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Year: 1874

The results of the political battle of
Tuesday have stamped the principles of
republican government deeper in the
confidence of the people than ever. No
party had ever SO blinded the masses Of
the people to the tremendous errors OF
government ! No party ever SO brazzen-
ly practiced the most open frauds; and
maintained such shameless disregard
of political virtue; and no party has ever
met more sudden and overwhelming
defeat. Thousands who have voted with
the so-called Republican party will look
back upon what it has done with amaze
ment and regret they ever bestowed
their confidence upon its leaders. Hap
py will it be if all such leaders as Ben.
Butler and his followers, are sunk SC
deep in the succeeding tide of the political
flood that they may be never heard Of
again outside of the county courts 10
which such craftsmanship as they rep.
resent belongs, and from which pettifog.
gers never should have risen to the con-
troll of our Republic.


On Tuesday morning the managers of
the great party of fraud and violence
did not dream of such an ending. 1t is O
political waterloo, and points to tn,
dawning of better days, when the great
burden of taxation and waste under
which the people have labored shall b;
removed, by the descendants of the mel
who formed and shaped the policy of.thc
free institutions under which we livedant
prospered in happiness, and without
war until the pigmies in craftsmanship
Of this day struck down, the giants o.
the glorious past that had not sustained
blot.


1t is well said by the New York Worl,
that the votes under which the Repub
ican party was on Tuesday buried were
votes of confidence in the Democrati,
party and the principles to which it il
pledged is apparent enough from thu
emphasis with which they were pro
nounced.
Year: 1874

NATURALIZATION are required
to say that Friday is the last day in
which naturalization papers can be
granted that will enable them to vote
at the next Presidential election. Sc
cure them at once.
Year: 1874

| Ii NAV MAKE no difference in the end, but


the common notion that the suits on the part


of the United States government against the


correct. \ recent letter in the New York
| Tribune gives q clear and apparently authori'


tive explanation Of the present condition OF


these suits, which are now pending in the
Supreme Court of the United States. AS the


case now stands Il very important principle is
Involved and the decision may affect the
| interests of great many other land-grant
roads which have been managed upon sub
Istantially the same system. Briefly, the
position of the government is this: The
United States advanced means TO the company
to build the road under certain conditions


and for the public benefit, and to secure the
repayment of the loan at maturity the govern


mcnt took Il lien upon the property, 1t now


appears that the conditions of the grant have


not been fulfilled, and that the directors of the


road or a governing ring OF them, have
fraudulcntly converted to their own use the
resources which congress set apart as an
enuON Incnt LOT inc COZ pOI dllOlI anu 'apilai
for its future business. In other words, they
have unlawtuly deprecated the value Of the
security pledged to the United States, and the
government is entitled to interfere for the
protection of its own interests.


The equity of the case is very clear, and we
shall be disappointed lift do not prove, after
full argument before the supreme court that
the prosecution can be sustained and the law
affords complete remedy for the undeniable
wrong. If this hope should be realized, there
are many other railway corporations INTO
whose affairs 1t may be the duty Of congress
to exercise an incOnvenient scrutiny. All the
roads which have received aid in the form of
public lands have pledged themselves to use
that aid for certain purposes and under GER
tam conditions, and it is doubtful whether in
any case the pledge has been faithfully OBJ
served. Inside construction companies, and
other arrangements of that sort, by which
directors take money out of the corporation
treasury and putt into their personal pockets
are of course an infringement of the rights OF
whether these be the igOyern-
ment or private individuals, and we shall
watch the groat Credit Mobiler suit for an
Indication Of some legal process by which
such frauds may be stopped.
Year: 1874

The Methodist revival at La Sale already
counts up 10 conversions, which is supposed
to exceed the entire previous number of con
verted people in the city. The work must bt
pretty thorough that will bring out 150 Li
sale people to prayer meeting at 5 O'Clock
in the morning
Year: 1874

An extraordinary religious revival has been
going on in the little town of Malta in thi,
state, nearly half the population having been
converted. The meetings are conducted by a
young man named Bunker, who is little more
than mere boy, and is a student preparing
Tor college at Aurora.
Year: 1874

