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Year: 1877

The paper of Messrs. Rossell Lewis & Co.
OF this city went to protest yesterday and a
meeting of their creditors is called for rext
Monday afternoon at o'clock. The firm com
menced business in 1861 and established the
line of packets known as Lewis White Line
plying between this port and South America.
They have been extensive shippers of lumber
to South America, own large saw mills in
Canada and have large interests in Buenos
Ayres. The cause of their suspension is the
depression in the lumber trade in South Amer
ica, in consequence of which they have lost
large sums during the last two years. Tbouoh
the fact Of their losses was generally known it
was hoped they would ba able to bear them
and would safely weather the storm. ard the
announcement of their suspension yesterday
was surprise. At the meeting next Monday
full statement of their affairs will be made to
their creditors and an extension probably
asked for. The amount of their liabilities is
not knowp, but it is probably large.
Year: 1877

The positive and peremptory sale of Port
land carriages tomorrow at the Horse and Car
riags Mart to pay advances should not be for
gotten by any one who has got to buy new
carriage the coming season.
Year: 1877

Census reports, shows that the
whiskey traffic costs the people an
nuaIly $73O,OO0 more than is paid
for the advancement of both religion
and education in the entire United
States. 1t cost annually $569, 900,
900 in the loss of the labor of those
who are engaged in the business, to
say nothing of the loss of the mil
liens of bushels of grain and fruit
taken from the honest labor of the
country and destroyed. Such a
traffic must necessarily affect the
prosperity Of the country. And when
we add to this the fact, shown bv
statistics from prisons, that ninety
per cent. of the crime committed in
the United States is caused either
directly or indirectly by the sale and
use of Intoxicating liquors. and that
the enormous expense incident to
our systems Of criminal courts and
prisons, in the several States, grows
chiefly out OF the traffic. we have no
difficulty in ascertaining whence
comes a large part the taxation and
consequent oppression of the peo-
pie.
Year: 1877

down, until the head grows dizzy,
and we involuntari!y draw near to
each other, aud wait with bated
breath to pass his fearful place.


At a distance of more than
thousand feet below glides the
American river. through a peaceful
little valley. 1t is so safely hid
away from human turmoil and strife
that II wonder, what it can know in
its cline but calm" AS we hurry
onward mountain after mountain ar.
pears, and fades from view, gorge
after gorge yawns between. How
cruel they look with their black,
hungry jaws, ready to devour what;
ever may chance to fall into them.


Beautiful Sierras! No wonder
poets have sung your praises in lofty
strains, for never had the pen of ge-
MUS grander theme


The sky is becoming dark now
the mountains look weird and ghost
ly. Onward we are plunging with
wild, mad speed. Heaven guard US.
for dangers are all about our way
When we awake tomorrow our eyes
will rest upon the great city Of the
Occident.
Year: 1877

BKw. H. PHILLIPS.
Within prison cell he sits,


His life is passing fast away,
Before his tortured mind there fits
vision of the coming day;
He cannot shut it from his sight,


1t h2unts him through the fearful night.
How fast the minutes passing fly
The hours rushed on with lightning speed
few more yet and he must die,


To make atonement for the deed
Which placed him in his prison room
And brought him to a felon's doom.
He sees himself playful boy,


His mothers greatest joy and pride
Oh well it is fer him and her


That many year ago she died,
And does not live to see him now,
The mark of Cain upon his brow
He sees himself at mans estate,
Free from all sin and misery;
He sees the loving woman who
Tomorrow win his widow be,
Whom but one year ago he swore
To love and honor eyermore.
And when he sees that fatal day
When mad with passion and with drink,
He took another's life away


And placed himself upon Deaths brink
And now there rises up by him
The shadow of gailows griIn
o could he but reca Il that day;
o! could he but undo that deed;
Had he resisted passions sway,
And not to Anger's voice gave heed,
How different now would be his fate
o bitter thought to late, too late
And as he thinks, adown his cheek
The scalding tears fall thick and fast;
The prison clock begins to speak
The hour of six-he nears his last.
Upon his hands he leans his head
And thinks he sees him-cold and dead.
Years upon years it takes to win
An honest and q noble name,
And but a single moments sin
To cover it with stains and shame.
The fruit Of years of labor may
Be all destroyed within day
Year: 1877

