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Year: 1868

A frightful accident occurred at
No. 2 Diamond Shaft Dn the Both ult.,
by which fifteen out OF seventeen men
met with a sudden death. At 7 O'clock
the miners who worked the day shaft
were assembled to 20 down into the
mines to commence their daily avoca-
ton. Some seventeen, mostly men,
took their position on the platform,
aud the moment the weight of plat
form and men pulled on the rope, a
link of the chain which fastened the
platform TO the rope broke, and the
men fell distance Of one hundred and
fifty feet 20 the Bottom Of the mines.
The awful sensations experienced by
the poor men, as like lightning the
truth, for a bri,f moment, flashed
through their brains, can only be
imagined, as bui few, if any, will be
left to tell. The news spread with
rapidity, and caused the widest and
most intense excitement As soon as
possible the mangled bodies of the
dead and injured men were brought
up and removed.


This terrible accident has carried
darkness TO many happy home it
has robbed many fond and loving
wife of him she loved and leaned upon;
it has thrown many little child upon
the mercies ofthe world.


The cause of the accident was from
defective link in tho chain which
connected the platform to the rope.
The company prohibit more than sew
en- persons passing down at one time,
but the men, in violation Of this order,
frequently crowded upon the platform
until there was no more standing
room.-,ScrdntOH Register
Year: 1868

Wiz y HlEF AhG UMENT AID


L duced by the friends Of Plastic Slate in
proof of its superiority over all inventions of
like character, is the important and incontro-
yeTtible fact that the two elements Of which It
combined in no other roofing material hereto
fore or st present in use. Coal tar is found TO
be the viseous element alike of coal and slate.
and il was diseOvered--not invented-that by
the combination Of tar and slate a com position
was obtained possessing the pliabliJy and elias
ITCHY OF the former, with the sahdlty and in
destructibility of the latter, and scientific in
yestigation, as well as our own experience.
fully establishes the fsct that its exposure to
heat and cold-Wet and dry-serves only 10 re-
construct the two elements into their original
condition-sOLID SLATE"


Below please ind testimonials from gentle
men we'll known in this community, as men of
eandor and good Judgment
Year: 1868

Our store building. corner Of Main and Frank
I'm streets. is tin roof. but was so leaky as to
oe very unsatisfactory, but was made perfectly
tight by the application Of Plastic Slate.


ANDERSON e RITPP
Year: 1868

Not single poloeman OF armed guard OF any kind we De
leve rs stationed ON the Island The Irish portion OF the n
oer make loud complaints that they have not been iary
dealt with I'M the OF punishment and their rehds
assert that undue influences were brought TO bear 70
shield the German participants from blame TO which they
are justly entitled.
Year: 1868

WE think it will hardly pay for
US to argue any longer the question
Of the payment Of the national debt
with the Fiaton Record, until the
controversy between the Record and
the SciotO Gazette, as to whether
the senior editor of the former pa
per is or is not "greeny,' is solved.
The. Gazette of last week speaks on
the "greenyp question as follows;


awe noticed last week that a
"greenhorn" on a visit to this place
had mistaken one of our blue-uni
formed policemen for Brigadier
General. The senior editor Of the
Vinton Record having been in town
alfew days prior to the appearance
of the article, he chooses to consider
it as personal allusioh. We are
free to admit that the senior of the
Record is liable to suspicion in this
case, but we are not aware that he
is the only specimen Of that genus
who visits us. If he claims exclusive
right to the title of "greeny," he
had better get it copyrighted, and
makethe announcementin in his paper,
50 that his friends may know how
to'address him. ~ ~


It might be throwing words away
for us to say anything about the
payment Of the National debt before
the senior editor of the Record pub
fishes the announcement that the
title OF "greeny" has been "copy-
righted, as the Gazette rather inti-
mates that he "claims exclusive
right" to that title. After that we
shall "know how to address him I"
on National and all other questions,
and know whether he is "llable to
suspicion in this case" sm
Year: 1868

Where all other Medicines have failed, these
preparations will always effect a cure. These
insure rapid and extraordinary cures of severe,
recent and chronic cases of private disease
They are used in the Hospitals of Paris, by
the celebrated DIR. RECORD, and are found
greatly superior to all hitherto known mineral
remedies and Copaiba and Cubebs. The in
lection is used in recent, and capsules IN the
more chronic ca
Year: 1868

4 n calling the attention of the public to this
IL preparation, we do not present to their no.
tice an untried remedy. The formula has been
shown to some of our leading Physicians and
they unhesitatingly recommend and prescribe
it, some of our most prominent and influential
citizens have tried it, and have voluntarily Of
fered to certify to its curative effects With this
evidence of its superior qualities we are in
duced to offer it to our friends and the public
generally as a sovereign remedy fer
DYSPEPSIA,


INDIGESTION,


FLATULENCE,


WANT OF APPETITE and


GENERAL DEBILITY.
If you are afflicted with any of the foregoing
complaints, try


RUrEKss RUTOrERG
Year: 1868




At the opening Of court yesterday morning Judge
Blatchford stated that he would not SIT on Monday
next. Consequently there will be no calendar for
that day.


