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Year: 1876

In has been decided in an Eastern
court that lawyer who makes it his
business to obtain divorces can not be
damaged by any thing that the English
language may be made to say Of him,
Year: 1876

Boston, April 2l.-Thomas W. Piper.
condemned to be executed May 26, for
the murder of Mabel Young in the belfry
of Warren avenue church, to-day made a
sworn statement that she received the in
juries that caused her death from a trap
door falling upon her head; that he was
frightened lest he would be accused of
numbering her and therefore denied all
knowledge of the matter, hoping that his
connection would not be proved.
Year: 1876

THE EVENING ARGUS. with afternoon
telegraphic news and markets, delivered
to subscribers in Rock Island and Moline.
Now is the time to subscriber. Leave
orders at the Phoenix Hotel in Moline, or
at the Office in this city.
Year: 1876

We don't know II there are any persons in this
city in the country SO foolish as 10 think there
are no seed oats or rye to be had in town. II
there are. they will be undeceived by reading
the advertisement OF Jno Calder. at No OF Peters
street corner OF Lafayette street and IL they Just
call there they will simply be astonished at the
quantity of seed oats and rye and hay this town
has on hand
Year: 1876

The cooking school recently started in
Boston has been successful. 1t is under
the management of a company of ladies,
who hire the rooms and see that the
cook teacher is competent. Ten lessons
of two hours each are given to classes OF
two, three or four, or to single pupil,
at the preference of the learner, The
pupils do the cooking themselves under
the direction of the teachers, and may, il
they wish, eat what they cook. Many
of the classes are composed of middle
aged ladies, who are excellent house
keepers, but go TO cooking school to
learn to make delicacies or ornamental
dishes, in which the teacher excels
Year: 1876

Norfolk street, Strand, says The Lon
don Court Journal, has curious com
memorstive monument. An observant
spectator will notice that the first floor
windows of large house at the corner
OF Howard street present a peculiar cd.
pearance. The shutters are up, and
they are covered thickly with dust, while
through the chinks can be seen the
blinds, also thick with dust and molder-
ing away with age. Those shutters and
blinds have been in exactly the same
position, untouched, for about fifty years.
During that time no human foot, it is be.
lieved, has entered that room. And tho
reason is this


Fifty years ago a certain nobleman
was engaged to be married, the day was
fixed, the wedding morning arrived, the
breakfast was laid out in that spacious
and handsome room, the bridegroom was
ready to proceed to church, when II was
discovered that the bride was missing; a
note in her handwriting was found nd.
dressed TO the bridegroom, briefly in.
forming him that she had eloped that
morning with his best man, gay and
gallant captain of dragons. The Tilted
bridegroom did not say much, but he
went alone TO the room in which the
wedding breakfast was laid ont, With his
own hands put up the shutters and drew
the blinds. locked the door and took the
key. he gave orders that the door
should be nailed up and barred With
paddock bars, and that no one should
enter the room again, When the house
was let it was stipulated that the room
in question should remain untouched.
and sum Of f2OO per annum was paid
to the tenant to compensate him for the
deprivation of the use Of the room. The
noblemsn has been dead some years
but it is believed the room has never
been entered since he closed it, and
there are the wedding meats mould.
ering silently away, and the ornaments
crumbling to dust in the funeral gloom.
Year: 1876

builded through much difficulty and the
earnest work of the friends of the cause.
A transfer of this bureau to the War De-
partment means an snnihilation OF the
present peace, system. The glittering
paraphernalia of war does not mean peace.
The bayonet and bullet, the regimental
colors and martial music, does not mean
peace. Armed men and stores Of powder,
mining drills and evening bugle notes,
dress parade and the constant presence Of


firearms, does not mean peace, and the
Government will find it so should this
transfer measure be adopted. To day two
hundred and fifty thousand Indians are on
the high road to civilization, through the
benign influence of this great policy. But
the moment that policy is molested and
deprived of its present facilities this tide of
civilization will turn back, and that which
has been gained will be lost and that which
is now within our grasp will be swept
away. The Indian seeks peace and does
not want a military ruler. He wants the
influences and objects of civilization to sur
round him, and not the omineus evidences
of hate and war.
Year: 1876

