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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
STATISTICS OF EXPORTS.
Great Increase on Those of Provisions
and Breadstufs.

Great Increase on Those of Provisions
and Breadstufrs.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE bureau of
statistics of the treasury department re-
ports that during May the exports of the
principal articles of domestic provisions
We're valued at $ll,069,917; for the same
month last year, $1,4l0 400; for the eleven
months of the fiscal year they were S55,-
529, G55, compared with SOL, 719. 356 for the
same period last year. The exports of
breadstuffs for May were valued at sla.-
4l0,39+; for the same month last year, SIP
33O. 23l; for the eleven months ended May
81, they We're S2T2, 416O 23, compared with
SlC9,956, 9S4 for the same period of last
year.
The exports of mineral for May were
valued at So ,926; May, 1891, 81, 5S5, 276.
and for the eleven months ended Nav 81,
$40, 5lS,240, compared with $41 .273, $50 for
the same period last year
On the Trail of the Cooley Gang.
1t has been learned that the Cooley gang
were the robbers who planned the rob
berry. Six members of the gang. includ-
ing the Cooley boys, Jack and Frank, and
John Ramsey came down from the noun
tains Saturday, and spent Sunday in the
vicinity of Adelaide and Dickerson run.
They were seen going down the river sun
day evening about O'Clock toward Law
ton Station. Sheriff Mccormick and
posse are now trying % capture the gang
before they get back to their mountain
hauntS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
On the Trail of the Cooley Gang.
The Whole Tain Capsized.

BOULDER, Colo, June IA The narrow
gauge passenger train which runs on the
Sunset banch of the Union Pacific, turned
over about one mile east of Sunset yester-
day and engine, baggage car and coach are
bottom side up in the river. No one was
seriously hurt, though several of the
passengers were badly bruised.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
The Succurent Watermelon.

CHARLESTON, s. c., June IA careful
survey of the melon territory tributary to
the South Carolina and south bound rail-
roads, which furnishes the bulk of melons
to the north and west from this section,
shows total acreage Of 5,e00-about Is
per cent. less than the &C reage in the same
territory last year. The crop is reported
in splendid condition and shipments win
begin in abpul two weeks.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
THE TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
In Annual Convention at Drexel Institute
Philad elphia.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-The Interna-
tional Typographical Union met in an.
nual convention in Drexel Institute yes.
erday. Welcoming addresses were made
by Major Veale, on behalf Of Governor
Pattison (who elected applause when he
eulogized George w. Childs and A. j.
Drexel, the printers benefactors); Mayor
Stuart on behalf of the city, and George
Chance on behalf of the printers of this
city. The business of the session was the
appointment of committees. A parade of
100 men took place in The afternoon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14

We've heard Of a woman
who said she'd walk five miles
to get a bottle of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription if she
couldn't get it without. That
woman had tried it. And it's
a medicine which makes itself
felt in toning up the system
and correcting irregularities as
soon as its use is begun.
Go to your drug store, pay
a dollar, get a bottle and try
it-try a second, a third if
necessary. Before the third
ones been taken you'll know
that there's a remedy to help
you. Then you'll keep on
and a cure II come.
But if you shouldn't feel the
help, should be disappointed
IN the results you'll find a
guarantee printed on the bot
tle-wrapper that'll get your
money back for you.
How many women are there
who'd rather have the money
than health? And "Favorite
Prescription" produces health.
Wonder is that there's a
woman willing to suffer when
there's a guaranteed remedy
in the nearest drug store
DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate
<L2 Cko,ooNI L ,1,a~ o~I Re-,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
the three men lost their lives.

