The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-08
TEIEGRAPHIC.
the Baxter Bandits in
course of Ultimate
Extinction
Terrible Suffering from the
Floods in Arkansas.
The Progress of the Saloou
Raiders.
r.. r. open to Fort Kearney,
Thieves following Circusses
Accidents. Robberies. Muir
ders. Fires, Etc.

sends Baxter up the spout, and that the !
Government at Washington will act ac-
cordingly.
LITTLE Rock, May -Four judges of
the supreme court met this morning inside
the Brooks lines and rendered decision
in the case of Brooks against Page, State
Treasurer, asking mandamus TO compel
him to pay warrant issued by the Audi
tor to Brooks on his requisition as Cover
nor of Arkansas, Page refused payment
on the ground that Brooks was not Cover
nor. The court held that the decision of
Judges Whytock of Pulaski, of the Cir
cult Court, rendering Judgment against
Baxter was valid and regular, that the
court had jurisdiction and a mandamus
should be issued The Baxterites claim
that the decision amounts to nothing be-
cause, first, legal court is composed of
full BENCH and second, that the question
of the Goyernorship can be decided by the
the decision settles the whole matter, and |
they expect that the administration at
Washington will now recognize Brooks as
Governor Except the decision little of i'm |
portance has transpired.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May IS Johnson, a |
planter from Chicot county, Ark, arrived
|
! accounts from the laborers and their
families in that vicinity Many Of them,
he says have subsisted for several days
upon the carcasses of cattle that have died
from starvation, or been drowned IN the
overflow. Tue citizens complain of the ac-
ton of the New Orleans Relief Commit
tee, in not sending supplies outside the
State of Louisiana, but this, doubtless,
arises from scarcity of supplies, and the
great amount of destitutiou uearer New
Orleans. The Relief Committee here are
actively engaged in collecting supplies to
relieve the Immediate wants of the people
Further trouble is apprehended from the
rise in the St Francis river.
New ORLEANS, May The Governor
andReliet Committee receive letters daily
from the overfiowed parishes, giving de-
, tails OF the condition of the inhabitants.
Recent letters from Calahoula, Caldwell,
Condina, Franklin, Ouachita Rapids and
Tensas parishes, show no improvement,
but indicate additional aff1ictiOn by sick
ness.
} NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 7.-Ex-Presi-
dent johnson will address the Nashville
citizens on the financial condition of the
State, this evening.
: Joseph III. Blackburn, ex- United States
Marshal of this district, was sentenced
yesterday by Judge Trigg, in the United
States District Court, to four and a half
years hard labor in the States prison for
= the alleged crime of forging signatures of
sureties in his official bonds.
YANKToN, D. T., May LEONARD
Swett of Chicago, arrived here this eve
ming, as is understood, to assist in the de-
fense of Wintermute in his trial next week.
The two wings of the Republicans have
united in a call for territorial conven-
ton to nominate delegate and territorial
officers, to be held at Elk Point, June l6.
SANDWICH, ILL.,, May THE last saloon
in Sandwich has closed its doors.
LA SALE, ILL.,, May At meeting
of the Ladies Temperance League, held
in this city, yesterday afternoon, some
thing over POO temperance pledges were
reported as the fruit of about four weeks
soliciting. The exhibit was not as en-
couraging as had generally been expected
PEORIA, ILL.,, May Another unior
temperance meeting is to be held at th'
1 Methodist Church tonight Crusadins
l has been voted down, and efforts will b'
directed to enforcing the existing laws ant
getting new ones passed, regulating th'
liquor traffic.
AURORA, ILL.,, May THE mass meet
ing at the City Hall last eyening wa
N crowded full to overhowing. The princi
pie speaker of the evening was the Rev
:, James Castor, who delivered very abl
J. and exhaustive address on the subject o
= temperance Referring to the loss OF busi
ness accruing to town that allows liquo
. to be sold in its midst, the speaker statet
that twenty Saloons in order to do pros
porous business, must impoverlsh 100
persons These men, being kept in power
n ty, were unable to buy furniture, DIR
" goods, clothing, books or other goods KEEP
II by merchants and thus was not only tn
the usefulness of men and the happiness c
families destroyed, but the business OF
town was paralyzed in consequence of tn
liquor traffic, the poverty stricken drinker
being scarcely able to buy the barest nee
essaries of life, much less the comfort
and luxuries of the home. Do bushes
men fully realize how much trade the
- lose by the liquor saloons, destroying min
- and body and exhausting the resources {
y men who would be profitable customer
were they kept from the temptation
drink? Let those business men who adyt
y cate the cause Of the saloons for the sal
ID of drawing business to their town, thin
y of this.
"a KEARNEY JUcNTIoN, ,Neb, May TIL
n first through train over the new short lii
route to California, ria the Chicago al
Alton. the Hannibal and ST. Joe, and Il
p ST. Joe and Denver Railroads, cohuectit
with the Union Pacific at Kearney Jun
@ eat ton, arrived at Kearney yesterday ate
e. noon.
eli PEORIA, ILL.,. May Several robberi
an were committed yesterday, the perpetr
ION tors no doubt following up Queens clrcr
Do which showed here.
N" AURORA, ILL.,, MAY Robbie Northa
a., a, bright, beautiful boy, about ! years
eiy age. son of r. r. Northam, OF this ci
'oSe while standing, this morning, near sol
timbers used in house moving ana witne
ing their removal by the workmen, "
,a,s . suddenly struck by one of the heavy Il
bers and almost instantly killed. ]