John Hickson of Cincinnati made up
his mind that he did not wish to live to
be more than 80 years old. As he ap-
preached his eightieth birthday he found
that he was not likely to die natural
death within the allotted time, for his
health was good So he prepared for
suicide, settling up his business and
making = will. On the day he was 80
years old he jumped into river and was
drowned
Year: 1877

and swectened, forms mixture which, as cool
ing, healthy and refreshing Summer Beverage has
no equal Barrels OF ice wate', prepared in this
way, may be drank without the slightest injury
and happy is the man who finds in this a substitute
Tor spirituous liquors. Its value the Farmer the
Mechanic and Laborer cannot be over-estimated
1t is so cheap be within the reach of all; so
finely favored es to be enjoyed by lovers of the


finest liQuors
Year: 1877

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PUR-
~ suance of petition of more than ten legal vo-
ters, resident in the city Of Rock Island, In the
State of Illinois, Special Election viii be held at
the Court House, in the city OF Rock Island in the
State of Illinois. on the
Year: 1877

free from serious objections yet palatable even in
vitng TO the sensitive palate, which win create no
morbid appetite for itself and operate as an asAie-
tant to digestion, well as perform the functions
OF a stimulaut. Such we confidently believe is 10
ha found in
Year: 1877

whether produced by indigestion, improper food
change of water diet, too free indulgence of ice


water, exposure to sudden changes of temperature,
are immediately relieved by it. One ounce added
m q call 4
Year: 1877

This elegant preparation is prepared from the
TRUE Jamaica Ginger, combined with choice aro-
matics and genuine French brandy. and is vastly
superior TO every other Extract Essence of Gin
ger before the public-an of which are prepared
with alcohol by the old Droct ss.
Year: 1877

FlatuleEcy, Sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the Stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after eating, are sure to be relieved by single dose
taken after each meal. A great want exists for
Year: 1877

generosity that will undoubtedly be made
from the North for the support of Northern
enterprises ana Investment in Northern un-
dertakings. Let the people of the South be-
ware OF all of these as wholly bankrupt; they
will only sink what little money they possess
in them. Let the South steer clear of the
general bankruptcy threatening the North.


A. C. r.
Year: 1877

Among the dogs killed by the po-
lice in Paris this season was the gray
hound sold by Lord Salisbury to a
Partisan for GlOU. Fifteen days after
the sale this greyhound was bitten by
another dog supposed TO be mad, and
the authorities refused to spare him.
Year: 1877

Woman is bedued with joy and
kindness, and sweetness and things
second only 10 an angel, but she can t
wash a pair Of summer cashmere
pants and iron them into set to save
her darling soul.
Year: 1877

Among other attractions in Druid
Hill Park is a young bear, which fur
nlshes much amusement for visitors.
There are at present upwards of tour
deer in The Park. Many of
these will be killed this fall and sent
to the New York market.
Year: 1877

A MOTHER S INFLUENCE.-Many a
poor mother in humble cot, with no
IL oney or position, has struggl led hard
TO feed and clothe her little ores, to
train them to be an honor to their
country and a blessing to the world.
Most Of our useful prominent men
came from such homes. Our church,
yards are full ofsuch pleasing mothers
whose hands are meekiy folded on
their breasts. No tall monuments and
high sounding epltaphs mark their
resting places. No worldly eve ever
saw the record of their lives, only God
and the angels. What responsible
ty rests upon the mothers Of this
country. Life is too short to be spent
in accumulating things of this world
that must perish. The children do
not stay with us long enough to per
NIT us to waste our hours in the pur-
suit of fashion and gayety. What we
SOW now we shall reap hereafter
How many who SOW in tears shall reap
in joy. God give to all mothers grace
and strength to fulfill their duties
Alright, tn: t their influence for good
may be felt from generation to gener
alton.
Year: 1877

Dr. Schliemann says he owes his sue. cess in life to the faithful observance of . simple habit-that was to put on first in the morning his left stocking and left boot, and in drawing on his clothes to put his left foot into the drawers and pants, and his left arm into the shirts. vest and coat. Only once in his life he omitted to do this. aud on that day the Cardiff giant was discovered by somebody else. Ddnbttry NesOe.
Year: 1877

POLICE CAsEs.-This morning before
Mayor Whiteley, Robert Ogden, j oseph
Smith and Green Alexander were ar
raigned on the charge of disorderly
conduct, and endeavoring to breakup
the P. K. A. ball last night.


