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Year: 1868

CHEAP PAINT.-A recipe for maxi
ing durable paint was sent, not long
since, to the "Societe Encouragement"
in Paris, which was said to have the
hardness of stone, resists damp, and is
very cheap. 1t had then been in use
five years. Its component parts are :
80 of resin, 10 of finely powdered
chalk about 300 of fine hard sand, 1
of linseed OIL | of red oxide of lead
and of sulphuric acid, ALT be mixed.
The resin, chalk, sand and linsced oil
are heated together in an iron boiler ;
the red lead and the sulphuric acid
are then added, and all carefully
mixed. The composition is applied
while hot If not found sufficiently
fluid, it may be made thinner by ad-
ding more linseed oil. When cold and
dry, ii is said to form a varnish of the
hardness of stone.
Year: 1868

Coal ASHES AND THE CURRANT
WORMS. Robert J. Swan of Geneva


NY, keeps his currant bushes entire
ly free of the currant worm by the use
cf coal ashes. He applies them in the
spring by covering the ground about
each bush four or five inches deep or
more, and for distance of two feet
on each side The mechanical sharp,
ness of the ashes prevents the young
larvae from rising through them. Al
though the season of the fruit had
passed when we saw the bushes, they
showed great thriftiness and uninjured
leaves The same application was
used about the ounce, with equal sue
CESS, for excluding the borer - the
ashes being in the form of small heaps
about the stems. From twelve bushes
he gathered this year sixteen bushels
of very fine ounces. - Country Gent.
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, July %
The President this morning signed the
spirits and tobacco tax bills, accompanied
by protest which is filed with the bill in
the State Department.


1t is understood that the appointment of
Supervisors is given to to the Secretary of the
Treasury and Commissioner of Internal
Revenue
Year: 1868

SITTING TYPE BY ELEcTRIcITY -
Among the many wonderful evidences OF
the Ingenuity OF mankind il the ma
chine TOR setting and distributing type.
Tins is now so perfected that | have be
fore NE book containing p, 993 ems OF
solid matter, or X 225 ems of loaded
matter, the whole Of which was both
. set and % distributed in six hours
and thirty nine minutes bv this machine
This is truly wonderful, but I want to
say that the wonder need not stop here
By means Of one Of these machines, 10.
Gated IN the large newspaper Offices in
the principal cities, aud connected bv
telegraph with the Capitol, the reporter
or operator can set the type himself, the
machine standing in New York or New
Orleans, and he being in the Capitol
Or, instead Of setting the type, he may
produce matrIx-by operating series
of arms and levers having type attached
and made to strike upon a suitably pre-
pared aud movable plastic surface--from
which stereotype plate may be east
ready for the press IN few minutes from
the time the speech is delivered, or the
action had, whatever II NAV be- Speeches
would still have to be reported by short
hand, simply because no one could eth
er write them ont or set them up as fas.
as delivered. The composer, having the
short hand notes before him, could then
set the type from them upon the machine
at distance, or, if required, the short
hand notes conld be translated as is now
done for the telegraph operator, and then
set up BY telegraph. In the latter case
the same labor of the operator that now
sends the message would put it into type
ready for the press, thus dispensing with
the time and labor now required to write
out the message and set up the type.
l-American Artisoa
Year: 1868

9. The existing telegraph monopoles have
never sought to supply adequately the de-
mand FOR the use of the telegraph, much
lcss have they attempted to stimulate such
demand by increase of facilities and a
reduction of rates. While their facilities
have remained about constant, their rates
have steadily advanced, until the use of the
telegraph has come TO be prodigious tax
upon the commercial necessities of the coun-
try An advance in rates is their uniform
expedient tor limiting the amount of their
business to their restricted facilities.
Year: 1868

Telegraph Company. =.


session enacted The National Telegraph


Law, which is printed herewith The exist
ing consolidated monopoly opposed the pas
s;ge of this law with all The influence and
power it could command bat the public in
terest prevailed, and we have now a nation
al recognition OF the importance of our en-
tessrise with a grant OF the raest valuable
frahchises ever conferred upon Telerrapi,
Year: 1868

