The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-25

tbs belt was IN 3 pRwnOrOher snOP IN
Chicago and sent for it, of course paying
the charges. The now have the belt, which
will be fitted up and placed on exhibition at
Bartholomew jewelrs store. Perhaps the
Peoria bows had the belt stolen from them.
We can hardly believe they would have dis
posed of it as it was found.
The HARPER HoUsE-This great hotel that
is 10 be, is now assuming form and proper
ton. and some idea of the beautiful archi-
lecture of the completed structure can al
ready be had The work that is being done
anon it is of the very best character, and
every brick is laid with the creates, care
and precision under the direction Of Nix
Sage. But Notwithstanding the very supe
rior work, the people Of Rock Island are
very impatient to see it go along faster.
Our need of more hotel accommodation Is
felt by every BODY, and everybody feels it a
personal matter to urge haste on the part oil
the contractors in completing the brick
work. If more first class journey msu we're
placed upon the front, and an extra foreman
hired to attend to the seconded brick
lnvers, it mighI hasten the work. Every body
is plsased, however, to See how mastery q
job Mr.. Sage is making of 1t.
The whole city is suffering through the
neglect and incompetency of the men whom
the administration has put in charge OF the
lives and property of the citizens. Is it not
time such outrages should stop? Is It not
| time policemen should be appointed with q
view to their efficiency rather than with
view to their democracy Union.
We commisserate the whole city" on its
intense suferings at this particularly warm
season Of the year, from the neglect of its
drowsy guardians. We know certain por-
sions of the "whole city who fare great
| deal better when neglected by the police,
than when their cases are attended to with
care and exactness. We might name a Ger
tain individual Of small calibre, now wildly
presented to our imagination, who has the
greatest cause in the world to be thankful
that he is neglected BY the police. To be
sure, it is aggravatiug in the extreme to be
compelled to wander out the back
entrance in an obfusticated condition, and
to pitch and tumble unaided among the
boxes and barrels that always obstruct the
passage of Pig Alley and it's environs. If
we had good republican policemen, some
! valuable assistance might be rendered our
friend in such emergeh cies as these. and
much profanity and many expressive adiec-
.,uo, - ,.o.a.vad Tor f,tors oohor opora-
tions But If he is thus neglected by demo.
cratic policemen in his hour of need he IN ust
certainly admit that it is the supremest
luxury to lean undisturbed against the lamp
| post in front of the City Hotel, and sing in
happy accents that time-honored
melody: "We won't go home
/ till mornin'" 1t he is sometimes ordered
( TO ''travel on" and is allowed to tumble into
the Harper House cellar occasionally, he
must accept such lndignities and inconven-
fences, as among the sad fortunes Of partisan
warfare. No doubt he recalls with many
'ad memories, the hacyon days when Tom
Murdoch dished up lager at Henry Volt
mans. and the jolly old nights when shutters
were provided for his own transportation
by the city's warden,, and when
he used to wake at high noon tide
and wonder how the deuce he got home on
the night previous. No wonder he wants
change. lie would undoubtedly be saved
many curtain lecture, and have less cause
to 90 frequently hum At midnight, There's
a lieh. in the window for thee, love-"
This growing at the neglect of the
'. police for not arresting drunken men, re
minds MS of that Sabbath forenoon, when he
drove out back of Camden to SHOOT ct
mark" and seeing farmer working in the
. held, wrote up . lengthy disquisition on
1 saboa.h breaking, and the evils attending
}, thereon. That afternoon, we believe, be
: also delivered an address on the subject to Z
Is Moline sabbath School, . few hours before
10 ne was laid in Wagner's beer vault, in the
:. van nope that he might get sober before
s saa,s we sincerely trust the police Won,
neglect the darling any longer.