The meeting of the La Sale County Farm'
ers' Association, appointed tor yesterday
was not held AT least we made strenuous
but Intellectual efforts, with about dozen OF
others, yesterday afternoon, to find IT. Inc
roads are in such horrible condition that
of course nobody could get in from the coun'
try. Even the Secretary, who lives but a mile
from town, was unable to get in.
Year: 1874

Let the greenbaCks now in circulation be
made legal tender for every purpose, and let
the bank currency be retired and replaced
with sufficient amount of greenbacks to do
the business of the country. This is the sys-
tenn which France adopted at the close of the
war, and which has enabled her to pay her
enormous debt in few months. Let us learn
by their example. Let all of our bonds be
called in and be replaced by others drawing
less interest and if owned in the country, let
them not be exempted from municipal taxa
tion, and let us have a grecnback currency,
and the country will prosper as ever before,
and taxation Will be $l00000000 lighter an
Inually on the people,-Edr2rWe transcript.


Very good, Mr.. Transcript. Let us do as
France did at the close of her war with Prus-
sia. No nation, it seemed, could be much
more exhausted than France was at the close
Of that terrific struggle Yet by compelling
her bank to resume specie payment she has
been able to pay a thousand millions in gold
in few years to Prussia as an indemnity,
and yet to retain $l00000,000 of gold and
SILVER in circulation among her people to
$500, 100000 in paper money. Are the re
sources of the L. S. less than those of France ?
Is our government less able than France to
buy gold to keep her paper money par with
the currency of the world and have five or
six hundreds millions Of gold and silver in
circulation among the people by the Sid IF
and at par with an equal or even much
greater amount of grccnl lacks?
Year: 1874

II DO not think there is any need of ex-
Il. planning how it happened, that l, who
when born had expectations of quite fair
fortune, should have found myself, when
womanhood came, obliged to earn my daily
bread. But so it was and in one of the
large sewing emporiums (no mat
ter which one) of a leading American city,
1 held position as teacher for several
years. eE.


My duties were very monotonous but
used to extract considerable amount of
interest and amusement, while engaged in
giving instruction, = from learning the
histories-and they were very varied-of
my scholars. If the proverbial cup of tea
unlocks the female tongue, found that a
lesson on the machine, and initiation into
the mysteries of setting needle, winding
bobbin, and regulating tension, were
evon more conducive to communication.
do not wish to appear egotistical; but l
must confess TO quite power which l
seemed to possess Of gaining the confidence
of my pupils, through my habit Of taking
an interest in them also that was very
fond of an "ower true tale !" perhaps
some malicious critic would call my pro-
pensity by no higher name than female
curiosity.


Even now, though time has brought its
changes to me, and no longer haunt the
familiar places, often find myself recalling
one and another among the many romances
and stories in which l figured as an inter
ested and sympathetic listener, and oc-
casionally az unsuspected actor.


The present recollection always comes
back to me at the Christmas time and
therefore when the season rolls around
again, with It's mefriment and cheer, its
mistletoe and holly, its written and unwrit-
ten en'tragedies and comedies of life, feel
like Tecountipg it to others. "


The position of instructress brought me
almost entirely in contact with my own
sex. Sometimes had male pupil--one
Of mildly mechanical turn, who would
wish to become familiar with the machine,
80 as to ,bs able to- assist some wife or
sister but the instrnGtion-room, as rule,
was usually quite free from frequent visits
Of the sterner sex.


During the fall Of special year be-
came conscious, however, that certain
Mr.. Harry Ice, a gentleman whom knew
to be an intimate acquaintance Of one Of
my employers, and whose face was quite
well known to all in the establishment, be-
gan to occasionally drop into my depart
Year: 1874

venience, at four O'clock on the afternoon
before Christmas Christmas Eve at
very early stage Of the anniversary, and
meanwhile gained a character for benevo-
lence by telling my companions in teaching
that they had better go home early and
thus enjoy the gay sights and sounds pre-
sented by the streets on that festive sea-
son. And then that crowned the whole
by making another appointment with Mr..
Harry Lee, for the same place, half an
hour later, having in view the necessity Of
bringing him unexpectedly upon his wife
at the very moment when she should be
sewing away at the top of her ability.


