The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-31
ALEDo, Aug. Goth. 1879.

The jury in the case of Joseph Clough
for the homicide Of Swan. Nelson, after
having been out over forty-eight hours,
came in with verdict at o'clock P. NJ.
Sunday, and the verdict was, mot guilty"
Judge Peasants, on his return from
Rock Island last week, while getting into
the buggy, slipped with his hand from the
seat, and sprained his wrist. He has ever
since been dispensing justice with his arm
in a sling. Although not interfering with
his duties on the bench. this accident pre-
vents the judge from INDUCING in his fav-
orite pastime on the violin. All lovers of
sweet harmony as extracted from this king
OF all musical instruments, who have not
seen Judge Peasants handle the bow, fail
in their estimate of the makeup of the
man. The judge is, really, man of many
excellent social qualities, added to the
sternness supposed to characterize all
judicial character.
The officers of our county fair have de-
termined to build an amphitheatre 10 time
for the fair, and a committee will visit
either Rock Island or Monmouth this week,
to look after model.
In hunting over some old volumes yes
terday, l came across the following from
the works of Joseph Addison, which |
think is such an excellent caricature on
the many financial schemes of to day, that
it will we'll repay perusal. It has got into
the heads Of certain politicians that if q
greenback mill was kept running night and
day at Washington, it would relieve bust
ness depression, and give every man, wo-
man and child in the land plenty of money
and make them wealthy and happy.
Read
There has been nothing more obsery-
able in the reign of his present Gallo
majesty, than the method he has taken for
supplying his exchequer with necessary
sum of money. The ways and means for
raising it has been an edict, or a command
in writing, signed by himself, to increase
the value of louis doris from fourteen
to sixteen livers, by virtue of a
new stamp which shall be struck
upon them, As the method will bring all
the gold of the kingdom into his hands, it
is provided in the same edict that they
shall be paid out again to the people at
twenty livres each; so that four livres in
the score by the means accrue to his ma
jesty out Of all the money in the kingdom
of France,
''This method ofraising money is consist
ent with that form of government, and
with the repeated practice Of their late
Grand Monarque, so that shall not here
consider the many evil consequences which
it must have upon their trade, their ex-
change, and public credit; l shall only
take notice of the whimsical circumstances
people must be under, who can be thus
made poor or rich by an ediet, which can
throw an alloy into louis dor, and de.
base it into half its former value, or if his
majesty please, raise the price Eof it, moi
by the accession of metal, but of mark
By the present edict many a man in
France will swell into plum, who fell
several thousand pounds short of it the
day before it's publication. This conveys 8
kind OF fairy treasure into their chests
even whilst they are under lock and key
and is Isecret of multiplication withou
addition. 1t is natural enough, however
for the vanity of the French nation Il
grow insolent upon this imaginary wealth
not considering that their neighbors thinl
them no'more rich, by virtue of an edict +
make fourteen twenty, than they woul,
think them more formidable should Their
be another edict to make every man il
the kingdom seven foot high"
Why would not this be an improvement
on the Ohio infationist doctrine of an IN
limited issue ofirredeemable paper money
1t would save much labor, considerable ez
pense, and be the shortest way out of GU
present financial distress. Let congress
issue the edict, next winter, that all notes @
issue shall have double or quadruple thei
present value, Just as the wants of the pee
pie demand, and 10, and behold the thin,
is accomplished without any trouble,
How any person, claiming to be Den
ocrat, receiving inspiration from the past
and believing in Jeffersonian principles
can stultity his practical conscience int
the acceptance Of the Ohio g-baby col
Germ, called the financial plank of the plat
form, is more than / can tathom. 1t is
violation of the leading fundamental prin
ciple of the good old Democratic party 9
the past, and will meet, as it deserves, over
whelming defeat at the polls. ALEDo.