The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-30

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Market Square was deserted to-day.
Cloudy, rainy day, and very few peo-
Pile on the streets.
What queer thing John Volk is
putting up on his building,
The old Dennison seminary has been
transformed into plumbers shop
Market square is beginning to look |
like stable yard-the whole being strewn
with hay. straw, etc.
BY reinstating Burt, Grant has got
even with Boston. Those hotel bills, you
Post
Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, Pennsyl-
vania's war governor" supports the
Democratic state ticket.
1t is rumored that j. j. Parks, Of the
law firm Of Gest & Parks, will be married
this evening Wish you happiness, Jim.
The Detroit Ffes Press is anxious to
know why the New York Herald has not
issued map Of the new style of striped
stockings.
The Black Hawk Coal Mines, at South
Rock Island, owned by Bailey Davenport,
will begin operations for the winter on next
Monday, with good force of men.
Ode to my landlady-two week board
bill. -E.cehange. Yes, She under stanza
joke of that kind. and that's why you're
a verse to meter, we suppose. Yorh;
Commercial.
In one of the large London hotels they
have introduced steam machinery for
washing the dirty plates and dishes. and
also for cleaning boots and knives and
forks. 1t is said to answer well.
Mr.. Bradlaugh, in speech at North
ampton, England, on the 10Th Of Sept said
that he was about starting for America,
but he would Immediately return in the
event of there being a vacancy in North
ampton, and contest the seat.
| There are good many rag-money ed
itors standing at their Office doors these
days, fighting away Carl Schurz's curren-
cy speech, lest it come in and overthrow
the initiation editorials on the galley, and
the others that have gone before.
There is large element of the popu-
lation of Chicago which churches do not
meet For the most part it is only the rich
and the well-to-do who attend church.
The really poor people, unless they are
Catholic, rarely darken church DOORS
Chicago Journal.
Gen. G. W. Jones, of Dubuque, ex-
U, s. senator, who went over to the Re-
publican party few years ago, has re-
returned to the Democratic fold. He
acknowledges that he got into bad crowd
VIXEN he deserted the Democracy, and he
comes back properly penitent.
Gail Hamilton advocates corporal pun.
ishment in schools. Gail Hamilton is one
of the sensible women who would make ;
fellow home comfortable if fellow woulc
only pluck up courage to ask her. It's
enough to make cynic feel bad to sex
such fine woman going to waste any
where.
Hitherto the public schools of Chicago
have been opened by reading the bible anC
repeating the Lords Prayer. Hencefortf
no religious exercises are to be allowed
The justice and wisdom Of RELOCATING al
religious instruction to the home and tn,
! church has been recognized quite gener
ally Chicago Journal.
1t is the earnest opinion of the Detroi
Free Press that when one sees it'll
ragged, homeless waits shivering on tn
streets, aud realizes that they may grow u
to become Philadelphia detectives ant
hunt for Charlie Ross, it makes one fee
that they might better be laid away nov
ard have a bushy-tailed lamb carved Of
their headstones.
This is the season when she come
down town to see if her summer hat ca
] be pressed over to look well for fall wear
q The girl in the miIliner's shop doesn't trea
her with the Difference accorded to
+, woman who buys hat all new, but tn
glance the milliner's girl gets for this lac
r of courtesy is something she will remembe
T. to her dying day.
g The New York Eoening Post is il
! structed and gratifed" to observe the col
trast between the course of senator THU
n man and Gov. Hendricks on the one sid
y and Senator Bayard and Hon. Carl Schal
o on the other, as regards the currency il
= sue, and highly commends the straight
, forward course of the two gentlemen la
Is named.
: The article in this paper from tn
d Denver Ne,Us, in relation to terrible di
F aster to the people of Las Cruces, Ne
Mexico. will be read with interest.-an
all will very much regret the loss to OIL
Is former fellow citizen, Hon. s. NJ. Asher
lie felter. Mr.. A. was here very short tin
d ago, with his family, and was on his wa
:. home when the disaster occurred. His r
:: ception will be dreary one,
. -House-cleaning is again in vogue, an
70 the time has come when the door-bell
sounded-the lady of the house starts fro
ID pastor wipes her hands on an apron.
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u gracefully wraps lace shawl around b.
form-smilingy glides to the door, and
finds a man with some patent washiu
compound for sale
he The church examination of Rev. j.
il, Hoffman.in the Quincy lIlD NJ E. churc
rs scandal has been concluded. The ties
IN mony against the reverend gentleman W
- damaging to the extreme, but he has {
as capped with only the word 'imprudenc
re tackled to his name by the church COZ
or mittee. The leading witness, Genel
tv Prentiss, however, has been suspend
-. from the church for six months. Chacd
~ Journal.
ID The Paducah (Ky.) Herald prints
'e- peace. notice which reads as follow
ay "All the ex Confederate soldiers in
e. district are earnestly requested to meet
:. Mayfeld on the 10Th of next month-ea
ne man bringing with him two days ration
ct, We learn that it is decided that they v
pit go into camp at Mayfeld, and make pre-
m arations for organizinga battalion, to
- differed by Crosland, Cobb. Randle a
o0 others, for the purpose of attending il
to body the Centennial celebrat ion at Phi
'or delphia.
MS "A dispatch from Ottawa states th
he the supreme court of Illinois has decid