1t appears from the evidence that
upon office McElheny endeavoring to
arrest Ogden for being disorderly that
Smith interferred with the officer, and
tried to prevent the arrest. The Off
Ger thereupon let go of Ogden and
arrested Smith, and when they
arrived at the doors leading into the
street Ogden and Alexander were there
endeavored to hold the doors so
that the officer could not get out, but
at this moment several members of the
Water Witch aided the officers in
making the arrest, and were afterwards
violently assaulted some of the MEM
bers of the belligerent party breaking
up a CRATE and hurting it at them.
The Mayor said that they had no
more right to 60 to ball and raise a
disturbance than they had TO go to a
mans private house, and those giving
the should have given them good
whipping, and taught them lesson,
1t was in his opinion premeditated
thing aDdhe would require them to give
satisfaction in the sum of $25 and
costs.
Year: 1877

LOUISIANA GOVERNMENT. If ii
was put to free vote of the people of
LOUISIANA, whether they would prefer
tbe sort of Executive and Legislative
Government they have had for the last
six or eight years, or purely military
government, administered directly by
officers of the army of the United
States there can be little doubt they
would select the latter. They have
had for many years pretences of civil
governments, sustained in authority by
the national soldiery, but without any
of the security or responsibility which
a purely military government would
have given them. The latter, in this
country at least, when administered by
West Point officers, is efficient, mex
pensive, honest and generally lmpar>
tial, though not always so. These ad.
yantages the Louisiana people have
not possessed under their civil govern


ment kept in position by the military !;
and so they have had military power
without any of the advantages of mill
tary administration. That hybrid sort
of government is not likely to do bet
ter in the future than in the past, and
should come to an end. If the troops
are to remain it ought not to be to up
hold helpless and powerless phantom


of state government; it would be a
kindness to the Louisiana people to let


them have military government pure
and simple-administered by respon-
sible officers of the army. OF course
that would not be the republican gov
eminent guaranteed to every State by
the Constitution mo more is that which
has to be sustained by perpetual gar
rison of the army of the United States.
Ledger.
Year: 1877

How SHE CRUSHED THEM. The
other day a groceryman at Vallejo,
California, gavea large party, at which
the daughter of the carriage painter,
who lived next door, created decided
sensation. 1t was not that she was
more handsomely attired than the
other ladies present, but that when she
gyrated in the "dance Of death she
was observed to display the only pair
of pink silk stockings in the room.
She left the house for few moments
at the expiration Of the dance, and in
the next waltz exhibited pair of light
blue dittoes. An hour later her
crushed and exasperated female friends
beheld these supplemented by further
hose of a delicate chocolate shade.
And so it went on, until her miserable
rivals determined to follow her the
next time she disappeared. They
traced her to her fathers paint shop in
the back yard, where she was discover
ed, brush in hand, and about ornament
ing her neither extremities with a final
artistic coat Of light salmon. The ex-
ulting spies rushed back with the dam
aging news, but it was too late. The
men were all to tight to understand,
the music had gone home and the
lights were being put out. Thus it is
that fraud and duplicity triumph,
while honest simplicity walks around
with darn on its calf and a hole in
its heel.
Year: 1877