The subscriber, for the past ten years engaged
as cutter at Mr.. Cones Merchant Tailoring Es-
tablishment, would inform his friends and the
citizens of Rock Island and vicinity, that he has
opened New Merchant Tailoring Establishment
for the purpose of manufacturing 20 order first
class fine custom work to those that have been in
the habit of getting their garments cut by US,
while at Mr.. Cones, we would extend an invita-
tion TO call on at our 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 and give q
trial. feeling confident that can suit them in
every respect. We have q handsome assortment
of fine Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestngs, together
with large variety of splendid French Coatings
and Tricots in different shades and colors for fine
business suits. Also fine Beavers in different
eolors, for overcosts,-aI of which we will make
to order in the best and most fashionable manner
atlower rates than the same class of goods can be
obtained On either side of the river. Call and
examine our styles, and compare our goods and
prices with those engaged in the same business.


THOMAS MCCULLOUGH,
North side of Third Street, near the Post Office,


Davenport, Iowa.
Formerly cutter at Cones.


N. B. The cutting department is under our
own supervision. nog2edly.
Year: 1868

IN CONNECTION with his Planning Min, the
l. subscriber is st;n conducting the Novelty
Corn Meal Mills, and has constantly on hand q
Superior quality of white and yellow kiln dried
meal, by the barrel or hundred pounds. Highest
market price paid for Corn. The patronage Of
the public is respectfully solicited.


JABIDDISON
Year: 1868

large meeting of citizens of the cities of Wash
ington and Georgetown and the District held Oh
Friday evening for the purpose of considering the pro-
posed plans of government for the District of Coum
ba. resolution declaring that the meeting was in
favor of consolidating the municipalities of Washing
ton and Georgetown and the county under gov
ernment was unanimously adopted. discussion
then ensued as to the best form of government to be
recommended to Congress. So must interest was
manifested in the subject that it considered best
TO hold another meeting before adopting any certain
plan committee was appointed to consider and
report bill or bills to be submitted at the next
meeting for its consideration and action.


Gen. Sheridan and Rear-Admiral Bailey arrived in
the city last evening.


Secretary Seward gave his third state dinner last
evening, at which portion of the Foreign Diplo-
matte Corps present.


Within the past week there have been five soldiers
sentenced by martial in this city for desertion
In each case the sentence that the accused be
ndeliby branded ON the left hip with the letter d.,
one and half inches long, and ID days after the
branding process their heads 10 be shaved. and then
each party TO be drummed ont of the service In one
of these cases the accused left his regiment in Ala
bania, and came here TO visit his family. His SEN
tence was to be executed yesterday, but upon petit
ton of his wife the President suspended the execu
ton of sentence until the case can be reviewed.


financial difficulty has existed for some time past
between the Register and Mayor of Washington with
regard to payments for the support OF the PUBLIC
schools The Register. Radical Republican, refused
70 countersgn the check for the payment of salaries
of teachers in the white schools until checks were
drawn by the Mayor Conservative for the payment
OF the full amount of the reguislops of the trustees
of the public schools, making the sum of $i2,.
go all excepting $1,000 o,o being o on ACCOUNT %his
afternoon gentlemen irrespective of party
brought about an accommodation. The Register
Year: 1868

A GRAMMATICAL PuplL.-A School
master, after giving one ofhis scholars
a sound drubbing tor speaking bad
grammer sent him to the other end OF
the room to inform another boy that
he wished to speak to HIM, and, at the
same time, promising to repeat the
dose, ii he spoke to him ungrammatl-
cally.


The youngster, quite satisfied with
what he had got, determined to be
exact, and thus addressed his pupil;


"There is common substantive, OF
the masculine gender, singular number,
nominative case, and in an angry mood,
that sits perched upon the eminencc
at the other side Of the ROOM wishes
to articulate few sentences to you
i'll the present tense
Year: 1868

| never bet on the man who il al
ways telling what he would have done
It he had been there: have noticed
that this kind never get there.
The fear of the law here, and the
law hereafter, has furnished us some
very clever specimens Of Christianity.


FOOLS don't know their strength; If
they did, they would keep still.


Irue happiness seems to consist in
wanting all we can enjoy, and then get.
ting all we want.


Beauty never dies; it is ike trutb.
they both have an Immortality some.
where.


Truth is radical; fiction is consery.
ative.


You would make yourself aereea-
BILE, wherever you go, listen TO the
grievances of others, but never relate
your own.


