The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-25
Mourning for the Dead of
the Schiller.
Shocking Accident TO a
Party of Pilgrims
to Rome.
Other News Items.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The Secretary
of War has granted permission to the
Southern Memorial Association, with their
friends, to enter Arlington Cemetery on
the 1st Of June, for the purpose of decora-
ting the graves Of the Confederate dead,
with liberty to use the grand stand, where
the exercises, including an address, will
take place. Originally there has been
inferred at Arlington, 355 Confederate
soldiers One hundred and twenty-five
were removed to family burial grounds.
The Confederate graves at the Glenwood
and Congressional cemeteries will also be
decorated on the same day. The decora-
ton OF the Union graves in the several
cemeteries will take place on the 29th of
May.
MEMPHIS, May 24.-Memorial services
are being held at Elmwood to-day and
business is suspended. The procession is
the largest since the burial of Gen. Lee.
The ex-federal soldiers have all turned
out, and the blue and grey are completely
united and intermingled
All military and civic societies were out
today, and the celebration of Memorial
day was the grandest thing ever witnessed
here. The streets were crowded with
strangers. The ex-confederates were
mounted and led by Gen. Forrest and the
surviving members of his staff. Gen. Pill
low led the Mexican veterans. Flags and
flowers adorned every house. At Elm
wood cemetery the most impressive cere
monies we're engaged in. Nothing since
the war has occurred that has tended tc
break down the barrier between the North
and the South so completely
ST. LOUIS, May PA special to the
Globe Democrat from Sedalia, Mo-, says
Three members of family named Fin
from Sedalia died of starvation last week.
A dispatch to the same paper from JEFF
ferson City, Mo, says: During a ser
mon delivered in the hall Of the House o
Representatives last night, by the Rev
MIR. Prottsman, he alluded to the destitu
ton among the people in several countie
Of this State, occasioned by the grasshop
pers. After the sermon the congregation
resolved itself into a mass meeting, witt
Governor Hardin in the chair. Resolution
were adopted setting forth that the grass
hoppers, chinchbugs, etc., were ruinin
the agricultural districts. and that Provi
dence alone could prevent the terribl
state of affairs ; that commissioners be ap
pointed by the Governor in every count
of the State to solicit relief for the suffer
ers; that collections for the destitute b
taken up in the different churches June 3
the day set apart by the Governor as on
of fasting and prayer, and requesting
Governor Hardin to issue another proclaim
alton, embodying in it the proceedings c
this meeting.
The same reporter says: People arriv
] ing at Jefferson City from all sections {
> the country state that most of the gras
hopper talk is bosh. They can be SCOOP
ed up by the bushel in some counties. bI
they are doing little or no damage to th
{ growing crops, They all assert that th
governors proclamation has done much il
D jury, and that immigration to the stat
t will be much retarded thereby.
CHICAGO, May PA Jouraal speci
d says Gov. Beveridge to-day issued a pro
lamation appointing May 29th, or Ma
L 3Ist, as Decoration Day, according as it
: most convenient. The citizens of Sprin
e field will observe Monday, the 3lst, as II
u holiday.
+ The prominent bourbon Democrats III
v tonight and formed club for the purpos
;. of starting an opposition Democratic new
v paper in Chicago. The proceedings we
secret, bnt it is stated by member thi
: over 100000 were subscribed, and tht
much more canyassing will be don
Speeches were made denouncing the a
minlstration and predicting the success
the opposition at the next general ele
tioD.
New YORK, May 81. -Monsignor Ro
D cetti, DR.. u baldi, and Count Morefschi W
leave here tomorrow Cor Milwaukee, whe
they will remain until the palttum is pr
. sented to Archbishop Henni.
New YORK, May, 24.-There were m
= mortal services yesterday at St.John's L
: therian chnrch, By the Rev. DR.. Held, t
! those who perished by the wreck of t
steamship Schiller, attended by all the o.
/ GERS and seamen of the German vessels
port, the German consul and large nul
ber of the friends and relatives of t
lost.
0l LONDON, May ga dispatch to t
= Times, from Vienna, says: A dreadful ;
, cident occurred on the river Muir, at t
. town Of Judenburg, in the province Of t
1yrol. A ferryboat having number
Catholic pilgrims on board, en- route to V
it the shrines on the other side of the NJ
! from Judenburg, sunk in the middle of t
stream. Fifty-niue of the pilgrims We
saved, but seventy six are missing, all
10 10 whom are believed to have been drownt
e. CHICAGO, Ill, May 24.--An nterOce
is is special from Fort Laramie states that
Is Black Hill geographical surveying
pedition left there and will cross t
North Platte river early tomorrow MOI