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Year: 1874

SECTION l. Be 1T ordained bg the Cifu Council
Of the Gay of Rock Island, That all the water
by the Board. of Water WORKS CommissioI,ers and
not repealed by said Board, are hereby ratified and
approved and declared 10 he in full force and that
the same, togeIhe, with all water rates and assess
meats hereafter passed by the Board of Water Cons
mfssioners regulating fixing the price upon the
use Of wafer supplied by said works, or for anyoth
or purpose Connected with said works, after being
approvedsby thctity Council shall be and the same
is hereby declared to he lien np0n the premises
and real estate upon or for which the same is used
So. All water rates shall be due and payable on
the frat days of January and July in each year i'll
advance.


SO. The superintendent of the Rock Island Wa
ter Works is hereby constituted and appointed the
collector OF all wafer rates and assessments for said
Water Works. He shah he required. before enter
ing on his duties to give bond to the City of Rock
Island in double the amount of the total sum of
ter fats LOT ae year eonaltloned Tor inc
as city and township collectors are required. He
shall provide himself with suitable books for enter


ing the descriptions of each lot or tract supplied by
said Water Works with water, with the name of the
owner thereof He shall us soon as possible after
he first days of January and July of each year
give notice in the corporation newspaper of SAID
water rates being due and at any time, after thirty
days from first days of January and July respec-
lively, the said superintendent may make out lit
OF all those lots or tracts upon which said water
rates are due and unpaid with the amount seyeraly
due upon each and return said delinquent list to
the County Collector, who shall at once proceed to
collect said tax and to publish said delinquent


list in the corporation newspaper for the time
and in the same way and he shall apply for judg-
ment against said property for said rates to the
same conrt. at any term, in the same manner as
near as may he in all things az in case of delinquent
taxes for state, county, township municipal pur-
poses. under the general laws for that purpose.
4. For failure to pay the water rates assessed
against any lot, tract of land within thirty days
from the first days OF January and July respectively
in each year. the superintendent of Water Works Is
fully empowered TO shut off the supply of water
from said lot or tract and may elect to bring suit
either against the owner thereof in the of the
city of Rock Island for the of the Rock Island
Water Works or assess the same against said lot
tract as in of this ordinance.


S s. The superintendent of the Water Works
shall not receive any fees or percentage for collect
ing water rates assessments aforesaid. but his
salary shall be deemed in lieu of all compensation
for such services. f rs, zes,. ..


Passed Dee 81, 1873


Approved: BAILEY DAVENPORT, Mayor.
- Attest: JOHN BARGE. City Clerk 3d3t
Year: 1874

Last summer suggested 10 you the
idea Of applying to the Governor OF
Secretary OF Treasury for funds to pur'
chase 500 or 1000 bushels Winter wheat
for distribution among the farmers.
Now the Legislature is in session and
doubtless every member would lend his
influence in voting for an appropriation
OF three or five thousand dollars (say
1900 or 25OO bushels more or less) for
the purchase of this grain, giving and
limiting the sale TO each farmer That
might call To sell one peck to two bushels
that it might be distributed TIN oughout
the State, and 10 te advertised in the
news papers that all may have On
equal opportunity.


The State could by no possibility make
q loss. but on the contrary could sell at
a profit. This plan as it occurs TO me Is
feastbIe-generous totoard the farmer and
more grain would be grown in single
year than in five and perhaps ten. II
farmers were lett to the ordinary chances
OF procuring seed &c. As ] have said
before, farmers are often skeptical. their
minds are hampercd with honest doubt.
They may say. Il know nothing about
Winter wheat, il never has had part.
nership interest with my family Of grains
but now I'll doubt no longer. am
ready to go ahead"


Mr. Blake oil West Walerville reports
SIS bushels from 5 OF seed oil ID IL Tor
one-Winter wheat. You have had
numerous other reports perhaps; aud
would il not be well TO ask report from
all who have tried it the past year or two.
Ask them in your next issue TO send ia
their names and quantity. and to give an
opinion on the above plan. IL can be
raised much cheaper than spring grain.
using the clover fallow or moving sward
AS manure. while the spring variety
must have the real manure. II seems
10 me this simple and grand plan can
not be secuted MS impractIcablc. The
seven or eigh. millions that slip out oil
your Slate annually. must be Wholiy
stopped d-Legislation can do ii all and
this is The broad step in the fight. The
farmers want the seed at once. and not
wait years TO raise it and make slow
distribution. Certain it is il you had
as many acres of Winter as OF Lost
Nation Summer wheaD which was
badly pinched with dIouth, your State
would nave done much toward replenish-
ing her own bread basket Name Far
mer.
Year: 1874

