The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Henry County, Iowa, Treasurer
has offered the delinquent tax list for sale
but has not received bid. Rock Island
could spare few men for that purpose.
A Madison, Iowa, man has restau-
rant and billiard room which he conducts
strictly on temperance principles, no liquor
or beer being sold on the premises. 1t is
being well patronized.
While jerking a pistol from pocket
with hole in it, Swede at Burlington ac-
cidently shot his companion. The injury |
is probably fatal
John Carroll, citizen of Burlington,
was run over by the cars, ON Thursday |
night, and instantly killed The accident |
was on the levee, on the c., B. 4 O. track.
-W.D. CLARK, Esq of Hampton was recent |
Lodge of Masons, which meets in Port By
ron. The installation will be on Thursday
night, Jan. /.
The original Iowa granger is no myth.
His name is Andrew Failor, Of Newton,
Jasper county. He was the first man in
Iowa to get charter for a Grange. and
did this as far back as 1868.
The Iowa City Republican says it
knows of one Iowa Judge who holds a
railroad pass for himself and family which
carries them free of charge from ocean to
ocean" He's the man to charge jury in
a railroad damage case
Husband, who has been out West on
business, and left his wife some bank
checks Mary find you have coLsidera-
bly, overdrawn at the bank" Mary
Nonsense, John, how can that be? I've
two of those blank checks left yet "
If the plough makers persist in ad-
herring to their purpose, and the Grangers
are true to their pledges, there will soon be
an immense stock Of ploughs on hand at
Moline, Canton, Pekin, Decatur, Ottawa,
Bloomington, Rockford, Monmouth and
other places, waiting for purchasers. If
the farmers don't buy ploughs, who will :?
: 1t is announced that the special com
) mittee of the United States Senate on
r Transportation, who will make their report
, after the holiday vacation, will recommend
the establishment of Department of
r Commerce in the Government. The crea-
. tor of new offices for party drones who
/, eat up the substance of the people is the
Y especial business of the present Admins
q tration.
; The proceedings of the Iowa State
| Grange of the order of Patrons of Hus
;, tandry. at DesmMnes, clearly indicate the
u purpose of the members of that order to
{ go into politics But they will not enter
= the arena as Republicans or Democrats
Y Ii any of our Republican or Democratic
= friends think they can control the Grangert
y they are laboring under sad mistake
y The official vote of New York was fl
- nally declared, Dec s, and it would appea
, that the Liberals. who voted an eclecti
i ticket and elected every man thereon, WELD
% ed the balance of power with their 9,00t
+ votes, while the Temperance people threy
away 8, 23S votes on straight ticket Tn
"a straight Democratic vote ION Comptroller
. was 333, 927 and the straight Republica,
v vote ION Secretary of State) was 33l, lis
v A young lady gave social hop at he
residence III Charleston, VT, few night
r ago, and noticing that several of her youn
1t gentlemen guests had business outside FIRE
d, quentlv, she watched, and ascertained tina
ill their pilgrimages were TO her tansy bee
liz She visited the shrine herself soon afte
e, and discovered eight quart bottles of whis
ed ky which she inconsiderateiy destroyed
he and her young men went no more to tn
ng tansy bed.
- Gov. VIM. Allen, of Ohio, owns ahor
400 acres of land within sight of Chill
cothe, where he resides, and is an origin;
Granger. He is now busy selling off hi
VIC cattle, some $4,000 worth He will NJ
deal witt middle men, and so ships his ca
ne tie direct to Baltimore He understand
1t his business and it is said there is not
,ly better judge of cattle in the State than h,
9. His fellow citizens revere him. They loo
:. upon him as the very persOnifcation of hon
81 esty, and have every faith that in the tV
ey years to come Ohio will be honestly GO
els erned
.ir Proof of the continued vitality an
,s, growth of the Farmers Movement at tt
n; West will be found in the reports of tn
m, annual meeting Of the Masters of Grang,
nd in Illinois, at which 700 delegates were
M attendance, and of the State Grange
far Iowa, at which the existence of 1888 SUI
nd ordinate Oranges in the State with men
nd bershiy of nearly 100000 was reporte
leo Both the Grand Masters in their openir
no addresses insisted on the necessity of a
,no herring, inside the Oranges, to the non %
nd litical character with which they set on
tIv but both contain the pregnant suggestiC
,re to politicians that outside of the Grans
aaI the members are expected to take part
act politics and act for the common interest.