The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-27
Yellow Fever i'm Florida.
Southern Floods.
Crops i'm Nebraska


DUBUQUE. Iowa, July 26.-The attorney
for the Keokuk and Northern Line Packet
company has served notice upon Mayor
Buckley, of Dunleith, demanding of that
city 81 .092, paid as wharfage fees during
the years 1870, 1871 and 1872. The claim
is made on the grounds that the money
was paid illegally and that the city had no
right to collect. The recent decision in
the Packet company's favor, in the ST.
Paul court, makes the company ask for
back-pay all along the river, and Dubuque
will probably come in for slice to shell
out.
AURORA, ILL.,, July Yesterday par
took, in some sense, of holiday in this
city. A band of music paraded the streets,
followed by long procession of Catholics,
the occasion being visit from Bishop Fo-
ley, of Chicago, who had visited Aurora
for the purpose Of laying the cornerstone
of the church Of the Annunciation, new
$2O, 900 stone edifce now being erected by
German Catholics in the locality known as
the Big Woods, four miles from Aurora.
During yesterday the bishop administered
church in the city, besides preaching at
st. Mary's, the Irish Catholic church, in
the morning. The bishop was taken in
grand style from this city to the Big
Woods, where the cornerstone was laid in
the afternoon.
| The cornerstone of a new Catholic
church, called the church of St Catharine,
erected entirely at the expense of Mr..
Touhy, at Rogers Park, will be laid by the
bishop next Thursday, as will also that of
a new church. the st. Ann, at Englewood,
next Sunday.
| The prosperity of the Catholic denomi
nation in this state is shown In the erection
of eight new churches at the present time
in Chicago, and new educational and
charitable institution, called the st.
Joseph's Academy, at Rogers Park,
besides numerous other Catholic schools
and churches in various parts Of the state.
Il CHICAGO, July 26,-The Inter- Ocean
special correspondent in the Black Hills,
under date of July 20, teiegraphs from
Harney's peak, via. Fort Laramie, that
Prof. Jenny had discovered encouraging
prospects along Spring and Rapid creeks
where he had been laboring with his corp:
the past two weeks. He reports ar
. abundance of water from 1000 to l,20C
inches, with fine fall of IS to 80 feet PEI
mile; also a number of fats that promise
from three to three and hal
cents per pan from the gras
. roots to the bed rock. There are
j it is estimated,o ,on Spring and Rapid creek
= not fewer than 800 miners, and dissemmi
i mated throughout the hills about 800, al
i though some place the number at ], 900 t
q I,50O. The gold in the new diggings is o
e coarser quality and greater quantity tina
5, that discovered along French creek
Miners are coming into the hills at tn
rate of 20 daily, and new gulches and rs
= vines and gullies are thereby settled Co
" Dodge left this morning with two con
J, panies of cavalry for Prof. Jenny's camv
: 1.-The remainder of the command will OF
!, cupy Camp Harvey for several weeks {
\ until the Indian commissioner arrive:
? We will then move north to Bear Butte.
A where the next permanent camp will b
III made.
is WASHINGTON, July 26.-Judge Fisht
It. has rendered his resignation of the of6C
BY of United States district attorney for th
at district. and it has been forwarded by tt
o. attorney general TO the president. Fishe
IT. will retire upon the qualification of e!
u Gov. Wells. of Virginia, who has accepte
u the Office but who is now absent fro
:. Washington.
at q The secretary of the treasury to-day W,
- officially informed of the indictment
"a Chief Clerk Avery and will relieve hi
he from duty. The secretary has not yet de
ID ignated his successor. ~r-e
en- Chief Clerk Avery rendered his rerign
tic tion to the secretary of the treasury th
afternoon, and was promptly accepted.
: The secretary of the navy has receive
the following dispatches:
NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA, July 90
Keep strangers away from here. III
yellow fever is raging at Barrancas. 81
ty-6ve cases-seven deaths.
&. Ell. COOPER, Commandant.
y PENSACOLA, July 26.+Hon. Secreta
of the Navy; Strict quarantine up
= Fort Barrancas. No communication ther
1rt from except through our quarantir
Post commanding officers wife sick. E
= duties providing for the sick are arduor
-4 The fever is of q very malignant tyI
~ The ladies and children of the post q
s nearly all down. Please inform the secl
4 tary of war.
4 G. Fl. COOPER, Commandant,
Recent newspaper statements that t
president had on the 10th OF June last 9
n dressed letter to Secretary Delauo ask
= for his resignation, and that Delano had v
= tied Long Branch and besought the pre-
= dent to retain him in the cabinet are vii
z out foundation whatever. No such lett
D was ever written by the president. Neitl
has Delano been to Long Branch this 81
Y son.
MEMPHIS, July 26.-The Mississil
river is about stationary this morning, a
eS. the fears of serious danger from an ov
re- flow have subsided. In Council Bend q
sef. Walnut Bend, on the Arkansas side, so
sus. forty or fifty miles below here. some da
age has been doneon DR.. Peters's plantat
-. hv the caving in of ahout % acres nece