The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


"A special meeting of our Board of Su-
pervisors is to be held on Monday, June
LIST, for organization, appointment OF cOm- !
mittees, etc.
The proposition to introduce ladies as
railroad conductors is trowned upon in |
view of the fact that their trains are al |
ways behind.
"A bill is proposed in the Canadian |
Parliament to limit the extent to which a |
lawyer may abuse and blackguard witness |
es and his opponent.
-Minnie-Im in such quandary; for
if | turn my back on Charley, he becomes
offended at once, and if don't he can't see
my new buckle What shall do?
notwithstanding the advent of spring
in Pittsburgh, Pa. it's still keno nights
there, and the authorities are asked If the
little game laws can't be brought to bear
The St. Paul papers fondle the n p
bill most tenderly, and wish the Eastern
editors would be a little more Pacific in
what they say of their pet which j.
| Cooked
On the cards. The recent raid on
Murray's gorgeous New York gaming
house 1t is safe to says that Solomon in
| all his glory was not raid like one of these.
Boston Globe.
Dennis Welch and Cy Cation are under
arrest, at Oquawka, for abducting and muir
dering girl named Jane Watson, aged
is, in April last. The body was recently
found in the river.
-Fadover tells us Mrs. Tadovcr says
she is shocked to think the Empress Anne
liza will let her husband go to En- S. Why
don't she apply for a divorce? And he
laid up with rheumatism, tool
We shall soon hear of the election of
John Green, of Omaha, to the United
States Senate. He went to Omaha with
out cent. By industry and enterprise he
won $4,000 in three days game OF pc
kGr
Somebody entered the Office of the
city scales last night and removed the ia
bles of weights, measures, etc. If it was
intended as Joke on Mr.. Thornton it was
very simple one. The tables have been
found
One of the pretty waiter-gir estab-
lishments of Chicago is more novel than
enticing OF it the Times says: There
: you can find the fair creatures of all shades,
from the color of pancake to that Of an
lrishman's pipe"
The Committee of Ways and Means
: have agreed to report to the House reso
luton severely censuring the Secretary Of
! the Treasury, his Assistant, and the SOliI-
itor, for permitting the Sanborn revenue
collection frauds, These officials deserve
not only censure, but prompt removal from
Office. - Chicago Journal.
5 "A Washington telegram says: Pres
] ident Grant approves Of decorating the
, graves of the Union and Confederate deaC
alike He believes the time has come
when every feeling of fraternity should b.
encouraged and advantage taken of ever!
opportunity to remove any remaining ami
n mostly occasioned by the war"
, "A young woman of Cairo lately in
5 weighed into a hand of euchre a timorou
beau whom, bowling oftenest at her shrine
she regarded as her best bower, her owl
; hand being the stake and although tn
Il poor fellow would have liked to go
5 alone" and lose, he was of course made t.
u win, and won the maid, as whose HUSBAND
u he will have to pass until the inevitable
q divorce of the State ends his state OF mat
e rimony and enables him to cut for ney
L deal.
u A New York letter writer says: IA
= attempt to introduce female BARRIERS int
\ Boston a few years since signally failed
= Judging, however, from the success SO ia
:, achieved by an establishment opened re
y y Gently in Fourth street here, female tonso
y rial professors are likely to make decide,
: success of it in New York. The place a
luded to is crowded from morning I'll
night. | certainly see no reason VIII
II women should not monopolize this high
1t business just as they are coming TO monor
" olize other employments from which the
have hitherto been excluded by the sterne
sex. Then again it would be so niue
ID more agreeable to have a woman's han
: running through ones hair and playin
about his beard"