The Indian transfer measure met an
opponent in the Senate yesterday worthy
Its best steel. Gen. Logan delivered q
mastery speech against the transfer. 1t
was complete and forcible. 1t was
fraught with the most startling revela-
tions concerning the record of the Indian
Bureau when under the control of the
military. The General went into the
details Of the management of the Indians
by the army, and by honest comparisons
proved that the present system has sue
ceeded beyond the most sanguine expecta-
tiops of its friends, and is q splendid
triumph over the old army regimen.
What Senator Logan did yesterday in the
Senate cannot be undone by the enemies
of the great system which President Grant
brought into existence during the early
days Of his administration and has sus-
tanned for nearly eight years with marked
success. Military control of the Indian
means, if it means anything, an extermina-
tion Of that race; while civilian control
Of the Indian means, if it means anything,
the education and elevation of that people
to standard of civilization which is an
honor to the present age. No one denies
that the Presidents policy has been
success. No one has successfully assailed
it. The record of the system abounds in
the most satisfactory results. The history
Of its progress is one of triumph after
triumph. The expenditures of the
bureau, taking into consideration the con-
dition of the Indian, the inrosds the
whites have made upon his country, the
concomitant evils which have followed and
the great number Of wild men now
necessarily under the protection of the
Government make proud showing
against The expenditures for this people
under the management of the War De-
partment For this reason the cry of those
who favor the transfer is the vacant and
baseIess cry of opposition to noble
achievement of the present Administration
"a cry TO tear down what has alreai iy been
Year: 1876

should be met with an indignant refusal to
continue diplomatic relations with Great
Britain until an ample apology for this in
suit is made and received.


Since writing the above the message Of
the Presidents laying this subject before
Congress, has been received. is milder
in tone and composition than we could
wish, for we sincerely believe the conduct
of the British Government in this esse is
only the prelude to further insults and
presumptuous demands if her arrogance is
not promptly checked. The Administra-
tion would be perfectly justified in sending
Sir Edward Thornton his passports and at
once closing its friendly relations with
Great Britain. We have no desire for
war. But it must be remembered that il
we would have a permanent peace we
must be prompt to show that we both
know when we are insulted and how to
exhibit prOper resentment .a. IT,
Year: 1876

THE statement of defalcations by public
officials has been sent to the Senate cover
ing q period of forty six years, and the
proportion of losses during Republican
rule is only one tenth as great as it was
under previous Democratic Administra-
tions. That is just what we have been
asserting, but the soreheads still cry out
corruption, retrenchment and reform.
Year: 1876

BoTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS went heart
ily to work yesterday with design to get
through their routine business prepsra-
tory to adjournment. But the st. Louis
convention will intervene before the first
of July, and it is hardly probable that an
adjournment can be obtained before the
middle of July. Should the impeachment
trial proceed from the 9th, it will carry the
session into August or September.
Year: 1876

THE President has performed his duty
in laying the condition of our relations
with Great Britain before Congress. Now
let us see what Congress will do with refer
ence TO the vindication of the honor of the
country from premeditated and deliberate
Year: 1876

With all the civilized world either against
or Indifferent to the welfare of the patriot
Cubans, that noble people still hold out against
the oppressor's rule, and stand firm by their
pledge to redeem their loved country from the
slave-master's whip.
Year: 1876

When the Democracy has marshaled its
candidates against the splendid ticket which
the Republican party now holds up before the
American public for its consideration, ID will
be convinced that it is not fighting against a
odd barren ideality."
Year: 1876

General Comfy, Of the Ohio STATE Journal,
can put large feather in his cap with great
propriety since the nomination of Governor
Hayes, as he has advocated his superior
claims to the Presidency for the past year
with untirinp energy in his excellent journal
Year: 1876

A gentleman at Saratoga, after
waving his handkcrChife for half an


hour or more at an unknown lady
whom he discovered ut a distant point
on the shore, was encouraged by a
warm response to his signals to op'
proach his charmor. Imagine his
feelings, when, on drawing nearer,
he saw that it was his own dear wife
whom he had left at the hotel but a
short time bcforel "Why, how re-
markablc that we should have rccog-
ni2cd each other at such distance
exclaimed both in the same broathi
and then they changed the subject.
Year: 1876

