The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-19
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

eshiek county fair, September 8.
Coy. Pound has just delivered fine
lot of lumber to our young lumber dealer
Reed.
One hundred thousand bushels of
Iowa wheat went east on the Rock Island
road on Saturday,
Twelve thousand dollars has just been
drawn from the Iowa State Grange treas
ury, for the benefit of the grasshopper suit
| ferers.
The Davenport Democrat appears in
new dress, and the Gazette has added
one column to its size-both evidences OF
prosperity.
The coat stolen from Zeis. yesterday
is valued at Sl6,-just one dollar above
| the sum necessary to send the thief to the
State prison.
Mrs, Sasse and her husband, Of Shelby
county, Iowa, filed kerosene lamp to
pether. They will live henceforth in mon
| umental marble.
The conductors on the Western Union
| night trains are John G. Cummings, Is.
Rockingham and Charles Peabody. The
trains are doing fine business.
-Messrs. Gardner and Coe have settled
their little "onpleasantness about that
$3.50, diamond stud thus deprived
the lawyers OF some pretty good fees
AT the races at Springfield, Mass, on
tie 18th, Lulu, the favorite, was distanced
IN the first heat. She is mighty onsar
yain, but she can fly when she works
right.
"A good many well dressed gents have
gone over to the Camp Mcclellan fish fry
this afternoon, with clean shirts on. Won
Ter how they'll look 1.-THE shirts we mean
isShen their owners come back?
Dear George" said an indianapolis
young woman, Il am willing to marry you
If we have to live on bread and water. y
swell, said the enthusiastic George, you
furnish the bread and III skirmish around
md find the water. "
Col. Thomas j. Pickett, formerly OF
this city, is the Republican candidate for
congress, in the First Kentucky (Paducah)
istrict, without the fOrmality of numi-
rating conventi' n. The negroes indorse
him but that won't elect him.
N-Billy Coe is now sole owner of the
Merchants Lunch. His old partner, Mr..
Strong, is in failing health, being now con
lined to his room, and his friends fear he
annot live long. Billy Strong was good
ioldier and always fair square man.
Any unlawful selling Of liquor in this
State is punishable by fine and imprison
nent The Imprisonment part is an out
-age and ought to be repealed. The often
Ter should stand committed until he pays
he fne,-but to pay a fine and be i'm
risoned too is wrong.
-Forepaugh's show is to be here on the
ID of Sept. Mr. r. S. Dingess, superin-
| 'endent, is in town, making arrangements
de stops at the Rock Island House, and
Charlie Jarvis, the popular proprietor, will
| aid in laying the wires. Gus Miller, of
course, is indispensable, in the posting.
The laws of this State make it crime
| # larceny to steal, take and carry away
| my newspaper or periodical from the
faces where the same may be left for any
ther person." 1t will be well for some
people to keep this fact in mind unless
| hey wish to scend some time in the coun-
| y Jail.
"A self-possessed young man called at
house in Atlanta, Ga, a few mornings
ago and asked to see his wife, ''She is
not here" REPLIED the ,niatress of the
s.susy -Tnere is no one here but the
members of my own family" ''Well, he
replied, Its one of them | want to see
| married your eldest daughter last night. p"
Would my little Ezra asked fond
mother, like to be a missionary, and 60 and
preach to the suffering heathenY" Tears
bright, pearlv drops of feeling gistened
10 little Ezra eyes as he murmured, mo,
[ wouldn't; but I'd like to be on the per-
lice long enough to put tin roof on the
Dig lummux that stuck shoemaker's wax
on my seat to-day at school.
Such day O, my Stiff breeze
| from the southeast, and the air as hot as
if it came from an oven at the glass works
the mercury we'll up among the nineties; the
ground dry and the air full of dust. Shall
we ever have rain? The pastures are
baked to a crisp; the sloughs dry and
feed for stock nearly all gone the pota-
toes being ruined, and everything suffer
ING, tar rain. ana- aaalAp-.,rAathar---- When
will 1T come
The Des Moines city council has COM
pleted an ordinance licensing the sale of
wines and beer in that city. The old coun
ell, in March last, passed prohibitory or
dinance, and the passage of this new ordi-
nance Is regarded as a victory of those
who believe in the license system. The
ordinance provides against harboring mi
nors, requires bond of $4,000, requires
the name of the owner of the saloon to be
posted above the door, and severe penal |
ties for violation of its provisisns.
When thirsty souls want something
nice and alcoholical, in Remington, Vt, |
they go to the apOthecary's shop and call |
for Prepared Laudanum." A verdant |
stander-by, who saw the frighful draught |
taken, remarked that the fellow wouldn't |
live long after swallowing so much lauda-
nun. Presently another man came in and |
called for the same The verdant specta-
tor followed him to the door, and watching |
him as he went down the street, said
That fellow stands il well he must be
used to taking it. But when a third laud-
anum drinker entered and was served,
light dawned upon the mind of the person
from the rural districts, and stepping up
to the counter, he exclaimed: 'See here,
old boss; guess | II take dose of that
lodlum it doesn't seem to kill anybody,
Hest opiate he had ever swallowed in the
whole course of his existence and he
went away confirmed in the opinion that
the danger Of ''iodlum' had been greatly
exaggerated.
The Moline editor of the Gazette seems {
to be a sort of hyena, anxious to prey upon
everybody An honest and Innocent girl
ound shawl on the street and endeayor-
I'd to find an owner for it. After awhile
'ome of the crusaders caused warrant to I
Ne issued for her arrest, but she was dis t
'harged at their cost, as an innocent girl a
The Gazette man magniied and misrepre-
ented the story SD that the moor Girl WAS