The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-23
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Mrs. Workman has been acquitted

WITS. w OTkmdn has Uccu dcQullteu.
Charlie Robinson has been taken to
the Jacksonville insane asylum.
Mr.. G. W. Durham is on a holiday
visit to this city. His halls from Vicks-
burg.
The House, in Congress, has passed an
other salary grab bill and sent it to the
Senate An analysis of it will be found in
this paper.
The Union expects when prisoner
has only enough money to pay costs that
it shall go into the city treasury. How,
then, is the magistrate to buy his bread
and butter?
The alarm of fire last evening came
from Centre Station Some one attempt
ed to burn the house of James Ross. The
fire was extinguished with buckets. Dam
age slight.
The n. Y. Tribune publishes what
purports to be list of Congressman who
have returned their salary steal-only 10
out of IA Senators, and AZ out of 252 Rep
resentatlves.
The practice of Congress, to allow
members to print speeches which have
never been delivered is full of the very
spirit of Dead Head 1t is device to
carry on their electioneering business at
the public expense.
Dan Brennan, formerly policeman,
has bought him nice hack and team, and in
tends to run it between this city and Dav-
export. He is perfectly steady, sober,
reliable man, and we hope to see him pros
per. Anything entrusted to his care is en-
, tirely safe. He was one of our best and
most reputable policeman
-Gallantry hasits own reward, butFrank,
! the Adonis of the Harper House, says ii
: isn't nice to hear something drop and dis
= cover on inquiry that the Davenport girls
r are laughing at you because your best pair
z of kids and Sunday unmentionables are in
! the water just as you were going to assist
o them on the ice 50 gracefully. He doesn't
: skate there any more.
o There is dismay in Washington ovel
2 the accommodating piles OF public docu-
d ments. Congressman are represented as
t standing neck deep in Agricultural reports
/ and Congressional Investigations, which
e they declare they will leave. to rot where
e they are unless they can get them away
It without paying postage. The situation il
e almost as trying as that In the Treasury
G Department. The remedy is simple
} Print no more books
y 1t is a remarkable fact that neither il
the Message in which the President of tn,
IS United States was supposed to inform
IT Congress of the condition of the country a
II the opening of the session, nor in the Re
:, port OF the Secretary of the Treasury VIII
u was expected to explain at the same tim,
ii the state of the finances, is there any dis
D. tinct warning-we might almost say hint
p of the perplexities and disasters with whicl
the country is now threatened.
= Two women watching with a corps,
i last Wednesday night in Geneseo wer
If frightened nearly to death. About II o
e. clock, while they were quietly munchinI
ID their cake and slipping their tea in thu
e room with the body, it rose up locke
u around the room, and reclined agar
t. Those women got up and went, owe
C. fences and across lots. in the wild frenzy o
pr their fright Examination showed tn
person to be alive, but he died the mex
- morning. These women have fully mad
u up their minds not to set up with liv
corpses any more.
Yesterday man named Kane fror
Rock Island, came over here in bueg
lie with his son, little boy about ten yeal
be old Kane got drunk, and drove abou
n the streets in an indiscriminate manner
= The little boy was nearly frozen in tn
al cold, and tried to get his drunken fatht
e. to go home but without success. Police
d, man Field was going to arrest Kane to
W. disturbing the peace, as he was hootin
:, and driving about recklessly through til
:" streets, but the little boy interceded S
nd piteously for the release of his father, tn;
he the officer got into the buggy and drov
to the man over home-Doreaport Dem,
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