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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

UNwARRANTED AcTIoN OF THE SuERIrF.-
We know nothing, and care less, about the
drunken and disgraceful quarrels of Lang.
ford aud his wife, and his brother.in law, but
there is one point in the case which de.
serves the severest censure and that is the
power which the sheriff assumes, viz to act
on the merits Of case in regard to prison.
crs committed to the jail, Of which he is
only keeper. Not long since, the sheriff re
fused to release prisoner on the order Of
the proper authority lthe magistrate com.
hitting him., simply because he (the Sher-
iF!) didn't think the bail bond good one !
Was it any Of his business whether the bail
bond was good or bad ? Not the least 1t
was his duty to receive and keep the prison.
er, on the order Of the court, until that court
or some other court sent an order for his
discharge. The sheriff had no authority or
discretion in the matter whatever, His duty
was to obey the order Of the court.
Just so in the Langford case. A magis-
tratc, acting under the laws of Illinois, com.
mit5 a prisoner to jail; the sheriff hears the
prisoners story, and let's the prisoner out.
lie excuses himself by saying that DR..
Plummer and Judge Peasants adgiSed him
to do 80 That is no excuse at all. Their
adrice was no more a warrant for the dis
charge OF the prisoner than would be the
advice of any two Of the prisoners in jail,
or Of any two men he might chance to meet
on the street. If Judge Peasants acted on
the case judicially, acted in his official
capacity, as a court, record Of the act be
ing made and if he issued an order for the
discharge OF the prisoner, after a hearing o.
the case, that would be proper authority fol
the sheriff. But Judge Peasants, acting il
his private capacity, and giving adoice, is nc
more than any other man.
1t was an insult to the court, in both cases
to which we aIlude, for the sheriff to disobe!
the order of the court, and we trust VT
shall hear of no more such cases. If thing
60 on in this way we shall soon be able t
dispense with courts altogether-for th'
sheriff will usurp and exercise their author
ity exclusively.
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STABBING IN DAvENPoRT.-Some dcsper-
ate looking wretehes who landed from the
steamer Key City Tuesday afternoon, went
to Copes saloon and began drinking. Two
of them, named Clancy and Holden, got
into dispute, and when fight was i'm.
pending the bar keeper tried to interfere
and prevent it. This preciPitated matters,
for Clancy drew knife and stabbed Holden
twice, once in the neck, q severe wound, and
once towards the left side of the abdomen,
making wound from which his bowels pro-
truded. Officer Csrsten8 arriving, started in
pursuit and discovered Clancy approaching
the ferry boat, with his hat low down and
his collar up, to conceal his face, and &C.
companied by couple of roughs. He was
called upon to surrender, which he did, after
pistol was presented at him. He was
lodged in Jail and will be examined to-day
The wounded man was removed to the Mis-
sssippi House, where his bowels were re-
placed by a physician, and every effort made
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

IMPORTANT LEGAL OrlNloy.--Attorney
General Eyar,s is said TO have prepared
an opinion which, if sufficiently potent, will
materially influence the interests of large
number Of our residents. 1t is to the effect
that government employees are entitled to a
fall days wages for : hours work under the
new congressional enactment. This has ev
er been our opinion and We recommended
them to stcadfastly demand it as it was their
right, or the enactment was Of no avail. Its
intention, upon its face is to reduce the
hours Of labor as an advantage to those EN-.
pioycd, without any reduction Of the pay
4 proportionate reduction Of wages is an in.
jury to them. That could have been effected
by themselves, without an act Of congress,
by not working but eight hours per day. 1t
is hoped that this opinion will be acted upon
by the secretary of war, and that the men at
this point may receive the full measure Of
the wages 20 which the act entities them.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

BOARD or SupERyIsoRs.--lt may not gen
orally be known that the Board Of Supervis'
or5 adjourned from the second Monday OF
September, to the second Monday in De-
cember, which will be the 18th Of the month,
All the business of the intervening time will
then be transacted.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