A gentleman having an appoint
mcnt with another who was habitu-
ally unpunctual, tohis great surprise
found him waiting. lie thus adj
dressed him; "Why, see you are
here first ut last. You were always
behind before; but ] am glad to SEQ
you have become early Of late
Year: 1876

Occasionally man gets into the
Governors office like TiIden, who
shows n determination to smash the
big rings formed by boundloss wealth
and aggregated political power, and
accustomed to control the entire af-
fairs of the State; and occasionally
there is one like Hayes, who mar
shals the whole military power of -
commonwealth to subjugate a few
striking miners, and to compel them
to toll for their masters in a perpet-
ual state of serfdom. In the one
case The spectacle is that Of. a man
entering the list alone in a contest
with an army of.Titans; in the 9th
or that of calling regiment of gi-
ants into service to step on hill of
pisants.
Year: 1876

The curiosity exhibited by fish is
worthy of remark. Like nearly all the
animal creation, fishes are inquisitive.


Workmen in diving bells and submarine


armor tell some interesting anecdotes IL


Illustrative of this prospensity. A diver
who was engaged in tunneling for the
water-works OF an Eastern city, whose
labors at the bottom of the river occupied
him for several days, became suddenly
aware one day of the presence of a larger
fish than he had seen before, a sturgeon,
which he thought would weigh at least
eighty or ninety pounds. 1t visited him
for several days in succession, and
eventually became 80 fearless Us to ap-
proach within little more than an arms
length Of him, although at first il was
quite shy. Along the southern shore OF
Lake Erie, and in some other places at
the North where ice forms of sufficient
thickness, fish are attracted to openings
through the ice lover which small,
perfectly dark house is placed) by means
Of a small decoy fish, attached to line,
and moved rapidly through the water
beneath the ice. A fish will sometimes
follow one of these for long time, but
seldom takes il in its mouth, unless the
representation is nearly perfect. They
evidently come merely To sec what is 90
ing ON. So have seen school of fish
follow baited hook every time IL was
drawn to the surface, but no one would
take The most tempting bait,- Home and
School, 80 =
Year: 1876

Ring for the beautiful knell,
A knell for the young and fair,
Who starts to the sound of the marriage bell
On q lifelong walk Of despair;
Swing and ring In your belfry high,
Clamor, D bells, to the sunny sky,
But yonr voices are knells,
And the pecan that swells,
Is only knocking liel
Ye should sing Of Joys; but In tones most clear,
Ye are shouting far TO the listening ear


Sold Sold Sold
Sold for million Of ill-gotten goldl
A thousand eyes are agape to see
That glittering cortege pass;
But the sweet bride walketh wearily,
And her eyes are dim, alas
Hand, not heart, is the gift she brings;
Duty, not love, Is the strain she sings,
And her visions are fraught
With cankering thought
And dlreful imaginings;
Her heart should be light but its beat is slow,
Sobbing and throbbing, sad and low


Sold Sold Soldl
Sold for million Of glittering gold
Orange flowers in her shining hair,
Half concealed by gossamer lace;
D, she Is lovely beyond compare,
Fresh and sweet Is her girlish face;f
Starry jewels on hand and breast
Gems OF the orient, gold Of the west,
In glimmering play,
Seem laughingly to say
We are the price Of unrestp
But the song is sung and the rite Is read,
The pageant ever, the VOWS are said


Sold Sold Soldl
sold fer million Of perishing gold
Year: 1876

In consequence of mystery which
prevails whenever a crowned head is at
tackled with illness there is unusual
scope for conjecture, for magnifying
trifies into portents, and treating
ominous facts as mere trifles. 1t Is now
twenty-one years since the present Em-
peror ascended the throne of Russia.
He is only fifty eight years of age, but he
does not possess the vigorous physique,
the iron constitution Of his father, and
his features bear the impress of a mind
i'll at ease. He has the reputation of
being the most amiable of despots; in
deed, there is no other Russian sovereign
against whom SO little can be said, and
in whose favor so much can be urged.
His opportunities for doing mischief are
greater than those of any other Eu-
rOpean ruler, and yet he can not be
charged, If the case of Poland be ex-
cepted, with having given the rein to
tendencies which are generally upper
most in despot's mind. Alike in the
history of Russia and of modern Eu-
rope, his name is imperishably as
sociated with the most enlightened
measure of our age, for to him
alone do the Russian serfs owe their en-
franchisement. The beneficence of this
measure was not greater than its bold
ness. In all despotic countries the no
bility play the part of public opinion in
free countries; and, where their pre-
iudices are disregarded, they find in con-
spiracies or assassinations a means OF
revenge.