THE people Of Baltimore did sen
sible thing on Wednesday when they
repudiated by such splendid majority
the communistic notions Of Thompson
and his associates. All this stuff about
the rights and wrongs of laboring men,
and the expressions and tyranny Of
CAPITALISTS the veriest nonsense. There
is no such thing as oppression Of labor
by capital, and no such thing as the
right of labor as opposed to capital,
and no necessary contest between the
two. As in all other things the supply
regulates the demand. Capitalists will
not pay high wages to have work done
when they can get the same work done
for low wages. When Iaborers are
few and work plenty wages viii be
high; and, vice verso, when work is
scarce and laborers plenty, wages viii
be low. Any attempt to change this
natural state of things by violent means
is incipient communism and should be
treated as such. From time immemo-
rial there have been visionary individ-
uals who talked about the injustice Of
some persons having much property
and others little, and who wanted to
see a general distribution and equaliza-
tion of all property. But the world
has kept on in the same old way some
men have been favored by fortune and
accumulated great riches, while others
have had nothing but poverty and rags
as their lot. The good time" these
dreamers predicted has never come and
never will come. Every act Of vio-
lence committed by the laboref against
the capitalist, and every attempt made
to create or prolong contest between
the two elements, is Just so much inju-
ry done to the business interests of the
country and tends just that far to make
and continue "hard times" By Goa
lescing with the Thompson movement
the Republican party did a very fool
ish thing, from the effects of which it
will take tia long while to recover
They hoped to catch the votes of the
laboring men, but the true, sensible
laborer knows that bis interests are
identical with those of the men from
whom he expects employment. Balti-
more, as the result proved, contains
large number of these sensible men,
hence the defeat of "citizen" Thomp-
son and his allies.
Year: 1877

NARROW ESCAPE OF FANNY DA-
vENPoRT. Shortly after Saturday
midnight, an accident occurred on
Broadway by which the lives Of Mr..
Augustin DAILY and Miss Fanny Daven-
port were imperilled An excavation
had been made about two feet deep in
the street. On the South of this was
a pile Of earth and paving stones about
three feet high. The usual light was
displayed to warn drivers Of danger,
but the place was not enclosed. Mr..
DAILY and his companion were being
driven from Fulton ferry by John
Rogers, in a coupe at u brisk rate Of
speed. Through the carelcssness Of
the driver the horse was driven direct
ly upon the pile of stone, and plung-
ing headlong over, was killed. The
driver was thrown from his box as the
coupe was suddenly thrown to one side.
Luckily for the occupants the vehicle
was not overturned and they escaped
injury.
Year: 1877

So completely have American watches
superseded the Swiss in point of excel
lence that the Swiss manufacturers
have almost given up the idea of COM
peting with them and in consequence
of American progress in the maniac
ture Of silks, quite a depression has
been caused among the manufacturers
in that line of goods in that country
also. Thus we find American goods
gradually but certainly working their
way into markets which hitherto have
been monopolized entirely BY foreign
countries.
Year: 1877

SHORT DREssEs.-It is stated that
short walking dresses are now the mode
in Paris, and as American women are
the slaves Of the fashions set in that
fine city it would be well that they be
not too long in finding out the facts
about the short dresses. Let us con-
gratulate the "fair" that between the
practice of dragging their dresses
through the mud and this other ex-
treme Of carrying the long skirt in the
hand, Paris has at last hit the true
average by introducing dresses that
will neither sweep the pavements nor
impede the wearers when walking.
Year: 1877

The N. Y. Graphic undertakes to define
the dead and living issues of politics, and
CONSIDERABLY enumerates that of state
rights in the former class, but Immediately
proceeds to head the list of live issues with
that of Public Safety" under which 1t
advocates large standing army maintain
ed by the federal government. The
Graphic will have to leave the army as it
is, or it will have to put the old question
of state rights among the living issues.
Year: 1877

Browns GINGER will be found invaluable in all
cases Of Cramp other disorders caused by change
of water or bad water, and few drops used regu-
and ward on such attacks To the aged and those
recovering from illness, q small quantity with q
little sweetened water will be found to give strength
and refreshment: the Ginger having no reaction,
which is the great objection the use alcoholic
stimulants. Producing all the good effects of
Mustard Plaster, without the possibility Of blister
ing the skin) its application on flannel Is most EN-
caciOus. And in the case Of persons predisposea
70 Rheumatism and Gonty Affections, It is Of great
service, fused to rub With,l


