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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-11
Town Business,

The object in establishing voting place
out at the Gem etery school house was said
to be in order that the 60 or 20 voters re-
siding in the township outside the city
limits could transact the town business
without delaying voting in the city, and
without disturbance, molestation, inter
ference or hindrance from persons in the
city. Thinking that the business must be
very important if it would warrant such a
division of the town and require the off,
GERS of the meeting in the city to carry the
ballots and records out to the cemetery to
count and declare the result, we sent to
the town clerks Office every day, for some
days after election, to procure for publlca-
ton copy of the record. Our reporter
was informed that the record, if there was
any, had not been sent in-but after sev-
eral days waiting it was found on slip Of
paper in one of the law books carried out
to the cemetery school house, and brought
back the day after the election, and in full i!
as follows:
AT the annual town meeting held on tht
4th day of April, 1876, at the Centel
School, township II north, range 2 west
in the town Of Rock Island, in the count.
of Rock Island, state Of Illinois, the fol
lowing resolution was unanimously adopted
ResoIred, That there be levied the sun
of one thousand dollars upon the propert,
subject to taxation, for the purpose to b
expended in repairing, opening and making
roads and bridges within the town of Rocl
Island, Provided, said sum shall not ex
coed 40 per cent. per 500 valuation.
On motion of Quincy Mcneil the meet
ing adjourned.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-11
Railroad Time Table.
PEORIA d aocx:IsLANp:RAILwAY.
czluAao, socz ISLAND 4 PACIFIC B. q.

GOING EAST TRAINS LEAVE
At $40 q. m. ;4:15 p, m; and 10:0op. m. Trains
arrive from west as above.
GOING WEST TRAINS LEAVE
Al $50 o. m. [; 9:55 q. m, and $40 p. m. Train
arrive from the east 90 above.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
A Model Boss.

When the people of Brooklyn voted against
the "one man power" in politics last year
"boss" Mclaughlin took the hint, bowed to
the popular verdict and resigned his leader
ship in the Democratic General Committee.
The committee was reconstructed and the re-
form element was introduced into the organi-
zation Now that the time for selecting can
didates for city Offices has come round again
the democracy, believing that there was
some intention on the part of the retired
''boss" to again attempt to control and die
tate the nominations, has protested against
his interference and demanded such ticket
as the people want. The ''boss"' gracefully
retires and comedies the right of the party
to take charge OF its own business. He does
not insist upon still naming his own men and
giving q bone here and there to the opposition
leaders in order to quiet matters but is will
ing to keep his hands off entirely. Should
he honestly carry out this policy the result
will be united democratic party, good local
nominations and large democratic major
ity in Brooklyn in November. 1t would be
well for the New York ''boss" to follow the
example set by his Brooklyn copatriot.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
Savings Bank Management.

The report Of the receiver of the Mechanics
the criminal neglect of the Bank Superin-
tendent in the discharge of his official duties
or Of his completely with tho rascals who
have been so cruelty robbing the industrious
poor A dishonest paying teller had been
misappropristing the depositors' money
without being called to account by the bank
authorities; the president had been making
illegal loans and investments large sums of
money had been entered on the books MS
having been paid out for double fees, in
creased salaries and refreshments without a
shadow of legal right F; petty officers of the
bank had been guilty Of gross Irregularities,
and yet tho institution had been suffered to
keep its doors open and to 60 on swindling
the public. The case is almost parallel with
that of the Third Avenue Savings Bank. In
that rotten and fraudulent concern o
paying teller, a nephew Of William A. Dar-
ling had robbed the bank, and not only had
he been suffered to escape punishment, but
his mother, Mr.. Darling's sister, who was on
her sons bond, had escaped the payment OF
the amount of her liability; Spencer X.
Green and William A. Darling had made
fraudulent and illegal loans of the bank 8
money; false balances had been struck
and carried on from year to year by the per-
jury of the officers swearing to the reports;
large sums of money had been paid ont for
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

