The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-07
TELEGRAPHIC.
LTeIsgraphsd toths RockI.lGnd Argus. !
To-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND,


LONDON, April THE Silloth dock
entrance wall has fallen, vessels cannot
dock for several months, and vessels 10
dock will be unable to leave until the
obstruction is removed.
The decision of two-thirds of the pit
men at Durham, to strike against reduction
OF wages, will have the effect of stopping
nearly ninety pits, throwing idle $1,000
hewers. Several large concerns will be
brought to stand still 10 the course of
week unless the owners or the nit men
give way.
Lord Chelmsford teIegraphs that the re-
lleVlng column to- Ekowe, would start about
the 28th of March. Col. Pearson has
established communication with Tueela
Run, by means of signals,
Edwin Clark, Contractor and civil engi-
neer has failed; liabilities 100000 pounds.
Eliza Meteyard, the EngEsh authoress,
born in 1901, is dead.
Hanlon's action and speed create an
excellect impression. He is improving in
condition
Twelve thousand looms at Blackburn
stopped; which leaves two thousand wea-
vers idle.
| PARIS, April AT the supplementary
elections yesterday in this city for depu.
ties, the moderate republicans generally
defeated their radical competitors.
Two hundred and thirty more commun
lists were pardoned.
The complete returns of q supplement
tary elections for deputies, show l3 republi.
cans and one legiimist elected. In seven
districts additional ballots will be neces-
sary.
/ PRUSSIA.
RIGA, April 7.-Navigation is reop enod
to this place for steamers.
ITALY.
! ROME. April 7.-General Garibaldi on
arriving here was greatly fatigued. He
was carried in a couch to the residence ol
his son Meuotti. The king cent an aid de.
camp to meet him.
j A more pathetic scene, than that oI
Garibaldi's arrival at. the station, has sell
dom been beheld, shouts were raised al
the train entered the station, but were
speedily silenced by the circulation Of . re
port that the General was i'll. He wa.
carried from the train on a mattress.
Placed on large litter he lay extended
and motionless, with his eyes closed and 8
red handkerchief bound around his head
1t looked as though a corpse was beinG
carried in state. 1t was found impossible
to move him from the litter, which we
placed il an open carriage and driven, &C
companied by the wonderfully silen
crowd, to the house of his son Menott
iGaribaldi. 1t was impossible to move the
: General at the Cevita Nec3hi side Of tn
railway and the saloon was cut to admi
. the litter. The general slept well howeve
: Saturday night and the doctor thinks b
will leave bis bed within a week. Hi
friends assert that politics are wholly Ut
connected with his coming here, he fOuu
that his health was not improving at Car
rera, and thought the mineral spring nea
= Civitta Vecchi. might benefit his gou
Garibaldi replying to Syndic who visite
him Oh his arrival said ne did not hin
II self know the resssn Of his visit Som
say Garibaldi came to Rome to die,
EaYFT.
ri CAIRO, April 7.--The Khedive, withol
consulting his minister, has drafted bu'
}, get in opposition to that submitted b
minister Rivers Wilson.
Seventy pachas, and ninety civil office
have signed this document, which pIedg
the Government to neDcetOrth pay lnte