Beware Of Counterfeits.
Year: 1877

1T Is GENERALLY ADMITTED THAT THERE
cannot be anything more exquisltely deli
cate for perfuming the handkerchief than
MURRY & LANMAN's FLORIDA WATER,
but its great and distinctive property is its
adaptability to the uses of the bath. 1t is
the only perfume that we know of EsPEc-
TALLY AND PARTICULARLY suited to use
in this way; the power it has of impartlng
to the waters of the bath great soothing,
refreshing and invigorating effects; is
peculiar to itself
Year: 1877

It has been repeatedly shown that one
gets better results from less than two
thirds of DooLEY's YEAST POWDER than
from full amount OF any other baking
powder in the world. Housekeepers have
found out this fact, aud the books of gro
GERS all through the country prove this
immense popular preference absolutely.
Year: 1877




A horrible accident occurred at the races
at Geneseo, on Wednesday, James Day q
gentleman well known in that city. was
driving King Phillip, Mr. John P. Stewards
trotter, and Just at the outset Of heat in
the second race, he was run into by the
driver Of Billy Monroe. aud one of the wheels
of the sulky on which he rode was broken.
Mr.. Day was precipitated to the ground,
and one of his feet caught in the frame
work of the sulky. and thus he was dragged
nearly quarter of mile-his face Oh the
ground. Tue Mortified spectators were
powerless to do ought but gaze in speech
less awe at the fearful spectacle. Nobody
supposed otherwise than that he was dead
but on gong to where he lay, he was found
still to be alive, aud no bones broken. Drs.
Wells and Antes. who are attending him,
express hopes of his recovery. Mr.. Day
seems to have strange fatality following
him, as it was only last May that he was
rescued by almost superhuman exertions
on the part of Mr. Bird Miller. from the
burning Geneseo House.


Several other accidents but of little con
sequence have also occurred.
Year: 1877

A son of Rev. Smith Ketchum, of Corn


wall township, Bureau county,, about ten
years old, came to his death 10 a most
shocking manner last Wednesday evening.
The particulars as we learn them are about
as follows: Robbie, as he was called was
sent to bring up the cows, and as the dis
tance was considerable he was in the habit
OF riding; on this occasion the horse he
usually rode was absent and he took a
young horse, He was found some hour
or two subsequently,, dead, with the hal
ter tied around his wrist. 1t is supposed
when he reached the pasture and dis


mounted to open the bars the horse got
away from him, and after catching him he
tied the halter to his wrist. The horse
subsequently becoming frightened ran
with aim, and either kicked him or he was
killed by being dragged by the halter.
The horse jumped hedge in the course Of
his fight and it is surmised that the boy
was then fatally injured. When found by
his mother, his father being from home, he
was fearfully uutilated. his scalp being
completely striped from the skull, his body
in nude state, and be appeared to have
been dead for considerable time. Wher
found, the horse was quietly feeding BY
the roadside, but starting as Mrs Ketchun
came up broke the halter, by which the
boy had been dragged SO long and fatally
Year: 1877

AlOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PUN
ters resident in the city OF Rock Island, in the
State Of Illnois Special Election will be held at
the Court House, in the city OF ROCK Isand IN the
state of Illinois. on the
Year: 1877

says that the cost, including the running
of a special steamship, with the labor
of stoker, is only tenpence sterling per
hour for light equal to $50 gas-burners.
Supposing that this light could be subdi-
yided without additional expense, the
result would be equal to supply of
ordinary street gas at III cents per
thousand feet-less than one-twentieth
of what the people of New York are
paying for their gas. "If these astonish-
ing figures are at all near the truth" '"
says the New York Tribune, "the days
OF street gas are numbered" The ex-
emption from danger of this light has
caused a reduction in the rates Of insur-
ance in Paris, whenever it is used. 1t
yet remains to be seen if electricity
cannot be used as motive power There
is no risk in predicting that, sooner or
later, some practical mode of adoption
to this purpose will be found.
Year: 1877

Tie same party that demonetized silver
endeavored to curtail the circulation Of
all the small country newspapers, and
give the metropolitan organs of the
bankers and brokers an advantage. They
made the country newspaper publishers
pay the postage, when it was known
That the papers in the great cities sent
their papers outside of the mails. This
was done to give aid to the latter and
enable them to advocate just such acts
as the decentralization of silver.