The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-29
MOTIFS HERE AND THERE.


! Cold, raw, cloudy day.
Have Benser & Thomas gone into the
hotel keeping business
The weekly prayer meeting Of the
Presbyterian Church will be held this eve
ming, in the Methodist church, at the usua
hour.
The hearing in the case for Receiv.
Ter of the Peoria Rock Island Railway is
set for next Monday, in the U. 5. court al
Chicago
-Biehrs onadrille band will furnish the
music for the St Patrick ball on Friday
evening, Nov. Goth. The ball will be in
Turner Hail. and it is intended to make it
a very enjoyable affair.
John Volk gets the job of remodeling
the Presbyterian church for $l0,6lO. The
basement is to be ready for use by Jan y
lst, and the whole to be completed by June
LIST. Mr.. Volk advertises for 20 carpen-
ters.
A number of our citizens--disciples Of
Izaak Walton-a giving 1.-THE old Scotch
Preacher frequent fishing excursions and
having pleasant times. Mr. Caldwell ex-
poets to leave next Tuesday or Wednesday
tor the east.
The Rev. Mr.. Caldwell preached for
Mr.. Fiudlay last Sunday morning 1t was
quite disappointment to many not to
have heard him, No notice was given in
the papers, as it was not known until Sun
day morning that he would preach.
On Monday last, Mr.. Levi Carman,
who lives on the telegraph road in west
Davenport, was seriously injured by falling
backwards over seat in wagon to the
ground, causing conclusion of the spine
and rupturing the ligaments that unite the
vertebrae. His head incliLes forward to
an uncomfortable degree, and he suffers
severe pain almost without intermission,
Weeks must elapse before he will be able
to be out again. ..r. -....
The Chicago Tribune of yesterday
says: mo Receiver has as yet been OPEN
" appointed in the Rockford. Rock Island
& St. Louis Railroad Company case, al
though the judges have agreed on some
one, and telegraphed him yesterday, to
know whether he would accept, before
making the selection public 1t is said
that the person selected is not one of those
who have been heretofore named as suita-
VIC lol posittOb, but q LAAu cClCSlOu CIl-
tirely by the judges. -
"A brother of one of the editors of this
paper, who is a rather independent Re-
publican member of the Vermont legislas
ture, which is now in session, writes that
they are having lively times in the legis-
lature this session, principally on account
of the Democrats sending a good deal of
talent into that body" Vermont Demo
Gratis are kind of men actuated by love
of principle and are apt to be intelligent
enough to make themselves felt,
The St, Louis Republican says the
elections of this year, and notably that in
the city of Cincinnati, develop the fact
that the great mass of the Germans has
been driven by the puritanism and fanatic
ism of the Republican party over into the
Opposition. There can be no doubt that
the causes which operated to change four
thousand German votes in Cincinnati in
October will produce like results, in pro-
portion to population, in all the states
where elections are to be held next week,
MIR. Castor is the Democratic candi-
date for governor in Mass, and Mr.. Talbot
is the Republican candidate. The Spring
field Mass Republican says: IF Mr..
Talbot has any friends in this canvass it
seems only kind to notify them that he is
being traded off hereabouts in the most
remorselcss fashion. Whether the same
thing is going on upon the same wholesale
scale in other sections of the commonwealth
we don't konw. If it is, then the only re-
naming question is about the probable size
Of Mr.. Gaston's majority. " A Democrat
ic majority in Massachusetts About
what would be the value of Third-term
stock after that?
The Baltimore e. Ohio railroad re-
fuses to join the combination of western
railroads to put up the price of transporta,
ton between Chicago aud the Atlantic, and
the Western Bureau of r. r. Commission
ers have issued orders that the roads
which they control shall impose arbitrary
rates on through freights which pass dur
ing transit over any part of the Baltimore
u Ohio h, r. and shall refuse to check
through baggage over that road and other
wise cooperate to blockade the road and
cut it off from any portion of the through
traffic. Is it any wonder that the people
make war on athe railroads .when the
railroads thus combine to Cypress the peo-
pie? The Baltimore Il Onio should be
sustained by every shipper and every per-
sou who buys passenger ticket.