Men never seem to get tired of talk
ing of themselves, but l have heard
them when 1 thought they sho~ed signs
Of ,ceaknsss-


Common sense is most generally de-
spised by those who haven't got it.


Although mankind worship wealth,
I Will give them credit for one thing
they seldom mistake it tor brains.


Treason is one Of those stains that
wash we'll


Shut New England ont in the cold
4 should as soon think OF shutting
the cold out OF New England


Monuments are poor Investments
the bad don't deserve them, and the
good dan't need them.


The best way to keep secret is to
forget it.


1t isn't so much trouble to get rich
as it is to tell when we have got rich


II man wants to get at his actual
dimensions let him visit a graveyard.


1t is good plan to know many peo-
pie, but to let only few know you.


l don't care how much a man talks
if he will only say it in few words.


Anybody can tell where lightning
struck last, but it takes smart man to
find out where it is going to strike
next tlme-this is one of the differenc-
es between learning and wisdom.


l have got first rate recollection,
but no memory. I can recollect dis
tinctly Of losing ten dollar bill, but
can't remember where, to save my lite.


There are some folks whose thoughts
can't be controlled; they afe like twins,
they can't be had, and they can't be
stopped.
Year: 1868

all the property seized. The reason i
this-every ticket which they sell
claims to be ticket of admission to a
"Grand Concert" and this is held to
be valuable consideration for the mon.
ey paid, and hence perfectly legiti-
mate transaction-a simple case of buy
ing and selling goods.


TUE swlNDLER's RATIONALE.


"You pay your money for that" said
the New York manager to me. at
promises nothing, and you get what it
promises. You may be notified that
you have drawn a prize, valued at $500,
and You send us the five per cent ask
ed tor-we send you watch valued
at $500, but worth s2O-what are you
going to do about it? What does your
ticket call for :? We admit the swindle,
but what are you going to do about it?
you've got no claim on us beyond ar,
admission to Irving Hall-comc to Irv-
ing Hall and we'll admit you-when
we agree to-we haven't fixed the time
yet"


WHICH Is THE WORST?


When the New York manager
(whom l afterwards ascertained was
but an ordinary clerk) had learned from
me that l held number Of tickets
which were said to have drawn prizes,
he did not hesitate to inform me that
they never intended to give prizes of
any value, and justified such a course
by saying that every person who
bought ticket did so in the hope of
gaining an advantage over some one
else-of getting prize worth FIVE, ten
or fifty times the amount he inyes ted
To use the expressive language Of the
manager, ''They hope to beat us, 50 we
make sure Of beating them-they want
ten dollars for one, while we take ten
for nothing-wheres the difference be-
tween US? They try to overreach us
and we do overreach them-moraliy
considered, which is the worst ~
Year: 1868

of all remaining time, it stands, to the
Christian Church, in place of loug
succession of prophets. One of the
chief objects of the Revelation, is,
"like that of the other books of Scrip
ture, to subserve moral purpose, to
warn the the careless sinner, to point
out the way of salvation to the awaken
ed inquirer, to build up the weak
believer, to comfort the afflicted and
tempted Christian, and to strengthen
the martyr of Jesus under the. cruel
prosecutions of Satan and his emissa-
ries" The Apocalypse teaches US pa
tiently to await, and confidently to ex-
pect "the full consummation of the
great scheme of the gospel, when Chris
tiauity shall finally prevail over all the
corruptions of the world, and be uni-
verally established in its utmost puri-
ty.


There are many other interesting
thoughts that might be adduced in this
connection but time and space fail US.
Whether the last terrible infections
of divine justice to guilty world be
imminent or not, we may be perfectly
sure that, with all Of as, whose lives
are as transitory as the morning dew or
the summer flowers, the end of all tenn
poral things as at hand, and when we
shortly appear in the presence of our
All-penetrating and Almighty Judge
He will award US our everlasting desti
ny in accordance with "thc deeds done
in the body, whether they be good OF
evil" Oh that He would reach forth
Ills arm Of mercy, apply the blood Of
Jesus to our souis, and save us from
plunging down the frightful sleeps thai
verge on bottomless ruin.
Year: 1868

is an act upjusti6able on the ground of
necessity to promote the public interest
or preserve the public property, aud
is without precedent in the history of
the government and a violation of the
rights OF the Senate to advise aud con-
sent to the qualifications of persons
holding office, and is hereby declared
to be illegal and void"
Year: 1868

that the Congress has not required
such Constitution the Convention


will give US, in order to restoration. We
are for the Union, under the Constitu-
ton of the United States, but such a
State Constitution as the Convention
proposes to give US, will destroy all
concord and harmony among ourselves,
and of course ALLEVIATE one party or the
other from the National government.
Year: 1868

The Situation.