TEE HERALD NAVAL REaIsTEn. the
government is too poor to do the HERALD
does to-day, when it publishes the naval
register for September, 1876. It has been
customary for the Navy Department to issue
semi-annually register showing the changes
in the navy, the movements of officers
and the stations and condition Of United
States vessels. Such publication is Of
great Importance, but Mr. Robson cannot
afford it. We have thought it advisable to
supply the public with the facts as matter
of news, and if the government needs any
other assistance Of that kind we shall be
glad to give it all the help in our power.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

TIE WEATHER heavy, drizzling
rain of yesterday was the final instalment
of moisture from the area Of low pressure
that has moved off the Atlantic coast from
Cape Hatteras. 1t is being followed, how
ever, by another depression which is maxi
ing rapid progress from the northwestward,
accompanied by limited rain area on its
northern and western edges. short period
of cooler and clearing weather, with north
erly to westerly winds, will, how
ever, be experienced before the next
rain arrives ut New York. The pressure all
over the United States, particularly south Of
the New England region, is low, and the
temperature continues high and consequent
ly unhealthy along the South Atlantic coast.
Local disturbances continue to occur in the
Gulf of Mexico, giving a very unsettled char
acter to the weather in that region. The
weather to-day in New York will be cooler
and cloudy with, however, a clearing up
during the day.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
Newton's Trials.

If General Newton's stimulated earth
quake" had toppled over four or five hun
dred tall houses and killed few hundreds
of people, after the fashion Of some of the
regular concerns in South America, he would
have been very severely condemned by the
engineering ninnies, the Sabbatarians and
the people generally. The wseacres Of his
profession would have boasted of their own
superior genius and Judgment; the pious
Mr.. Dodge and his associate saints would
have declared the calamity punishment
for the desecration of the Sabbath, and the
people generally would have insisted that
the General ought to have been better posted
in his business than to have blown us oil up
with his He'll Gate mine. Happily, no such
unfortunate results attended the Generals
work. The residences and public buildings
are all safe, their inmates are all alive, and
the two or three hundred thousand people
who went out to see the sight returned
homo in safety and with all the limbs they
carried away with them.
Yet, singularly enough, the immense tri-
umph of the General, so quietly and peace
fully won, called down upon him almost as
much indignation as would have been
showered on his head if he had swallowed up
Astoria and knocked down the houses on the
opposite shore like 80 many tenpins The
thousands who went up to see the explosion
came back denouncing it as 'sell." They
had enjoyed no fun for their pains. No
damage had been done no one had been
killed there had been no excitement only
a rumbling noise, commotion of the river,
q throwing up of water and debris, and
Hallctt's reef had been knocked into
cooked hat" So General Newton was voted
a humbug simply because he had not raised
He'll (Gate obstructions) in such ON exciting
name. as would have pleased the multi
tnde
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
DR.. Aver is improving.
General Hancock Is poor.