1t has been almost universal custom
here in New England. to let butter stand
after sailing, from twelve to twenty four
hours. before giving it the second or iinal
working, preparatory to sending it of to
market. In warm weather it is often
better TO let it stand several hours in q
cool cellar TO harden, before this final
working. Soft butter cannot be worked
with any advantage. The butter.milk
can only be pressed out, whom butter Is
hard enough to resist the pressure to n
considerable degree. Where ice or cold
water is freely used, the butter milk may
all he worked out at the first working.


In some OF the best dairies around
Philadelphia, butter is churned. washed,
cooled, salted aud moulded up for mar
ket, all al one operation. or as soon as
may be without waiting Tor the butter TO
harden, or lor the salt 10 dissolve. We
used to think il necessary TO let butter
stand q whole day for the salt TO dissolve.
but have learned by practical expert
ence, that few hours is sufficient. Fer
several years past, We have made 1t
practice 10 finish the whole process oi
churning. sailing. and working the same
day. Late experiments have convinced
us that from one TO three hours il long
enough time between the two workings.


Many dairy women dread butter'making
in cold weather. even on small scale.
because the butter is 50 hard 10 work. II
is almost killing. Now. there Is no need
OF having any trouble OF this kind in the
winter. If the cream Is in the proper
condition Tor churning. and the butter
milk is we'll washed, aud worked out. and
the salt worked in evenly. it may have its
last working in very few hours. or il
may he put up Immediately after sailing.
Mr.. Ellsworth. oi Barre. has given con-
siderable attention 10 this subject. and is
convinced that two or three hours is time
enough between the first and last work
Year: 1874

ing, in either winter CT summer. we
are too much creatures of habit. Ii We
get into certain way Of doing thing.
we are apt TO continue in that way, alter
the cause which formed the habit Is re-
moved. In summer the cool. early morn
ing is the best part ol the day for doing
all kinds OF dairy work. We get into
the habit of churning in the morning.
and by the time the butter comes, and 70
worked and salted, the sun gets high up.
and the atmosphere is too warm Tor ham
ding butter well. So It is set away in the
cellar TO cool, where II stays till the next
morning. when 1t will be in excellent con-
dilion for the final working and moulding.


Ii the first working and sailing was
thoroughly done. the second may be hur'
ried through very rapidly. II the sali
was not worked in evenly, as will bs
shown by the streaky or marble appear
ance, it Of course must be done thorough
ly this time. The great difficulty about
this second working is that the butter.
after standing over night in winter. be.
comes so very hard and brittle that 10
cannot be well worked without severe


labor. We all know that butter and lard.
like ice. melt from the outside only. and
hat il is nearly impossible to warm up
batch of butter, in cold weather, so that
it may be worked, without melting and
injuring the outside oil the lump. Try
our way. The next time you chnrn. and
see if you are not satisfied that il is better
than the old method. But be sure and do
the work thoroughly the first time.-NeD
England Farmer.
Year: 1874

That the public themselves, In many
instances, are responsible for the non de-
livery of letters some people, like Bailey.
Jr., in "Martin Chuzzlewit,' supposing
that one opening is as good as another
for deposiling mail matter, is illustrated
by the Boston Postmaster thus: "At the
cid office at the Merchants Exchange Ia
State street. we were obliged 10 close
every aperture in the windows and doors
OF the Post Office story OF the building
10 prevent the public from using them as
letter repositories, and month after the
Post Office had been transferred 10 the
Old South Church. we found nearly .
peck oi letters and newspapers that had
been mailed among the rubbish in the
passage way by putting them in holes that
had been cut for q slove.funnel. Similar
TO this is the statement that in London
not long since, in removing an old pump
that had been long disused, and from
which the handle had been removed.
large quantity of mail matter was found
which had teen deposited in the hole
where the handle had been taken out.
"A discriminating public had mistaken is
or a street letter box"
Year: 1874

