The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

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-DAILY and WEEKLY Rock ISLAND
ARGUS. ....e.,..,
The festival of the Turner'S, at Tur-
ner Hall, Saturday evening. was pleas
ant affair.
-Bayard Taylor lectures in Darts
Hall Wednesday evening. Reserved seats
at Champion
Friday evening the st. Patrick's Be.
neyolent Society will give its semi annual
ball in Turner Hail. The society is de-
serving of encouragement from all.
Andrew Bowman, son of Dr. Bowman,
Of Andalusia, leaves this evening for Ann
Arbor, 10 resume his studies in the Medi-
cal Department of tire University Of Mich
igan.
Mccoy & Bailey, publishers of the
Delmar Iowa. Journal, are on trial at
Clinton for libel-accusing Azarah Prus
STA and Margaret Jones of improper. in-
timacy Mccoy is the man who had an
adventure in our police court with the wife
of another man.
Rankin, the Republican State treasury
thief in Iowa, is trying to escape by claim
ing that he was not the treasurer OF the
| State Agricultural College, but State OF
| fcer within the meaning Of the statute
The stealing isn't denied. but he is trying
to escape by technicality.
A very bright newspaper, on Friday,
repamped a stale ''colloquy after election.
and improved it by causing Lazarus to be
"kicked by dogs" And Sunday morning 1t
thinks it too bad to extinguish Senator
Coxs humor by making him Speaker. 1t
i, not customary to choose the Speaker
from the Senate.
/ Our citizen philosopher and scientis
Dick Mansil, has discovered why Schind
Ter took "cold pizcn." on the 10th Of Oct.
and why Moller threw himself under II
railrrad train on the Goth OF the same
month, and both Killed themselves 1t
was because Jupiter, Mars, and Mercu,
~ passed their apheions in the month OF
October 1874, Jesse.
The ferry folks anchor their dock out
| in the river and then build u bridge to the
shore to make people think it ism I safe t.
place the dock near the shore, There S
water enough to lap the aprons six feet on
the shore, il they wanted to. But there
can be no objection to the ferry folks build
| INK bridge out 10 the dock it they want
la Nobody objects TO their fixing the
landing u suit themselves.
-Anaaymous seribblers continue to at
tH,S Azy>r Gait 5 administration, IN thu
Imam. 0ae u them is particularly trou
3il.,a 1srGs Digs and locomotives. 1t III
iIis.s III 1My j as roAulng ut large with
pta ,a,isarS AID g!,Aout being registered
ls .,arts- L. good citizen, II notlhy I'M
srs,gec sststr q the fact How does d
!. spsv 7nt. railroad trains run faster tina
, Allowed ~ 8awE He cannot know tina
tAes Elslseli timing them.
1t used to be favurite objection t.
the Eagle street ferry landing by the dea
heads on the ferry that teams were
, danger from the switching of cars. But
: is a notorious fact that nearly all tie team
. crossing the ferry since the boat has bee
At Washington street have crossed tn
tracks at the foot of Eagle street and bee
= driven up and down along the top OF tn
river bank-al crossing exactly where the
do now, with the ferry at Eagle street, an
, not a word of fault has been found by tn
terry dead heads, which shows that I'll
n switching is not what's the matter.
o 1t was amusing, during the disturb
# ance of the peace by the ferry compan
4 to notice who the people were that apol
=. gized for the violation Of law and reSis
ance to the peoples authority. In ever
e case it was a Washington street man, or
C ferry dead head. Outside of Washin,gt(
, street and the dead heads. everybody
satisfied and sustains the Mayor. For
c we care the ferry may land at Butfa
1t street or at Madison streec-but we oblec
e as do the people generally, to permitting
y. to squat in the middle OF our public steal
boat landing and circuDscribins the roo
e needed for business on the leVee