The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

dropped from the clouds?' The rain
dear, was the reply.
The statement that there are two mer
in the country who repair hand organs viii
be received with incredulity.
i am not afraid of a barrel of cider,
said topper to temperance man. u
presume not, was the reply; from youl
appearance | guess barrel of cider would
run at your approach.
One of the issues for the next Presi
Dental election will be the restoration o.
the Presidents salary to the old rate o.
$25. 900 year. The salary grab must be
repealed by the people.
- Twenty-Five newspapers in Kansas
have thrown off party ties and taker
ground in favor Of the reform movement
Six of them were formerly Democratic
and the others were Republican.
"A San Franciscan came home, from
business, and, finding his wife house
cleaning, added to her labors by cutting
his throat on the clean kitchen floor
Some men have no feeling for their wives
The newspaper is law book for the
indolent, sermon for the thoughtless, and
a library for the poor. 1t may stimulate
the most Indifferent, it may instruct the
most profound, but it can't be published
for nothing.
"A gentleman was complimentlng. a
pretty young lady in the presence OF his
wife. ITS lucky | did not meet Miss
Hopkins before l married you, my dear
well, yes, it is extremely-for her, was
the dry rejoinder.
--Housekeepers should know that a
small piece of paper linen, moistened with
spirits of turpentine, and put into a bureau
or wardrobe for single day or two, tor
three times year. is sufficient proven
tive against moths.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, with truth
says: There will be few regrets that the
railroads are at last taught to obey the
laws. The imparting of this instruction
may be the means Of effecting reconcilia
ton between the conflicting interests.
The Davenport Gazette tries to es
cape from its SANDER Of couple Of law
firms in this city under cover of typo,
graphical error in The ARGUS This is
too thin The Gazette was the author OF
an untruth. A square acknowledgment
is the best way out of it.
On Thursday last a fellow named
Keller, shot and dubbed a drover named
Charles Hawes at Columbus Junction,
Iowa, robbed him of his money and fed
to Davenport. He was arrested in Conk-
lius restaurant, on Sunday morning, aud
taken to Columbus Junction Mr.. Halves
was shot in the head and struck with a
club and left for dead-but it is now
thought that he will recover.
The pay and perquisites of President
Grant for the four years Of his present
term amount in round figures to 1852, 200;
those of President Lincoln during four
years amounted to $4,000. Thus four
years of Grant cost the country $268, 900
more than four years of Lincoln; and
Grant says; II would provide for an ex-
cess of revenue over current expenses. |
would do this by rigid economy
The inordinate number of people kill
ed by lightning within few weeks revives
discussion as to safety during thunder
storms. 1t is conceded that there is no
place of absolute safety in shower, for
the electric fluid is erratic and goes where
it pleases. 1t is wise precaution, howev
err, to avoid currents of air and to SIT IN
the central portion Of room, away from
parts on which the lightning may descend.
The Catholic demonstration on the oc-
casion of the laying Of the cornerstone OF
the Cathedral OF the Holy Name, yester-
day, was one of the most imposing that
has been witnessed il Chicago for many
years. The procession embraced nearly
all the Catholic military and civic societies,
numbering fully twenty thousand persons
The ceremonies were conducted according
to the ritual of the church. All passed off
quietly. Chicogo Times, Monday.
The Bloomington Pantagraph has the
annexed description of the effect of the
rays of the sun during ;he recent hot
weather: The rails of the street rall
way,when theyw laid in the cold wealth
err, were placed as close together as posi-
be The sun heated them SO hot yester-
day that, as they expanded in one place,
they raised the track ten inches on both
sides for sixteen feet, at the same time
pulling all the sleepers out of the ground.
How is that for sun power?'
The probable coalition of Republicans
and Farmers in Missouri is a cause of great
unhappiuess to the Democratic organs
they are unceasing in their warnings to
the farmers to shun such an "uuholy uu-
ion." The Kansas City Times, for instance,
makes this seductive appeal: THE coali
ton is doomed to defeat, and we hope the
true Changers of the State will take steps
to speedily extricate their noble organiza
ton from the ruin and dishonor that will
result from identifying it with the Radical
party"
We thought that Ha,per's Weekly
couldn't go on long without evoking the
thunderbolts which the Administration al.
ways holds in reserve for licentious press.
Here is "A domestic organ demanding to
know, rs this to be the spirit in which the
Journal Of Civilization will be conducted
in the future? No wonder that Congress
and the men who are day after day so
cruelty and unjustly assailed in the news
paper press endeavor to devise ways and
means to place some check upon its licen-
tiUuSness.
Commenting on Gov Kemper's third
term letter, the Mobile Register, edited by
John Forsyth, makes this vigorous protest
against the scheme, IT Gen. Grant
wants TO try his hand for a third term, let
him run on his own strength, or let the
Radicals carry him if they can. CODsery-
alive men of all parties would simply dis
grace themselves in the eyes of common
sense and common justice and propriety
who undertake to support the most selfish,
unpatriotic, and unprincipled chief magis
tratc who has ever sat in the chair of
Washington, Jefferson, and Adams Let
the South, of all sections, beware how they
are seduced into this monstrous folly.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton has issued a circular calling the atten-
ton of public school directors and town
Aim trnnsnrrrs In the irnnnrfant fact that