Once upon time 1 kept an extraordinary
bug that l had captured, under Il glass
tumbler, for days, to see the change by
which it would become something else. IL
effected the change one night when could
not see it, and was left very little wiser
than before. And 1 know not much moro
about the meeting between Harry Lee and
his wife, over the sewing machine, that
evening before Christmas; as (confound
it y felt myself obliged to leave them
alone together just at the interesting mo-
ment, and they had made it all up before
l thought it proper to return


However, had my revenge. Mr.. Lee q
wish to be understood and believed ON this
point never flirted any more with me, how
ever mildly-"never no more" He went
to Europe, but little later, and took his
wife, leaving his little son with his notable
New England mother, who was sure to
take good care of him though she might,
not permit him to romp too hilariously.
They were kind enough to believe that had
been Of service to them and was the re-
cipient of certain rings, one of which Harry
Lee gave me with what 1 thought was
rather conscious look, and the other Of
which Oracle Lee gave me with no shame
facedness and hearty kiss.


/ saw them together, and at home, in a
pretty new home over which, taught by
some mistakes in the past, the wife was
sole mistress, apparently very happy, the
next Christmas and think that Mrs. Lee,
under some sort of idea that she owed the
recovery of her husband to her sewing-ma-
chine, looked upon that useful article as
species Of good fairy, and her seat at it as
place of refuge, and always was to be
found sewing when things went at all
crooked in the household.


My after-acquaintance with them, at all
events, showed that the indolent, useless,
and self-willed wife had become the busy
useful, and gentle one and that the hus-
band, who had begun by Misunderstanding
her, had come fully back to his senses, and
grown much wiser as to the quality of the
woman with whom he had been intrusted.
And something of this, if not all of it, was
the result of a little Irritation nipped in the
bud, and of My Christmas Revenge
Aldine.
Year: 1874

From the Chicago Times, 11th.


The Times having given publicity to the
story OF one Harry Devere, who claimed to
be an attache Of the Rock Island Union, Of
an alleged outrage perpetrated upon him
self at the Tivoli garden, deems it but fair
to give the version of the proprietors OF
that place of the same affair They state
that Devere had been dead beating" it
there for several days until he had become
an unbearable nuisance; that on the occa-
sion referred to he had repeated his free
lunch" experiment, when he received a re.
minder from an attendant that it was a
class OF custom not deemed desirable that
Devere turned upon him with the words
What business is it of yours, you son of a
b-h? ?'the offensive epithet being prompt.
ly responded to by slap in the face. The
proprietOrs regret that the merited casti-
cation had not been administered on the
street instead of in their rooms, but cannot
find it in their hearts to censure their en-
ploye very severely for knocking the fellow
down. The certificate of character fur
nished Devere by THE Rock ISLAND AR
GUS fully corroborates that given him by
the proprietors Of the Tivoli, and credits
him with other accomplishments than
dead beating" Every effort is made tc
preserve perfect order at the garden, and
there seems to be little doubt that the
thrashing administered to Devere, though
slightly informal, was well deserved,
Year: 1874

The Republican papers are very anx-
ious for revival of the Democratic par
ty. In the Chicago Journal of the llth
we find the following editorial, prominent
ly inserted, viz;


The Illinois State Democratic Central
Committee will meet soon at Springfield
to consider the propriety of making a
straght-out Democratic nomination. This
would indicate that the new party whale
may have some trouble in swallowing the
old party Jonah.
Year: 1874

The fact is well known in this communi-
ty that the celebrated Touring mill of d. B.
Sears Sons is situated at Milan. -Darea-
port GAZETTE


Then you had best go to work and en-,
tighten your community, for no such fact
exists. Your community is badly yinstruct-
ed The said Touring mill is not and never
was in Milan 1t is on the north side Of
Rocl, river, within the township Of Rock
Island, and at place called South Rock
Island. Post up your community and not
leave them in such a state Of ignorance.
Year: 1874

The Saint Bonifacious Society Catholic
will hold Pic Mic in this city, on the 4th
of July at the foot of the bluffs between
Madison and Dock streets, and give a Ball
in the evening in Darts Hall.


Owing to the rain on the 4th Of June
their Pic Mic was a failure, aud they hope
for such patronage and encouragement on
the Fourth as will reimburse their loss.