REmGrous.-A series of interesting meet
iuCa are now in progress in the hall over the
Post Oai.s, occupied by the Disciples Soci.
ETY.. Preaching every evening this week
and next Sabbath by Elder Maupiu, Of De.
catur. A cordial invitation to attend these
meetings is extended to oil.
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GusHwG.-There is species of litera.
ture which, like the mixture of ipecac and
honey, can be barely stomached in three
line doses. But, when dealt out in the aIo-
pathic measure of a quarter OF a column,
nNuseaJe5 extremely.
In the Union, of few days ago, appeared
a fearful exordium over the many virtues
patriotism, bravery, item "loilty" of the de.
posed tanner who kept watch and ward over
the Hotel de Sheepskin and whose visage
glowed every evening with lamp from be,
hind. Who but the "Senior Editor" ever
heard Of soldier in battle begirdled with a
leather apron? Let the little boy gush, in bad
English, worse rhetoric, and euperIatiyely bad
Sense. 1t relieves his "pheelinks.'
P. Size has gushed again, about the
horse that ran off with young lady in a
buggy.
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BARD has received, from the railroad com.
pany. bill of lading Of an article which al.
ways commands the cash, in all lands, aud
is always in brisk demand. Those who
haven't supply had better secure one at
once.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

TINS BELGIAN MUsEErs, purchased by
Fremont, are being shipped from Rock Is.
land Arsenal to New York to be sold at
nnction. The Cuban Gllebusters will prob
ly get them.
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MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD.

g. X. BARNES, Surgeon General L. 5. A.
Washington.
Y. j. HURWITZ, Chief Medical D5PartmeR
L. S.N.. Washington.
y. W. bliss, NJ. d, Washington.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

liz MADE A Coon THING Or lr.--It is
said that the eloquent radical stump orator,
J. c. Starr, late "lol' L. S. Gauger of wills
key for this county, has just purchased one
hulr Of Wheelock's paper min for $4,000
paying down some $50, 600 or $4,000 in U.
s. bonds. Starr has done well. Wonder
if liz. will succeed as well? II he does, he
can soon buy distillery.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.

TNHE undersigned have formed co partner
i. ship, under the firm Of smealon schlem
mer, for carrying on the business Of House Siru,
and Steamboat Painting Granting, Kalsomin
ing Paper Hanging, Glazing, &c.
FRANCIS SMEALON,
JOHN SCHLEMMER,
Rock Island Aug. 90 1868, diff
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Railroad Trains.

LEAVR-OhioAgo,R Rock Island a Pacific going
Rast, at $50 A. NJ. and 900 ?. NJ.
Going West-At $50 A. NJ. and 5.45 Pm.
Western Union, and Sterling 4 Rock Island,
at Gas A, NJ. and AS p. NJ.
Coal Valley, about 100 A. NJ and 100 ?. NJ
ARRTVE-Ubcago Rock Island Paoiho
grom the East, at $50 A. VI. and 5.4j p NJ.
IRON the West, at 7.3O A. NJ. and 900 =. Nj
Western Union, and Sterling 4 Rock Islam d
All 500 A. NJ. and HOO p NJ.
Coal Valley, about / A. NJ. and 7. NJ,
rS-rr,ins run by Chicago time, which is
Al Out 8 minutes faster than Rock Island time.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

FIFTY CENTS will buy hundred old news.
papers, at this office. We have several hun.
bred Of them, rolled up in bundles Of a
hundred each for wrapping paper.
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FOR SALE.

T OFFER for sale my place, on the bluffs, about
L u miles from the centre Of Rock Island, a
little beyond the Black Hawk Nursery. There
is q acres Of good ground, covered with fruit Of
all kinds; a good brick house, and all the conve-
nienoes of a comfortable home. For further in
formation inqsire Of the undersigned, at the Coal
Valley Flour Store, on the levee, in Rock Island
oct23dwtf. CHARLES SCHAFFER.
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to relieve him, He was IN precarious
condition last night. Clancy is evidently
savage amongst his class, as ii is said he
murdered man in Cairo less than a year
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

