The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-06
Rock Island, Illinois, Saturday, February 6, 1875.

SOu cQaT86Q WltN any uuty III 'tUo SelectlO0
or summoning of jurors who shall exclude
| or fail to summon any citizen for the cause
aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty Of mlsdemeanor and shall
be fined not more than $5, 900. s..'
Sec. 5. That all cases arising under the
provisions of this act in the courts of the
United States shall be renewable by the
supreme court of the United States with
out regard to the sum in controversy, un-
der the same provisions and regulations as
are now provided by law for the review of
other causes in said court.
The house then took UP, by vote of l42
to 80, the Hennepin canal BILL and it now
remains before the house until disposed
of. s
Mr.. Hawley, of Illinois, who has charge
OF the bill, yielded for action on the appro-
priation bills.
The house at $40 adjourned until to-
morrow.
SENATE-The Senate adjourned i'm
mediately after reading the Journal, as a
mark Of respect to the memory of SEN
atOr Buckingham. Senators Hamlin.
Sherman, Stevenson, Fenton, and Wash
burn were appointed committee to at.
tend his funeral. -
ST. PAUL, Feb. 5-The vote for sena-
tor In the joint convention to-day was
without signlfnance. Active negotiations
are0in progress between, the Democrats
and Gov. Davis. The latter is, on abund-
ant authority, ready to abandon his pre-
vious party affiliations and to subscribe to
the Democratic platform and to divide his
patronage as senator with the Democrats
in case he is elected. but the Democrats
do not so far seem willing to trust a rene
gade, under the circumstances in the case,
of so important an Office. Caucussing to-
day is very a tive.
ST. PAUL. Feb. 5.-The senate to-day
unanimously passed the house resolution,
previously telcgraphed. calling upon W.
| s. King to vindicate himself of Irwin S
charges in connection with the Pacific
Mail subsidy. or resign his seat in the
Forty third Congress.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Feb 5.-Before
the investigating committee to- day Thos.
G. Manning testified that there was no
intimidation during the late elections nor
any White League in Rarid parish; the
negroes conrtol the labor question and
demand wages that farmers cannot afford
to pay.
| Joseph L. Clark. of St. Mary's. origi-
nally from Ohio, testified that he always
voted the Republican ticket till the last
election; number of settlers from the
north voted the Peoples ticket; did not
see how any honest man in the state could
vote the Republican ticket; all kinds Of
property. when exposed, are unsafe; forty
murders were recently committed. mostly
by negroes; the intimidation of Conserva
tive negroes by Republican blacks is fre-
quent occurrence witness attempted to
hold mass meeting when the Republican
negroes threatened to kill the Conservative
speakers,
RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. SIN the house
of representatives to-day resolution was
introduced thanking Brown, of Ken
lucky, for his manly defense of the South
and his denunciation OF Butler on Thurs
day.
Sioux City, Iowa., Feb. 4.--The fol
lowing placard was circulated on thu
i streets at Yankton this afternoon:
"INDIGNATIoN MEETING
THE people of Iankton county are invited TO as
{ semble tonight at o'clock at Stones hall, OF
pitol st eet. to give expression to their indigna
tOn at the course purs sued by the corrupt majorit
# the supreme court in letting loose in our mids
the miserable assassin. Peter P. Wintermute in
utter disregard of law and OF every citizens safety
81 JUSTICE"
1t will be remembered that decision
granting new trial and releasing tn
murderer Wintermute on bail was reu
> dered last Saturday, by Associate Judge
: A. III. Barnes and J. P. Kidder, the
e being majority Chief Justice Shanno
D dissenting. Exciting news is anticipated
New York, Feb. 5.-The libel suit c
J VIM HI. Kemble against Charles A
Dana for publication in the New Yor
San of alleged libellous charges affectin
Z Kemble's character, was concluded yes
!, terday by the jury being unable to agre
! upon verdict When the counsel wa
pleading in his address to the jury
: seemed to intimdate that the date of tn
/ letter cf Kemble to My dear Lillian,
y had been altered from the 1st to the oct
: in the Sun Office =, Mr.. Bartlett. Sr, VIII
: had arrived, Indignantly and loudly e,
claimed. 1t is an infamous lying charg
don't care whether it came from h,
= man being or fend or from the pit /,
= darkness, it is lie; yes, that is I'll
! word
I'll CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Thirty seven il
2. mates of the Cock county poor hou
DR. nave Deen attdckeu Dy Smaii-DOX. IN CO
,r sequence of an applicant having been a
,r mitted who was suffering from the diseas
Ie The malady is raging fearfully in that i
p s;itution now.
t, ROCHESTER. N. Y. Feb. 5.-Tl
y Hyrap' Smith Touring mills, in Whea
e. land, Monroe county, were burned la
)e evening. Loss, $4,000.
., TOLEDO, Feb. 5.-A fire at Tifin, Obi
r this morning, destroyed grist mill ow
is ed by Ruben Kaler.
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