SUFFERED racture OF the Skull.
A portion of a brick building being
erected at 500 South Oakley avenue blew
down, burying Gustave Gearing, car
penter, in the debris Zeariug's skull was
fractured and his right arm was broken.
1t is thought that he will die from his in
juries.
Blew Out n Plate Glass Windows.
The full force of the wind struck the
southwest corner of the Home Insurance
building, occupied by the Union National
bank, and blew in three large plate glass
windows. So terrific was the shock that
the plates were carried bodily into thebank,
hurled half way across the counting-room
and shattered into fragments upon the
desks and fixtures.
Severely Cut on the Thigh.
J. J. p. Odell, president of the bank,
was struck on the thigh by a fragment of
glass and severely cut. He was taken
home in a carriage and it will be a week
or two at least before he will have re-
covered from his wounds. The other oc-
cupants of the bank escaped unhurt.
Several small plate glass windows in other
parts of the build ng were demolished and
many of the young women employed in
the offices tainted
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
Nominated by the PRECEDENT.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE president
yesterday sent to the senate the following
nominations: William Arnd, of Iowa, to
be surveyor of customs for the port of
Council Bluffs, Ia; Mrs. Louisa Holmes
to be postmaster at Pleasanton, Kans.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
CHICAGO IN THE CYCLONE BELT.
Another Destructive wind-Storm with
several Fatalities.

Another Destructive wind-Storm with
Several Fatalities.
CHICAGO, June IA small sized tor
nado ragged in this city between and 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The rainfall
was terrific, the food Of water in many
places being so dense that it was impos-
siblc to see building across the width of a
street A one-storey brick cottage at 1895
Whipple street was totally destroyed by
the storm, and it's three inmate, Mrs.
Frank Klima and her two children
buried beneath the ruins. The cottage
stood directly in the path of the storm
and hardly one brick was left upon an
other.
Killed a Little Child.
When the storm came up Mrs. Klima
became frightened and made preparations
to start for a place of safety. Before the
three got out the building collapsed and
heavy timber fell upon Mrs Klima's
2-year-old child Anna and killed her in
stantly. Mrs. Klima and Emma, years
old, were injured, but not seriously.
Boat and Three Men Disappear.
Twenty minutes before the storm broke
forth boat with three men in 1t was no.
ticed on an almost even line with the sonth
pier about five miles out in the lake After
the storm had passed the lake was swept
to the horizon with long distance glasses,
but no trace OF the craft could be seen.
There seems to be but little doubt that
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14

DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate
the Stomach, Liver and Bow
els. Mild and effective.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14

Among the identified dead are the gunner
and Seamen Ketville, Johnson, Joos and
Haeckle Had the magazine, containing
tons of explosives, been fired Vallejo
would have been shattered. 1t is mir.
acle, being as close rs it was, that such
did not occur Hittinger was beyond
doubt killed instantly. His head was
blown from his body. Deceased was ap-
pointed from PENNSYLVANIA Oct. 2S, 1890.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
EARLY COMMERCE.
Records of Trade Over Five Thousan
Years Ago.


Records of Trade over Five Thousand
Years Ago.
The earliest evidence of peaceful
trade and employment is to be found in
the Inscriptions of Wady ell Magharah,
(''valley of the cave'') in the Sinaitic
desert. The mines in this country,
from which the Egyptians obtained
mafek, or turquois-whence the region
was called Mafka-were worked in the
time of Senoferu, ninth king of the
third dynasty, whose tablets still re-
main carved on the rocks, and copper
is also believed to have been thence OBJ
tanned. The date of this monarch is
very uncertain. 1t has been placed as
early as 5000 B. c., but the method by
which scholars endeavored to ascertain
such dates is open to criticism, since it
supposes an average reign of thirty
years for each king, which seems much
too long period if we compare the av-
erage in later times, when the regnal
years are exactly recorded. Senoferu,
however, can not have lived much later
than $500 B. G..
About the same time the great Ak
kadian conqueror, whose name is usual
" read as Gudea, had established his
capital on the Lower Tigris, and had
conquered Northern Syria, whence he
took cedar wood for the building of his
temples. He states, in an inscription
recently discovered at Tell Lob, that
the diorite in which his statues were
hewn came from Ma-gan-na, ''the land
of the wall" and the evidence of other
texts shows clearly that the country so
called was Sinai. The term answers to
the Hebrew Shur, "the WALL" and in
addition to this statement biologists as
sure us that the material used for the
statues is the same diorite found in the
Sinaitic peninsula. At this very early
period, therefore, the Egyptian and the
Mongol Akkadian appear to have met,
in the Sinaitic region, in times of peace,
and the stone from the quarries was
transported over the distance of twelve
hundred miles eastward to the Tigris.-
Scottish Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
ASKING TOO MUCH
A Sacrifice That Was Too Great to Be
Borne.


