The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-09
TELEGRAPH1C.
Private Spectators after
Samana Bay.
A Little Chance Yet for a
White Man.
A Move to abolish some of
the ofice-ho1ders.
Tribute to Horace Greeley
in London.
Boston takes care of its own
sufferers.
The way LaSa11e brings
Railroads to terms.
Boston takes care of its own
sufferers.
The way LaSa11e brings
Railroads to terms.
The Louisville Lottery.
Other Items, Etc.

New YORK, Dec. The World says
several prominent business men have Just
sent by the steamer Tybee money for the
purchase of Samana, San Domingo
They, having become satisfied that the
purchase which Congress rejected would
be a profitable one, have renewed the bar
gain with Baez on their own account.
WASHINGTON, Dec :. Judge Nc
Arthur of the Criminal Court, has re
versed the decision recently given against
the keeper of restaurant for the refusal
to entertain a colored man, and holds that
the proprietor of hotel or restaurant is
the proper Judge of who is fit to be re-
ceived at his house
The House, to-day, did good day S
work, which was more than could have
been expected, considering the early date
of the session, in discussing and passing
the bill abOlishing the Office of Assessor
and Assistant Assessor of Internal Rev
enue. The bill which was drawn by Com
missioner Douglas was carefully, though
hastily, considered by the Ways and
Means Committee Mr. Dawes, to-day,
reported it. with the approval of the COM
mittee, in a speech of half an hours
length The bill was opposed by several
was to satisfy the Assessors and the Assist
ants. that they protested against the bill,
I and made a fight for those valuable pohti-
cal adjuncts The bill was slightly amend
ed by Shelabarger, requiring Collectors,
/ in their new duties, to give additional
bonds. The date fixed for the bin to go in
effect is July /, 1868. 1t is reported that
the proposition viii be fought very bitterly
III the Senate.
LoNDoN, Dec "A meeting of Ameri-
cans was held tonight to pay tribute to
the memory of the late Horace Greeley
/ CINCINNATI, Dec The steamer Grey
Eagle was raised last night and is now at
Louisville. She is not so seriously dam
aged as at first reported.
BOSTON, Dec. Fifteen hundred ap-
phcations by men burned out, and forty
three hundred by women have been inves-
tigated and aid given to al needy. The
committee on aid estimates its future needs
at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
of which fifty thousand dollars is now on
hand. The committee says: " We believe
the people of Boston are perfectly able to
meet this demand without difficulty, and
that they desire and ought to desire to
meet it
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA mystery al
Dover Delaware, has been explained
Professor West, who was reported mur-
dered, was not killed, and it now turns out
that he killed the colored man whom he
had hired temporarily. After the mar
was dead the Professor cut his hands anc
face off and burned them, the object being
to make the authorities believe the body
was his so that his wife could receive al
insurance of $1,000 on his life. He ac
knowledges that he killed the negro, bu
that it was in seHdefence. West is nov
in jail
KANSAS CrrY, Dec. "A quarrel oc
Cured yesterday between Frank Boyle
= brother of Mayor Boyle, of this city, anC
, Constable Digman, in a saloon in Wes
Kansas City Digman was put out of tht
! saloon and waited till Boyle came out whel
he shot him dead.
CHICAGO, Dee. Charles Brandt, aget
0 fourteen, one of party of boys hunting
on the prairie, was this afteanoon accident
o ally shot or murdered by the his com
g rades AT present the statements confic
greatly
LASALLE, ILL.,, Dec 6.-At the las
e meeting of the Common Council of thi
S city, the City Attorney formally submitted
. his opinion that the Chicago Rock Islam
= 4 Pacific Railroad Co, having failed {
provide for the city suth passenger an
d freight buildings as were required by Ger
tain city ordinances, specifying the cond
}, tons upon which said company were pei
mitted the enjoyment of the right of wa
: on certain streets inside the city, the sal
, Company ought to be enjoined from tn
!; further enjoyment Of such right Of way
and the Common Council thereupon il
. structed the said Attorney to procure sue
i injunction.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. NO. $3.50 Dire,
& the capital prize of $75,0 in the lotter
to-day The managers, trustees and man
ticket holders met in Weiseger Hall at 81
; clock this morning. Owing to the earl
A hour not over one hundred were presel
+ in the audience The placing of tickets
n the wheel occupied some time. and at S:4
# President Durrett announced everythir
- ready, and the blindfolded children wei
Q introduced amid the breathless silence
g the audience, which by this time near
. filed the spacious hall and galleries II
n orchestra played the Library March, al
n all being ready, one of the blindfoldt
~ boys drew from wheel number Sc, so
~ Another blindfolded boy drew from Il
r. opposite wheel case, which gentlem;
q chosen from the audience opened and tn,
+ held up the paper it contained, on whi'
y was printed in large figures, visible in I
no parts of the hall, ''$75
go go The first thirty one numbers drew priz
~ ranging from seventy-ive to seven hu
" dred and fifty dollars The thirty -secoi
number drawn was 6,450 and the sens
ton in the audience was immense on Z
display of the prize from the opposi
mn wheel-it was the capital prize of s.!
900.
" The drawing closed at o'clock, Fre
ys dent Durrett announcing the next draVt
of to come off on April Sth next and t
m scheme to comprise 10000 gifts A nul
- Der OF our most prominent citizens
:" Louisville took part in the drawing a
were ON the stage during the day, also ST
= efal prominent men from other States.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-There was
general feeling of disgust manifested
ap ap, day in the Senate at the reaswal of I
no Arkansas political squabble sSstween
Ire, Senatorial representatives IF that Sta
ess s Messrs. Rice and Clayton The form