The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15
The 99ailg Atgns.
NOTES HERE AND THERE


If you want to play checkers and have
no board, get your wife to kneel down and |
play on the back of her dress.
-Customer-'' Mother wants nice plump
chickens pleas" 'Trussed?"
Customer" Oh, no; am going to pay
for It'll"
The Albany Argus says the next
President will not be "a galvanized harlot.
Will she be naughty galvanized ditto?
And if so what advantage have we?
He held the old shirt up by the neck
before discarding it forever, but he WASH
/ mourning for the garment. He only said,
L wish had all the drinks that have gone
through that old neck-band. "
The American rife team has sailed
away over seas Irish targets for to shoot.
The people who prayed away the grass
hoppers will, if they are patriotic, put in a
4 little work for the success of our marks
men.
Frisco bootblack-'S Sinner boots,
sir?" James Lick testily)--"Didn't l tell
you five minutes ago that L didn't want
my boots blackened?" Yer did, mister
but didn't know but what yer'd make a
revocation" Exit bootblack.
The n. Y, Graphic, that Abdiel of
organs says of Grants third-term letter:
1t may be that there are no contingencies
which call for reelection of President
Grant; that is an open question. But we
insist there is no constitutional or other
objection to 3 third term"
Hayes is not unlikely to run we'll in
Ohio, but the sturdy grangers propose to
remain on the fence until they learn
whether he's redtop, or clover or timothy,
and if he suits, they'll make him while the
sun shines, they say Your farmer can
handle metaphor.
First blood in the political agitation of
the Catholic Church question by HdrperS'
Weekly and the ~ Y, Times, may be
scored for Machias, Me-, where fanatical
incendiary has just burned Catholic
Church. Mast should now consistently
cartoon the fellow as hero.
"A great office holder from Iowa says
that Chicago brags of lis Whites, and
: Boston of it's Reds, but he is a member of
a club that beats them all hollow. He
= says: why, our club has made as much
< as a hundred, and here the two crackest
clubs of the country play for three hours,
and one of them make nothing while the
other only make two.
i The citizens of williamson county, Z
this state, continue to kill one another an 4
Gov Beveridge keeps on pardoning con
victs out of the penitentiary. The gov
ernor might do the state some service by
! stopping the pardoning business long
enoug h to pay some attention to the law
lessness prevailing in the county OF Viii
liamson.-Quincy Herald.
: There probably isn't man in Ameri
ca who doesn't consider himself critical!
}. posted on the spots, stripes, wings, lodges
character and public services of the west
ern grasshopper, and yet no two men cal
discuss the subject five minutes withou
:. contradicting, flying into passion, ant
8 calling one another pig-headed, Ignorant
wall eyed odd donkeys.
-Chawles went to the base ball mate
: day before yesterday, and when he cam
. home they were all sitting at the suppe
table And Chawles, says he, to hi
Es sisters friend from Boston: We'll, Mis-
Conkey. [ saw your Red Stockings to-day
.. and they had the color taken out of en-
80 too" And Miss Conkey, she just blushe
Vi and said how warm it was. And then
6 was very still.
1t is said that Satan is now staying
.. Chicago for few days and studying
perfect himself in the higher branches
iniquity. He is delighted with the tire
card monte trick, which was explained
him yesterday, and he feels confident TIL
he can induce Gabriel to bet on the gam
- Chicago sharpers were greatly amused /
IN some of the innocent blunders he mac
lad Wnen ne urSt came 10 town.
IN The graves Of the Confederate dead
tie Baltimore were decorated, Thursday afte
ing noon, under the auspices of the Socity of t
leG Army and Navy of the Confederate Stat
'os in Maryland The grafton was deliver
! o. by Major Robert Stiles, of Virgin
red Union soldiers were present, who decorat
at the Confederate monument, and ConfeC
sed rate soldiers decorated the monument
the Union dead.