels and velvet carpets to clean
while she was in the country. Williams paTned
the carpets for several hundred dollars. shut
up his carpet cleaning establishment and went
West. Brooklyn detective caught him in
Buffalo and brought him back to the city last
night This morning the Rev. Mr.. Williams
acknowledged the theft and was held over to
the grand jury. Williams is the most eloquent
colored preacher in this region. He stumped
the State for Cleveland last fall with remark
able success. He made good income out Of
religion, politics and cleaning carpets. but high
living emptied his pockets and ultimately
caused him to steal