The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
.oudy, rainy, chilly day.

-Cloudy, rainy, chilly day.
"A charming shower, last evening.
1t is reported that Orion has chosen
license board, by 9 majority.
Henry county is having new county |
map made. One will be needed in this |
county soon.
The temperance meeting in the Bap-
fist church last evening was devoid of par
ticular interest and not very we'll attended.
The hen that annually broods litter
of kittens, much to the disgust of their fe-
line mother, is in Putnam county, this
year.
-Galva has gone anti-license. The
CrOnicle says 1t would have gone license
IF the ladies had not taken the thing into
their own hands"
One of our medical men says that
diptheria, scarlet fever, measles and kin
dred diseases are largely induced by the
poisonous exhalatiops which come from
unclean streets and alleys
Cambridge will try again to elect trus-
tess, on the 10Th. Having had tie on
seven candidates, at the first election, and
then, In casting lots, coming out with tie
in the board on the license question, the sue
cessful candidates declined to qualify, thus
rendering another election necessary. A
gentleman from Cambridge expresses his
belief that the license party will be sue
cesstul this time.
There was vigorous war of words be-
tween our new police magistrate and the
street commissioner, last evening, about
the way the street commissioner is dis
charging his official duties. Some say
that the sinister eye of the magistrate is
slightly in mourning-but the street COM
missioner denies that he used any but
wordy arguments, though he is inclined to
think he ought to have done so. Next.
Hardly day passes that does not de-
post on our table some new specimen of a
Grange organ 1t is safe to say that
about nine out of ten of these would be
organs are frauds-new newspaper ven
lures started out to ride into circulation up
on the goodwill and patronage of the Pa
irons of Husbandry. The Changers
will do well to give these organs the cold
shoulder. Cincinnati Times.
Now that the plant is plentiful in our
market 1t is proper to quote medical cor
respondent of an English journal, when he
says, that the advantages of asparagus are
not sufficiently estimated by those who
suffer with rheumatism and govt. Slight
cases of rheumatism are cured in a few
days by feeding on this delicious esculent,
and more chronic cases are much relieved,
especially if the patient avoids all acids,
whether in food or beverage.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon
John Aster's bakery team, fine spirited
pair of horses, was backed into, in front of
the Mansion House, by another team and
frightened Starting on a run they made
the dust fly lively, running with furious
speed up Buffalo street, out past Bailey
Davenport's residence, and on up the hill
by the old grave yard. When about half
way up the hill they got SO tired that a
man coming down the hill easily stopped
them. Nothing hurt.
Ann Steward, a widow residing in
Troy, was taken suddenly sick about O.
clock on Sunday morning, and died six
hours afterward. There had been dance
at her house on Saturday night, and to use
the expression of South Trojan, she
danced two men to pieces" The over ex-
ertion caused apopexy of the brain, from
which she died The deceased was SO
years of age, and leaves four children who
were dependent upon her exertions for
support.
-Twenty-one years ago a daughter OF
Peter Hawk, Esq, of Stroudsburg, Pa,
was bitten by mad dog. Although cattle
bitten by the same dog were seized with
hydrophobia, the girl did not show any
symptoms of the disease She grew tc
womanhood, and was was married. Re-
Gently, as she was raising glass of water
to her lips, a shudder ran through her, and
| in a few minutes she was seized with by
drophobia in its worst form A number Of
| p ysicians were called, but they could dc
nothing for her. She died in great agony
David jackson, who resides about
three miles north of Cambridge, was il
that town with his wife, on business, few
days ago. Having concluded their shop
ping they returned home, and after the
horses had been put in the stable they
found little girl, about years old, in thu
rear end of the buggy. She was taken
care of, but, being Swede, nothing could
be learned from her. She was tolerably
well dressed, and it is supposed that sh'
was placed in the buggy in the hope that
she would be taken care Of and thus re
lieve those who should protect and care fo
her.
The bride came early in the day ant
swore out a warrant for the groom, which
was placed in the hands of the sheriff, VIII
arrived with his prisoner about the middl
Of the afternoon. The suit was brought t
a sudden termination, however. by bein
transformed into wedding. and the brid
inn be laft f. ~
happy. There were not stamps enough il
the crowd to pay either lawyer or weddin!
fees, so the attorneys and justice under
took to get even by kissing the bride, bu
they being too gentlemanly to concentrat
their muscular power, and she being to
strong for either of them single handed
they did not get even kiss.-Hennepi
Record,
They have got hold of pretty larg
sized roorback out West, and appear t
be considerably frightened at it. 1t come
IN the shape of a rumor from Washington
that the recent solemn love feast at tn
Manhattan Club in this city was the frs
step in a subtle conspiracy of the Demo
Gratis to nominate Gen. Grant for the Presi
dency IN 1876, on an authorization plat
form, claiming him as an original Demo
crat. The Cleveland Leader detects sus
pieious leaning toward such plot in tn
) published speeches of the gathering, AM
gives this caution to those who may be In
clined to scott at the rumored plan
Whoever feels disposed to say that it
chimercial and absured should remembe
the nomination Of Horace Greeley by tn
Democrats at Baltimore in 1872. IN. 7
Tribune.