The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-09

in it ,only spirit Of malice against
the south and the copperheads."
AuSorts of Items.
Ticknor & Fields have sold in less than one
month 1000 copies of Saxe's Masquerade and
other Poems.''
It is reported that serious frauds have been
committed on the internel revenue in the Chica-
60 district.
Pittsfeld woman presented her husband on
Sunday night with three nice, fat, boy babies,
all at one birth.-Spring. Repub.
Elk Gov. Washington Hunt, of New York,
during recent visit to Toledo, O., gave Father
Henrin $1,000 to aid in carrying on the new Irish
schools.
Wendell Phillips tells us that ssthe republicans
60 to the people in deceit and hypocrisy, with
their faces masked and their convictions hid. !
hope to God they win be defeated. y
A lady in Franklin, Pa, the wife of dentist,
a few days since. gave birth to four children.-
Quite panic has, since prevailed among the
husbands of that region in view of this remarka-
BILE precedent.
A book worm is inquiring for volume con-
tanning all the utterances of republican orators
and papers in favor of rewarding soldiers. He
thinks it would be good reading about these
times.
A priest in New York has been preaching
against fitting hoops. He processes his ignor-
ancs of the revelations made by the fashions at
operas and theatres, as he never went there, but
added: 81 cannot shut my eyes to the abomina-
ton when 1t is in front of me on the street"
M. SAKE, Partisan brass instrument maker,
has recovered judgment against NJ lie Marie SAKE,
a popular opera singer, having proved her real
name to be Sasse, and;that she had no right to
spell it with an x.
young lady, by the name of Mamie Robin
son, 16 years of age, attempted to commit sui
eide the other day in Quincy, by taking poison.
Her designs were frustrated by prompt medical
assistance. Cause-seduction and deserton.
The New York Times closes an article on the
political situation, saying that as matters now
stand ''there is but one alternatiye-either such
modification of existing parties as shall meet
the new emergencies of the hour, a sweeping
triumph of the democratic party in 1863"
That was not empty remark of an old
woman from the country, who, while on a visit
to her city daughter, saw waterfall for the frs,
time.
"What do you call tina. big stuffed bag,
Mary ?"
''That's waterfall, ma"
"a waterfall 1t looks more like lane
Slide
A radical paper calls the presidents plan o
| restoration the "Topsy-policy,' whereat the Al
bany ArguS replies that it accepts the word
claiming permission to call the Stevens's schem,
| (elevating the black above the white) the topsy
| turvy policy"
A New York weekly editor says mournfuly
ssWe have no heart to dwell upon the indecen
| cies which French denai-naonde fashion has beer
thrusting upon u.s." We presume the poor fel
low let his eyes dwell upon them until he los
| his heart-and that's what's the matter I-Bosto1
| Post.
| A young man and his wife who arrived at St
| Louis the other day, on one of the Mississippi
/ steamers, had neither money or baggage to pa
| their fare The clerk of the boat seized tn
wife for security, whereupon the husband arrest
| ed him for kidnapping.
| Young girls cannot be too careful who they
associate with. Two young ladies of Midland
| City, Mich. recently made the acquaintance O
two young men named respectively Edgar With
am and Henry Trip, and had clandestine meet
ing with them, which resulted in the girls seduc
ton. The young men fed.
A case was tried before the court of common
pleas of Pittsburgh last Monday, wherein Mar
| tina J. Kinds sued the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayn
and Chicago Railroad company for damage
which she received on a train during a fgh
among passengers. 1t appeared that the con
| ductor failed to try to stop the fight. The jur
awarded the lady 81 $50.
The elements are well trained at New Orleans
A delicate flash of lightning shattered the crys
tai of lady's watch, in her belt, the other day
with out injuring her and light-fngered huri
cane moved a house seven feet from it's founds
ton, without awakening its sleeping inmates.
An English engineer says he employs pota
| thes successfully to prevent incrustation in boil
ere. Before the steam is up, on Monday morn
| ing, he places about a quart of common pots
toes in the boiler, through the safety valve, an
| on Saturday blows some water off to clear tn
dirt out. This is simple and harmless enough {
warrant trial of it.
| About year ago James NJ. Stookey, formerl
| of Belleville, ILL.,. commenced operations on hi
farm near Decatur, in Macon county. He raise
q crop of corn and in the fall purchased II
head of cattle to eat it during the winter.
| few days ago he sold lO4 head of these cattle a
an average price of S92, so per head. The aver
age weight of two of them was something owe
400.
The Evansville Ind. Courier says: at is ba
| enough in all conscience that our young me
ruin themselves by drinking, but it seems tina
this destructive habit is spreading among tn
young ladies. Fancy drinks are mixed up, cor
tanning brandy, whisky, or other intoxicatin
liquors, not only private parties, but at tn
soda saloons frequented by ladies'"
A newspaper moralist thinks it shame ths
| French prostitutes" should set the fashion
dress for American women. Scarcely. Frenc
fashions, as worn by French ladies, are common
! ly both decent'and tasteful but as exaggerate
by American and English women, they are som,
times neither the one nor the other. TIL
shame" therefore, does not belong to France
Gen. Scott died in the full acknowledgment
and hope of the christian faith. He was COZ
slant and devoted attendant upon worship, and
except occasional profanity, his life was mod,
to public men in all decencies and temperance,
He was particularly noticeable in defending tn
use of the epithet damn. Damn" he used
say very often, sis not oath it ia an expires
sion of vulgarity, simply"
The New Albany Ind Ledger says; s4The &c
| itor of the Kokomo Herald lately published a
article that brought down upon him the vengefr
ire of some enraged female. He apologies (