A Sacrifice That Was Too Great to Be
Borne.
The momentous question had been
propounded, says the Detroit Tribune.
Large pearly tears chung to her droop-
ing eyelashes and her bosom heaved
with emotion, just as tears have chung
and bosoms have heaved under similar
circumstances since the days Of the cave
jewellers. He held her hand clasped to
his vest. ST know I am poor" the
youthful suppliant faltered A glorious
courage invested her being. She raised
her eyes: ''Mr.-Mr.-Afredl" 1t was
her answer; single word, eloquent
with unutterable trust. "Afred"
MY lifel'' "I-I am not afraid of pow
erty." He folded her to his bosom,
fairly intoxicated with joy. "With you
/ would live in a log cabin" she de-
clared. A look of pain fitted across his
face and he was fam to bow his head to
hide his emotion. ST ask of you a
greater sacrifice than that" he sighed.
The girl of moment ago was transfig-
me-" she eagerly cried, ito go west and
live in turf dugout?" He wept and
the tears fell like rain. Worse than
that" he Amoaned. The brave lady
blanched and piteous expression Of
terror took possession of her face. AL
fredl' He could only sob. do you
ask me-" She had to stop and shudder
awhile. "Do you ask me to live-to-
live in fiat with modern conveniences?"
His silence was his acquiescence and his
doom. Pale, but dignifed, she bounced
him. 81 must bid you good night" she
icily remarked. Mechanically he moved
toward the door. "You need not call
again, SIR" And so they were not mar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
Russian Embroidery.

The fancy for all things Russian ha.
brought about the gayest trimmings Of
the season in Russian embroidery, which
is old-fashioned cross stitch done in
medieval coloring of red with blue, OF
with cream-color, red, and black, done
on cotton fabrics, canvas, crepe, OF
batiste. 1t comes in stripes two OF
three inches wide on ecru batiste, al.
ternated with insertions of Russian
lace, open-patterned, and wrought in
the same gay colors. This is used for
full gathered blouses that are consid-
cred decidedly Russian when Tapped to
fasten down the left side, no matter
whether they have yoke or not. Such
a blouse is seen on French dress OF
dark blue crepon, figured in the deep
alligator marking, with four folds
of the crepon forming a wide CIR
die around the blouse. The sleeves
have crepon for the deep Russian
caps to the elbows over close sleeves
of embroidery finished at the wrist
with Russian lace. The bell skirt of
blue crepon lined with red silk ha a
foot border of band of the gay en-
broidery with blue moss ruche on
each side.
. Sleeveless blouses of crepon. with
horizontal bands of gay Russian en-
broidery across the front, are imported
to be worn with coat waists that have
open Jacket fronts. These are shown
in gray, ecru. white and black grounds
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03

used to raise large focks of turkeys,
which would be taken into the field as
soon as half to two-thirds grown and
driven through it to eat the worms.
After few days they would as soon as
put into field of tobacco seem to know
just what was wanted, and scatter out,
taking row for row, and quietly walk
under large plant, look up, and as
carefully take the worms off as a trained
hand could. This worm usually hangs
on the under side of the leaf.
The turkeys, after eating the small
worms, kill the larger ones, dropping
an hour or SO at a time, both morning
and evening. They are taken out of the
field when found tagging or tired and
kept penned in the shade until the cool
of the afternoon, when they are again
allowed to walk back through the diff
ferent portion of the field, thus greatly
assisting in one of the most tiresome
and tedious parts of raising this valu-
able crop.
When the tobacco plant is ripe, that
fact is settled by pressing the leaves to-
SCOiACAs II oAASy snap oAAO OhO ASehfNf1
split it is ready to cut. A field seldom
all ripens at one time, and it has to be
cut in sections. AS fast as plant
ripens the field has to be gone over and
the ripe plants cut. From the very
moment plant becomes ripe it begins
to lose in weight. When cut it is car
ried to barn and fred couple of days
to cure it. Then it has to be taken
down, packed in bulk and stripped OF
its large stalks, then bundled and
handled. The oftener handled-with a
little grease used ON the hands as
leaves are passed through them-the
better the color. From this point it is
packed in hogsheads and shipped to the
commission merchant, who sells to
manufacturers, and sweated, handled
and moistened until made into cigars,
repacked into boxes and sold through
retailers. Work has never ceased until
the leaf is consumed by the smoker or
chewer.-N. Y. Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
LEARNED OPINIONS.
Judging Patients Condition by Fal
Eyes and Teeth.

