The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-23
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port, have sold $4,000 dollars worm Vi
real estate since August |.
People can secure their tickets at " oou-
pa;aa 49, c.. oe,h 23-2t
Policemen in Louisville stop all person'
on the streets after eleven o'clock at h,sn'
and interview them with regard TO 'iiei'
business,
The wife of Mr. Gil Hickox' OF paVeh-
port, died Monday, aged S. ohe was d
native of New London, Conn, and came u :
Davenport in 1854.
The First Presbyterian Church IN h9ck
Island has been purchased BY the S1 1iaa
lics--price, S., OO0--and is to DC reilioueieu
for their worship. Sunday night s 1.
poor fool nailed a caricature OF rope lus
to the front door of the church-ahu iouilu
out, yesterday, that he had perpetraIeo d
contemplate deed. -Ddr. 'dS'
There are yet hopes of the edltor Oh the
Union. He reads our telegraphlc as
patches and possibly may earn something
vet, though his eye-sight is poor and he
couldn't find the special in relation to the
railroad combination to beat the farmers
II was in the paper, on the second page
but his ewes are weak andhe didn't lind 1t.
Since Postmaster Jackson ceased writ
ing editorials for the Uni'H, the editor OF
that paper finds them IN the chicago
Tribune He couldn't do better, for the
Tribune is generally correct and breaches
cood doctrines On the 18th he had an
editorial headed The McCook Family"
which was taken word for word from the
> Tribune of the 10th.
''Smolly Dear" was popular air with
serenading party the other night. Later
; in the night it was ''Wunt gone ii morn
in and finally it was ''Wunt GONE
tall" They say. twas real funny, =
except the sober ones, and they couldn
see what there was 70 laugh about so
d much.
> We find the following in one of our ex-
: changes: The agent Of the Rockford,
/ Rock Island & St Louis Railroad,in Frank
fort. announced his readiness some time
n.
. since to pay the coupons of the converted
= bonds L per cents. changed to 81 pei
- cents due on the first Of August, and als'
- the yearly interest on the per cent. Ger
tifcates of indebtedness which were issuet
:, in payment of overdue coupons. y
- The Grant salary-grabbers have EN-
'u ,lovad ssNasbv' lLocke) to ridicule tn
=, farmers, and two of his letters are now &C
= ing the rounds of the Republican paper:
- That fellow Locke is .ow, drunken blael
"a guard. When he le,tured here a fe'
"a wears ago, we are told that he drank Is {
hr Henry Woltmau's hrnnyswances' in OIL
- night. It is such creatures as this tn;
p,s the Republicans employ to ridieule tt
farmers movement
49,. Martin Nicholson, one of the men e
,bo gagged in taking down the derricks use
lor in building the Rock Island dam, W
of struck upon the head yesterday by lar
r.. crane bolt which fell from the top of d
- derrick, aud was inseusible for some tim
,-,, 1t was feared that his skull was fracture
~ but examination showed only a severe CO
NJ. cussion. Ii the bolt had not glanced up
-, a timber in falling, the man would ha
Iorv been killed
o. The majority of the Railroad Comm
,oo tee of the Illinois State Board Of Equ
,ns ization report the taxable value of
,nd railroads of the State at a total OF s.
ora 600. 600 a minority Of the same commit
h place it at $6O,OOO0C9. The basis OF
nth. tsessment is 10 per cent. of fair CT
oosa value" The majority assess the read-l
re- or the grade, as they call it, at So,
.a,t- mile. and the tangible property besic
,prl The minority report against taxing "
ory grade at all. and on this question tn
for will probably be a fight in the cou
tho Shall the railroads or the people RI
nm That question is yet to be decided.
nm A good many Catholics are of the o
80 ion that the bigoted and narrow-min
,.o,o hate of some Presbyterian will lead
u,hat 10 burn the church they have just
y La chased, and they think the recent exl
ort tion male upon the church door indie
that further cowardIy outrages will Oc
We are not of that opinion. All over
:. the city there seems to be such deep indi
onest ton of the people towards the poor
.v are who perpetrated the recent outrage
client we doubt II any one Will want to ioiio
,rSu- his footsteps Let him go. He dare
aryev avow himself, and no other creature
loIfs : now desire to bring down upon himsel
.epre- wrath and indignation OF the people