DR.. Aver is improving.
General Hancock Is poor.
Kentucky is full OF chilis s.a r,~.r.
Frank b. Carpenter is painting dt i.aaoa.
Ex-Governor Seymour's father was insane
Tho commoncst English oysters selling for nvs
cents each.
Gladstone thinks that ministers arc likely to remain
the lowest paid OF laborers.
One effect hard times in England is an effort to
lengthen tho hours OF labor
Lord and Lady DufTerin arrived in San Francisco on
Her Britannia Majesty's ship Amethyst yesterday.
In several coast towns OF Scotland IL is still the
custom for fishermen parade as ito rase the her
nngs"
Disrae thinks that social trials await England, so
that will take the united patience and virtue OF the
country To meet them
President Grant will leave Philadelphia on visit TO
Cornell University where his son is being educated
Mrs Grant and Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris will accomponv
him.
Tho valuo Of property insured In London 10
f540. OO0 600 or the hrcs which occurred in London
during the past hve years four-nhs occurred 10 un
insured property
Birmingham tAla) Iron Age advertisement nO ICON.
Iedcratc money wantcd-Persons having Con- ederats
money bonds, If OF the proper issue and dsnomns-
tlon lind purchaser at fair prices by inquring a
this Office"
Tho Chinese colony In San Francisco disobeys the
sanitary laws, not only by refusing provide against
disease but by refusing to regard municipal rules when
epiicmics abound In regard to these Cinnamon as Q
colony the san Franc display weakness ana
asininiy. They stone them as individuals only.
Had New York been destroyed by tho explosion yes.
tcrday, the survivors might have quotcd--
And when, amid no earthly croans,
Down. down. that town shall settle henco.
He'll rising iIom "a thousand thrones,
Shall do II reverence.
poet recently complained that the noblest of ami.
mats hcow man, the horse, was the dumbest and had
Only hoof but Professor xley says that the horse
and its kind had fingers This fact is disnc,Iv
remembered by the editor Of the Chicago Times who
once tried to put an engagement ring on tho hind
finger OF u muo that talked back.
senator Boutwell, says:-"The issue is clear wh,,bcr
this country shall be governed by men who believe
that II Is nation or by those who belicvo that IL ia
rope OF sand, TO be dissolved whenever State becomes
discontcnied There can DO no Just government until
the nation shall demand Tor its citizens inside tho
United States what It now demands for them In other
countries"
The Jewish Herald states that the last four or 0ve
years have witnessed return or tho Jews TO Palestine
from all parts, but more especially from Russia, which
has been altogether unprecedented Tho Hebrew
population OF Jcrusalcm Is now probably double what
II WAS somc ten years ago Great accessions still
tnuc daily; and whereas, ten years ago, he Jews
we're confined to their quarters in Jerusalem tho
poorest aud worst they lnnabt all parts OF tho
city and always ready to rcns every house that
| TO be iot
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

illegal salaries. fees and refreshments; yet
the Bank Superintendent suffered the bank
to remain open until its officers thought
proper to close their doors and shut ont
their plundered victims, and then allowed
one of the men who had made a perjured
statement of the banks condition TO be ap-
pointed its receiver. The Bank Superin-
tendent under whose official regime these
rascalities have been practised is retained
in Office by Governor Tilden. Perhaps the
Governor will explain under which head of
aggressive administrative reform we are to
classify his retention of Mr.. Ellis in the
position of Bank Superintendent.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

A RADICAL POLITICIAN, writing from Loui-
siana to bosom friend in Washington, says
that the democrats in that State are making
such nitro-glycerine canvass that there
will not be republican official left after the
election. That brood will be as little re.
gretted as Hallett's Point Reef
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

CAMPAIGN DYNAMITE journals Of the
country should surely be able to get through
the Presidential canvass without the neces-
sity of keeping their editors employed con-
tradicting statements purporting to be taken
from their columns. That sort Of political
dynamite hosts its engineers
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

The THREE MINUTEs.-At eleven minutes
of ihree they trembled; at ten minutes of
three they started; at nine minutes of three
they wondered which were the lunatics--
those who were removed from Wards Island
or those who ran away to Hoboken.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

The FRANKLIN special cable despatch
to the HERALD says that the franklin is
momentarily expected at Vigo to bring Tweed
TO this country, so that the manner in which
he will return may be considered as def
oitolv ceff1ed
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

OuR LONDON LETTER gives ON entertaining
description of the dramatic season in that
capital, including nm account of two new
PLAYS by Mr.. Byron and Mr.. Gilbert.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
Vnxaries OF silver.

