The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-10-29

there was nothing remarkable except that
the constables captured highly respectable
Sunday school teacher
There is a great deal of typhoid fever
in this vicinity at present, and it is feared
that the scourge will increase. We hear
of several cases having resulted fatally al
ready, and others dangerously i'll.
Secretary Richardson, of the U. S.
Treasury, is trying to resume specie pay
ments by issuing silver to make change
with. His silver will probably be gobbled
up for speculative purposes as fast as he
can issue it.
There are about twenty patients in
Mercy Hospital-not many private pa
tients but the larger number insane and
county charges. Five insane persons from
Clinton county are receiving care and
treatment there.
The defaulting clerk in the office of
the State Treasurer is a Republican, reared
and educated in that school which has Civ
! en- the country so MANY detailing post
masters, revenue officials, and department
clerks " y World
There is farm 10 Franklin, Maine.
wherein every seventeen years in the mid
| die of August at 9 clock in the morning,
the man who mows drops dead, scythe in
/ hand. Ten minutes before y would be IA
good time to go over to the house and get a
drink of cider
The Council Bluffs N0RpureH says that
/ K. 5 Medium. who was the leading man
/ in the Fanny Price Com bination, was so
drunk on the stage at Omaha, that h. took
/ 10 Toodles instead of Lord Rochester: so
he appears no more with the Combination
The Carlinvillet III J Democrat, long ago
the organ of the Republican party OF Ma
coupin County, has abandoned the support
/ II the Republican county ticket and has
raised the farmers ticket Many other
Republican county papers III the West are
taking the same course.
| OF the results of the recent election in
I California, the San Francisco Bulletin saws.
There is now no difficulty in finding men
who dare come out and declare themselves
/ the impacapah!e enemies OF corporate do
miniOu, aud are ready to enroll themselves il
an organization whose determination is to
break that dominion utterly down
I According to the Milwaukee Netcy
There is panic in the regency at Madi-
son equal to that in Wall street, and Wash
[ burn is at a ruinons discount The regen.
/ cy have sent Gov. Washburn up in the
northwestern part Of Wisconsin to see ifhe
cannot roll back the tide of defeat from
/ that quarter. All hail this signal of dis
] tress
( The Rock Island Union having expos
ed sundry shortcomings in Gideon r latch
a policeman of that city, that model con
servator OF the peace approached Captain
l.. NJ. Haverstick, the editor, and slapped
him in the face, and then placed a kick
where it would do the most good. Haver.
stick says the slap didn't hurt much, but is
silent As to the kick. Chicago Inter Ocsan.
1t is suggested. and the suggestion is a
good one, that the bonds given by cashiers.
treasurers, and other financial servants of
the public, should either be recorded or
placed in the custody of the State. Thoy
certainly should not be left in charge OF
any person interested in their destruction.
At the latest date, they were mournfalIy
looking for the bonds of the defaulting
Lowell cashier
The Grand Jury made a close call for
number OF Young men to-day 10 testify
i'll a case similar tn the one that 80 dis
turbed them last spring. - DagsnB0rt Dem
ocrH, 2SH.-"The boys who went on
urgent business yesterday morning need
not stay more than week. The Grand
jury will probably adjourn this afternoon.
1t isn't Walkers, this time i arenDort
Gazetts, 29th.
"A young married man says that the
first article of domestic use he had to buy
was qulnine for his agitated partner, She
nearly "sho,k" him before he got her, and
now, what with ague and being up nights.
he almost wishes he had never embarked
on the tempestuous sea of matrimany. He
says that those who contend that marriage
Is no great shakes, have never enc0unt-
cred the drug bills that are daily crowding
the romance ont of his life
The regulations under the act of Con /
gress establishing rules to be observed in
the transportation of live strock went into
effect ON the LIST ultimo, and have been for
warded by the Treasury Department 10 the
proper officials. with instructions to rigidIy
enforce the provisions of the law. 1t im
poses fine of not less than 800 nor more
than 5000 for continuing animals on cars,
boats OF vessels, for more than twenty eight
hours without unloading for at
least five consecutive hours for rest, water
and feeding
"A step-child of man named Daniels +.
II months old, was found dead in the woods, 4
SIX miles north of Winterset, Iowa, on
Sunday, The child disappeared from the
house last Tuesday, while its mother was
absent after water All efforts to find it
were unavailing. until Sunday The body |
was discovered a quarter of mile from /
the house Much excitement exists in the |
as the infant was too young /
to wander off SO far alone Its step-son /
of Daniels, his wife having been divorced /
from her former husband The general /
opinion is that the child was carried away |
by some one who entered the house during |
the mothers absence There was no
marks OF violence on the body, and it was
the opinion Of the physicians that it died /
on the morning when it was found.