The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-06
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


VIII Truesdale returned from Ger
many this morning.
The National Hotel in Joliet was
| closed Tuesday on a chattel mortgage.
Mrs. Clayton who was injured by q
runaway caused by a kite, in Davenport, is
dead.
Maj. Butler has gone to Geneva lake
where his family and some friends have
been for some time.
Where are the crusaders? George Wag
! ner, brewer of this city. sold 900 barrel,
of beer in %July-the biggest business h,
ever did in one month.
is the city clerk of Davenpart missing
Are there any little discrepancies in his ac
counts? The Davenport papers are very
silent about 1t.
This evening Misses Negus, Bracket
Lucy and Blanch Buford, Libhie Congel
and Ella kodman start on an extended toul
north, returning by the lakes,
1t was quite a surprise to see a copy
of the Davenport Democrat among our *
changes yesterday. We thought the pa
per had ceased to be published as none
had been seen for a week.
That Springfield, ILL.,, city clerk didn't
mean to steal the city funds-he only got
drunk, went off on a spree and turned up
in Memphis. His friends will go after him
and make it all right. Sich is life.
Last evening a pleasant party of city
folks started for the north on a two weeks
holiday. The party consisted of j. II.
Wilson and family, Miss Lucy Henderson
and Frank Robinson. They go to Mime
apolis aud then take a tour along the lakes.
--Tilton's man has withdrawn his libel
suit against Tilton, because. he says, the
case is to be taken to a higher court. y
fhus ends this little farce-and now every
body will be anxious to know by whom and
under what circumstances the case is to be
brought before Il higher court
The city council on Monday. made no
move towards getting better crossings and
sidewalks. Mayor Calls promise Of some
Joliet stone crossings is yet unfulflled. and
we can see no sign that it will be fulfilled.
Has the Street Com'r. been directed TO
order the stone? If so has he ordered it
and when shall we see it on the streets?
The people want to see some evidence of
those crossings,
The ways of the average Whisky In
specter Of the Grant species are past find
ing OUT. 1t has Just been discovered that
u quantity of spirits, consigned to the firm
OF f.. y. Boyd Il Co., from C~ronkhart q
Co, of Morris, ILL.,, overran the western
gauging several gallons in a barrel. The
supervisor states that it Is either a ques
ton of fraud or incompetency on the part
the gauger at Morris, LII.
1t is reported that Alexander, Dor
d Co., of st. Louis have forged cot
ton warehouse receipts to the amount of
from one hundred thousand to one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars,
and that two or three banks of
that city have been taken in to
he tune of forty or fifty thousand dollars.
Dorman and one or two other members of
he firm have been arrested, and an inyes-
will be made.
-IfHorace Greeley's opinion of Mrs. Til
is correctly quoted, the marriage of
hat lady with Theodore Tilton offers a
perfect retutation OF the doctrine that
unions are only formed by a con
of opposites. For a more unhap-
" union than this is hard to imagine and
'et Horace Greeley is cited as saying that
'lr. TiltOn possessed the God blessedest
rife il the world If any woman eyer
Iad the precise opposite of a God bless
d. husband, clearly Mrs. rilton is that
And yet she is not happy!
The numerous railroads now center
lg at this city bring large numbers of
assengers here every day and there is a
God deal of strife among the runners and
ackmen to get them for the various
otels and lines they work for. This com
etition leads the boys to be well posted
! the law, especially as to licenses badges,
to-, ETC., aud whenever they can discover
ne who has not fulfilled the letter of the
Nv they generally c~ontfive to make him
r his employer contribute something to
.ees and ,ity finds