The attempts of the political economists
to ascertain why silver is bobbing up and
down, as though it were quicksilver, are not
helped by any recent statistics It has been
supposed, for instance, that the great pro-
duction of the Nevada mines caused the de-
cline in silver; but the latest returns show
that while in the first eight months of 1875
we exported to England silver to the value
of 20, ,069, 900, in the first eight months of
1876 we sent thther only e1, ,9O1, 900 worth.
1t was said again that the failure of the de-
mand in India caused the decline; but in
1875 England exported to British India
60, 8O2, 600 worth of silver, and in 1876
"a, 547, 900 worth-a great deal more, that is
to say.
The Silver Commission appointed by Con-
gress has not yet got fairly to work. The
public will look for its conclusions with
great curiosity; but We note meantime o
singular recommendation in London
journal that the United States shall de-
monetize gold and make silver the only legal
standard Of value. The English, although
they have demonetized silver, are naturally
anxious to keep it in use rs n part of the
coin of the world. because it is the only
standard of value in British India; and the fall
in the price of silver has already caused very
serious commercial troubles in India, and
even threatens, ifitcontinues, to produce in
dustrial disorganization. Hence, we may sup
pose, their anxiety that we shall not demo-
netize silver and the suggestion that we
should rather make it the only standard. II
we did this no doubt it would temporarily
relieve the silver panic. But as we at pres
ent have no coin standard ut all VIC are in n
position to exercise "mnsteriy inactiv ity
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

FIVE YoUNo GENTLEMEN, students at Prince
ton College, have left the college and gone
home because colored theological student
in the divinity school, which is not con-
nected with the college proper, has been
allowed to attend DR.. McCosh's lectures on
psychology. Four of them arc AIarylanders
and one is q virginian. These young South
ern bloods have no idea of sitting in lecture
room with black student, so they quit
their studies and go home. This is un-
fortunate. as they are evidently in need Of
education.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
msiton .. H.il Gate.

John Milton in Paradise Lost propheti-
cally anticipated the achievements Of General
Newton, when he thus describes the opening
of the adamantine gates of hell by Sin to per-
NIT the egress of Satan
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
Sad instrument OF all our woe, shc took.
And toward The gate rolling her bestial yrain.
Forthwith the huge poricullis high up drew.
Which but herself not all the stygian powers
Could once have moved: then in the keyhole turns
Tn intricate wards. and every holt and bar
or massy iron or solid rock with case
Unfastens: on q sudden open dy
With impetuous recoiI and jarring sound
Tn internal doors, and on their hinges CRATE
Harsh thunder. that the lowest bottom shook
or Erebus. She opened, but to shut
Excelled hor power; the gates widc open stood,
That with extended wings q hammered host
Under spread ensigns marching might pass through,
With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
The parallel between this splendid
poetry and the superb prose Of yesterday
is remarkable. The ''fatal key" is the
electric key; tho ''huge portcullis"
the bombproof where the batteries were
stored the 'intricate wards" are the
wires and circuits the bolts and bars Of
''massy iron or solid rock" few open sud-
denly in both gates, with the same jarring
sound. and on their hinges grated harsh
thunder, and finally through the He'll Gate
Of the East River ships with sex
tended wings" will pass like hammered
host. We regret that the comparison. to be
complete, must present General Newton as
the counterpart of Sin but. as he unlocked
H'll Gate on q Sunday, Mrs. Grundy will be
sure to discover the resemblance.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

GENERAL MILES, Of Crooks command, who
made such spirited attack upon an Indian
village of hostile Sioux recently, replies
with force and earnestness to Wendell Phil
lips letter to General Sherman. General
Miles handles his subject rs ably as he
handled his troops.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

GLASS was expected to 60 up yesterday;
but, as it did not, it will come down to-day.
The glass was not broken, but the glaziers
will be-
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

GENERAL NEWTON ought to be q proud man
to-day He has proved that he was right in
his calculation of the explosive force of the
enormous mass of dynamite, and his great
experiment deserves to rank in kind, if not
in degree, with the achievements Of such
engineers az Stephenson and De Lesseps.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

AT IRv1NoToN yesterday Vicar General
Quinn dedicated church for the Roman
Catholics of that place. An interesting
account of the exercises will be found else
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

WHETHER TAMMANY AND ANrI-TAMMANY
will 'bunch their wires" for grand united
blast on the 7th of November next or get up
rival explosions is discussed in an article
elsewhere
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
II RIPPLE SHE E II .
NEW YORK, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 95, 1875.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,ceather today ,oiH be cooler and
clondu.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
education.