A Paris correspondent says The
other day saw n sad sight on the
Champs Elysees, and which, with all my
experiences of Partisan life, I never saw
in this city before. It was a party Of
three persons, two men and a woman,
all well-nay, even handsomeiy-dres
ed, and all three in n reeling, beastly
state OF intoxication. The men went
staggering along, disputing and gestic-
ulating after the manner of drunken
men generally, now and then stopping
to hail the passing unOccupied carriages,
not one of which would consent 20 stop
for them, while the woman reeied slonR
IN company, sometimes olutching Wild
ly at the arm of one of her companions,
and at other times stopping TO address
them in words of tipsy remonstrance.
She was handsomely dressed in "A cos
tune of black silk and cashmere, trim
med with jet, while her companions
wore high hats, broadcloth suits, and
kid gloves. Finally the party made up
their minds to cross the street, a diff
cult feat for anybody to attempt 10 ex-
ecute in the full possession of their
senses, SO dense is the throng of pass
ing carriages and SO rapidly are they
driven, but the drunken trio got across
somehow, and disappeared among the
crowd of promenaders. Such is n spec
linen of the changes wrought by the
lapse Of few years in the manners and
customs of this people. Before the in
PRODUCTION of absinthe, who ever saw a
drunken person in the streets of Paris
Now who is it that does not see them
Not drunkenness in rags alone, but
drunkenness with goodly apparel and
mien of ought-to be responsibility"
Year: 1874

The great destruction to life and
property In various parts of the country
from the effects of lightning during the
past two or three weeks, has served to
give an additional interest TO the study
of the phenomenon of electricity.
Never, says the New York World, "has
there appeared to be a greater disturb
ance of the electrical equilibrium, and
certainly the freaks of the subtle fluid
were never so inexplieable. If the re-
ports we have received are correct,
many of the buildings which have been
struck by fthunderbolts were pro-
vided with rods, and several of the per-
sons who have been killed or manned by
the lightning were knocked out of
feather beds, where, in accordance with
the tradition, they had taken themselves
for safety. In the light of these facts
we have been criticised because we
held to the belief that no building had
ever been destroyed when properly pro-
tected by conducting rods. That scores
of buildings provided with rods have
been struck by lightning everybody
knows, but that thousands of buildings
are at present provided with rods that
are worse than useless everybody, per-
haps, does not know. Iron and copper
are always better conductors of cleo
tricity than wood, and the fact that the
current sometimes leaves the metallic
rod and takes the wood only proves
that something has been put in the way
to obstruct its course. A metallic rod,
to be sure protection, must be perfect
ly unbrokep one, its lower end terminal
ing in the earth in such q manner as TO
allow the charge to be given off freely
and instantaneously. Probably If all
the lightning-r0ds in the country were
inspected, not more than one IN ten
would be found in perfect order. Most
of them are put in pieces, the connee-
tions being very defective. 1t takes but
a short time for the iron to rnst. and
form coating around the Joints or
links, and as soon as that is done the
rod becomes worthless, and not only is
it rendered worthless, positively be-
comes dangerous. The point and ali
the upper part of the rod, down to
where the defect occurs, is an attraction
for the lightning. If a thUnder-cloud
passes near by, and current of cleo
tricity descends the rod, it is suddenly
checked when il reaches the breaks and
it is then obliged to tear its way through
the side of tie building. A defective
rod is apt to bring a current into a
building which, but for the rod, would
have gone in another direction, and that
building which is provided with rods
suffers more if struck, than one unpro-
vided with rods.
Year: 1874

