The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

II Is reported that the Richmond &
Danville railway is to be consolidated with
the East Tennessee & Georgia.
Suits have been instituted by the
United States against the private letter eE.
press companies Of the city Of New York.
A train in which President Arthur
went from Somerville to jersey City, n. J.,
made the run of thirty-eight miles in thirty
three minutes as timed By a stop-watch.
Mrs Alice Starr, whose husband de
serted her at Chicago, has walked nearly all
the way to Pittsburg in search Of him and
not finding him there has pushed on to New
York
There were 1853 failures in the United
States and Canada for the week ended on the
25th of July. This was six more than the
preceding week, and ninety more than the
corresponding week in 1881
Watterson, of the Courier-J Journal,
says that Hendricks could not be hostile to
the presidential interests of Mcdonald, and
bases his statement on the loyalty of Melon
aid to Hendricks interests in 1876
The farmers of Central Ohio are
fighting the ten-dollar royalty on driven
wells, and Judge Lawrence, comptroller of
the United States treasury, has written a
letter encouraging them to resist the payment
of it.
It is asserted that the assets of James
Ward the bankrupt iron man of Niles, Ohio,
viii not amount to more than enough to pay
the cost of settlement. There is great
bitterness of feeling against him. He has
disappeared
The Grand Army of the Republic will
hold its next annual meeting at Minneapolis
E. K Warren, of Kansas City, was elected
senior vice commander, w. Ii. Holmes, Of
California, junior vice commander, Azel
Ames, of Massachusetts, surgeon general,
and J. N. Foster, chaplain
The postmaster general has issued an
order that as a mark of respect to the mem
DRY of Montgomery Blair, the department
buildings be draped in mourning for thirty
days; that the national flag be hung at half
mast until after the burial, and that the de-
partment be closed on the day of the funeral.
The Anti Prohibitionist Republicans
of the third congressional district of Iowa
| have held a convention and declared their
purpose to do their utmost to defeat the pro
hibition legislation in that state, and de
nounced 'the spirit of fanaticism which
struck down an able and conscientious judge
| for the faithful discharge of his duty They
| declare that their obligations to the common
| wealth are paramount to their fealty to party,
and recommend organization in every county.
The straight-out Republicans are confident OF
winning the fight, in spite of this detection
"Jayhawker," correspondent for The
Cincinnati Enquirer, from whom it was
stated Gov. Foster got his information as tc
the amount Judge Hoadly's nomination cost
has made statement, in which he says that
Judge Hoadly intimated to him that his
(Hoadly's) nomination cost $4,000, and that
he had paid cash for a number of votes
which Mclean, of The Enquirer, had already
paid as high as $500 apiece for to vote
against him (Hoadly). ''Jayhawker' says he
has written to Gov. Foster, reproaehing him
for giving the thing away tosthe Repub-
licans, when cit was told him in confidence;
and intimating that if the governor canno
keep little Democratic secret he t'Jay.
hawer'1 wilfnot tell him.any more