The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-14
Ten Millions Government
Bonds to be Called in..
Abe Floods and the Crops.
A Statement cf the Rotten
Affairs of Duncan. Sher-
man & Co.
A jolly Granger Picnic in
Clinton. Dewitt Co., Ills.
Grange Purchasing Agents
to meet in Louisville.
October 1st.
An Englishman fails to
Swim the English Channel.
Another Beecher Scandal.
A Big Breach of Promise
Case.
Rapes, Suicides, Murders.
Hangings, Accidents,
Fires. ETC., Etc.

WASHINGTON, Aug. ia call for $l0,-
000,OUO worth Of bonds will be issued by
the treasury department to-day, the syndi-
cate having made another subscription for
that SUM- This leaves but $3S, ,5S7 $50 of
the new FIVE per cent bonds in hands of
the secretary and the syndicate has until
November 18th to take this
CHICAGO, Aug 13.-The Inter-Ocean
tomorrow morning will contain adyices
from more than $50 points 10 the north
west, showing that IN Illinois, Iowa, In
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota.
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and
Dakota. the wheat crop of 1875 will be in
the aggregate 65 per cent, oats 79 per
cent, and corn 81 per cent of an average
crop.
The Times specials from the northwest,
where the storms have done the greatest
amount Of damage, show that the first re-
ports we're considerably exaggerated, and
though the yield of crops will not be great,
it will be at least half Ut an average in the
worst injured sections.
Dixon. ILL.,, Aug. l3.-The small grain
yield transcends all expectations. 4 far
which he had estimated to yield from sew
en- to eight bushels per acre, and it went
over sixteen bushels, Oats, which are
now being threshed, yield from forty five
to seventy-fye bushels per acre. These
Northern Illinois never had better pros
poets for all forms of material prosperity
than now.
LASALLE, ILL.,, Aug. l3.-The water
gauge at this point indicated seventeen feet
and ten inches OF water on the miter-sl J.,
to-day, at noon, it having risen five inches
since last evening, and eighteen inches
during the past torty-eight hours. The
bottom lands adjoining this city and Peru
are still inundated, and what hopes had
existed Of saving some portion of the corn
crop are now about extinguished
DEsMOINEs, Aug, I3.-Corn in all
parts of this county is magnificent. P0ta-
toes are prodigious. Apples are better
than for ten years.
MEMPHIS, Aug. l3.-Within twenty
four hours the river has risen an inch and
is within an inch of the danger line. The
crops continue to be more or less damaged
by the overtloWs, caused by breaks in the
: levee in the different sections,
New YORK, Aug. ia statement OF
the affairs of Duncan, Sherman, & Co. has
; been prepared for the public, from which
it appears that the liabilities of the firm
are 81, 1872, 1913, and the assets $2,ll2,74O
This statement is not official and can be
taken as representing only the approx
mate amounts. 1t has been prepared tC
answer many inquiries regarding the prob
| l. l. Il II, -s4I,
care to avoid making a better showing
than may be justified by the final results
All doubtful assets have been reduced OF
entirely stricken out. The amount of liza
bilities given in the statement on account
of travellers credits. and circular notes i:
$237. $40,
CLINTON. ILL.,, August 13,-The Gran
gers pic mic here yesterday was largely at
tended. At 10 o'clock the different town
ship delegations formed in procession anC
marched to CampbelPs Grove, west of th,
c town, where they were addressed by Sec
( retary Smith, W. F. Trevellick, Of De
t troit, and d. ". Wood, of Chicago. Th,
t crowd in attendance was estimated at be
e tween 500 and 1000 and all seemed Il
J., enjoy themselves immensely.
LOUISVILLE, KY, August l3.-Louis
i vile has been selected as a place for hold
ing a convention Of all the Grange Pur
e chasing Agents on the lst of October. Tn,
:. National Executive, and all the State FIX
n ecutive Committees, will be present, TO
a the purpose of adopting plan by whicl
g business can be conducted on a uultorn
system throughout the United States.
New YORK, August l3-A special dis
patch from London says: webb, tn
Englishman, who undertook to swim fron
Dover, Eng, to Calais. France, without
ife-saving apparatus, failed. He starte,
at O'Clock yesterday evening, and at mid
night, when halfway across, owing to in
. creasing roughness of the waves, it wa
thought prudent to take him on board tn
attending sloop. He was apparently no
+. fatigued"
IT New YORK, August 13.-In the Brook
= lyn Court to-day warrant was granted fo
! the arrest of a German Consul named Ma;
J Hallhiemer, in an action brought agains
connection with his (Swartz') wife. TIL
damages are Land at $1,000.
TRENTON, n. j., August 13.-Albert I
Bum, the only son and heir of Mrs. Susa
n Dood Bum, who bought the elegant maj
= sion and grounds of the late Judge FielC
T at Princeton, n. j., was yesterday arres
ed, and gave bonds in $4,000 for his az
pearance before the Supreme Court, on th
18th instant, to answer the suit of Ali(
Morse, of Princeton, in the sum of $6O,O0I
= for breach Of promise.
DEs MONIES, Aug. 13.-W. O,Parson
who committed an outrage on Miss Johl
70 son, July 4, broke jail at Ames yesterda
e. He is an escaped penitentiary convict. an
+, perpetrated four rapes.
Is Dixon, ILL.,, Aug. 13.-Charles Grobe,
wellto- do German farmer, residing in ii
township Of Nelson, Lee county, ILL.,, COZ