It must be admitted that the. aspect
of public affairs is perilous. The pub
lie mind is eearfully agitated and excl
ted by speculations on the future, to
arise out of the occurrences in the
South and at Washington, daily trans
piring. Ruin and degradation threaten
us here, with the prospect that another
civil war is inaugurating at the Capt.
tai which must intensity our sufferings
and culminate in an entire overthrow
Of Constitutional Republican Liberty
A horrid and gloomy picture! The
South is confessedly impoverished by
the Radical policy that has controlled
our counsels for the past four years,
and to complete our destruction, to
desolate our country and to make our
fertile fields barren waste, it is deter
mined to place US under negro rule,
controlled by the most vicious of our
white population. Virtue and intell-
igence are to be ignored, and vice and
ignorance are to reign. Utter degra>
dation must be the result Of such a
course, if it prevails. The failure Of
our crops last year, the almost entire
prostration of our industrial pursuits,
have made Bankrupts of the larger
portion of the most enterprising, aud
crippled the energies of all, and the
solemn thoughtful, and anxious en-
quiry is made, what shall we do? In
the midst Of this gloom we hear Of a
probable conflict of force be-
tween tho Executive and Leg
isiative Departments of the Govern
meut, an account Of which We give our
readers in this issue of our paper
Whence comes this threatened ruin
Can any candid mind doubt the conciu-
sion, that it is altogether produced by
the mad and detestable policy OF tie
ruling spirits of the Black Republicau
party, who are determined at al! hazards
to secure their hold of the porrid:f
pot" significant appellation given re


Gently to the public patronage by q


leading member Of this pie-bald party
in this State.


This combination Of circumstances


has made fearful inroads upon the NOR


ais Of our people, and a spirit Of law


lessness aud dishonesty is painfully


prevalent The question recurs wha


is the duty of the virtuous and patri


otic?


r Meier dcpar! In every condition


of life let the pure and intelligent in


culcate by precept and example lesson:
of fortitude, Industry and honesty
'bide our time;" feel a confident as


surance, and act upon that assurance
that an overruling Providence will no
permit ultimate ruin, and that order
will be brought out of this confusion
and the heritage of our fathers will b.
transmitted to our children, purified b,
the ordeal thr,u Il which We are pass
ing. Never surrender our manhood O.
our honor-neyer Willingly yield to th
! supremacy Of an inferior race. and i
degradation is our destiny, let US man
; fully die with "our robes around us.
Year: 1868

1t is reported that the friends of
Senator Wade are going to demand
his nomination for the Vice Presidency
on the ticket with Gen Grant, as a
concession to the Radical element Of
the country,
Year: 1868

The wholesale trade of New York
begins to exhibit some signs of improve
mcnt A considerable number of coun-
try merchants have arri. I'd in town.
and their presence among the whole
sale dealers had caused some activity.
The late advance in gold here and in
cotton in Europe has caused stiffen-
ing in prices, and goods are now held
considerable higher than they were in
January. The season does not prom
Use to be as good as any of the past FIVE.
but it is likely to be better than the iu-
dications of last month warranted mer-
chants to expect. The Southern trade
will of course be light and so, in fact,
will the trade of every section but
there is prospect that the aggregate
will be sufficient to save bankruptcy
for this year at least.
Year: 1868

know they saw me from on board, and |
know they must have seeu the burning
wreck; but they did not bear down on me
it was freezing just like winter and | could
not have held out much longer, when
about 10 O. clock [ saw schooner which
had been four or five miles to windward
tack about and bear down on me. This
proved to be the Cernelia. She passed
me first an went down to the wreck, to
the leeward. She sent out her small boat
and took off Chamberlain from the for
ward netting, and then came for me
About IL o'clock they took me off. |
was pretty near frozen | went into the
cabin where took off my clothes and
dried them, We arrived in Chicago
about a quarter past and | went at once
to doctor who gave me something to
take, and something for my hands which
were frozen.
Year: 1868

