The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-29
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

1T used to be Gilt Edged Marshal
now it is Doughty Deputy Marshal.
Next
Freight business on the c., r. |. & P.
r. r. never was better than at present.
Seven or eight long trains go west from
this city every day.
"A little army of small girls nav be
seen in this and adjoining towns every
morning, with baskets of garden truck
for sale, which finds ready purchasers.
Selfish Loventhal. hailing from Chi
cago, forgot to take out license before he
commenced peddling in this city Marshal
Halves took his pack till he concludes to
take license or leave.
If President Grant wished to identify
himself more completely with the Wash
ington Ring. could he find any other way
to do it SO effectually as by promptly pun
ishing Adolph Cluss for giving his evi-
dence against their robberies? The plum
derers are continued IN power and enjoy
| his fullest confidence; but those who ex-
pose them are visited with his swift indig-
nation.
--Good platform writers will be in de
mand this year at Republican conventions
This thing Of whooping initiation postmas-
tiers no to the support OF hard money ad
nIlnistration will be trying to the platform
carpenters, We are little anxious to SEE
a Republican platform for 1874. 1t vii
! probably be built on the plan Of the Win
ans iron-clad cigar boat '-the inside
hung on pivot so that ii makes no differ
ence which side is up,
The Ottawa I'll Free Trader puts l
we'll; 'One point the farmers are gettin:
pretty well posted upon. John A. Logan
Richard Oglesby and half dozen of Chi
cago's real estate gamblers own town sit,
at the mouth of the Calumet, nine mile
south of Chicago. They have got the gov
eminent to appropriate about $4,000 thu
far to build harbor there, and now,
they can get up an era of wild speculation
they think they can sell their swampy lot
at fabulous prices and make immense for
tunes But the points the farmers under
stand as applicable to such a case is. tina
every dollar made by Logan, Oglesby /
Co, in this way, without being earned b,
honest toll. is a dollar which somebod
else has earned, and that somebody else t
the extent of nine to one, is the farmers
! There is 40 wealth but that which is eth
er dug out Of the ground or fashioned b.
honest toll out of material taken from tn
ground. A million made by Logan & Co.
in brilliant Calumet speculation, there
fore, Is million robbed from honest toll
The farmer, unless he is in partnershi
with the robbers, cannot be an initiation
list.
Everybody knows that Rock Islam
has the most polite and gentlemanly May
ors IN the West, who sometimes drives
fast PAGER, and oftener a spanking pair {
chestnut Morgans. The DR.. didn't rid
in the street cars much, till he was electe
Mayor, but now he occasionally takes
= ride that way. Possibly Uncle john ma
have made dead head Of him. TIL
7thcr day he was taking i little trip Ia
way when woman evidently from tn
north of England. with a market aske
on her arm, entered the car aud took
seat opposite him. She then produced
little bag ont Of which she took ten-cer
shinplaster. In the most polite manne
T. as becomes "a Mayor and all good citizen
the city father passed his right han
over to take the bill and secure the goo
= woman her ticket and change To hi
great surprise, she shifted the Shinplastt
to her lett hand, and extending the Drawn
q palm Of her right laid it on his open f.
and closed on him with warm grip. an
then began to shake heartily, r2markin
as she did so: You have the best of M
K friend, but | think | know that face ?
t The Dr.. thinks it was a very ludicrous pc
Torrance.