The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-29
ALI Sorts Of Items.

An Havana correspondent describes the lslaho
of cuba as ssthe land of the flea and the home OF!
the slave.'
There never was sect, party or faction, inl
which the most ignorant were not the most SIo
lent.
Printed calls for state convention at Madison,
Wis, on the 20th OF June, of supporters OF the
presidents policy are being circulated for sigma
ture.
Gems. Steedman and Fullerton arrived at Angus
Ia, Ga, the 9th, where they will remain a.
week for the purpose of perfecting their report on
the reedmen's bureau in the CarolInas, the sea Isl
lands and Florida.
was shot and killed by Milton J. Skillngton. The
killing seems to have been deliberate murd er
Skllington having participated IN chdrtraTt CIV
20 Wiley, who was recently married, and alter
wards induced quarrel by abusing the LADIES' of
Wiley's house.
In an ole family bible IN Connecticut the record
Of birth Is entered in this wise: sEEliza beth
Jones born on the Goth of November, 1885, accor-
ding to the best of her recollection 10
New York by leaving bogus express packages, Pur-
porting to contain valuable checks at houses, anG
collecting the ''expressage" OF the female IN
mates.
ssSIr,, said an old Scotch woman to her minis
ter, 81 dinna ken part of your sermon yester
day. .sIndeed what was 1t !'' sfou said the
Apostle used the figure Of clrcnmfocution, and
dinna ken what it means.'' s'ls that all 1T.
very plain. The figure of circumlocution is mere
ly a periphrastie mode of diCtion.'' "Ohi ali 4
that all ?'' said the good woman, stwhat a pun
fool was not to understand that!''
The Efingham, ILL.,, Register gives accoun
OF the murder of a man named Nicholas Dousch,
German barber In that town, on the I'D, by one J
| N DOYLE The parties, between whom there haG
| been difficulty, met in a saloon, when Doyle ad
| dress ed the barber in rough language, which lee
the latter to strike Doyle blow on the head witt
| a beer tumbler. The two then clInched, but wer'
| parted by the bystanders, when Doyle drew a re
voIver and shot the German in the abdomen ane
back, infiictlng wounds from which he soon died
| Doyle arrested.
| An Investigation into the management of tn
| Massachusetts State Liquor Law Agency ha
brought to light the fact that deputy state consta
| BILE, named Johns, has been selling "safeguards'
to the liquor dealers for the sum of 800 each, b.
| which they secured from arrest.
A clergyman occasion received no fe
| for marrying parsr oniOus couple, and, meetin
| them several months after social gathering
| took up the baby and exclaimed: 81 believe
have mortgage on this child 20 Baby's father
rather than have an explanation before the com
pany, quietly handed over So bill.
A Boston paper tells Of St. Louis merchan
who went to Boston last week to buy boots an
shoes, but got Disguised because he couldn't hav
wine at his Sunday dinner, on account OF the strln
gency of the antI-hquor laws, and went to Ne'
York and bought $4,000 worth of goods.
A gentleman writing from Lafayette, Ind, to
friend in Boston, says 81 called the other day up
on a bride in this vicinity, worth in her own RICH
not less than $50, 900, and found her, in all he
sweet simplicity, barefooted in the NOV, lookin
for eggs. sThat old hen,' said she, shas bee
cuckIng round here tor week. have got TWEEN
SIX eggs, and she will have to spread herself,
| bet you %
The Brooklyn Dutchmen flank the Sunday la,
by clubbing and buying barrel of lager, whic
they quietly drink at the house of friend. Sew
enty thousand people left New York, last Sunday
| to get drinks in the suburbs
Josh Billings - new book has this preface -
| s'This book got up tew sell, but if it dom
! prove tew bee sell, / shan't worry about it -
| The volume 10 dedicated to Deacon Urah Billings
with the hope that She ma hav the strength t.
| stand it,"
| The Troy Wing says: f'Somebody In Albany
advertses in one of the evening papers that h
wants young man to act as.'traveling compan
ion tor young gentleman who is abont to sail TO
| Europe,' and that applicants must inclose ons
| dolI,r To nav charres.,,'