The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-19
Rock Island Illinois, Saturday. September 49, 1874.

near the right as expediency would per
nit, would be to leave the matter to tn
voice of the people of Louisiana; but fo
that people to hope to establish what the
conceive to be their just claims to the pow
er of the government would be the heigh
of folly.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept,,lS. A special t.
the Avalanche, dated Trenton, Tenn, 18th
says the special term of the circuit court o
Gibson county adjourned yesterday, afte
a session of ten days. Forty or more in
dictments were found against supposed
guilty parties, and an equal number of ca
phases issued for arrests were placed in th'
hands of the sheriff. One Ben Davis wa
the informant, he having obtained the in
formation from his brother Andrew, whl
Ben said was with the jail breakers, anc
who has left for parts unknown. The
sheriff has made no arrests yet, but is do
ing everything in his power to arrest al
those against whom he has capiases. Nine
persons against whom they were found
gave themselves up to the authorities, and
were released on bail of $4,000 each to
appear before the next term of the circuit
court, which convenes ON the second Mon.
day in December. The following persons
gave bail: j. B. Harper j. p. Harper,
Joseph Massey, W. T. Waller, William
McEwen, Robert Garduer, Thomas Tay-
lor, Robert Barksdale, and Granville
Hunt. A number of others will surren.
der themselves to the authorities in few
days.
NASHVILLE, Sept lS.-Gov. Brown this
| afternoon sent President Grant message,
in which, after recitng the outrage perpe-
trated on the Gibson county prisoners
August 25, says that over forty persons
have been indicted for supposed connection
with the deed, and that every possible eff
fort is being made to secure the remainder
of the perpetrators by the state authori-
ties. They WILL he asserts, be treated as
directed in the state laws. Notwithstand-
ing this action on the part of the state and
local authorities, however, the United
States marshal and commissioner for the
western division of Tennessee have arrest
ed citizens and conveyed them nearly 100
miles distant to answer for the charge.
Governor Brown protests against this ac-
ton as detrimental to the social harmony
of the state, aud concludes with the assur-
ance that the state power is ample to pro-
tect its citizens and every class of its peo-
pie.
BUSHNELL, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-THE Inde-
pendent and Democratic parties met in
congressional convention at this place to.
day. After the preliminary organizations
had been effected, each convention took an
informal ballot. which resulted in the Dem
ocratic convention as follows. Hollaway
of Warren, 9; Bagby, of Schuyler, 7
Scofield Of Hancock IA. A committee
Independents balloted with about the
same result, and a committee was also ap-
pointed for conference Upon the return
of the committees the first ballot was as
follows; Hollaway, 81 Bagby, 80; SEQ
field, 6. Bagby's nomination was then
made unanimous, and the news being car
ried to the Democratic convention, Bagby
was nominated by acclamation,
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. lS.-A large
number of letters have recently been re.
ceiged from grain men in various parts of
the state, and nearly every one of them
contains contradiction of the early esti-
mates in regard to the extent of the wheat
crop. 1t is alleged that the general yield
will fall very far below the published esti-
mates of the gentlemen who have given
the matter attention. The crop in the
near vicinity of st. Paul is reported heavi
er than any where else in the state and
the threshing machines are already dis
relling the expectations of total crop of
25, 100000 bushels in Minnesota for the
year 1874.
DEs MONIES. Iowa, Sept IS. A brake
81 4, Al Il
Island Road fell from freight car yester-
day, and three cars passed oyer him He
was badly bruised, but no bones were
broken. His home is at Newton.
OTTAWA, ILL.,, Sept, lS.-The dead body
of female was discovered in the side cut
opposite Porter & Masons machine shop,
this forenoon. 1t has the appearance OF
having been in the water for some time.
The coroner will hold an inquest this af-
ternoon.
PATERSON, n. j., September lS.-John
Crown attempted, this morning, to kill his
wife, and, failing, killed himself.
PHILADELPHIA, September 1S.-Will-
lam ID. Holman, the President of the Cen
tral Insurance Company, was held in $50,
900 bail to-day, to answer to the charge of
forgery and conspiracy in raising checks.
LITTLE Rock, Sept ls-Four highway
men, two of whom were recognized as the
Gad's Hill robbers, stopped and robbed the
passenger stages near Malvern Hill last
night. They obtained about 81 900 worth
of booty ard escaped.
MADISON, Wis, Sept. 1S-Mrs. ia
cobs, ST. Louis lady, who has been spend
ing the summer living in the residence of
Wayne Ramsey, missed a $4,000 set of
diamonds yesterday from place she had
secreted them FOR safekeeping. After an
unsuccessful search, servant named Mrs.
Seery, together with her husband, we're
arrested, charged with the crime. Both
parties protested their innocence, but on
being taken to Jail and searched the dia-
monds were discovered IN the lining OF the
coat of Seery, tied up in handkerchief.
They we're brought before Judge Bradley,
of the Municipal Court, this morning,
found guilty, and sentenced to three years
in the state prison, ten days of each year
to be solitary confinement. They are now
on their way to Waupun.