To give freedom to the serfs involved
no greater trouble than the signature OF
a ukase but it was an act OF which no
one could foresee the direct con-
sequences provided the recalcitrant
mobiles should give practical effect to
their feelings. Alexander /, the uncle
of the present Emperor, whom Madame
de Stael styled happy accident, was as
anxious TO act the part Of a paternal
despot as any man could be, yet he was
afraid to venture on the abolition OF
serfdom, because he could not face the
open or tacit disapproval of the nobility,
Since this great event illustrated the
history of the present reign, the En-.
peror Is understood to have been haunted
with vague forebodings of calamity, and
to have become prey to confirmed
melancholy. His life has been threat
ened more than once, and apprehensioni
of other attempts against it are believed
to haunt his mind and embitter his
thoughts. Morbid sentiments like thost
which predominant in his breast are moi
easily overcome and expelled by argu
ment or persuasion. Sydney Smith
maintained that melancholy could bt
exercised by cultivating the habit of tax
ing very short views Of human life, en-
joying the present and caring nothing
for the future. However useful the pre-
scription, there may be considerably!
difficulty in applying 1t in all cases, and
the impossibility of plucking from thu
imagination a rooted dread may. bt
equal to plucking a rooted sorrow from
the memory.-London Daily Ne'os.
Year: 1876

Give me man with m aim,


Whatever that aim may be,
Whether It's wealth or whether.it sfame,
II matters not to me-
Let him walk In the path OF right,
And keep bis aim In sight,
And work and pray with faith Away
With his eye on the gnttering height.
Give me q man who says,


81 will do something well,
And make the ieeting days


A story Of labor tell"
Though the aim he has be small,
II 10 better than none ut all;
With something to 40 the whole year through
lie will not tumble or fall.
But Satan weaves snare,


For tine feet Of those who stray, d.
With never thought or care


Where the path may lead away;
The man who hath no aim


Not only leaves no name
When this life's done, but ten to one
He leaves a record Of shame.
Give me man whose heart


Is filled with ambitious fire;
Who sets his mark In the start,


And moves II higher and higher.
Better to die in the strife,


The hands with labor rife.
Than 10 glide with the stream in an idle dream
And live purp0seless life.
Year: 1876

WHILE fixing up the long lines Of
fences this spring will not some of the
farmer think more earnestly of the mat
ter of doing away with a large part Of
them, and resorting to methods of
management by which less rods of this
costly farm appendage shall be in use Z
To make pasture at all profitable re
quires small fields and frequent changes.
TO keep up the fertility of the soil ro-
tation of crops Is required, and hence
frequent blowing. The cost of fences Is
thus seen not 10 be alone in the original
investment but In the waste of land; In
tho loss Of time while cultivating at q
disadvantage in small fields, and the
continual cost OF repairs,
Year: 1876

This is the true Indian policy. The
business now in hand is to break all to
pieces the power of Sitting Bull and his
mnrderouS host. The protection of the
whole frontier demands this. When
thus Is done. it will he time to consider
what to do with the remnants. But
never again let there he peace with the
Nl"IlN until it has been made absolutely
impossible for them To turn against the
WlIlte man the arms which the white
man gives him. flames Parton. in the
illustrated ITeehIy
Year: 1876

A great many years ago, while l


was comparatively young man


and still unmarried, l resided in a


certain city of Pennsylvania, and


enjoyed the reputation of being the


cleverest lawyer ever known there.


1t is not for me to say the praise


was merited, but / certainly found


myself able to discover loopholes of


escape for those whom / defended,


which surprised even my fellow


lawyers. possessed by nature


those qualities which would have


made an excellent detective, and /
was thorough student of the law.
There was no mystery about it, but
among the more ignorant classes l
gained reputation for more than
human knowledge. Perhaps it was
not polite for them to say that the
devil helped me, but they did.