SHALL We ABOLISH the name Of He'll Gate
now that we have abolished the thing itself?
No We should keep the name as a memo
rial of General Newton's triumph.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

THE MIGHTY DOLLAR at sP. M Mr. and Mra flor.
GIRorLE AND GiRoFLA Al 8 i. N. Mrs. o.ss.
NIBLOs GARDEN.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR MsP. N.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN. at P. II. Mr. Howard
BowERY IHEATRE.
PLYING SCUD at sP. N. Bcvii Ryan
WOODS MUSEUM
THE fArALIsT. At sP NJ Matinee a2P.M.
coxcvvr GILNo1E's GARDEN.
MONEY. a, 8 P. N. ch.rle, F. corSian.
GIROFLEGIROFLA. r. VI. Aimee.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
SARDANAPALUS. ats r. NJ. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes
GERMANIA THEATRE
LUFTSCHLOESsER. Y. NJ
PARK THEATRE
suRL.sorE. oLf5 Esasf asb THhtH FaSAEHs s.rn
VARIETY =, 8 sr CHATEAU II AADIILa
VARIETY AND DRAMA. At Bpm.
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE
VARIETY. At sP.M.
r.,n. THEATRE ooXrarA
TIvoLI THEATRE
VARIETY MsP H.
MURRAYS GRAND CIRCUS
Performance afternoon and evening.
PARTISAN VARIETIES,
MsP.M
SAN FRANCISCO MINsrRELs,
NsP.M.
KELLY 1 LEON's MINSTRELs,
VARIETY TaIHp y n " AVENUE THEATRE
AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
ANNUAL FAIR
II RIPPLE SH E II II
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

wALLACK's THEATRE.
fHE MIGHTY DOLLAR. at BP. N. Mr. and Mrs I'll
The New York herald., 1876-09-25
COOPER AND HE'LL GATE.-The explosion

CoopER AND HE'LL GATE. explosion
yesterday destroyed the scene of one of
Fenimore Cooper's finest narratives. The
description of the chase OF a smugeler
through He'll Gate by British frigatc in his
'Water Witch" is a marvellous piece of
writing. He'll Gate in Cooper's time was
very difficult of navigation, and he had
made study Of the locality. But soon the
great ocean steamers will fearlessly cleave
the deep waters among whose rocks and
currents the bold smuggler heaved the lead
minute by minute. He'll Gate will exist in
the novel, but it is happily no more in fact.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

In THIRTY DAYS, General Crook says, the
campaign against the hostile Sioux will be
resumed. He has, therefore, n month to
drill his troops; then, with a good charge
they should be able to blast all the Indians
in the Powder country whore they ore going.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

Ir Few OF THE TURKISH MONSTERS who
carried destruction and death to the Bull
garian peasantry, and Of whose atrocities
further details are given elsewhere, had
been anchored over Hallett's Point Reef yes
terday very few in New York would have
had any doubt about where they would
have rnna when He'll Gnta was blown open
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

Appucrrxa AN HEIR is a favorite device
of dramatists and novelists whom they wish
TO mystify tho characters and the readers
as to who is Who From Boston we learn
of case where childless young
couple, to whom nm heir would be
pecuniary advantage, are alleged
TO have had n child stolen from poor
woman. Happily for the future of the
American race there is not likely to be any
widespread necessity for abduction in this
particular line. 1t illustrates the difference
between an apparent heir and an heir ap-
parent
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

The CnuncHEs yesterday did not suffer in
any respect from the explosion at He'll Gate.
Not o brick was shaken from their
crowded interiors do not report any
Christians missing. The sermons did not
draw my lessons from the work of
General Newton upon He'll Gate. but they
stormed tho reefs of impiety with the dyna-
mite of grace and the rendrock of goodly
,ounsels. Mr. Pycott preached an anniver-
,ary sermon, DR.. Hitchcock preached on
prayer, Father Kane on humility. Mr. Hep
worth on the challenge of st. Paul.
The New York herald., 1876-09-25

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
)FLE AND GIROFLA. at 4 4. ". Mrs. Oates