The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-29
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scription suggested by WAY
ling hospital. for registering vo-
This is the last III be in session till
tors The Board
this evening. Clark, ex- brigadier gener-
-Charl6ayor, Of Rochester, n Y, has
al, and ected in forgeries to considerable
, beent
: a-Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm claims the
credit of suggesting the system OF red
light signals now in use on all the railroads
in this country.
One Of the prettiest, best and bright
est Of Rock Island girls had her maine
changed to- day aud will be carried away by
the evening train tonight.
An editor in Fredericksburg, Va, was
asked by stranger ii it was possible that !
little town kept up four newspapers, and
the reply was, No, it takes four newspa-
pers to keep up the town.
There was raid on faro-bank in
Springfield the other night, about which
there was nothing remarkable except that
the constables captured highly respectable
Sunday school teacher
There is a great deal of typhoid fever
in this vicinity at present, and it is feared
that the seourge will increase We hear
of several cases having resulted fatally al
ready, and others dangerously ILL.,
Secretary Richardson, of the L. s.
Treasury, is trying to resume specie pay
ments by issuing silver to make change
with His silver will probably be gobbled
up for speculative purposes as fast as he
can issue it.
There are about twenty patients in
/ Mercy Hospital-not many private pa
tients but the larger number insane and
county charges Five insane persons from
, Clinton county are receiving care and
treatment there.
r The defaulting clerk in the office of
5 the State Treasurer is Republican, reared
e and educated in that school which has Civ
en- the country so MANY defadlting post
masters, revenue officials, and department
clerks.-N Y. World.
There is a farm in Franklin, Maine
G wherein every seventeen years, in the mid
e die of August, at 9 o'clock in the morning,
!, the man who mows drops dead, scythe in
o hand Ten minutes before would be a
d good time to go over to the house and get a
>" drink OF clueF.
II The Council Bluffs NoRp0reH says that
e r. s. Meldrum, who was the leading man
in the Fanny Price Combination, was so
drunk on the stage at Omaha, that he took
to Toodles instead of Lord Rochester; SO
ID he appears no more with the Combination.
< The CarlinviIlet ILL., Democrat, long age
v the organ of the Republican party of Ma
Is eoupin County, has abandoned the support
1r of the Republican county ticket and has
at raised the farmers ticket. Many Other
he Republican county papers in the W est are
h taking the same course.
Id OF the results of the recent election il
DIS California, the San Francisco Bulletin says
There is now no difficulty III finding mel
who dare come out and declare themselve
the implacapable enemies of corporate do
minion, aud are ready to enroll themselves il
an organization whose determination is t
les break that dominion utterly down
ow According to the Milwaukee Necs
nd There is "a panic in the regency at Madi
= son equal to that in Wall street and Wash
VI burn is at a ruinons discount The regen
IN cy have sent Gov Washburn up in tn
The northwestern part Of Wisconsin to see If h
lev cannot roll back the tide of defeat tror
that quarter All hail this signal of dis
tresS.
It" The Rock Island Union having expos
ed sundry shortcomings in Gideon Rlatc
policeman of that city that model con
e. servator Of the peace approached Captai
l'y L. NJ Haverstick, the editor, and slappe
md him in the face, and then placed kic
aid where it would do the most good Haver
ol,, stick says the slap didn hurt much, but
Di' silent as to the kick - Chicago Inter Oceat
.' 1t is suggested and the suggestion is
III good one, that the bonds given by cashiers
lre treasurers, and other financial servants
re- the public, should either be recorded c
oro placed in the custody of the State The
certainly should not be left in charge c
any person interested in their destruction
At the latest date, they were mournfuIl
looking for the bonds Of the detaultin
md Lowell cashier.
,sts The Grand Jury made a close call f.
,m- number of Young men to-day TO tes1it
,on in a case similar to the one that 80 di
turbed them last spring Davenport Den
'us. ocra, 2sth.-''The boys who went q
rad urgent business yesterday morning nee
in not stay more than "a week The Gran
yer Jury will probably adjourn this Afternoon
- 1t isn't Walker 5, this DdreHpo
0'' Gdzette, 18Th.
'ei- A young married man says that Il
ZEN first article of domestic use he had To bl
10 was quinine for his agitated partner II
ms nearly "shO1k' him before he got her, al
-. now, what with aeue and being up night
''0' he almost wishes he had never embarkt
on the tempestuOus sea OF matrlm0ny. /
says that those who contend that marrial
is mo great shakes" have never encouu
ing cred the drug bills that are daily crowdil
coal the romance ont Of his life
mao The regulations under the act of Co
aJ gress establishing rules to be observed
'0o' the transportation of live strock went in
pom effect on the LIST ultimo, and have been f
and warded by the Treasury Department TO t
the proper officials, with instructions TO rigid
Gu enforce the provisions of the law. 1t il
poses fine of not less than 800 nor nc
SIDE than $500 for combining animals on ca
rect boats or vessels, for more than twenty ela
IN consecutive hours without unloading for
=. least five consecutive hours for rest, wal
- and feeding.
:, anu = "A step-child of a man named DAME
IL Oh Il months old, was found dead in the woOt
for six miles north of Winterset, Iowa,
,anv Sunday. The child disappeared from t
NI;t house last Tuesday, while its mother "
absent after water All efforts 10 find
NICE were unavailing. until Sunday, The bo
bic. was discovered a quarter Of mile FRI
vide the house Much excitement exists in f
,osi+ neighborhOod, as the infant was too you
to wander off so far alone Its steps
10 of Daniels, his wife having been dlvorc
walls, from her former husband The gene
that opinion is that the child was carried aw
ron. by some one who entered the house duri
W., the mothers absence There was
war marks of violence on the body, and it v
avor the opinion of the physicians that it d
any on the morning when it was found
Five Persons Killed by Lightning.
From the Blue Rapids (Rau) Times.
ou., The quintuple death blow given to
utIS fannfl., ,n S,raJn n,o,l- H.. TT,