The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-20
sgA holiness convention is in progress
at the Nj. X. church.


at the nj. K. church.
p@The Sylvans were out practicing and
racing Saturday evening.
E~Adam McBurney will leave this
week for visit to his native country.
R9Mr. Swans symptoms are such as
to warrant a strong hope of his recovery.
sGFrank Schrader offered his saloon
property to the reform club for IS 900, a
reasonable price.
RGCapt. Timm hes secured the appear
ance of the Collmar opera troupe at his
hall on Thursday evening of this week.
s9~The temperance meeting announced
for this evening at the Swedish Lutheran
church has been indefinitely postponed.
HB-The Good Templars' lodge is
arranging for a sociable at their lodge
rooms in Metropolitan Block, next week
Tuesday.
p6-Denuis Heating died at the residence
of Michael Foley in this city last Saturday
and his remains were. inferred at Chippi>
annock cemetery yesterday.
R9>Jane Kennedy or Mrs. WEIGH. left,
bag and baggage, this morning for Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Her absence will be ielt
and mourned by the reporters and police.
SAL Johnny Mooney, formerly driver
on the street railroad. met with painful
accident at Huey & Co. 5 brick yard. where
he is laboring. last Friday. He was drift
ing in the clay bank, intending to produce
cave in the bank for brick clay and had
nearly completed the drift when the earth
fell upon him, breaking one of the bones
in his ankle He will be laid up several
weeks, which he is but poorly prepared
for, having met with numerous reverses
within the past year. DR.. Mckenzie is in
attendance.
sg"Brother Haney'' devoted an hour
and twenty minutes of his valuable time
last evening in defending his position OF
the temperance question against the attacks
OF what he is pleased to call the bulldogs
of the press. and in the same breath de-
clared that he did not care for what the
newspapers said about him. He predicts
that if the persecution continues the rec
ribbon movement will be killed dead inside
, of thirty days. He probably intends t
oppose to it his vast and mighty influence
which, in his opinion, is sufficient 10 re-
move mountains. He related how severa
parties who had taken the red ribbon and
hearing how he (Haney) had been abused
I by the Reynolds party, had taken thei
jack kniYes and cut the ribbon off, casting
1t to the ground. He declared he was no
a candidate for congress, tail of which
t every body knew but was discreet enough
? not to commit himself by saying that b,
would not accept nomination it tendere
him. At one time he dehed tn
newspapers, bid them do thei
: worst and asked no quarter, an
( before concluding begged them to let biz
alone. He plead for the rights of saloo
keepers, claiming that the citizens of Nc
y line were doing them a gross injustice
: granting license to sell liquor, taking the
y money therefor, and then going aboU
o town inducing men not to patronize then
by means of the red ribbon movement
: otherwise. He enumerated the doctrine
It the liquor interest fully as well as one
: the dealers could have done himself; wbiC
i is to propose some other than the methc
under consideration for the promotion
Il temperance. Because the people ha,
IS tried prohibition and found it to be failu
It and are now experimenting upon the pls
q of moral suasion, every friend Of the saloC
interest will suggest that the better pls
Il Is piohiUlllOu, duu tulS Is eAdCtlS WHdt VI
Il Haney is doing. Il am an uncompromi
Is ing prohibitiouist, he says, seeming
believe that he can drive opposition befo
him as chaff Of course that is not Il
:, doctrine LAID down by the Rev. gentleman
= predecessor, Jesus Christ, but religion
le one thing and politics another. Every O
le who heard him last evening are of t
IN same opinion. that he only made matte
. worse and floundered deeper Into the mil