The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-24
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

People can secure their tickets at Wood
wards book store for De Judge sMinstrels'
Friday eve, Sent Goth 23-2t
The police of Galesburg took sixty-two
pistols and revolvers from boys under nj
teen years of age in that town one day. last
week.
j. Ross Mills has returned from Cali
fornia with the children of the late Major
Mayo-all well. The children will remain
with their relatives, here and in Peoria
There's an amusing article in this paper
from the New York Tribune in regard to
the panic from a rural point Of view-a
good burlesque of the crazy gamblers and
swindlers called monied men OF New ork.
Mayor Davenport is busy with plans for
protecting the water in our mains from
freezing next winter. Water-takers should
see that their service pipes are placed be-
yond the reach of frost,
In Macon county there Is but one ticket
in the field, and that farmers ticket.
None other will be nominated. he farm
ers' have called a grand mass meeting, to
be held at the fair grounds in Decatur, ILL.,,
on the 18th of October,
Colfax,' says the Buffalo Courier Of
Saturday, is to deliyertbe address before
the Agricultural Society at Postdam, in
this State, next Tuesday It is said the
pious Schuyler consented to go on condition
the place should be temporarily know as
kittle-sw swear,
Mr.. I. G. Martindale, of Racine, ". L.
R. r. conductor, says that Stephen Bull
would not sell that fine Bashaw stallion for
double what he paid Dimick for him. The
horse is greatly admired in Racine-but
Dimiek has others at his stable which are
much more valuable
To-day is the fast of Guedatyah in the
Jewish calender Wednesday, October
LIST, will be Kipoor, or day of Atonement
1t will be strictly observed as fast day
lasting from O'Clock Tuesday evening
till o'clock Wednesday evening. All
Tsraelites over ID years of age will keep
this fast
Mayor Davenport has had Orleans street,
: to the upper depot, put in fine condition,
: and the road is now ezcellent-all except
those ugly water courses across it, and they
are about the worst posSble-dangerous to
2 carriages, and causing great delay in trans
F.; fering passengers. They should all be
! planked over.
1t is reported that Smonson, disguised
: with the Haverstick Guger ring, is going
+ to Mt Carroll to live and that he will en-.
d gage in the dry goods business there. 1t i,
. also said he will soon take life partner, in
the person Of fair young lady from Por
Byron. We are sorry to lose so respecta
/ BILE a citizen, we hope he NAV livt
long and prosper, wherever he goes
A recent assertion O Senator Morton il
thus fttingly and summarily disposed Of b,
the Springfield, Mass Republican ''Whe,
Oliver p Morton, Senator of the United
States and would be President, says-as h
did at Dayton last weak-that the Tam
many Society of NewY 1rk City made tn
nomination of Horace Greedy Mr. Oliver P
Morton lives and the truth is not in him
1t was a shrewd pickpoeket who attends
the Iowa State Fair, last week Lookin
70 about for man with well filled pockets, h
~ spied salary grabber from that State
a., Congressman William G. Donnan, an
IN straiehtway relieved him of $40 of hi
L. back bay. Mr. Donnaa is indignant, bu
# he ought not to be- The pickpocket has a
p. much right to that money as he has-an
that is no right at ALL
During the impeachment trial of Andre
Johnson, Gen. Butler investigated his pr
vate affairs, and found that he was nj
u" worth over $40, 900 ami that nearly all h
had was on deposit in the First Nations
Bank of Washington. 1t is now said tn;
- when that that bank failed, the otht
- day, Mr. johnson had 100000 to his credi
= 1n which he was receiving six per cent il
terest, which was his only revenue. Shoul
the bank be unable to discharge its oblig
tons, a contingency by no means improb
BILE, Ex-President johnson will be almo
w peuniless.