The Collision Case concluded.


Ferdinand L. Hansen vs. The British Steamship
Lo,istana.-On this case being resumed, Judge
Blatchford asked II there was any evidence to
show that the place where the collision occurred
would encounter vessels In her passage Coun-
sci replied that In the depOsitlOnS Submitted
there was evidence to show that there were great
many vessels at all times In that channel passing to
for the claimants, and was followed by Mr. Da Costa
for the libelants. After which the Judge took the
papers and reserved his decision.


bankruptcy Case.


IN the Matter Of George s. Ma,os0,a, Bankrupt
In this case opposition to the discharge OF the bank
rupt had been entered and the specifications Of Op
position having been submitted to the court, Judge
Blatchford this day delivered his decision, to the e
feet that the first ana third specifications were too
vague and general. In charging the bankrupt
with the concealment OF part OF his estate II
of particularly what part Of his estate he had
concealed, and what prODerty he has frGudu.
lently failed to deliver up to the assignee, and
what part he prevented from coming into the hands
OF the assignee transferred to other parties. The
second specification charging the bankrupt with hav
ing procured the consent Of certain parties TO his DIS
charge is insufficient because IL does not specify the
pecuniary consideration gwen In that respect but
although the amount OF the pecunary consideration
not stated still the court with considerable hes
itation would hold the specification SUFFICIENT IN Its
averment In regard to the Influence referred to. The
shall stand for hearing SO much ofthe second
reference may be had to the Register In charge to
take testimony on either side.
Year: 1868

TnK Bgsr AND SuREsr SrIxuLANr.-Ths
Red Jacket Bitters are free from all acidi-
ties usually found in ordinary tonics and
stomach bittsrs Of the present day. They
are made from sound and fresh materials !;
nothing that is not entirely wholesome and
healthy enters into the composition OF
them prepared in ripe old Bourbon
Whisky.
Year: 1868

We utterly fail to sympathize with the
sentiments of those who would forbid the
rebel dead to be buried side by side with our
own. When the great debt is pal =, surely
it cancels all our petty claims. When q
man gives up his life brayel y in the front of
battle, no matter in how bad cause, if not
admiration, at least forgiveness and pity are
the natural tribute of all generous hearts.
These remarks are suggested, or rather COM
PEELED, by observing that r. c. Hawkins,
colonel one of those regiments which made
the name of Zouave detestible during che
war, took occasion in his speech at the Union
League roome at New York, on Thursday
evening, to attack member of the club who
had expressed himself in favor of common
burial of the Union and the rebel dead,
Such man misrepresents in every sense the
feeling of the grand army-we do NOT allude
to secret organization by that name. 1t
should be left to Southern women and radi.
cal politicians to exhibit such animosties.
No Northern father lameniing his son need
feel wronged to know that darling of
Virginia home lies by his side and if the
two soldiers, bravely as they contended in
life, should become conscious of that neigh.
borhood, we have no fear that their long
rest would be disturbed. Rather would they
clasp their warning hands, put face to face,
and sleep like brothers reconciled. Shame
upon such unmanly bitterness No true
American will honor himself more than by
rebuking every manifestation of this hate,
that descends into the grave, and makes a
separation between the bones of gallant men.
Out upon the thought that the rank and file
OF the Southern army were traitors and crim-
inals They fought honestly and earnestly
in bad cause, enduring in many cases pri<
vations of which our own troops knew little.
They marched barefoot when our boys were
we'll shod. They went hungry wnen our
boys were well filled. They disputed evefy
inch of ground with desperate valor, and
yielded only to destiny at last. They proved
themselves in life foemen worthy of our steel,
and their mouldering bones may we'll rest in
peace by the side of our bravest and dearest,
Their differences with US were all settled
when they fell together with ours on the
field of battle. 'All that is left of them now,'
is only human. Vengeance need not follow
them to the grave, Pity may weep over
them. Potriotism may cover their failings,
remembering that they we're children of one
mother, and that their valor sprang out Of
the same heroic stock Beauty may strew
flowers upon the green mounds that hide
such courage and high resolves,
Year: 1868

How sweet thy modest light to view,


Fair star, to love and lovers dear,
While trembling on the falling dew,


Like beauty shining through tear.
Or, hanging o'er that mirror stream,


To mark each image trembling there,
Thou seem st to smile with softer CLEAN,
To see thy lovely face so fair.
Though blazing o'er the arch of night,


