The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-12-06


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The Sisters FAIR, AT DAvEsPoRT,-lr
order to help pay off the heavy debt resting
| on the elegant property Of the Sisters
| School, the catholic ladies of Davenport
have undertaken a fair for the Sisters bene
fit. They have received from New York a
splendid assortment of choice toys and holi
day goods and are working with zeal and
energy to make this fair grand success
Among the many attractions viii be splen-
did dressing-gown and smoking-cap for the
most popular doctor, and an opera cloak for
the handsoaest young lady. .aA
The fair will be good place to purchase
gifts for the holidays. Parents viii please
bear this fact in mind. The assortment
there offered will be found large and varied,
and some of the toys viii be unique and at
tractive.
Due notice of the opening Of the Fair win
be given in this paper. w | ~.
THE committee on the Camden road i'm
provement, Mayor Kim bali, and Aldermen
Halves and ignatz HUBER, deserve the
thanks Of the people ofthis city land of the
country too) for pushing to completion the
splendid improvement made on that road
The vote of the people, placing the balance
of the county fund into the city treasury for
that purpose, was the foundation laid for the
job. Had the Union and its little clique
had their way there would have been no i'm
provement at all Among other disreputa-
bic and dishonerable means resorted TO BY
the Union set, it was charged by them that
if the money was placed in the city treasury
the council would not use it to Improve the
road. coupled with sly insinuations against
the honesty Of the council, &c, &c. The
people, at a meeting in the scourt
house, by an almost unanimous
vote, stamped these charges with
their disapproval. And the official report
Of the committee shows that more than ave
times the amount Of the bounty fund balance
has been expended on the road.
The Rock Island and Moline Union, aud
other Jacobin papers, persist in the false
hood that President johnson did not CARY
out Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, even
since Gen. Grant and Ex-Atty. Gen. Speed
have testified that Johnson did carry out the
same plan. We eutthe following from Gen.
Grants testimony:
p" viii here state that before Mr. Lincoln =
assassination the question about issuing procia-
nation of some sort, and establishing some sort of
civil governments there up, and what was
done then continued after Mr.. johnson came
into office. l was present. 1 think, twice during
Mr. Lincoln 5 administration when a proelama-
ton which had been prepared read. After
his assassination it continued right along, and 1
was there with Mr.. Johnson"
Ex-Atty. Gen. Speed, radical, and one
of Lincoln's cabinet, testified to similar facts,
both agreeing that Mr.. Johnson's policy was
simply continuation Of Lincoln's policy.
The eredibiity of these witnesses is be-
yond doubt, and their testimony convicts the
radical leaders and their newspapers of
falsehood and Of attempting to force Presi-
dent Johnson to abandon Lincoln's policy
and adopt a harsher one.
FIRE IN GENEsEo.--kidder & Co.'S -four
mill, in Geneseo, was burned on Tuesday
night, notice Of which was published in
Thursday evenings ARGUS. The Republic
says:
''The fire, it is thought, started in the loft from
counter shaft which run some of the works,
although nothing certain is known concerning it.
Nothing was saved except the safe eontsinn g
the books and money of the proprietors, and a
little -four.
The mill was q good one worth at least $780,,
600. 1t had been turning out two hundred and
fifty barrels of -four day, which was its aver
age capacity. There were destroyed with the
mill 1870 bushels Of wheat, 15G barrels of -four,
5000 bushels of corn, 500 bushel. of oats, 800
bushels OF rye, middlings, ETC. About 200 bar
rels were saved by the prompt action of the peo-
pie. The prOprietors Wright kidder, I.
Clement and W. Il. Tee, whose loss is not less
than 5,UOU above insurance, which on the whole
property, was $4,000 in the LaSaile County Mu-
tual. sH
About the time the roof of the mill fell in, the
grain warehouse occupied by Messrs. Longshore
L Davidson, and owned by Francis Ball, OF Chi
cage, caught, and was quickly a sheet of flames.
Nothing saved from this building, except
the safe from the Office 1t ntained grain worth
$1,000, owned by Longshore Davidson, on which
there was no insurance, the policy having expi
red on the 26th ult. The engine, machinery,
boiler etc, belonged to Mr.. Davidson, individu-
ally, and cost 81 900 on which thore no in
suranee. This gentleman loses heavily by the
fire. An insurance had been effected the bull.
ding, on the day of the fire, by Mr.. Ball, for
$500, in the Lumbermnns Insurance Com
pany.
DAVENPORT Hoe TRADE.-The local edi
tor ofthe Davenport Democrm can be sci
down as an accomplished mathematician
not only by virtue of his office of president
of the school board, but also ON account