The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-09
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Davenport Gazette on two or three
occasions has made mention Of L. s. Silvis,
.T, Who is he?
A bill has been introduced in congress
to place the Presidents salary back to
| 1926. 600 a wear, instead of $4,000 as raised
by the Republicans.
The new sheriff of Cook county and
his appoiptees have bad luck-the first
night Of their administration two prisoners
managed to escape from Jail.
A hank in Corinth, Miss. was entered
in the day time on Monday, by gang of
four men who robbed it of $4,000 and
got away with their booty.
| -Kalakaua, King of the Hawaiian Isl
ands-since Feb, lS74-3S years old and
married-is expected to pass through this
WI shington.
The ladies of the German Catholic
church will give concert an festival in
Darts Hall on the evening of Monday Dec.
%. for the benefit Of their church, See
advertisement
Did City Attorney Gest write "statu-
airy rights in his letter to the city council,
or did the Union botch it? We reckon
Gest knows better than to say ''statuary'
whe he means statutory we follow
copy, as we find it in the Union.
Mr.. Beck, Democrat, of Kentucky in
troduced bill in the U. S. House OF Rep
resentatives that no senator, or representa-
tive or delegate shall act as attorney for
claims against the United States, and the
House passed the bill Immediately and
unanimously.
Does the Davenport Gazette pretend
that when men heretofore considered hon
orable men falsify their pledges and turn
dead beats that their previously good rep.
utatiou can be pleaded as a justification Of
their scoundrelism?
The st. Joseph's Amateur Dramatic
Association will give another of their pop
ular entertainments in the basement OF St
Joseph's church, Tuesday evening, the
l5th-next Tuesday evening. The an
nouncement is enough to fill the room.
"A San Francisco telegram Of the Sth
says Edward Madden, the editor OF the
MERGED Tribune, was shot and killed by ii.
Granice. steps, of the editor OF the San
Joaquin argus. An attempt was made
last night to lynch the murderer, but the
mob found that the sheriff had removed
the prisoner and concealed hin"
During the slate bathing season an
individual walked up to the office of a sea-
side hotel, and:with considerable -four
ish signed the book and exclaimed ::
I'm acknowledgements of -"
That doesent make any difference, says
the landlord,s you'll be treated just as
well as the others.
An aged backwoodsman was reproyed
by the clergymen for allowing his sons
to 20 hunting on Sunday. you ought to
bring up your children in the fear Of the
Lord" said the minister. Fear
of the Lord ?" said the old man. IS jist
what I've done. Don't one O them boys
dare gwout o'doors Sunday tn out a
doublebarrel gun"
"A Portland man, standing on hotel
piazza smoking, who had the cigar shot
out of his mouth, was not disposed to
grumble until fellow rushed up to him
and offered to bet two to one that he could
do it again. Then he took off his coat and
vest and mauled that man, and stepped on
him, and rolled him over, and finally JAM
med him into post-hole, before he felt
just right.
A telegram from St. Louis of the Sth
saws: -Four prisoners escaped from the
) Marshfeld last night, One OF them was
, Lackey, who was under sentence TO be
hung on the 18th instant. The sheriff and
posse were here this morning, but obtain
ed no traces of the fugitlves. Forty men
are now securing the country for them, but
it is thought they will escape
Hon. II. s. Senter, of Aledo, Mercer
county, died on the night Of the lst inst
He was one of the oldest citizens and mos
prominent merchants of the county. ii.
was member of the senate Of the twenty
) seventh general assem- bly, from the twenty
second district, and served on the revenue
committee. He was also a prominent
candidate for the congressional nomination
before the Independent Reform convention
of the tenth district. last fall. Springfield
Register, ill.,
-" Pa, said Mrs. Sprilkins, glancing
up from perusa Of the thrilling pages OF
last years speeches on the Credit Mobilier,
what does it mean to put your money
where it will do the most good? -" til
ize, my dear, utilize, replied her loving
spouse, that S what it means. " " | don t,
neither screamed Mrs. s., with tears IF
rage :" never told one in my life, you
heartIess wretchr' and Spriikins Just
lodged in time to let a volume of Con
erosion Debates Craze bis os tr0ntis and
pass through front window pane.
In letter Mr.. Dion Boucicault makes
Il fair hit at the expense Of Mr.. De Witt
Tamage. Abiding to the fact that the
police records will prove that there is more
drunkenness, disorder and crime commit
ted on Sunday than on any other day in
the week, he says: " Ii were as unchar
table as Mr.. Talmage, | might observe
! that this is because the churches are open
aud the theatres are shut Being u come
dian, have not the mission to illuminate
aud charity, which covereth multitude Of
sins, is naturally to be tou nd in my motley
rather than among the fine linen OF a di-
vine who, Of course, has no sins to cover.
Before the Board of supervisors ad-
journ we should like to see some system
adopted in regard to furnishing copy of
proceedings to the papers. The county
pays Webster for furnishing copy, but not
a line is furnished this office. If we find
the proceedings in the Union in the morn
ing we set them, though we are never GER
tain of the correctness of their publication
because of the well known reputation of
that office for blundCrs. If we do not find
them there we have to copy them ourselves
as we did on Tuesday-while Webster is
paid for it. The board ought to order
book made, like the telegraphers use-a
manifold writer-so that for the blotter,
four or more copies can be written at once,
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