There is a bird in New Guinea called
the Megapodius, which, in the size of
it's eggs and its manner of Matching
them, must be considered extraordi-
nary. 1t is not larger than one of our
ordinary fowls, but its eggs are three
inches long by two and half in diam
eter, 1t does not attempt to SIT on
them. A colony of birds lay their eggs
together in large mound in the hottest
part of the year, from September to
March. and leave them TO be Matched by
the sun. The mound is made of sand,
loose earth, and sticks and leaves,
which latter by their decay increase the
heat. The mounds are wonderfully
large, being ten feet high and about
sixty feet in circumference st the base.
The young birds come out at a hole IN
the top. The mother birds wait on the
trees around till their chicks are
Matched, and then each leads off her
own brood. How each knows its own
is a mystery, The eggs are much rel
ished by the natives, but not at all by
Europeans. A native of Cape York ven
tured one day into a nest for eggs, and
while he was exploring the hidden
riches of the large mound the upper
part fell In and he was smOthered.
Year: 1874

The Washington Chronicle says ga
little oock-eyed fellow stroI1ed into the
Office last evening with piece Of man
uscript in his hand and a merry twinkle
IN his eye, saying. Say, mister, viii
you put our game in the paper ? What
game. my sonT Why, belongs to
the Arrow baseball club, and We had
match game with the Gem for forty
cents, and after we licked 'em they stole
our bats from us, and put head on the
umpire, and took the forty ceuts-
Well, what do you want 10 mention
that in the paper for? oh, We don't
want anything ssd about that, but We
wants 70 challenge 'em for q square
game Of forty-nine innings. just here
an elderly lady, with an umbrella under
her arm, came creeping slowly in the
door, and caught the youngster by the
left ear and Waited hin of down the
steps. The boy said nothin' neither
did the old woman. Both thoroughly
understood each other"
Year: 1874

SOME ONE has said that a man who
can play a good game of chess has all
the mental requisites necessary for
great general. a professor of the manly
art of fencing and boxing says the man
who can spar well has attained the
highest point of physical development.
In this exercise every nerve and muscle
is brought into simultaneous action at
the command of the brain. Dancing
and fencing are graceful sparring is


more graceful than either, because it
demands both body and mind, More
over no man can spar well unless he Eas
his temper in perfect control. A COM
mon objection is made to sparring on
the ground that it makes men pugna-
cious, more ready TO seek than to evade
a quarrel, in order that they may dis
play their superiority. On the contra
n, It is almost invariably found that
Year: 1874

Mr.. Holmes, the engineer gives the
following account of the burning: d" It
was Just about O'Clock when Just op-
pOsite IUughery Greek, that flows into
the Ohio river, two miles below Aurora,
that noticed a bright Light in some
bales of cotton in the after part of the
boat. ] hastened to the spot and found
the cotton burning rapidly and beyond
any possibility of immediately eztin-
guishing it. I hastened to the hurri-
cane deck and gave the alarm to the
pilot that the boat was burning and told
him to run ashore. The pilot at once
turned the boats head TO the shore and
Immediately she became unmanageable.
The pilot states that he could turn the
wheel but the steamer would not an
swer to her helm. He thinks


TIE rrn1ETs IsoPE HAD BEEs CUT.


From this fact It is thought the fire
was the work of an incendiary. Anoth-
er theory is, that one Of the deck pas
sengers, while smoking, dropped sparks
from his pipe into cotton. When the
boat became unmanageable she drifted
on to sand bar, and there grounded.
The flames, instead of spreading along
the lower deck at once, shot up to the
cabin and pilot house, an then swept
across the hurricane deck. The pas
sengers we're all aroused and the boats
lowered, and many were carried to the
shore, but others, IN their fright, jump
ed into the water, and those who were
not drowned reached a safe landing place
after drifting a long time with the cur
rent. There were nearly a hundred
people on board, but what proportion
Of this number were actually lost is not
known, as many reported missing have
been seen by some on the shore after
the disaster.


The latest intelligence says the per-
sons peFished are near thirty in number.
Year: 1874

Witty sayings are as easily lost as
the pearls slipping offs broken string;
but a word of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain. 1t is a seed which,
even when dropped by chance, springs
up into flower.


Love covers a multitude of sins.
When scar cannot be taken away,
the next kind office is to hide it.
Love is never so blind as when it is
to spy faults.


Be assured that when once a wO-
man begins to be ashamed of what
she ought not to be ashamed of she
will not be ashamed of what she
ought.


Our sorrows are like thunder
clouds, which seem black in the dis
tance, but grow lighter as they ap-
proach.


