The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-26
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

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bran new boy.
Cleveland, Ohio has repealed its Sun.
day saloon closing ordinance.
The crusaders suit VS.. B. Co selman,
Of Moline, has come to naught.
Report say that old 10 Ledlie's Bour
bon straight convention was fizzle.
Birds for sale at the dye house. next
door to THE ARGUS Office. Good singers.
Mr.. A. T. Noll and wife, formerly
Miss Hildebrand,) of Quincy, are visiting
Mrs. Noll's parents in Moline and friends
in Moline and Rock Island, for few days.
-Messrs. Kelly & Retlcker have dou-
BILE column advertisement in THE ARGUS,
to which attention is requested. They
have the most elegant shoe store in the
city-a really attractive place, and very
fine stock Of goods.
The steamer Muscatine, which struck
a snag and sunk few miles below Burl-
ington, has been raised and arrived here
yesterday morning. She went on TO the
ways to undergo repairs. In day or two
she will be ready for the trade again.
The Harper House got good many
guests from the morning train over the
Western Union road. The night train
over that road runs pretty full. 1t is Con-
ductOr ketchingman' night out tonight.
Trains leave for Milwaukee and Racine at
10 clock.
A Brooklyn young woman, who aban-
doned her old husband says:--"He was too
soft. | couldn't be hugging and kissing
him all the whileit isn't my disposition.
couldn't bear to be obliged to sit on his
lap and cuddle him every time | wapted a
cent.
Mother bring my little kitten" is the
latest popular ballad The new sick is
fair, so fur as we are able to Judge, but the
words seem to have been scratched off
rather hurrriedly, and strung out to such
a length that there is feeling Of relief
when the singer comes to paws.
-Tllton's adopted daughter having said
she saw Susan Anthony in Tiltons lap
Susan denies any such occurrences as
that testified to by Bessie Turner, before
the Beecher committee, and says she new
er knew that the girl was any but ser
Wait girl AMI an idiotic one at that
"A skiff was stolen from the tow boat
Mcdonald, at our levee, Monday noon,
Marshal HAYES arrested two boys-Frank
Smith and Eddie Stem.le, but Frank
squirmed away and run. while Eddie went
TO Jail, but has been released, there being
no evidence against him. Who stole the
,kiff or where it is is still a mystery.
The following story is going the rounds,
to have occurred with Moline
couple: "A young gent who took young
lady out buggy riding, Sunday evening, was
dumtounded on learning from her that
she discovered one of his shirt stnds dang
ding from one Of her earrings next morn
ing.
1t cost the tax payers of Henry coun
ty over three thousand dollars to carry out
the spite Of the crusaders towards liquor
dealers, at the last term of court tn ere,
and as far as any reform is concerned
it ended in a ludicrous failure. DO the
people of this county want to be similarly
taxed?
No one (save hotel keeper can have
any conception of the profit made out of
bridal party at Niagara. Sarah is too full
of love to eat, and Federwck' partakes
sparingly. while embarrassment predomi.
mates. Every meal is merely looked at
by the simpletons, while board at the rate
of $3.50 per day goes right along.
The other day an adipose citizen stroll
ed up to couple of acquaintance who
were talking on corner, and one of them
saluted him with: why, you are growing
bigger every day. / have heard of man
being fatter than fool, but believe you
are tatter than two fools. +" We'll, | guess
| would outweigh both of you, replied old
rotound quietly, as he walked along.
L. d. Whiting, of Tiskiwa, is Re
publican state senator, and wants Mr.. Haw-
ley's place. With that object IN view he
tries to cultivate the Changers On Sat
urday he got himself invited to speak at
the. Granger pic mic at Morrison, White
side county. Of course it was not a polit.
ical meeting, but Mr.. Whiting proceeded
to make a Republican speech, defending
Grants administration.
s. Poor Max Adler Hear what he has
to say about Hotel clerk: Il can shake
hands with Governor sit beside an AL |
herman, and smoke with State Senator,
md never feel my littleness but when |
ome to stand in the presence of modern
lotel clerk, feel that awe and inferiority
which tourists feel as they stand in Yose-
mite Valley and look up at the mountain
ops a thousand feet above"
On Sunday evening, while the family
we're out. $500 were stolen from the resi-
lence of Mrs. Damp, Of Perryton, Mercer
county, on the main road from Camp
reek to Hamlet. Circumstances connect
ID with the robbery lead to the suspicion
m fat hryo H., |
lad been about the house for some time,
md who disappeared before it was missed
\ pair of blankets were taken at the same
inc
The Aedo Record wants to know
there the whisky came from that was
sed so freely around the Camp Grounds |
l Sugar Grove on Sunday last? One ,
umor says that it was brought from ,
on hand car, and taken over !
nd sold in the near vicinity of the camp !;
mother that it came from New Boston, :,
hat there was plenty of it around, and !
lenty of it drank was attested by the !;
lumber of drunken men and numerous
mpty bottles 'layin' round" .
The Burlington Haukeye has the story
a young husband who took his wife to !
'da fountain, and looking solemuly at the o
an who asked them what syrup ?" said n
, would take crusade" Imagine his u
'rror when she said she would try some, p
o. He laughed teebly, bat the cold 81
Teat stood in great drops on his clama,y l.
Ow; but fortunately the soda man never
st his presence of mind, and while the tt
island threw in au extra dose of ''cru K
de, y his wife made WY face oyer GIN 5
r.
A priest who was examining confr al
alton class ia the Sunth of Ireland, asked