The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24


Pretty cold snap.
Clear and pleasant.
A below, this morning.
The sleighing is magnificent.
Morton only replied to Schurz he
didn't answer him.
Very weak tea-Frelinghyson on f.
nance-N. y. World
Jane Coombs, who did such poor bust
ness here, is playing to very large audien-
ces in st. Louis.
Grand masquerade ball by the Thalia
Club, in Davenport, tonight. First class
party-no improper characters admitted.
For the neatest job printing in this
vicinity, send to The ARGUS PRINTING
COMPANY. Printing in colors is special
ity
Another business place on Illinois
street is closed, He didn't advertise in
THE ARGUS. That's what's the matter
NIT him"
Princeton has limited the number of
its saloons to seven, and makes each pay a
yearly license of $3.50. Moline charges
$40O. Rock Island $500. Chicago $50.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks Presi-
dent Grant has done more to sustain his
motto, Let us have peace, in dropping
Gov. Davis, of Texas, than he has by all
his other measures combined.
1t is bad failure-that of Randall,
Alfred & Lindberg, a general store firm,
at Cambridge, Ills. They have made an
assignment to Thomas Doane, Chica 90.
Their liabilities are $50, O00-assets, ST.
| 900.
The mercury at Breckenridge, Mimi,
yesterday, was l3 below; at St, Paul,
below. In the Eastern States it was rain
ing, and at Washington the mercury was
81 above, 60 at Philadelphia, 80 in New
York, 63 in Pittsburgh.
Major Burnham is considerably exer.
cised about the authorship of that letter
from Browning. Ill. Squire Chopper refuses
to exhibit it, as it is supposed he don t
want the writing compared with the hand
writing most familiar to him.
"A Western genius has just invented a
patent self-raking, stem-winding breech-
loading, seven-octave, nOn-exploslve auto
matte urchin chastiser and combined hair
comb, editorial protector and nash-cutter
HE expects to make colossal fortune.
The replevin case of Harry McEdary
against Foley and Stemple, before Esq
Pinkley, has again been postponed-to next
Tuesday, for the reason that Lawyer Me
Elherne is so much engaged in other cases
that he cannot attend to it before that
time
The Rev. Mr.. Findley, the new Pres.
byterian clergyman, arrived at 6:30 last
evening, and met warm reception from
the members of that society, in the lecture
room of the church For the present, his
home will be at Mrs Conway's, on Illinois
street.
Among the curiosities on the Rock
Island road during the past week have
been several trains Of Grand Trunk freighr
cars, regular houses in size, and brought
here from Canada to transport wheat anc
other grain directly to New York via tht
Grand Trunk line
The Republican Senators cannot afforC
to make many more mistakes in order tt
vindicate bad men who insist on party in
dorsement Better kick them out of tn.
party, and retain thousands of pure goo(
men, who will never need certificates o
character. - Des Moines State Journal
Rep.
Reform must come. The heart and
voice Of an entire people are demanding it
and that demand must be heard Whethe
the Republican party will be equal to tn,
hour and true to the great behest, the flu
ture alone will determine. But principl
is above party, and the cry of patriotism
is Let right be done though the heaven
fall. Letter from Senator Wright o
JO1c0.
I-Pooty gwck got me stronger, shtoppin not
| longer,
Who's der reason nit you:" exclaimed littl
louder q roar.
'Ah, please excuse me, dond dink dot you abus
me,
could only now unloose me der donner-bolt G
der door,
So help me gracious, couldn'd dold dill I opene
| der door,
Who dhere dot coined before.
The Kansas Legislature, which is mex
week to elect a United States Senator,
composed of l39 members, viz 33 in tn
Senate and 1913 in the House and 20 vote
in the joint ballot will be necessary to elect
In the present mixed condition of partie
ut Topeka, the vote on resolution decar
ing 'undiminished fealty to the Repubf
can party may serve as test. The reso
luton was adopted in the Senate by % t
8, and was tabled in the House by GO t
SO. The nine Senators and sixty
Representatives are majority of eight i
the whole number.