However, began to tell you
about Madame Matteau. She was
an old lady who owned a little
house in the suburbs Of the CITY,
She herself was of American berth,
but her husband had been French
man, and so the title Madame had
been bestowed upon her. She was
now a widow, and her daughter
Gabrielle and o son Henri were her
only living relatives. Her income
was but slender, and she eked it
out by taking a few boarders, gen.
orally steady old people, who had
known her for many years. These
and liked her; but the
city generally had q prejudice
against her. There had been two
sudden deaths in the house. Each
time the victim was stranger who
came at night, and was found dead
In his bed in the morning. Each
time the jury were divided-some
believing that strangulation was the
cause of death, and some that the
man had died in a fit.


1t was terrible thing that two
such deaths should have occurred
beneath her roof. Madame's friends
pitied her. The rest Of the little
world hinted that these were strang-
srs, and their trunks, with no one
knew what amount Of money and
other valuable property, remained
n Madam's possession. No one said
,he was murderess, bat every one
,aid it was "very strange" in an odd
one, and no one since that second
leath had visited Madame Matteau.


l myself-perhaps because / ad-
nired her q great deal, and her
much more-had always
insisted that it was merely an Incl
lence, and that in q world in which
and heart disease were so
it was no such marvel that
,wo men should have met sudden
ieaths in the same house. But my
aith in this theory was shaken
When, one morning, IL was publish
ID over the city that another tran
'ient boarder had been found dead
n Madame Matteau's house, and
hat she was arrested on suspicion
II having murdered him, his watch
md chain having been found in
Ter possession.


Before had recovered from the
hook Of this terrible piece Of news,
Year: 1876

Only year, one year ago,


When we stood meath the glowing sky,
And the pine trees whispered soft and low,


Togethcr-my darling and 1.
And we wandered on with aimless feet,


Along the pebbly strand
And thought that life was more than sweet,
As toyed with the dainty hand.
I spoke OF love. but she turned her head,
And cheeks and lips grew white, -
Till her face was like the face of the dead,


In the beautiful summer night.
And my heart stood still as she made reply:


sit can never, never be
Though my love is yours till the day die,


You must never think of mo.
"My golden hair has proved snare


To the miser's greedy eyes;
And am sold-to the love of gold


am made a sacrifice"
So the time passed on, till the wedding day,
And IL broke as clear and bright,
AS If none were doomed with its golden ray
Togrope in an endless night.
/ wandered that morn TO the river side,


Where last we had met and parted,
With bitter thoughts of the beautiful bride
Who was dying broken hearted.
And while / stood as in "A dream,


vision of something white
Came drifting slowly down the stream,


Before my aching sight.
A floating veil and a CLEAN Of gold,


And a white face, pure and sweet;
Spell-bound stood as IL drifted in


Into my very feet
parted the hair from the dead white face,
And kissed it, again and again;
And held her close in the last embrace,


Who never was mine till then.
bore her back to the stately hall,


Where they waited the lovely BRIDE
And shadow fell, like funeral pail,
Der the spendor, the pomp and pride.
But / could not mourn as looked on him
Who had hoped to call4her 'wife,"
For knew, through the portal dark and grim,
She had passed from death to life.
Year: 1876

gave me intense pain, but II reliev-


ed me. In moment more l was


able to Chamber out of it upon the


shed below.


There l remained till day dawn


ed. With my returning senses the


truth came to me. That which had
murdered the three men who slept
before me in the blue chamber was
nothing more or less than the coal
stove. 1t was provided with what
is called o damper, and this, being
caught in a manner which closed
it, sent the poisoned gas into the
room. 1t had been kindled, as a
wood fire would have been, at the
hour Of retiring, by some one ig-
norant of the danger possible from
coal-gas, and they had slept never
to awaken. Had I thrown myself
upon the bed, l also should have
been found dead In tho morning,
in all human probability.


AS for the fact that neither doc
tor nor coroner discovered the
truth, have but to say that they
were not deeply scientific men;
that coal stoves were scarcely used
in the place, and that 1t had not
been mentioned that the blue cham.
ber was thus heated.


or course l rejoiced the house,
hold by my discovery, next morn
ing, and equally, of course, Madame
who was not only freed
from suspicion, but became the OBJ
ject of universal sympathy. She
was always grateful to me, and
proved her gratitude by giving
what / soon asked for, the hand of
her daughter Gabrielle in marriage.