Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-09
WASHINGTON, Oct. Z, 1872.


The work 10 ended that of registration
mean and tomorrow will decide tSs $50
be or not to be" of our aspiranu for Official
honors, and whatever "picking' said honors
include. Every evening had its own polit.
zeal pOw-wow of some shade or other; and
the sound of the inevitable ffe and drum, as
we'll a. street eloqaence, is in consequence
many degrees belos par just now. The num-
bers registered she's decrease of 2002 in
the oolored vote; and some people perversely
insist upon it that this fact proves that
PennsylvaniA enjoys the odorous presence
of the dear departed, for purposes we'll
known to Cameron 81 Co. But don t think
that we begrudge the Old Keystone their
delightful company We could not be so
small Is that if We tried. In fact We bear
up wonderfully under the deprivation aud
are even viliOg to spare 10000 more u
the same sort, for any length of time and
if that ia not generosity, then | should like
to know what is.
On the 4sh, one Of the eleven lite extin-
guishers, who enjoy free meals ct city
Itxpsnse, was sentenced to death, and CONTRA
~ to established custom Thursday (3lss)
is to be hangman's day in his case. l, for
my part, don't like the change. Thursday
has always been associated in my mind with
weddings and Thanksgiving, and it seems
like saerilege to use il for such horror
but then, as long as Judge Humphreys has
no such cobwebs in his brain, poor Thurs.
days reputation will forever after be ruined
I'm afraid.
Talking of weddings makes me think of q
species in vogue here, through which many
girl has come 10 grief already. A few
days ago DR.. Ralph V. Auhck, the son Of
Commodore Auhck, died while sitting at the
dinnsr table, of heart disease, believe. BE
had been devoted to q young lady of my
acquaintance who, in spite of her beauty and
refinement, did not meet with his parents
approval, beiag the daughter of a pool
widow, aud Department clerk. Well
when she Was told of bis death she quietl,
tainted away, End then il came out that sh'
had been married to him since March II
but to avoid unpleasantbess il had beel
kept secret. OF course her friends symps
thlze With her, but all their sympathy ca
not rectify her error, or change her positiol
, in the eyes of his family. The only ~oIdr
10 that girls will ever be thoug htless enoug
! to shoulder such a harden of deceit an
trouble Is . elandestine marriage inevitabl
brings.
} The nostIntepse excitement prevails her
in regard to the Pennsylvania election
every clerk from there has gone boms t
. swell the Hartranft element; and if har
work alone will carry State, then the eou
= ing Tuesday will witness his HIS trump
without fail.
Coming events cast their shadows b
fore, in The shape of Numbers Of stranger
who do the city now, in order to be rests
when tbs tug of war In the line of gAysl
comes. The drives are daily crowded vii
dashing vehicles Of all sorts, ar ing whiC
the coy phaeton takes high rank Eve
afternoon numbers of them, with lac
: drivers in gorgeous array, and natty tge
with arms folded in the most approved siyl
- fash op and down the avenues, the peTsot
6caiion of q comet, minus the tail, upC
;. four wheels.
The colors affected BY the fair ladies q
the bright autumpal tnts With plenty
vivid scarlet, which cause the streets TO I
semble more than ever vast pGrterres
animated flo Eers, and make one forget for
while what q strata Of sorrow uDderliss
] this brightness and bloom.
LIE NARD.