Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-24
Foreign News
Blight of Potato crop in IRELAND
Collision Strike at Tewcastle-
Cholera in England Court
Martial at Versailles.
Market Reports.
Reported Expressly for the ARGUS.

New YORK. Aug. 23.-The State Conven-
sion of Republicans is called TO meet in Sy-
rscuse on the 27th of September.
Railway freight west is reduced lower
than since '6l. The following are the prl-
ces for frat, second and third class goods ::
to 81. Louis 45; Chicago 35; Milwaukee 40;
Kansas City 81.
An eiectment suit was commenced to-day
m behalf of the city against George Jones 4
Co.. alleged owners of the Times building,
the plat of which is claimed as city property.
1t is said that the ground was given by the
city in 1865 TO . number of Presbyterian
gentlemen who built the old brick church
thereon, the condition of the conveyance be-
ing that il should be forever devoted TO re
ligious uses, and to purposes OF cemetery,
and revert to the corporation In case Of its
not being used for these purposes. The Al
dermen will pass a resolution calling upon
the city authorities TO carry on q suit to re-
cover the property, which is valaed at q mil
lion of dollars. 1t is said on the other hand
that the ground was purchased by the orig
insl proprietor OF the Times directly from
the trustees of the old brick church; that
the reversion was at the ssme time pur
chased from the city authorities, aad that
! full consent OF the latter as well as the
State Legislature, to the transfer, WAS oh
tailed.
A special meeting of the Board of Sap
ervisors and the Common Council was Sc pa
ratey held to-day-one to receive the city
accounts, and the other the county accounts
These were huge budgets, beginning Janu
ary l, 1869, and ending July /, 1871. Long
messages from the Mayor accompanied each
Accounts are made up in chronologica
order, describing each warrant issueu
amount, paved, and subject matter Th'
Me, or sent, also, the valuations of city anC
county real estate made by three sworn az
prAisers, whom the Sinking Fund Comniss
ioners, several months ago, selected-Messrs
Palmer, Blocker, and Miller, Republicans
The valuation is within fraction of tw,
hundred and forty millions. The May o.
officially says that the most of the bonds o
other cities are issued entirely on municipA
honor, and claims that New Ycrk's greR
value of property, as collateral, is unex
ampled in the history of cities. he ask
each board to select g committee more par
sicuarly to investigate the vouchers of thes
accounts, and requests these committees Il
permit all unpartisan committees of citizen
10 join in the examination. He quote
every statue of 1870, which, he claims
i made it q ministerial and compulsory dus
for the local authorities to pay enormou
claims, of years standing, of ten million
of dollars begun and made nnder the oil
: metropolitan city departments, and abolish
ed by the Board of Supervisors, so as ,
allow the new government to begin unham
persd. He claims q distinct understandin
n with the Legislature, and men of bot
4 parties, to provide for these claims, an
j. says that unless they had been provide
/, for, the new improved city governmer
|, could not have been legislatively inar
} gurated.
BUFFALO, Aug, 24.-The Niegaras, of til
d oity defeated the Aotives, Of Clinton, low
d last Tuesday, by a score Of 80 to II. Tn
(, Actives go east from here.
y New YORK, Aug, 23.-At q meeting
the Board of Supervisors and Commo
J: Council, held to-day, the city and county a,
g counts, from January lss, 1869, to July Is
l. 1871, were read by Mayor Hall, aeoompal
70 led BY lengthy message 10 explanation
: the same.
er Late foreign papers contain accounts {
IL cholera in Russia, by which it appears tbs
of there is heavy mortality from the disess
" IN that country in proportion to posulatio1
~ In st. Petersburg, from the fret appearant
ala OF cholera on the 18th of August. 1876, the,
md have been 6,8l7 cases, and 2,797 DEATH
or In Moscow and its environs the epidemic
OF avery malignant character. In sou
~, ~ remote villages, where medical assis,an,
tis- difficult to obtain, it has committed fe,
ood iul rsvages. The following is the reno
from Moscow on the FIRST inst Cases
OrO, naming 523, new cases 60, deaths 80. Sin
the 18th OF March there have been 35
'sA- cases in Moscow, and ,643 deaths. Ch
nm era has appeared in several parts Of
Tisn Ii govern ment of Vladimir, and the prop
'Ous ton Of fatal cases is small. At Crons,
b,o. up to the 9th of July there we're 439 cas-
ears and 2ll deaths; at Riga, 100 cases in ,
his DAYS; at Welna, up to the llth of J
pur- there had been l, 1876 cases and 5l2 deaf
ef- at Tamboff, 9 town Of about 10000 inha
tants, 2,054 cases were reported up to
a. 2lst of July, and l ,242 deaths; at Py5ii
q very important corn depot on the Vo
r more than half the GASES proved fs
Many inhabitants were leaving the coui
whore the disease wss most prevalent,