The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Walter johnson, recently employed on
tile Inter Ocean has returned to this city.
bio Lewis says that diet of beans is
better for the complexion than all the pow
dcrs and cream ever manufactured.
The man that whistles, sings, and talks
loud in hotel reading rooms was in. town
the other day He probably had lost a
dog.
The ball of the Bonifacius Society comes
off at Turner Hall, Thursday evening.
The prospects are that it will be large
and elegant party.
The Fifth Avenue Theatre Combination,
which gave such excellent satisfaction when
here last March. gives one entertainment
here next Monday evening. Rooms for the
Stars have been engaged at the Harper
House,
Whatever the Ohio and Iowa elections
do not prove, there is one thing they do
prove Enthusiastically prodigious shrink
age in the value of Republican pretensions
and a widespread depreciation of Admin
istration stock
In the last great war of Europe the
French thought they annihilated the Ger
man armies by calling them the Prus-
slams" So now, as the reports come in
from Iowa, certain press agents think to
belitte great popular victory by crediting
it TO the Democrats"
The question with the iowa farmers was
whether they would have 'the Republican
party do it for them, or whether they
would do it themselves, They concluded
not to send small boy to mill this time
more especially as the boy has bad char
acter for pilfering fruit on the way,
The Shreveport Times of the 9th, says
Last evening the fifth Catholic priest wa;
throwing up black vomit, and no hopes
were entertained for his recovery. Two
more priests arrived yesterday from New
Orleans, to fill up the ranks depleted by
the death of five soldiers of the cross
Steamers of 200 tons aud under, carry
ing passengers in the night time, naviga
ting rivers, lakes, bays, or sounds, are re
quired, at all times, from shutdown unit
d sunrise, to have Waterman on duty OF
each deck below the hurricane deck, anC
all steamers of more than LOCO tons, tw,
watchmen on the lower deck, one on tn
. main deck, and two on the stateroom deck
% and all steamers on the Western and South
=, ern rivers an additional Waterman on til
hurricane deck.
A gentleman of elegant leisure, and
bachelor at that. has been amusing hin
J. self with matrimonial statistics, and IT
Us ports that out of two hundred marriage
s. published in New England journals, on
two of the ladies had old fashioned name
" such as Mary and Susan. All the ot
no ers were Molhes. Pollies, Dollies, Libbie
en- Tibbies, Bidlies, Hatties, Patties, Matte
IT. Lizzies, and so on He says if he can he
as of some girl with familiar Christ,
-. name he shall start for her
'Se a citizen OF Davenport, known by q
at sonorous appellation of Rattlesna)
er Jack has returned to that city from e
- - worth. Kansas, where he has been iatel
rs. He reports that there is no show whatev
NJ there now for carrying on lively and I
Ill spectacle gambling business He, hil
self,went down there in the hope of MAXI
dollar or two, and he had not been the
rs, long before the business got rather dull
list the result of geenteel fight, in which
RS renowned gambler named Phillips, Il
Ell sheriff Of the county, named Whitney, al
a policeman were shot in gambling de
,e- The people seemed to get prejudie,
ed against gamblers then, and all such we
invited to leave the place, the DavenpC
as citizen among the number