Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-08-12
Market Reports.


New YORK, Aug. l2-Collector Murphy
has purchased the Irish Republic newspaper
10 run II as campaign paper IN tbe inter
est Of the Republican party.
The apothecSries are fighting the legisla-
tive provisions which took effect Aug Is,
for regulating the issuing OF licences for
druggists clerks. The AposheCaries are
discuss ng the question of enioining by legal
steps, the doings OF the Board of Exs min
ers provided by the license law They have
set on foot movement to secure the re peal
of the obj sctionsbe act.
The local Democratic organizations are
already discussing the course to be pursued
10 reference to the fall campaign.
A private dispatch from Hebron, South
! Africa, says the diamond diggings of thai
region do not pay. Every dollars worth
that is found costs two.
| The German Democrats of Brooklyn have
adopted platform denounoing the Sunday
and pCohibitory laws and the Albany Com
mission, and expressing spprovsl Of the po-
sitiop of Carl Schurz.
| Popular bankers are determined to popu-
larise the new per cent loan. Messrs.
Clews, Habicht l. Co., OF London, and Hen,
! ry Clews l. Co., of New York, are connected
on equal terms with Jay Cooke j. Co, In the
combination formed for negotiating the bal
Ance of the new per cent loan. Payments
are made to the treasury By combination fol
bonds taken by them.
An equivalent of 520's will be designated
by lot for the REDEEM ption OF interest cessinG
after 80 days notice. The uncertainty thus
thrown around the 5-20's will, it Is believed
result in their speedy conversion.
NEW York Aug. 1.-THE COrouer's in
quest this morning on the Westhed N urder
developed no new facts. Ward B. Harlan
engineer, was examined. He thought tn,
Westfeld's boiler capable of carrying 80 o
40 pounds of steam, ard that the wages re
} ceived by him are 500 per month, Wher
as the Staten Island Ferry Company pa
but $85.
: Efforts are making to again advance tn
/ railway rates of freight west and it is oeliev
ed they will be successful. The reducatlo
by the hundred weight to Chicago is fror
Is to 45c; around the lake to Chicago, Rae
lue, Milwaukee and Green Bay from 80 t
3 cents.
BUFFALO, Aug. l2.-Tbe closing race
of the 9th annual meeting Of the Buffsl
Driving Park were the most exciting o
record. Over 20, 900 people were present. I
new horse, Judge Brigham, won the race i
/ four heats. His best time was lst quartz
: 81 seconds, mile loo. Ar the close
' this race the owner of Judge Bingham SCI
!, him to Jay Gould, for S30,0 Judge Bril
ham ia a bay stallion, eight years old,
RYaiick Hambletonian, ont of Lady Sal
q tord, by American Star.
g.. L.. g,i
q race, and six started, Denmark, Logan, Hul
n tress, Logan, Long Brsnch, Sentinel, /
o Higgins, and Clara 6. were drawn. Ov'
: thre ,-qu lrters of an hour was lost In 9 o. q
before the horses got 5 good s5nd of. JuLl
: Fullerton took tae lead and kept it arouu
the track in the first neat, hard pressed
Brigham. The three following heats wei
won by Brigham.
- Summary-Purse No. s, So 600 for horse
q that never trotted better than 2.40-$3 ,0C
d for the frst ST 900 for second, $500 {,
j. third, and $500 for fourth. Judge Brizh
A. 2, !, /, Judge Fullerton, |, 2, 2, 2; J. ]
" Burks, 3, 3, 3, 3; Ashland Pet, 6, 4, draw
: Frank Hobart, 4, dist; Vosburg, 5, di'
Time-2:258, 2:22, 2:254, 2:26!.
"a The great race of the day was trotted I
= ternately with the 2:4O race. The thr
= beats of Goldsmith Maid were trotted wit
II ou. skip or break until the last heat, VIII
she was crowded from the beginning to 4
>; end by Lucy, who Tapped her throughou
g but after one of the most closely contest
a heats ever witnessed, she only made T.
quick breaks, one at the start and one
A. the home stretch. On coming to the sss
er on the second heat, the. .left rein of Goldsn,i
j. Maid broke, and the mare started to ru
ct when Budd Doble, her driver, performed
astonishing feet by seizing the back strs
y jumping astride the mares back, seizi
la the check rein, and bringing her to g star
I'D still before shs had gone manv lengths
'r- youd the Judges stand. This incident "
additional honors for Doble and
~ - thorough bred animal.
Is. Summarp-Purse No. 3, 50 1000, for
od horses So 900 to first, 81 500 to secoi
$500 to third, and $4,000 additional to
rO, horse making the fastest time, providing
beat Dexter's time 2:l74. Goldsmith Ma
=. /, l, l; Lucy, 2, 2, 2; American Girl, 3,
al 8; time-2:l93, 2:194, 2:19.
'us SARATOGA, Aug. 12.-It is stated Il
King6sher hss gone Amiss in the great f
10, mile race, and that Longfellow will cont
ii, with Helmblod and Barney Williams.
ur- RocHEsrER, N. Y, Aug. 12.-Jose
ei- Messner was executed at IL 28 p. m. y
terdsy He fully confessed heaving murde
,aI his wife In April, 1868.
New YoRK. Aug. 12.-The steams
Queen has ar rived, with Lydia Thomp'
snd har Ayoupe of blondes as passengers