A woman too often reasons from
her heart; hence two-thirds of her
mistakes and her troubles.


The most brilliant fortunes are of
ten not worth the littleness required
to gain them.


Genius is the gold in the mine;
talent is the miner who works and
brings it out.


Ignorance gives sort of eternity
to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.


Kindness is the golden chain by
which society is bound together.


Women have more heart and more
imagination than men.


Without n rich heart wealth is an
ugly beggar.
Year: 1874

distributed in forts ready for use.


In addition to these, they are well


supplied with Spencer rifles capable
OF dlscharging seventeen shots in


succession without reloading, so that


all things considered, the three hun


dred are likely to have pretty rough


time trying to dislodge them. The


Indians, it is true, have had good rea-
son to wish for the determination of
the thieves, and possibly they can be
relied upon to actively cooperate
with the police. In any event five
hundred or perhaps a thousand
thieves fighting for their lives, with
the advantage of a mountain for a
cover, are foes that can not be easily
vanquished. The presence of such a
formidable body of outlaws is, of
course, not calculated to encourage
emigration to the Northwest, and the
effort to disperse it which is now in a
fair way to be made, could not very
well be postponed. 1t is to be
hoped, should the thieves endeavor, in
their extremity, to return to this
country, that they will not be per-
mitted to pass far inside the bound
ary line uncaptured.
Year: 1874

There was little incident in the


Second National Bank of Winona,
Mimi, on Friday last, which the Re
publican describes thus: "Some
time during the forenoon a man call
ed in and got some large bills ex-
changed. At noon, while the Occu-
pants Of the bank, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. William GarlOck, jr.,
were gone to dinner, stranger en-
tered and asked to see the manager,
but on being informed that he was
out, the stranger asked if he could
step into the directors room and
wait for him. Mr.. Garlock didn't
exactly like the idea, but consented,
and the stranger stepped through the
open door and took seat in the room,
from which another door communi-
Gates with the interior of the bank.
Presently another man came in and
was instantly recognized by Mr.. Gar
lock as the one who had the bills
changed in the morning. He step
ped to the counter and made a singu-
lar inquiry as to what certain sum
of money would amount to if deposit
ed for a minor child of thirteen years,
and left at compound interest for
term of years which he stated. As
this problem was prOpounded, the in
dividual in the Directors room
moved over to chair commanding
a view inside of the counter. Gar
lock in an instant suspecting ruse
from the actions of the man, quietly
took a revolver from a drawer and in
formed the individual at the counter
that he had no time to figure on any
such question, and the fellow dropped
his head and walked out. Singular
enough, in a minute or two, the
stranger in the Directors room also
passed out. GarlOck was, this morn
ing, presented with a handsome new
revolver by the Directors of the
bank"
Year: 1874

The man who has never failed in
business cannot possibly know
whether he is honest or not, cannot
possibly know whether he has any
grit in him, or is worth button.
1t is the man who fails, and then
rises, who is really great in his way.


Peter Cooper failed in making hats,
failed as a cabinet maker, locomotive
builder, and grocer; but as often as
he failed she tried and tried again, +"
until he could stand upon his feet
alone, and then crowned his victory
by giving a million dollars to help
the poor boys in time to come.


Horace Greeley tried three or four
lines of business before he founded
the Tribune, and made it worth
million of dollars.


Patrick Henry failed at everything
he undertook, until he made himself
the orator of his age and nation.


The founder of the Herald kept on
failing and sinking money for ten
years, and then made one of the most
profitable newspapers on earth.


Abraham Lincoln failed to make
both ends meet by chopping wood,
failed to earn his salt in the galley
slave life of Mississippi fiat-bOat-
man; he had not even wit enough to
run a grocery, and yet he made him
self the grandest character of the
nineteenth century.


The lesson for every young man is
this: AS long as you have health
and power to do, 90 ahead; if you
fail at one thing, try another, and
third-a dozen even. Look at the
spider; nineteen times it tried to
throw its web to place of attach
ment, and on the twentieth it sue
ceeded. The young man who has
the ''gift of continuance" is the one
whose foot will some day stand on
high ground, and will be able to
breast the angry waters of human
engagement.-Journdl Of Health.