The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-08-24
THE PAPER FOR NEWS.


Our neighbor, the Rim, is operated on
the principle that If paper does not oiow
its own horn, its horn will probably not be
blown at all, Consequently it blows early
and often. 1t now claims to be 1.-THE paper r.
for news" and keeps a standing noace 70
that effect, though it is in peck OF trouble
because it can't pay for its news cut OF the
money drawer Of the AEGUsoi'ice. we are
quite willing 10 concede to it any amount Oh
credi, for enterprise, and as specimen OF
its news and enterprise combined, we re-
produce from it's telegraphic columns OF
this mornings issue, the following items,
under the head Of "BosroS, Aug. 23;'
Not drop Of rain has fallen here since Au-
| gust 4th the night Of the great whisky fire, nor |
have any accounts Of rain been received from !
the interior, except of short thunder storm on |
Saturday last about thirty miles up the schuyl- |
kill. All reports agree as to the great damage
done to corn In this state from the drouth
A special meeting Of the City Council WAS
held TO-. day to consider the water famine. TWEEN
ty-fve thousand dollars was appropriated ior
families destitute. Power has been given the
chief engineer 10 take any measure he may deem
| proper 70 raise water into the basins at FaIr'
mount. The experiment was tried this afternoon
Of raising water by means OF steam hre engines
Tho hill at Paramount is 90 feet high, and 1t Is
doubtful whether the hose will stand the pres
sure. The result has not yet been announced
-, The fact that Boston had great whisky
, fire on the night Of August 4.h is truly news
to all fus. We had been lsborng under
the impression that the great moral party
had enacted such a stringent prohibitory law
:, N that state that not enough whisky could
be gotten together at any one point to m
" ebrate a musquito. But it seems that we
were mistaken. Boston had great whisky
fire. Massachusetts is now suffering from the
drouth. We knew that the bbulous inhab'
itauts we're suffering from that compliant
> owing 10 the law afore mentioned, but the
:. fact that the material state also suffered
from the same cause, is also news to US
The corn is greatly damaged. This fact
taken in connection with the prohibtor,
-. law, and the burning up Of the whisky,
\ gives the old soaks dismal prospect for tn
= next season. The fact that Boston has ha
no rain for long time past, with the eGcef
=. ton of short thunder storm ON the Schuy
80 kill" ia aggragating in the extreme, an
coming right after the prohibitory law, /
ike piling Ossa upon Pelion. III
"A inhabitants there must be Eeltn
Ia, dryer than ever. In the Of
"a biographies used in Democratic times, tn
Schuylkill river was located somewhere
- Pennsylvania, but it seems that It has
some means been transferred to the virtuol
domains of Massachusetts, and when 30
ton suffers from an oppressive etmospaer
,oI it very properly gets up little thunder storm
,eJ for the "hub,' all of which is very courteo'
a., and accommodating on its part, and vel
- new to the badly posted newspaper reade
". Of this section The enterprise Of the Bo
ton city council in iustructing its engine
to take any measure he may see proper t
~ the purpose Of raising water from the eny
=. rons of thai city into the basin Of the la
Wv mount water works at Philadelphia, is
striking instance of the progress of scien
in the nineteenth century, and can only
nd equalled by the enterprise of the Union
herading the fact in advance of all t
newspapers in the United States. 1t is al
=. a remarkable example of the liberaliy
.;n Boston in supplying Philadelphia with W
aa ter, when it drinks nothing else at home
that primitive fluid. We can only accou
.ho for the miraculousIy early reception Of Il
u news BY the Union, on the ground that ST
-; ten days or more it has been the only pap
=. published in this city which has received t
Lo' regular day and night telegraphc dispatc
~. es of the Associated Press" 1t should d.
-. ignate some evening close at hand on viii
to receive the calls and congratulations
J. its half million readers on such SUGGEST
y' enterprise, unrivaled in all the journals
annals Of the western continent. But W
nv further descant on such subject? If y
Wv ~, would be virtuous and happy, read "the 7
mo per for news"