The invitation is general, both in city
and country, and preparations will be
made for a Jolly coed time.
Year: 1874

Our readers will certainly thank US for
advising them to keep in their houses, for
use, Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil 1t
is said to be the best remedy for painful
complaints ever discovered. 1T works
like charm
Year: 1874

THREE TIMES A DAY


CURES
inflammation of the Kidneys.
Stone in the Bladder
Catarrh of the Bladder
Diabetes, Gravel elect.
Brick dust Deposit.
For Female Complaints Speciality.
Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver.
Palpitation of the Heart
Depot, SO John Street NEW yORK
For sale by all First Glass Druggists 3-8d1y
Year: 1874

Last spring, says Springfield,
Minn., paper, Will Moody moved out
of his log house in Union Grove, and it
stood unoccupied and desolate for sew
eral weeks. but last July Ed. Asher
purchased the property and moved in.
The first night in the. house there was a
great rustling on the floor, like the
pattering of myriads of mice, but it
wasn't mice that made the noise it
was the sound from dozens OF snakes as
they dragged themselves across the
floor. In the morning Mr.. A. used to
get up, shake the reptiles out of his
clothes, grasp q pitchfork, and pitch
the Shiny devils out of doors. 1t was
no uncommon thing to slaughter half q
dozen in the morning. The second and
third days were worse than the first.
At breakfast one morning, Mr.. A. felt
something crawling up his leg, and
glancing downwards found beautiful
little striped fellow working his way
up in the world. Another time he
found three-foot fellow in his over
coat pocket, who greeted him on his
approach with friendly hiss. The
nuisance became intolerable. The
house was old, and the mortar in the
clinking had given away in many
places, and in the evening no sooner
was the lamp lighted than a serenade
of Kisses would begin, and nearly every
one of the holes would be ornamented
with a snakes head. At the end of the
fourth day Mr.. Asher grasped his
shovel and went to the banking of the
house, mass of straw and dirt that
had not been moved for several years,
and there were theirsnakeships in all
their glory. Itwas perfect massacre,
for in that banking he found and killed
an even hundred garter snakes. Thirty
were found in one nest.
Year: 1874

The long apron fronts of over-skirts
are now the objective points for trim
ming. There is fancy for trimming
these aprons with three curved or hori-
zontal rows that give the effect of bord
ers for three aprons. Black cashmere
over-skirts have three rows of Jet
fringe headed by passementerie across
the apron front, and dividing it into
three equal tiers. Plain colored cam
el's-hair aprons have three bias bands
of plaid curved acr 9ss them. Tall ladies
are especially pleased with this trim
ming. Short ladies, and particularly
those with very long waists, use per-
pendicular rows of jet galloon on the
apron to give the appearance of greater
length below the waist. Very slender
figures use the triple apron, which is
three short aprons overlapping each
other, edged with fringe, and draped
or festooned across the front breadths.
The best plan for those who are too
stout is to have five bias bands of vel
vet sowed down the front breadths of
the lower skirt from the belt to the
founce at the foot, and thus dispense
with separate apron.


Some novel suggestions for trim
ming black silks are the shirTed band
on the wrists, the folded collar, the
Tapped sash breadths and jet fringe
about the mack.
Year: 1874

A singular prison romance has Just
been disclosed in the Canadian peni-
tentiary at Kingston, where Elizabeth
Jones has for six years been confined
for the murder Of her cousin, sentence
having been pronounced on her own
confession. Her father was executed
for the same crime, notwithstanding
the declaration of the girl that she
alone had committed the deed, and that
he was not guilty-indeed knew moth
ing of the murder. She has now ad
mitted-what has always been generally
believed by the public but by herself
strenuously denied--that her father
was the murderer, and that she had ac-
cused herself of his crime to shield
him, at. his desire. She took no part in
the crime, and was not aware of its
commission till her father told her he
had done it and implored her to save
him.. task which she devotedly at
tempted and persisted in after il was
hopeless. =:
Year: 1874