INNOCENCE.-On Monday, our innocent
aud unsuspecting contemporary had & low
ing quarter of a column editorial, about q
Mrs Langford, of Andalusia, who was sent
to jail by F, A. Cobb, q justice of the peace
in that place, for being drunk and for as.
saultng her husband. Our cotemporary gal
lantly espoused the cause of Madame Lang
ford; denounced Magistrate Cobb's proceed.
iugs as 'the most Infamous and outrageous
ever enacted in the name of the law in this
country" and proceeded to defend the sher-
if for illegally releasing the prisoner, on the
advice of DR.. Plummer and Judge Peasants.
1t was really first class,gushiug sensation,
and Esq. Cobb was "cussed" in good round
Saxon, by most people who read the pathet.
ic story-especialIy the sucking baby
part Off
The next day, our gallant neighbor gets
down from his indignant, hgh.horse, and
publishes letter from Esq. Cobb, which
takes the wind all out Of the pathetic story,
and which. after justifying his action, winds
up blythe following hard rap over the knuek-
les of those who released his prisouer,viz:
What did in the case l would do again: and
if our county officers more ready to accept the
version Of prisoner than to conhde in the iudg-
mcut Of the peace officers If our county, they can
do SO but my purpose is to discharge my duty
| in breaking up drunken rows, be they by men or
women. Yours truly,
F. A. COBB.
Bully for Esq. Cobb-his head is level
But it is amusing to see how innocently OUT
neighbor gets off. On Monday he denounc
ed the act of Esq. Cobb as "the most infa
nous and outrageous ever enacted in the
name of the law in this country"-not ex
cepting, We presume, the sentencing to death
of innocent men and the hanging OF innocent
women by drum head courts. On Tuesday
he SAYS the womans story, "of course wa
open to the suspicion Of being one-sideC
and partial" and Esq. Cobb is an upright
intelligent man"
The innocent ways our ueighbor has 0
getting out Of bad scrape are really re
freshing. Take the following, for instance
On the 30th ult. it had an article uude
r the following startling sensation heading.
viz democratic Prescription" "a Mine
Discharged for Attending the Republican
Mass Meeting y in which it told an affect
/. ing story of man named Kennedy, who,
, said, was the "leader Of the Coal Vale
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officers

CLARENCE n CLARK, Philadelphia, Presid't.
HENRY n. COOKE, Washington, Vice Prest.
JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance and Executive
Committee.
EMERSON ". FEET, PhIa, Scc'y and Ac-
tulry.
T.. $. TURNER, Washington, Assistant Sec'y.
FRANCIS @. SMITH, NJ D., Medical Director.
j. EWING MEARS, NJ. d. Asst. Med. Dt-
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

FORTY CESr3 line viii be charged for
each insertion OF all articles under this head,
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Daily argus.
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orders for Jos PRIETISs will meet WIN prompt
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18
HUMPHREYS
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18

ON TIE WAYs.-Ihe steamers Reserve
and Canada have been drawn out Of the
river and arc to be put in repair for the com.
ing seasons work. In addition to these the
proprietors expect the New Boston and the
Henderson of the Northern Line and the
Viola and Annie Girdou, tow boats, which
are to he put in thorough repair for active
business next seasou.-LeCiairc Register
SET FREG.-John Valentine, who has been
four years in Jail on the charge of numbering
All English woman MRS. Rollison) in Mer
Ger county, was discharged from custody by
Judge Peasants, at the circuit court of Hen
ry county, on the 9th inst. He was arrested
on the I'd of November 1864, and brought tc
the Jail in this city for security, where he re
NAMED nearly two years, when his trial came
off at Aledo. The jury failed to agree. A
change of venue was then taken to Henry
county and he was at last removed to the
jail at Cambridge. After number of con
tinuances the case came up for trial las
week. aud no witness appearing, not pros
Was entered and he was discharged.
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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-05
MRS. o'poNoYAN RossA.

ANOTHER ENocH ARDEN CAsE.-According
to gossiping foreign correspondent, Count
Sartiges, the Minister of France to this coun-
try few years since, is the son Of lady
whose matrimonial experience was similar to
that of the wife Of Enoch Arden. He says:
She was married to an officer of the navy
who left her one morning and never came back
to her. Twelve months afterward she learned
that her poor husband had perished in storm
off the Antilles, and in few weeks she re-
ceived an official certificate that he was dead.
\ few years afterward she married NJ. de sar--
tiges, o very wealthy nobleman, descended
from an ancient family, with whom she lived
very happily. One day NJ. and Nine. de Sar
tiges went to the theatre IN Lyons, where an
opera was performed, and took front seats in o
proscenium box. The house was crowded, and
M. dc Sartiges was requested by the manager
to permi, stranger to seat himself in the box.
When the performance was over, Nine. de Sar-
tiges rose, and upon recognizing the stranger,
uttered piercing cry and tainted away. She
had to be carried to her hotel. Next day the
stranger asked an interview with NJ. de Sar-
tlges. He told him he was the first husband
of Nine. de Sartiges, but assured him that no
trouble should arise in consequence. He re-
turned Immediately to America, where he had
lived in the meantime, and married there the
daughter Of Philadelphia merchant.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-05

