The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-26
~. Eni,oon.l excursion from Frssport.

The Episcopal Excursiun hV'n
The managers of the late Episcopal ex-
cursion from Freeport to this city, having
returned home and got sober, make
three column report in one of their village
weekly papers, of their adventures ana
dicoyeries For stupid attempts to De
funny for horrible English, bad grammar
profanity and vulgarity, the report OF that
committee exceeds anything ever gotten
M by Brick Pomeroy in his palmiest ana
dirtiest days. The committee seems 10
have fallen in with some niger babies
and staid with them. We doubt If the next
generation will show anyimprovement IN tne
race. The committee seems wellversedin
the Scriptures and writes learnedly IN re-
card 70 Sodom and Gomorrah, the Dead sea
''nieger babies, veto. We copy all that
portion of the report having reference 10
Rock Island as follows
AT one o'clock the object Of our exeur-
sion drew nigh, and at halt past one we
,rod the hallowed soil of Uncle sam, that
rears Rock Island, dividing the Father OF
Waters. Colonel Flag, in command oi
the Arsenal. rendered to the excurslonlSts
the hospitality of the Island Atter Gu
loving two and half hours IN visiting the
government works, arms and the many
missiles of death, the engine slgnaled the
time IN leave for the city OF kock Island
! and ON a double quick the party haStenet
70 the train, and Il ten minutes ride landed
ms in the filthiest proianest and meanes
city ON the western hemisphere. Witt
great exertion we pressed our way owe
| the hip-fap sidewalks down one preclplc
, and up another, then with a mighty leaI
springine from one flag stone To another
zigzagglng round niger babies that wer
4 promiscuously lying around loose, basAin
IN the sunshine on the warm side of a fla
stone. intended for sidewalks. Other
were see saving" on detached planks
and thus contributed their share 10 tn
ANNOYANCE of the pedestrian. Both dlvln
u and profane history teaches us that tn
: Lord rained birthstone on an ancient city
Z called Gomorrah, destroying it, and tina
the Dead sea now covers the plains wher
;. once reigned that wicked and God-torgot
ten city. Being firm believer In the au
K thenticity of Divine Writ, yet we mus
1t confess that we are decidedly inclined
doubt the history furnished us OF bot
the location and fate of that Glbralts
m of sin. and volunteer an opinion base
upon peculiar evidence, that the histoi
is at serious fault, notwithstanding l
high authority, and iomorrah was not de
III troved, neither are its plains now covert
by the Stygian waters of the dead sea, h
,t- still reigns, clothed in all ITS habiliments
no vice and wickedness, under an assume
70 name-Rock Island. The dilapidated al
moss covered roOkeries-deSigned no dOu
IT, by the ancient architect before the use
the level and suuare-the decayed and |
noceutlv-negected sidewalks, the autiqu
le- ted habits of the inhabitants and thC
Ii swarthv color; all, all point unerringly
tie the fact, that G0morrah was not destroy
,re bv a shower of birthstone, but vet reigne
of in its wonted and Frieyous yickednesS. u
re- der the euphoniOus eoguomen Ot-R0
ID Island.
Is I'VE hadnlt sufficient courage to proce
far enough to behold the iniquity that N
It's eSSarily must abound at the core OF Il
haunt of sin, but we did hazard u DIR
near enough 10 get a paper published
lpe Chicago, with one column blank, VI
LeS which to record the events Of that eve
full city. and the following is one Of the
Gals, and the only item of originality
EXCURSION excursion from Freeport
-ap mark, Mt. Carroll, Galeua and other points on
-" line arrived her, by the Western Union railroad
ne day THE 23dl about one O'Clock, consisting OF
, { coaches and com Yu-yd # about Eu p. rsun-. I
ana visited Rock island Arsenal hrst and then to-
No look about thc!ocality generally Inc excursion
he gotten under the auspices Of the Freeport
SON cOpSl Church Society. and one OF the manager
the affair told our reporter that financially, IL
be u Cd d-n failure -
cen We deem it unnecessary to defend
YIN managers of the excursion when asI
sions Of that kind attack their charac
They had no occasion to give utterance
such language. and if they had. I
d, could and would not have expressed tn,
~ selves quite 50 forcibly. A reporter \
Id subsists upon fly blown free lunches, :
lim dried Bologna and logwood rot-gut, ca
EN- not produce any other etfusion. Wit
,-,, Christian fOrbearance, therefore, We d
the cloak of charity over his acts, and
ecu tribute nothing u the man. but cha
AN it all to the manner Of his breeding
ac- feeding
orr A shrilling sound of the whistle cony
=. ed the glad tidings To the wearisome
Oh iourner, that the happy hour Of seven
arrived that was to release him from
confinement in hole blacker and II
red d eadly than the black hole of Calcutt
'toh The report is eloquent III praise of
fenbaugh and Phillips, the men who d
ont the drinks on the train, and also I
get utely describes the intellectual occupa
fine of "eucher" and ''old sledge, as indul
hey in by the refined excursionists.
are. The committee mo doubt inadvertent
IS a say that "Me dirtiest' probably in e.
sense, man on the train 'cls tie .th
ross reporter ana the report closes with tt
sol OminIOus words:
~ We are informed that financially the cxcuI
lust II a moderate success
.hey Vary moderate. we reckon, for, if
: " Io the committee didn't rob the boxes
too took all the funds to keep Their repo
in whisky
80. White duck and linen suits for me
~ a Loeb 5, the one price clOthier
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