The moon thy timid beams outshine
As far as thine each starry light


Her rays can never vie with thine.
Think are the soft, enchanting hours


When twilight fingers on the plain,
And whispers to the closing flowers
That soon the sun will rise again.
Thine is the breeze that, murmuring bland
As music, watts the lovers sigh,
And bids the yielding heart expand


In loves delicious ecstacy.
Fair star though be doomed to prove
That rapture's tears are mixed with pain F.,
All still feel tits sweet to love


But sweeter to be loved again.
Year: 1868

CHEAP SoAP.-Soap for family use can
be made very cheap and of excellent quality
with little trouble, by the use of common
article sold in all the drug stores. This is
lye put up In concentrated form in small
iron boxes holding one pound. These boxes
cost thirty-fve cents, and will make twenty
five pounds of green or new soap. The plan
of procedure is merely to take box of this
substance, knock off the lid and throw it
into gallon OF boiling water. After stand
ing ten hours the lye will be clear, and must
be thrown into a wash boiler with another
gallon of water. When the contents of the
vessel boil, four pounds of any grease must
be added slowly, poured in, in thin stream
and stirred well. When intimatly mixed
the boiler should simmer slowly for four or
six hours, and half an hour before taking of,
another gallon of hot water may be added
Two tablespoonfuls of pulverized borax and
four tablespoonfuls of resin add greatly to
its detersive qualities. A teacupful of salt
is then thrown in. When the soap is thought
to be done, plunge case knife in it; if the
mass drops clear and rOpy, and chills quickly,
it is soap, and will be firm and hard when
cold Have ready washtub well wet on
the bottom and sides pour the soap in and
let it set; in a few hours it will be hard
enough to cut out, and as white as snow.
This process makes twenty-five pounds of
soap or by the aid of grease, four pounds,
I've one pound, twenty>four pounds of water,
less two quarts driven off in boiling, Zone
gallon weighs eight pounds nearly are con-
verted into soap of excellent detersiVe pros
perties Since the grease is'saved from the
family waste, the soap has only cost what
the lyc has come, to and, as the loss by drying
is only twenty i've, per cent. eighteen pounds
of soap can be made for thirty cents, not
quite two cents pound.
Year: 1868

NosE BLEED.-There are two little arter
les which supply the whole face with blood,
one on each side these branch off from the
main arteries on each side of the windpipe,
and running upward toward the eye, pass
over the outside of the jaw bone, about two
thirds of the way back from the chin to the
angle of the jaw, under the ear. Each of
these arteries, of course, supplies just one
half the face, the nose being the dividing
line ;. the left nostril is supplied with blood
by the left artery, and the right nostril by
the right artery. Now, suppose your nose
bleeds from the right nostril with the end
of the right fore finger feel along the outer
edge of the right jaw until you feel the beat
ing of the artery directly under your finger,
the same as the pulse in your wrist, then
press the finger hard upon it, thus getting
the little fellow in a tight place between
your finger and the jaw>bone the result will
be that not a drop of blood goes into that
side Of your face while the pressure contin>
ues hence the nose instantly stops bleeding
Tor want of blood to flow continue the pres"
sure for five or ten minutes. and the ruptur-
ed vessel in the nose will by that time prob
oy contract so that when you let the blood
into them they will not leak. Bleeding
from cut or wound anywhere about the
lace may be stopped in the same way. The
creator probably placed these arteries as
m1ney are that they might be controlled.
those to the back of the head, arms and legs
are all arranged very conveniently for being
controlled in like manner.
Year: 1868

a CROSS old bachelor says; "The reason
why women do not cut themselves in two by
tight lacing, is because. they lace round the
heart, and that is 50 hard they cannot by any
possible means effect it"
Year: 1868

Iowa, alone, of all the States, is ont of debt She does not owe dollar This happy condition of freedom from debt is due 70 the wise and economical administration which the people of Iowa have been able to give themselves It tis,indced, an enviable situation, which other states grooming under debt and taxation may look at with an admiring eye.
Year: 1868

Th subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
ms outer at Mr. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
tsbli., ment, would inform his friends and the
citizeHs of Rock Islnnd and vicinity, that he has
Opene New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose of manufacturing to order first
class the custom work TO those that have been in
the habit of getting their garments cut by us,
while u Mr.. Cones, we would extend an invita-
tien q sail on US at our new establishment, and
TO those that cannot get suited in Rock Island
and in the habit of sending east for their gar
nents we would invite them to call ana give us a
trial, feeling confident that can suit them in
every respect. We have a handsome assortment
of fine Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings, together
with -arge variety Of splendid French ooatings
and Trspts in different shades and colors for fine
busine,; suits. Also fine Beavers in different
colors, iur overcoats-all of which we will make
to ordeT in the best and most fashionable manner
at lower rates than the class of goods can be
obtained on either side of the river. Call and
examine our styles, aud compare our goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business.
i THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,


North side of Third Street, near she Post Office


.nr Davenport Iowa.


