The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-27
NOTES HERE AND THERE

Peoples city convention at the Council
room, this evening, to nominate mayor and
police magistrate.
"A chicago clergyman preached ser
mon in billiard saloon last Sunday. He
made nineteen points.
An Eastern paper says Mrs. Gen.
Sherman is devout Roman Catholic. The
general is on the fence,
-Brownlow is down on Revels, and he
calls him "a high-nosed niger without an
honest kink in his wool. y
The Changers of Knox county are ag-
itating the question of establishing wag-
on and pillow factory at Edna.
Cayenne pepper was used by an ungal-
liant Ohio saloon keeper to repel the ladies
who had mustered against him.
The Administration party, led by Lei
Haverstrick and Levi Harson, rally in the
wards tonight, to make their party NOM
nations.
George Washington could not tell a
lie, and the Boston papers followed
his example by not issuing a paper
on his birthday.
The Waukegan (Ill Gazette speaks of
William wager, nee conductor on the
Northwestern railway" Now, was Viii
liam really born a conductor
Gov. Allen of Ohio tells the ladies
that they are right, and that their infu-
ence is the only force which can have any
real and lasting effect in checking temper
ance
George Anderson was examined before
Magistrate Chopper this afternoon for
shooting at Charles Howe, foreman of the
St Louis railroad repair shop and held for
trial. Bail $500-for want Of which, he is
in jail.
| The recent special elections in Michigan
| furnish more cumulative proof that the
tendency of the time is to the complete
breakup of old political parties, and the
evolution of new organizations
| A convict in the Joliet penitentiary
named VIM. Greenup fell dead in the ranks
on Tuesday while marching with his gang
| to the shops. A coroner jury returned q
verdict of death from heart disease.
john Devine, aged sixteen years, il
attempting to put a shotgun in a wagon al
Naples on Wednesday, with the muzzle to
ward him, struck the hammer against al
iron rod, diScharging the gun. The loat
of heavy shot entered the left side, killing
him almost instantly
John Hawkins, a farmer Of Greene
county, while out hunting a short time ago
came up by neighbors house and Ell
tered into conversation with him. at the
same time standing with arms folded anc
resting on his gun. Their dogs got into q
fight, and running against the gun caused
it to discharge its contents into Hawkins
face and head, producing his death in ;
few hours.
We have received q call, signed by
John NJ Palmer, Elmer Baldwin, Eugene
Garfield, A. A Glenn, w S. Brooks
James B. Bradwell, Jesse S. Hildrup
John H. Oberly, Myra Bradwell, and many
others, for a meeting of the friends of pr
son reform in Illinois, to meet. at Spring
field, March 5, to organize prison re
form association. The object of the asso
citation will be the visitation of prisons
the collection of criminal statistics, thu
care of discharged conyicts, and the enlight
eminent of the public through the pres
and from the rostrum upon all topics con
nected with crime, the criminal class, Grim
ina1 law. the administration of justice, an(
management and discipline Of prisons, witt
a view to correction of existing evils anC
abuses
Judging from the frequency with whicl
he gives it Irish hoists we are forced to tn,