Judging q Patients Condition by False
Eyes and Teeth.
DR.. Brunton, In an address lately re-
ported in the London Lancet, was eau
tioning his hearers-the members of
the medical society-against hastily ex-
pressed opinions as to the nature of pa
tents diseases, and emphasized his
warning by two professional anecdotes
He was once present at clinic, the sub
ject of which was man evidently suf-
fering from some disease of the heart.
An unnatural murmuring sound could
be heard from that organ, and the pu-
pill of one of his eyes was very much di-
lated. The peculiar appearance of the
eye seemed to have some connection
with the cardiac affection, but various
opinions were expressed by the differ
ent students as to what the precise ma
ture of this relation could be.
The discussion was just becoming in
teresting when the patient remarked
that this Strengthening eye was made
of glass;
At another clinic the professor In
charge was discussing learnedly about
the Importance attending to minor
symptoms.
"Now, gentlemen" he said, sin the
case of this woman here, certain things
could be confidently affirmed from the
condition of her teeth"
He was proceeding to particularize,
but just then the patient broke in upon
him.
''Please, sir" she said, as she took
out her teeth, 81 will hand them
around; the young gentlemen might
like to look at them closer"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
A DOCTORS ZEE.
How a Physician Proposed an Exchange
of Services.

How Physician Proposed an Exchange
of Services.
To the lover of dumb animals 1t seems
rather extraordinary that physicians
should object to prescribing for four.
footed sufferer. Some of them, how
ever, do feel "above It," and either re
fuse altogether, or perform the service
under majestic protest. The Pail NAL
Budget tells the story Of French doc
tor and painters wife. The doctors
name does not appear, but the painte,
was Meissonier. One day Mime. Meis
sonier sent for the family physician
and he hurried to the house, thinking
some illness had overtaken the artist.
1t was not the master Of the house,
however; it was only the lap dog.
The doctor pocketed his pride and
most zealously attended the patient,
who soon recovered. At the end of the
year he sent In his bill, but among the
items there was none for attendance on
dog. Mime. Meissonier noticed the
omission, and called the physicians at
tention to 1t.
you must charge for that, also,'
said she. ST insist upon it."
"By no MEANS" was the reply. 81
am not veterinary surgeon. / was
very glad to do the dog a service, but
really can't be paid for it,
But insist upon itl'' said the lady.
''Well, them" returned the doctor,
"as the hinges Of my gate are some
what rusty, M. Meissonier may bring
his brush and paint them for me-"
But as every grain Of paint from
Meissonier's brush was worth more
than its weight in gold, the hint was
probably not taken.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
FROM SEED PATCH TO SMOKE.
The Process of Cultivating and Curing To-
baccO.

The Process of Cultivating and Curing To-
bacco.
Few persons know the trouble in
raising tobacco, and that work never
ceases from the time its seed is sown I'M
til the smoker or chewer disposes of the
leaf. The seed is about the size of that
OF mustard, and is raised in what is
known as a plant patch. To prepare
this small piece of wet land in piece
of woods is selected and cleared up,
and huge piles of wood and brush are
placed thereon and burned, in the early
spring. This is to kill the grass roots
and loosen up the soil. The ground is
then carefully rahed and prepared for
the seed, which, when sown, is covered
with brush to protect the loose, dry
soil and light seed from blowing away,
and from birds, etc. A seed patch Of
one-haf acre will plant any ordinary
planters crop for the year.
The ground is next prepared in the
field for transplanting the plant, and
when the season arrives, hills about
three feet apart are made, and the
planter then awaits rain to set out his
plants. As soon as he finishes the last
of his field, the little plant has begun to
suffer from that pest of tobacco-grow-
ers, the worm. Then he begins to hoe
and pillow and worn" all at the same
time, and as fast as he gets through his
field at one end he goes back where he
started and has to go row by row and
turn up each leaf and pick off the
worm, which will in a nights time eat
the leaves sometimes of the entire plant.
Some Of the old planters 10 Virrinia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
Loup-volcED.
The Lung-Power Developed by People In
Certain Sections.