There wasa serious accident attended
with loss of life at Chicago on the even
ing of the 10th inst. A cry of fire was
started in St. Mary's Church Catholic
and in the rush for the door three
women were killed and quite number
Of others serious,y injured, some Of them
fatally it is thought.
Year: 1868

THE HAPPIEsT SEAsoN.-Ata a festival
party of old and young the question was
asked: Which season Of life is most hap
py2 After being freely discussed by the
guests, it was referred for answer to the
host, upon which was the burden of four
score wears. He asked if they had not
noticed a group of trees before the dwell
ing and said; "When the spring comes
and in the soft air the buds are breaking
on the trees, and they are covered with
blossoms, l think how beautiful is spring
And when the summer comes, and covers
the trees with its heavy foliage, and sing
ing birds are all among the branches,
Year: 1868

SHORT SKIRTs.-The London Tele
graph rejoices that short skirts are COM
ing into fashion. What can be a more
distastsful sight than to behold our la
dies performing the part Of dust-carts
on the public ways, and chronicling
their promenade by series ofparabol-
ic curves upon the dirt of the pave
inquiry one can only conjecture what
has been the result to feet and ank les,
and the drapery beneath those sweep
ing skirts, from So strange defiance of
cleanliness and comfort. Fortunately,
this very misplaced fashion seems to
have been prohibited at last by the in
visible arbitress; and men are no lon
ger tripped up abroad, nor to trace the
sinuous lines upon the filth of the cause
way, where costly satin or delicate
silks have dragged their slow length
along"


Short dresses are again tho mode for
walking, which is sensible and pretty;
and thus return is secured to reason
health, and propriety. AS to the future
of dresses in the drawing-room and
ballroom, although the train may be
praised, yet on the whole, there will be
rejoicing at its promised disappearance.
1t was royal conception, but it was
made for royalty alone; it was designed
for palaces and great palatial halls.
| What befalls it in smaller and crowded
saloons reduces it's sublimity to the ri
diculous, and turns its significance into
trouble. Abroad, the gallant dancer is
requested to carry the sacred append
age on his arm, where it is sometimes
creased and tumbled, to the indignation
of the owner. If the courtly garment
is displayed out of doors in walk the
result is still more seriously. Y.


Matt.
Year: 1868

lEADLESs, NET ALIVE AND WELL.
Harmon. Edgar of Martenez, exhib-
tied to us last evening common barn
yard rooster which has no head, and yet
it is alive and hearty, relishing his food
and sleeping at night as well as the
most perfect of his race. About two
weeks since, the cook at Sturgis' Hotel
at Martenez, chopped off the heads Of
two chickens, threw them into the
woodshed and left them. Soon after he
sent Il man to pick them, and only one
was found dead, the other having re-
covered from his fright, was walking
around the yard. On examination, il
was found that the hatchct had cut
clear through the head, just where it
Joins the neck, leaving no trace of the
eyes, auricular oriiices, bill or tongue,
and leaving him, in fact, no head at
all, although il is possible that the least
possible amount of the brain is left
Edgar took the headless chicken, lubri.
Gated the stub OF its neck with sweet
oil occasionally, and fed it with spoon
and II Is now as we'll and healthy az
any rooster in the world, to all appear
ances, though unable to see, hear or
taste anything. The food is introduced
with spoon directly into the throat,
and 1t is perfectly digested by the bird
The headless creature will raise lis back
like cat on hand being passed ga
lr>singly over it, and when it goes Ia
sleep ii turns its neck about so that its
head, If it had any, would come unde,
the wing. Edgar and his chicken ar,
at the What Cheer House. Such eases
have occurred before, but tho CHECKER
is curiosity nevertheless Cui
.forhidn.
Year: 1868

THE LoCusTs.-The seventeen year
locusts have already made their appear
ance in some places; and a few days of
warm weather will doubtless bring
myriads of them to the surface in some
localities. Their visits are quite destruc-
tive and always do more or less harm to
young fruit trees. In this connection it
would be well for our readers to re-
member that the locust is sometimes a
dangerous insect. Its sting is sure to
prove fatal, and though it seldom uses
it, people should be careful not to han
die them with too much familiarity.
Its poison is more deadly than that OF
the rattlesnake.