The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-03
TELEGRA.PHIC.
To-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question
BUCHAREST. August 3.-The Russian
troops are returning to Russia to the num-
Der of five thousand daily.
The Roumanian army is expected to
make a triumphal entry into Bucharest
accompanied by Bulgarian trophies.
BELGRADE. August "a cabinet
council under the presidency of Prince
Milan has resolved to proclaim the inde
pendenee of Servia on the 22d of August.
with the cessation of a state siege and
martial law.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The following is the
programme of civic honors to be paid to
Beaconfeld and Salisbury to-day. The
distinguished guests will arrive in the city
at p. M, and will be received at the en-
trance of Guild Hall tby the city of Lon
don's committee wearing their robes and
carrying as badges their wands of office :
their lordships will be escorted through a
temporary pavilion in Guild Hall yard,
conducted to the library and received by
the Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, and
dlgnitarles, wearing their official robes.
Subsequently procession will be formed
and moved to Guild Hall where Lords
Beacon6eld and Salisbury will be conduct
ed to a dais and take their places at the
right of the Lord Mayor. The members
of the common council of the city of London
will be provided with seats in front of the
| dais.
The usual formalities will be gone
through with as if an ordinary court of
common council were held, the town clerk
will read the resolutions agreed to by the
common council for presenting the free
dom of the city to the plenipotentiaries,
the city chamberlain will then address
their lordships aud invite them to take
upon themselves the freedom of the city,
offer to each the right hand of citizenship.
Lords Beacons6eld and Salisbury will re-
ply, and the court will at once adjourn.
The guests of the day, leaving Guild Hall
with the Lord Mayor, will proceed to the
Mansion House where a ministerial ban
quet will take place in Egyptian Hail.
The scene at Guild Hall is expected to be
very brilliant. The floral decorations are
remarkable. embracing seven thousand OF
the choicest plants, which line every pas
sage, and with fountains playing at inter
walls.
On their arrival at Guild HalI,they were
enthusiastically cheered
/ GERMANY
BERLIN, August 3.-This q. ID. an ap.
proximate estimate of the result of the
elections for members of parliament is al
follows The conservative factions which
we're II strong in the old house, this time
muster about 10; the two liberal faction.
which we're l62 strong in the old house
are reduced to 1872; lot are national liber
ais, and 25 are advanced liberals Sever
ultramontanes with their Guelph allies
retain their old figures, numbering abou
98; the remaining 60 members are Poles
Danes, Alsatans, and few Independents
FRANCE
| PARIS, Aug "A general strike among
cabmen. Monday, is threatened
/
Sundry kilograms.
| SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 3--The will
of Whiting. who was worth half Il million
dollars, leaves about $l2,500 for charita
bic objects.
| BATAVIA, Aug. 3.--A vessel has arrivet
with a portion of the crew of the shil
Mabel Clark. 1t is supposed all wer
saved.
New YORK, Aug. 3-The marble mill
owned by Vail, Shotwell & Co, So Green
wich street, have suspended habilitie
I$lCO,000.
A petition in bankruptcy has been file
by Sidney W, Hopkins for himself an
against bis late partners, Robt. j. CarpeI
ter and Francis II. Collins; the firm ha
been in the iron commission business to
many years, but dissolved 10 1874. HoI
kins owes about $250.000; he was trea:
urer of the Chicago & Lake Huron r. 4
The sales of four per cent bonds. yes
i terday, amount to seven million dollars.
/, The Tribune says private dispatc
: was received yesterday. from Philadelphia
= it states that the Philadelphia u Readin
= Coal Go. will offer an extra drawback I
I35 cents per ton on coal from New Yor
harbor, to take effect Monday. Coal me
: in this city regard this action as a reopel
=. ing of the competition in coal which prot
3 ably may result in another coal war,
e. Hat CREEK, N. Y, Aug. 3. The soutl
bound coach was again stopped four nil
south of the Jersey stockade, yesterds
- afternoon, about five clock. by six arme
men, as tue cOacn was empty Lney ulu u
attempt any interference, but eEguired
= the driver as to movement of the tr easu
, eeach which they are evidently watchiD
Bruta' Outrage by Trsmps.
a CHICAGO. Aug. 3-The Tri6un,
Burlington, Ia. special says; Thursdi
afternoon two tramps stopped at iarme
;. house near Trenton, Henry Co., and aft
getting good dinner from the tarme
wife, and learning that her husband wou
s. not b. home TIL evening, suddenly seiz
her, outraged her person, and left h
unsensible; they had stopped the cries
the farmers little daughter by rolling h
ey up tightly in blanket. When unroIl
the child was nearly sufoca;ed, aud di
10 an hour, The neighbors are scouri
the country for the iends, but at last
counts had not found them.
ng MISSOURI.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Aug. 3.-The MI
tin Bank of this city suspended this A.
st. | & n.-:- % ,1Ootad nm fha dnar. 0u;