The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-18
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


&C. NJ. Osborn has returned from New
York.
p. L. Cable is expected home tonight
to remain several weeks.
Two more Indian agents whitewashed.
Pass around the bucket.-Pittsburgh Post
-Ex-President johnson believes in hard
money Noah Count says pictorial curren-
cy is hard enough for him to get.
-Orrin Wilson, subject to fits, fell into
the river at Charles City, Iowa, while FISH
ing, May 18th, and was drowned.
Somebody says that Grant is the child
of Destiny. It's all very we'll for Grant,
but just imagine the feelings of Destiny. -
albany argus.
-Chanfra, the actor, is endeavoring to
raise fund for the prosecution of clergy
men who assail the private character of the
ladies OF the stage.
The Odd Fellows Association give g
sociable and dance at their hall, corner
Washington and Illinois streets, to- morrow
evening. Tickets 81.
A Grundy county, Iowa, man has re
ceived from an English nobleman an ordel
tor 200 live prairie chickens He proposes
to make English citizens Of them.
Illinois Office holding and Office seek
ing Republicans are good deal depressed
by the Independent Movement, but console
themselves by saying I'VE may be Jol
let"
The Ogdensburg Journal thinks tina
a sure way to keep currency in rapid cir
culation would be to put the heads OF But
Ter and Logan on some of the new speci
mems.
The store of Hammond &sW aterman
in Geneseo, was entered on Saturda,
night, and some three hundred dollar
worth of clothing packed into valises an,
carried away.
| The year of the jubilee has come
The sewing machine agents of Indianapo
lis are using each other as targets for pts
toll practice. Now let other cities follow
the example till it becomes tidal wave.
"A German printer named Werner ha
been among the Germans at Kellogg, Iowa
raising money to start a German pape
there. After raising some $500 he skippe,
out, taking with him valuable horse loan
ed him.
John G. Brown was arrested on Sa.
urday by Policeman Rheinhardt for cruel
ty to animals, and the hearing continue
to this forenoon. To-day the Marshs
says the case was dismissed for want q
evidence.
"A drunken brute, living near Musca
tine, while riding mule home from tina
place, the other day, became exasperate
at the dumb creature for some cause, an
commenced slashing the animal with
knife until it fell from under him and BILE
to death.
The agent of the grangers at STAINS
ger, Mitchell county, Iowa, took the graf
OF his brother grangers to Chicago an
sold it. After interviewing several bunk
and faro shops, where large fortunes al
made rapidly by young men from the cour
try, he left TOR parts unknown.
The Dubuque Herald and Desmoint
Leader don want any John A. Kasson
theirs, which prompts the Iowa City Pre-
to say of him that he lis much more t
for aplace in the leadership of the new pa
ty than many a believing demagogue WI
has jumped into it over the fence and
, now bowling to have the bars put up an
the gate shut"
-Cyrenne Elliott, of McNair count
Tennessee, was murdered and robbed
J several hundred dollars in Shreveport. II
} brother, j. c. Elliott, of Bowie count
Texas, was also attacked and robbed of
large sum, but not seriously injured. NJ
merOus burglaries have occurred night
there for the past week. A vigilance con
nittee and lynch law is talked Of
&C. Wolfgang Bach, a Prussian, fo
merly resident of Davenport, committe
! suicide in st. Louis on Thursday evening
last week. He was captain of n. Y. ba
terry during the war His father was
nobleman in Prussia He was only
years of age. Poverty was the cause
suicide-he not being successful in al
business undertaking.
"A shooting ARRAY took place in Cinci
natl at noon Thursday at the Fifth sire
horse market. James Long charged BIZ
Huston of Winchester, Ohio, with beir
3 too intimate with his wife. Huston MAJ
, a reply, when Long drew a revolver, fir,
and shot Huston in the arm HustC
}. jumped out of his buggy and tried to e
cape, but Long fired another shot al
missed Huston, but shot James Tiff on Il
= opposite side Of the street where he W
sitting in chair, killing him Instant
Long was Immediately arrested and taxi
s to station and locked up, charged wi
the murder.
1t seems that the crusade in Alet
was not very brilliant success. TIL
> had two saloons there when the crusade
g commenced their work. The Banner say
{ THE ladies prayed out one man, and t
o effect of their prayers has been to ma
the prayed out man go into the wholesa
> liquor business instead of the retail. L
+ other saloon keeper said he would close
: the lst of May, but never said, as we u
d derstand, that he would quit any defni
length Of time. :" But, according to Il
= Banner, neither of the saloons has qt
q selling beer. The Banner says, 1.-The CT
d SADIE in Aledo has been failure in ma
respects and if we may judge from result
more harm is done than good