R~THE GREAT MEDICAL MISTAKE OF
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vention of sickness. Sewerage was unknown In
ctes drainage was rarely attempted in the country
Heaps of oGal were left to rot in the public Streets
and domestic cleanliness, the great antidoe to fe-
brle Diseases sadly neglected 1t is not so now
Wise laws, philanthropic institutions, and Ngilant
sanitary police, have, to great extent, remeded the
evil. Nor is this all. Preventive medication has
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sickness in unhealthy seasons in consequence ofav.
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exterior Of disease, such as dlmp fog, sudden
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TERS BITTERS are the best Strengthening and reg
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and biliousness they are specific absolute.
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An Incident of the Episcopal Convcn-
tion and Fifth Avenue Bonrdin
Houses.

About the time OF thc arrival of tho dele
gates to the General Episcopal Convention, q
singular contretcmpS occurred, IN which y
'spromlnent member of Grace Church" and
Southern clerical delegate assumed the leading
parts. 1t appears that q prominent member
of Grace Church" called at fashionable Fifth
Avenue boarding-house, and told the landlady
that he had been charged with the care Of two
clerical delegates to the Convention; that the
price at the Fifth avenue hotel was too heavy
and he thought he would billet them on her if
she could accommodate them, 1t being only for
one week. She consented to provide TOR them
and in the course OF few days one clerical
delegate appeared and engaged rooms.
At the expiration of tho first week the
"prom1ncnL member of Grace Church" called
on the ladv and rendered her twenty dollars,
saving that he had ascertaned the Convention
would continue in session for more than one
week, and that he could not stand the expense
for SO loug, time he therefore begged her
to inform her clerical lodser that he must pay
his own bills thereafter. This the lady de-
clined to do; but she offered to write Bishop
Potter informing him tlilt "a prominent mem-
ber of Grace Church" declined fulfilling his
agreement. To this the prominent member
OF Grace Church" objected, and said as he had
already expended some $4,000 this year in char
lties-Desides being one of the dozen prcml-
nent members on whom the expense OF sup
porting Grace Church devolved-he could not
pay the parsons board bill for the second
week.
Finding he could not mould the landlady to
his wishes, he retired, and afterwaId sent the
delegate his card, on which was written, II
have settled one week for you, and now You
must be responsible" 1t so happened that
the clerical delegate was not in the impecuni-
| GUS condition which the P. NJ. OF G. G. I'M
| aelned, but was at the time in search of q
music teacher of the same name as the P. NJ.
of G.. C. Consequently the message appended
| to the uame on the card greatly mystihcd the
worthy clergyman. The matter, however.
passed firm his mind until the adjournment of
the Convention when he bethouSht him Of
engaging a music teacher. He, therefore,
looked up the address of the supposed music
teacher on the card, called, sent III lis name,
and WAS usheled by tho servant into magni-
iiccnt parlor, where he encountered the burly
P. NJ of &. g, to whom lie was about stating
his business. when he was rudely interrupted
with, ''Ohl know what you want. l have
paid one week for you, and [ can't do any more.
There is no use OF coming to me; l can't af-
ford it, My charities are too expensive; cost
me overy six thousand dollars. Besides,
Brown told me it would only last a week.
Imagine the CONSERVATION OF Southern cleri-
cal gentleman at being thus rudely addressed
by supposed music teacher. Explanation
followed, and we are glad to know this pnrse
proud P NJ. of &. {. was properly rebuked by
lis clerical vsitor.-Nec York Commercial.
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THE ROTTERDAM RIOT
Rebellion in Cubn.
ALARM OF THE PEOPLE AND PRosTRAT1oN OF
BUSINESS.

ALARM OF THE PEOPLE AND PRosTRATIoS OF
BUSINESS.
EAvANA, November 4.-The Herald has the
following special from Cuba: The whole is
land is in IN excited state. Business has been
Frustrated on account of the distrust and
alarm of the people. The Captain General is
strangely reticent. A de2utation of leading
citizens, who called upon him, were insulted
by an officer of his household. and the leaders
were ordered to Spain. A telegram from the
United States Consul asking that few United
States war vessels be sent there was refused
transmission over the wires. The insurgents
are 5000 strong, numbering many Spaniards.
Their cry is, sSpain, Prin and Serrano and
down with taxation" The troops number TO-
Oc0, and are acknowledged insufficient to sup
press the rebellion. Lersundi, it is said, has
received ample instructions from the Provis-
ional Government. The news by the Cadiz
steamer is anziously expected.