Formerly cutter at Cones. Ew


N. B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. nov29dly-
Year: 1868

Window Glass and Picture Glass. We are now prepared to furnish any size of French Glass up tO feet square and cut them to any desired size We are selling large quantities ot Glass by the box, and are taking great pains Co keep our stock full, call and see. Putty al- ways on hand at

 VESSELS & GATES
Year: 1868

Daring the progress of the Democratic
meeting at Peppertown, on Tuesday, Reuben
HuddIesion was Instantly killed by the prema-
lure discharge or bursting Of a swivel or small
cannon which be was assisting to Ere Off His
brains we're literally blown oat Of bis head =
We understand be had beea soldier in the
late army
Year: 1868

Wo shall constantly admonish the Southern
people TO bo self-reliant. and shall do what we
may bo able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our homo pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
10 the oosT and sTATIsTIcs Of manufacturing,
and exert ourselves to encourage tho diversif-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

Young men troubled with emissions In Sleeps a
complaint generally the result of bad habit n
youth, scientifically and perfect
ranted or no charge made


Hardly day passes but we are consulted by one CT
more young men with the above disease, some Ct
whom are as weak and emacated as though they had
the consumption, and by their friends supposed
have it, All such cases yield TO the proper and ony
correct course of treatment and in short time g,e
made to rejoice IN perfect health.
Year: 1868

Ours LIxELY.-The New York Herald
says, Senator Wilson testified before the
Committee appointed by the House of Repre-,
sentatives to enquire into the charges made
against Judge Field, that he bad heard Chief
Justice Chase express similar opinions while
the Reconstruction Bills were pending. That
this should be true, does not surprise US in
the least. To man of his own stripe like
Wilson, be could with safety give his candid
opinion yet the opinion of Chase the jurist,
had no influence whatever over the conduct
of Chase the politician. As member Of the
Radical party, Chief Justice Chase, like his
friend Senator Wilson, has publicly sup
ported those measures knowing them to be
unconstitutional. He is worthy representa-
tive of the party of great moral principles,
and commenced taking lessons in casuistry
when, in times past, be took the oath to
supror. the Constitution with q mental
reservation.
Year: 1868

EDITOR DrnocRAr Considerable feeling
is manifested in many portions of the State
in regard to the unrestricted license hereto
fore, and at present enjoyed by stock, growers
and dairymen, to run over and trample be-
meath the feet of their large herds, to the
injury of the eultivators of the soIl, much
of the good, and some of the best farming
lands of California. This is as it should be.
1t is high time that people who reside. or
even intend to settle, in any portion of the
State susceptible of cultivation and improve
ment, should begin to guard themselves
against the depredations of stockmen.
1t is not necessary to Swing around the
circle very widely in order to come at the
Justice of the matter That men have 4
right to grow stock and keep dairies is not
denied indeed such pursuits should receive
equal encouragement with other productive
occupations. But that a stock-grower or
dairyman has a right to tread upon, and
trample out the crops ola farmer who Keeps
no herds. do most emphatically deny. To
compel farmer who grows grain and other
crops to incur the onerous expense of fencing
his land, solely because his neghbor is q
stock rancher, is but little if anything short
of ridiculous idea. But, in reply to this
argument, the stock man takes the stand and
says: at is equally as unjust to compel a
stock farmer to fence his land, solely because
his neighbor wants to grow wheat or other
crops" Not so. There is no analogy or
equality in the cases. The productions OF
the stock. man are capable of trampling out
and destroying the crops or productions of
the vegetable grower whereas the latter
produces nothing which has any capacity
whatever to injure the business of the former.
Wheat and potatoes can't run away from
where they ore planted, to grind up and tread
out the crops of a neighboring ranch. nev.
or knew vegetables to "cut up" any such
depredations. If a man wants to raise cat.
tie, horses, sheep or hogs, let him do so, it is
right and necessary that such business should
be prosecuted, but it is the prosecutors busi-
ness to take care of, and be responsible for
the depredations of his own animals, and not
mine to look after them. Some of the coun.
ties, believe, already have a law based
upon the foregoing premises. Such law
ought to be made general throughout the
State. Let Tuolumne move Immediately in
this matter. Let petition long and strong,
IL 7 Il al.


for the passage of law in accordance with
that now prayed for 10y many Of the other
counties situated similarly in the premises
as we are. For myself, l do not expect ever
again to cultivate an inch Of grouad within
the county, but would like to sign Pc
t;tion for the benefit Of others.