John Arnold, young Cherokee,
agreed to meet young female Chero-
kee at certain point on certain day
and marry her. Arnold was there on
time, but his intended bride was not.
He had come to be married, and could
not afford to lose wife and his time
too. So he hunted up another Indian
maiden, and was married to her by the
officiating clergyman. There was q
wedding feast at the brides fathers
house on the next day, and the other
woman appeared at the party. She ex-
planned that she could not possibly
meet him on the day appointed, and
gave good reasons for her failure.
There was great unpleasantness in the
house, but the minister thought it was
not yet too late to correct the error, if
one had been made. Mrs. Arnold was
consulted, and as her acquaintance with
her husband had been very slight, she
agreed to give him up in favor of the
prior claimant. The good Indian forth
with annulled the marriage which he
had just solemnized, and Immediately
married Arnold to his first love. The
father of the repudiated bride thought
it might all be right and regular under
the Christian dispensation, but he took
occasion to advise the bridegroom not
70 stay longer than minute or two in
the Cherokee nation. So Arnold and
his second wife left the house of feast.
ing and the presence Of the holy man,
and took to the wilderness for safety.
Year: 1874

We of to-day look upon George
Washington's memory with reverence
and respect. 1t may be consolation
to politicians who have been abused by
their opponents in the late campaign to
see that even Washington did not
escape calumny. The Philadelphia
Am6rtoan of March 4, 1897, contains
the following


"Lord, now lettest Thou thy servant
depart in peace, for mine eyes have
seen Thy salvation" was the pious
ejaculation Of man who beheld a
food of happiness rushing upon man.
kind. II syer there was time that
would license the reitetstion of the ex-
.clamation, that time is low arrived /;
for the man who is the source of all the
misfortunes of our country is this day
reduced to level with his fellow-citi-
zens, and is no longer possessed Of
power to multiply evils upon the Uni
ted States. If ever there was period
for rejoicing, this is the moment.
Every heart in unison with the freedom
and happiness of the people ought to
beat high with exultation that the
name Of Washington from this day
ceases to give currency to political
iniquity, and to legalize corruption. A
new era is now opening upon us-an
era which promises much to the people /;
for public measures must now stand
upon their own merits, and neiarious
projects can no longer be supported by
name When a retrospect is taken Of
the Washington Administration for
eight years, it is subject of the great
est establishment that q single indi-
vidual should have cankered the princi-
Piles of Republicanism in an enlighten-
ed people just emerged from the gulf
of despotism, and should have carried
his designs against the public liberty
80 far as to have put in jeopardy its
very existence. Such, however, are the
facts, and with these staring us in the
face, this day ought to be jubilee in
the United States.
Year: 1874

At the small town of Kung Lung, in
the province of Hupeh, in China, the
wife of man in affiuent circumstances
lately gave birth to a son. The mid
wife employed on the occasion stole a
hundred taels from her employers, and
being accused of the theft by her mis-
tress, denied it, and was required to at
test her innocence by an oath. eff l
stole your silver, may I die by thunder
within few days" was the security
given by the woman, who in her turn
required an oath from the mother, and
this latter prayed that if she had falsely
accused the midwife, might Heaven
slay her son within three days. Now,
upon the midwife devolved the duty of
washing the child, and with view of
helping Heaven, she ran long needle
into the stomach of her nursing, which
shortly after died. But while bringing
the child to its mother, and claiming its
death as proof of her innocence and
the justice of Heaven, the midwife was
suddenly struck dead bv clap of thun-
der, and on being taken up two shoes
of sycee were found in her hands. At
the same time the needle shot forth
from the child's stomach and he lived
again.
Year: 1874

With circumspeot steps as we pick our
way through
, This intricate world, as all prudent folks do,
May We still on our journey be able to view
The benevolent face of Dollar or two
For an excellent thing is Dollar or two;
No friend is so staunch as a Dollar or two !;


Sn country or town,


As we stroll up and down,
We are cock Of the walk, with a Dollar or
two.
Dc you wish to emerge from the bachelor
crew, .....r
And charming young innocent female to
WOO?


You must always be ready the Handsome to
do,


Although it may cost you Dollar or two.
For love tirs his dart with a Dollar or


two;


IonDg affections are gained by a Dollar


or two;


And beyond all dispute,


The best card of your suit
Us the eloquent clink of Dollar or two.
DO you wish to have friends who your bid
ding will do,
And help you your means to get speedily
through?
You'll find them remarkably faithful and
true,
by the magical power of Dollar or two.
For friendships secured by a Dollar or


two;


Popularitys gained by a Dollar or two (;


And yoyl'l ne'er want friend
... Till you no more can lend,
And yoTrself need to borrow Dollar or two.