The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-22
NOTES, HERE AID THERE


Severe cold few penie on the streets.
Old Settlers Festival II the Harper
House. this afternoon.
Notice change Of time or trains on the
r., r. / & st /. r. r.
Union meeting in tic Presbyterian
church tomorrow evcnin.
The Jaioa calls Joe Gray 'Democra-
tic pap-suoker What o'5ce does he hold
Mark Twain IS opposel to cannibalism
He would rather go hungry for two days
than eat an old personal riend. -
Train is still in the Tombs ana has
grown poetical. He says he wishes hah
d cell in hell In that wish we join him.
Anton Holmes wife del suddenly in st
i.1,;is a icT months az Anton Is ai.-
nouneod for an appeara on the seaFold
On April sd
The Caion asks. WI ere must ref,rm
begin p We would req by advising the
editor 70 Hrst take the mail out Of his own
eye.-Ea'ips Rsr.cr.
Ole Bull concert at D.. Hall tonight
An audience OF cultivated people from
this city, Moline, Milan, etc. etc. il is ev-
pectId will fiji the hall
The Rock Island Uni admits that il
itfers to THE ARGUS a. The only renra,
sentative II public sent ent in this re
zion. This is hEuiility Eorthy Of Trial
heep DorsEp0rt Ga-t
Democrats meet in the 9Th ward t.
night See notice. Ais notice for com
Inittecs from al The yards 20 meet at
Maj. Connellys office Monday evening.
Every man is requested % be present.
The eating saloon Nn Carson. C1l-
prada, on the Kansas P.itc, has been ex-
trenely fortunate Onlr four proprietors
have been Shot by pass ucers whose feel
ings were outraged by Il black coffee
There is a perfect storm Of indignation
irom the press genera-r. all over the
country, at the report Of ;he Poland c. VI
committee The opiuic- is generally ex-
pressed that all the members tainted with
C. NJ stock should be ez7elled
The Washington sta does not believe
that POmeroy gave Yorb 5000, hut if he
did, it was to 'aecomllsh some good. ''
Cakes AmeS wrote thai he was distribut-
ing tredH A,jHisr whes it would do the
most goGd.
The report Of the loland committee
may be summarized somewhat as follows
Whereas. No members If congress were
bribed by shares Of Credir Mobilier stock
therefore, Resolved, Tha, Cakes Ames he
expelled for bribing then.
The Boston journal Or Commerce say.
that foreigners who invested in Rockford
Rock Island & St LOU, Railroad bond.
are not likely to again be tempted by the
best American stocks. Of course that SET
will not-they have been bed enough bu
there are plenty more just like them owe
the other side Of the water
. The Davenport Democrat has neve
treated the transactions of Mr.. Cable witt
the fairness they deserved. but il nov
says: Let this be said Of the Cable Goa
product that all the winter through
whether coal was scarce or plenty, the Ca
BILE coal yards have not varied in their pri
ces, though in 50 doing Mr.. Cable coul
have pocketed thousands Of extra dollar,
That he could not supply the market Wa
not his fault.
Judge Charles T. Sherman, Of Cley,
land Ohio, whose $4,000 transaction wit
the New York brokers for repeal of Il
tax on borrowed capital has been disclose
IN MIR. Dawes Committeeman, is Il
same Sherman who, being at that time
Government Commissioner in the TTn;c
Pacific, drew the celebrated Ames co,
tract, whereby Credit MobiIier divide
nearly twenty millions among innocent
stockholders