Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-24


Salt Lake mines passed through here last
night, over the G, R. /. l. P. road, en- route
for the east.
The horse ,rotting department in the
premium list of the Rock Island County
Fair is the best ever presented in this section
OF the West.
Active preparations are going forward for
our county fair, August 10Th to the 3Oth in
elusive. 1t will be the largest exhibition
ever held in this county.
Major Beardsley's 81, 500 horse ia beau
sy aud well worth the money. The Major
handled the ribbons very gracefully on Hi
uois street last evening.
Mr.. A. P. Holly, of the Holly Water
Works Co., who has been stopping here
I for several days, engaged in testing the city
Water Works, left for Decatur, Illinois,
yesterday morning.
Wallace Tappau,R member of the New
York Republican State Committee, has re-
resigned and declared for Greeley. He is the
fourth member Of that Committee to declare
for Greeley.
| Chicago received the first car lead Of
wheat, Of the crop Of 1872, on Monday last.
It was sold for $l.254 per bushel Last
year the first sale of new wheat in Chicago,
Was made on the 9Th of July.
/ The Liberals of Davenport are proposing
( to nominate VIM. f. Lefhngwell, of Lyons,
for Congress in their district There is no
ADLER man in the State, and if elected, he
will be g credit to the district, and an honor
to the party.
The annual picnic Of the Baptist Sunday
School, Davenport, took place to day. They
crossed 70 this city, on the ferry steamer,
this A. NJ, and took the Rockford road for
Big Island, returning home at 5 o'clock this
afternoon.
The Chicago Eeening Journal speaking,
Of Greeley, says Having had our laugh
at the oddly of the thing, We now enter
upon what might be called the swearing
period A little too fast. You'll enter up.
on your "swearing period" when the votes
are counted in November.
The London Times says "General
Grants negligence and nepotsm may be
/ fragrant, but the moral sense OF tne nation
is not high enough to discharge him from
office on that account" A contsmptuous
opinion of the American people truly, but
the Times will shortly have occasion to with
draw il
Gerris Smith says the Democratic party
is dead. Yet the Baltimore Convention
was not funeral but a wedding, and the
only tears shed in i. were those of Joy and
hope. Il was grave occasion in one re.
spect it dug the political grave of the pres
ent corrupt Administration.
A Grant campaign document says; at
THE present Administrator has collected a
larger per cent. of the public revenue at g
smaller per cent. of cost than any Admins
tration since the days of jackson The
official report of the Civil Service Board
shows that out of 1888 100000 of revenue
collected from the people, one fOurth-S95,
600, 0OO-never reaches the Treasury.
Another German daily has placed the
names of Greeley aud Brown at the head o.
its columns. This time it is the Wisconsin,
Telegraph, at Oshkosh. The editor says
"Grsut's corrupt Administration has long
been a stencil in the nostrils of all high
minded Germans, and none will vote for the
great Arms-Seller. Horace Greeley is the
man who, in this as in every other respect
has always been on the side Of the Germans
ADD other good citizens. Greeley goes with
US, and therefore we 90 with him"
The popular air of "Dixie" was the pro
ducsion of a Northern man years before the
rebellion. In the last speech he ever made
Mr.. Lincoln called on the band in attend
ance to play it, saying, loosely, that we hat
rscaptursd it, and it was fairly ours. Nov
the GRANTEES object to the tune as an evi
deuce of sympathy with Rebels. How d.
they get along with the "Star-Spsn gleC
Banner" which was written by South
erner
ID. l.. Phillips, one of the owners of the
State Journal, published at Springfield, il
out in card explaining why the Journa
does not support the Liberal ticket. Mr.
Phillips personally, is friendly to the cause
and strongly advocates the election Of Gree
ley, and of the Liberal State ticket. Bu
the Journal is owned By q stock company
and Mr.. Phillips has not stock enough t.
control the paper, hence the Grant flag fliei
from the Journal Office, to the hearty regre
of Mr.. Phillips.
The minds of Davenport people are verJ
fertile in dsVising plans for the advancement
and welfare of their city, and if the desired
results could be brought about without thu
necessity of "paying the fiddler" that cit,
could undoubtedly be enjoying all the mod
ern Improvements and advantages which
could be applied. The water works ques
ton 10 comparatively at . stand still, but
new enterprise is being Agitated, viz:
plan for Q city market. The proposition i
to repair the old market in the lower par
, Of the city and build new one somewher,
in the upper part Of town. A rough esti
mate places the cost Al about $4,000, anc
it 10 calculated that $4,000 csn be pait
the first year out Of the tax fund.
III
No humbug, May Bros sell at cost,