The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-23
Last Nights Dispatches.
FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

Hs- ENGLAND.
LONDON. Oct. 22.-The Mark Lane Er-
press says: As fine weather cannot be re-
| lied on, the farmers have given more at
tention to plowing and sowing than to
threshing aud deliveries. Homegrown
wheat has consequently been reduced dur
ing the past week A fair quantity how
ever, has been marketed in the provincial
exchanges and in Mark Lane, but the
damp air had prevented samples from be-
| ing exhibited In a decent condition, and
the dullness of trade was mainly attribut-
able to this cause. as fine wheat, which is
very scarce, has not shown further de.
cline. The bulk of the offerings consisted
\ Of badly conditioned lots, which were real
10 unsaleable. A weaker tone apparently
prevailed than the actual state of trade
will Justify. Business in foreign wheat was
about as bad as it could be. The corn trade
| is reduced to such state Of distrust and
encouragement that it will probably be
| long before business shows signs of elas-
ticity. The trade in feeding corn is equally
Hnfavorable, as with the exception of the
finest samples of mailing barley all articles
have receded in value With large arrivals
at ports of call The floating cargo trade
for wheat was very quiet until Friday,
when, with the revival OF the continental
demand, the tone improved and prices ad-
vanced six pence to one shilling per quar-
ter trom the recent lowest point Maize
dull aud rather cheaper. Barley fairly
steady
Liabilities of Couper, Scott 4 Co., of
Glasgow, whose failure was announced
yesterday. are about 100000.
| Sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor OF the
exchequer, speaking at Wolverhampton,
admitted that he was not able to say that
he was sure there would not be a renewal
OF the war. 1t was impossible to ignore
the fact, he said, that difficulties we're be-
ibg raised against the execution of certain
parts of the treaty.
| LONDON, Oct. pa Berlin dispatch
says the Gar has issued a ukase, ordering
that military furloughs shall only be grant
ed Tor particularly urgent reasons, and In
any case not to extend beyond February
l. LONDON, Oct. pa dispatch from
Slmla says the Viceroy's natiye emissary,
who has just returned from Cabul, consId-
ers that the Ameer has been with difficulty
induced to take his present course by sub
stantlai offers from the Russian envoy, who
was still at Cabul when the emissary left.
A dispatch from ConstaptInople says
Prince Lobanof informed Safyet Pasha on
Monday that the Russians will not retreat
from their present positions at Midia, ' lza,
; Lule Burgas and TchIfik Koi until some
arrangement is made concerning the Chris
tlan tugitives who are following the Rus
sian army. The Turks are close to these
points aud have storming force at Tcho-
lin. 1t is not true that the Russians hold
Tchataldja Prince Lobanoff likewise re-
liberated the statement that the Russians
will not quit Adrianople until after tie
signing of defnitive treaty, He declared
that he wished to impress on the power:
who signed the treaty, and above all, the
Sultan, the importance of not permitting
this great work to be in vain.
A Vienna dispatch says the most essen
] tial points in the defnitive treaty between
; Russia and Turkey. namely, war indemnity
and the time for the withdrawal of tht
J Russian troops are still unsettled.
II A dispatch from Constautinople contains
the following: The bulk Of the Russian
forces 10 Bulgaria are moving southwark
The Russian infantry alone 10 Eastern
ROumelia already number $4,000 men
7 Another army corps is near Constantine
pie. There are $4,000 men in Adrianople
? Between Oct. IA and 90, Is, 700 returned
i, Turkish prisoners we're landed on the Bos
!. phorus.
ROME, Oct. %. Prime Minister Cal
roll to-day informed King Humbert tha
the whole Cabinet had resigned Th
( King protested warmly against their &C
: ton. and declared that even if the Cabin
$ ct persisted in resigDing be would charg
] Signor Carroll with the formation of anoth
e er Cabinet
# Signor Grispi publishes letter attack
d ing the Cabinet for humiliating Italy i
the eyes of Europe. This increases CaiI
oils difficulties.
IS VIENNA. Oct. 22.-The Austrian bulge
Il for 1879 estimates deficit of l5,307, "A
forms, which it is proposed to cover eithe
d By the issue of gold rentes or by an add
# tion to the floating debt.
). FRANCE.
It PARIS, Oct. 22.-The trial of thirty
tempt to hold Socialist Workmen's Cor
> gress has commenced. The prosecutio
% alleges that the prisoners had relation
s. with foreign Socialists.
z, BRITISH INDIA
4 LONDON, Oct pa telegram frol
Is Bombay states that the government h;
III published an announcement offering FRI
Q passage home to families of officers Ell
T. gagged 10 active service. 1t is though
% however, that the advance into Afghani
. tan will be impossible for some time. I'll
fever is steadily increasing among Il
troops stationed at Jamrood and encampe
r. on the frontier.
"a Lahore. Oct. %. Several nativ
=, =, princes have offered their forces for actiy
NC service.
YELLOW FEVER
%, MEMPHIS. Oct. 22.-The Board
10 Health officially reported six deaths fro