The Lung-Power Developed by People II
Certain Sections.
Life in the country, says DIR. J. Har
vie Dew in the Century, especially il
our southern country, where people
lived far apart and were employed
oftentimes at considerable distance
from one another, and from the houses
or homes in which they ate and slept,
tended, by exercise in communicating
with one another, to strengthen and
improve their voices for high and pro-
longed notes. A wider range to the vo-
cal sounds was constantly afforded and
frequently required.
The voices of women as well as of
men were often utilized for ''long-dis-
lance calls" It may be amusing to
note the difference in intonation which
was usually exhibited by the sexes
When a man had occasion to sum-
mon anyone from a distance, the
prolonged tone was placed on the first
note, the emphasis on the second, thus:
Oh, Johnl" If female called, the
prolonged tone and the emphasis were
both placed on the last note, thus:
'sYou, John-n-yr'
following, screaming, yelling for one
person or another. to their dogs, or at
some Of the cattle on the plantation,
with the accompanying reverberations
from hilltops, over valleys and plains,
were familiar sounds throughout the
farming districts Of the south in the
days gone by. It used to be said of my
fathers old negro foreman that he could
be distinctly understood for mile or
more away.
Hunting, which was enjoyed and in
dulged in more or less by nearly every
citizen of the south, was also conducive
to this characteristic development.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
He LOOKED II.
The Novel idea Man Fit Upon to KeeI
His Umbrella

His Umbrella
A prominent young club man of this
city, who Is noted for his faultless at
tire, says the Philadelphia Press, was
exhibiting q costly, gold-mounted
handled silk umbrella, which was in
geniously fastened with tiny silver
paddock, to a number of friends, with
the remarks:
IF it had not been for this locking
device would have lost this valuable
umbrella long ago. Picking up the
wrong umbrella on rainy day is as
time-honored habit as the borrowing
of your neighbours lead pencil and re-
turning it back to your own pocket.
To test this question to my full salts
faction / strolled into the lobby Of a
well-known hotel one wet, stormy day,
and, swapping the little lock through
the wire spring underat the folds Of the
umbrella, placed it in prominent
rack among a number of others. On
looking over a morning newspaper /
pretended to be deeply interested In its
columns. I had hardly turned my eye
when respectfully dressed gentleman
picked up my umbrella and off he went.
1t was raining in torrents, he couldn't
open it, and in moment or two he
returned, ramming It back and mutter-
ing something about mistake took
another one from the rack, and was
gone for good. You may not believe
me, but for one hour that umbrella
came and went every five minutes, men,
women and children, old and young,
grave and gay. The performance was
kept up until it tired me out. / took
charge of it finally and sauntered off
home"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03

Polish for Floors. During spring
cleaning the following, taken from
Decorator annd Furnisher, may prove
useful for polishing wax floors: Boil in
water six and one-quarter pounds yell
low beeswax, rasped, and three pounds
pearl-ash; stir well, and when efferves-
cence ceases add three pounds dry yell
low ochre; then pour into tin. For
use add two and one-quarter quarts
boiling water; stir well, and apply
while hot; afterward polish with large
brush and wipe with coarse wooden
cloth. Adapt quantity to floor size.
Fowl and Rice Croquettes = Put
one-half pound rice into one quart OF
stock and boil gently for about half an
hour, then add three tablespoonfuls Of
butter and let 1t simmer till quite dry
and soft When cold make into balls,
hollow out the inside and I'LL with
minced fowl (which should be rather
thick, If too much gravy has been added
It will spoil the croquettes.) Cover ever
the top with rice. dip the balls into q
beaten egg. sprinkle them with bread
crumbs, and fry to nice brown. Serve
very hot and garnish with fried parsley.
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