The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-20
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Tomorrow evening the Fannie Pric'
troupe in Darts Hall. See advertisement
The st. Patrick's Benevolent Societ,
expect jolly good ball this evening at Tur
ner Hall. Tickets 81.
The ladies festival at Darts Hall was
well attended last evening and highly en-
ljoyable. This evening closes lthe enter
tainment,
Olive Logan poises rolling-pin OF
the end of her thnmb and demands to know
who first uttered the expression, Logan
man Sykes.
i The Pennsylvania protectionists arr
opposed to reciprocal free trade with Can
ada. So is the Inter- Deem, and SO ar,
most other high tarifites.
l An Indiana clergyman sued newspa
per for libel and dropped dead within I
week. The Detroit Free Press says these
fellows will learn something by and by.
Girls as you value your lives, don't gel
up and get breakfast in the morning. A
young lady attempted it one day last week
and was burned to death. Show this t.
Iyour mammas,
A young blood at hotel was request
ed to pass dish near him. 'Do you mis-
take me for a waiter ?" said the exquisite
mo sir; | mistook you for gentleman,
was the prompt reply.
The contractors have completed theil
lob on the water works conduit, and We
are told that the people will now be sup.
piled with pure filtered water from the bed
of the river We hope So
Washington Irving once alluded to a
man of superior pomposity as "a great
man, and, in his own estimation man OF
great weight. When he goes to the
west he thinks the east tips up"
An excited railway man, who shouts
into the cars the names of the stations, and
who hears a greal deal of complaint be-
caus the names are called indistinctly, wants
to know if the public expects tenors at SAC
a month,
The love letters of the Due de Richel-
leu are offered for sale in Paris. In none
of them, however, does it appear that he
and his sweetheart ever simultaneously
sucked at the same stick of candy - Wash
ington Chronicle.
-'Alas!" said nurse who attended
the witty divine, Sidney Smith, In his last
illness, II have made mistake and given
you bottle of ink. :" Then" said the
dying wit, fetch me all the plotting paper
there is in the house.
An Augusta hen-pecked husband
closed his testimony in his action for dl-
vorce from his wife as follows: II don't
want to say anything agin the woman,
Jege, but | wish You could live with her
a little while, and you'd think | had told
the truth.
The U. S. Steamer Montana, Capt
Davis, has arrived from aboye, and, after
removing some small distractions to nav
igation at Horse Island just below this city,
will be laid up at this point, for winter.
Pilot Dave Upton is along, looking as hear
ty as ever
Ten degrees below zero at Bismarck
in Dakota Territory early Thursday morn
ing, and degrees below at Breckenridge
Mimi, above at St. Paul, % at Chicago
80 at ST. Louis, and 90 at Rock Island
Snow fell enough to bring out few sleighs
but it was hard shedding"
The Republicans said if the Dem
ocracy carried the elections, that the white
rebels would take away the rights Of the
negro. 10 verify this statement comes the
Democratic legislature of Arkansas and
elects colored man enrolling clerk and
another door-keeper These Republicans
we're about as good prophets on this mat
ter as on the result of the election.
- The annual report of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, just published, states
that the Chicago branch was built without
mortgage, all the labor and materials
having been purchased with cash; conse
quently the road has been constructed at
an expenditure conspicuously less than
that of competing roads. The announce
ment is made that the inc from Pitts
burgh to Chicago Junction will soon be
completed.
BY the way, what has become of the
Chattanooga? A week before the cleo
ton we were promised report from the
committee on statistics. Where is thar
committee now The Indiana state cen.
trail committee also cried aloud for Stats
tics of brutal outrages in the South. Where
is that committee now? The Republican
party all over the country-including the
detectives sent down to Alabama to manu-
facture brutal outrages-all cried aloud for
United States troops to protect the carpet
bags of the South. Alas Two list das
hardy now?'
1t was Mr. kimballs forethought, un-
der Mayor Davenports administration, to
prepare a place, IN Butord's block, where
poor impecunlous strangers could have a
clean board shelf in comfortable room to
rest upon during the night, and save turn
keys fees at the Jail also to lock up sus-
picious characters found providing around
late at night, and thus prevent burglaries,
thetts, assaults etc. The plan works we'll
as saving to the city, shelter to loafers
and a preventive of crime. Scarcely a
night passes but the station house" has
sOme occupants.
The coal miners who have during the
past week been so violently striking for
higher wages iu st. Clair county, ILL.,, have
returned to their work, having agreed to
accept their employers terms. The men
who are peaceably working today, repair.
Ing the mines, preparatory to mining the
coal, are the same persons who set them
On fire week since. BY returning to work |
they do not acquit themselves OF the crime
IF arson In the course of riotous excite
ments, attendant upon difficulties between
Droprietors and labors, intracuons of the
avs are too frequently made, and after