The daily Argus., 1875-05-01
rorTsHrxE AND THERE.

down the old Rock Island House.
Grants speech at Hartford:
I'VE won't stay here long, will wer'
Probably not.
DIR. De Koven as Macbeth: Is this
Churchn.an.
The bessie Turner bonnet, says the
Cincinnati Times, is ''very bright and will
stand the crossest of examination"
Our police force is too small for the
territory over which they are expected to
keep an eye. Two or three more men are
needed.
The Baptist lady alluded to in the |
Unions article headed Pointed" is eth
er a retailer of falsely colored story, or
| the Union is false witness.
May /. Yesterday snow fakes were
fyipg in the air. This morning a cold
rain.-the balance of the day cloudy, cold
and windy. No May-day parties to-day.
| There is an association at the West
called Daniels Band" We were under
the impression that Daniels menagerie
Iexperience was not enlivened by an or
chestra.-Boston Bulletin.
-"Johnl John'l wake up; there's a
burglar in the house" |" said the wife.
John sat upright in bed. ''Burglar-b-u-r-
Ig.Le-r-purgler"- and he rolled over,
waiting for harder word.
| Somebody in Dubuque got an organ
grinder drunk and gave him an ice cream
freezer. The old fellow turned the crank
| by the road side patiently till he went to
sleep. IS ess -.sa5 sse s-.. a.
| Atkinson, Henry county, has case of
scan mag-an Iowa girl, living at the
house of James Riley, couple of miles
south of town. They sent the girl to the
!. county aims house.
II Forty FIVE arrests were made by the
police in Davenport during the month of
, April, and and 6fty-three tramps were
sheltered in the Office of the chief of police.
, Thirty-one arrests were made in Rock Isl
J and.
Salary grabbing is Senator Logan's
i, strong hold. He introduced resolution
to pay his clerk, Mr.. Dan, Shepard, while
Icongress was not in session, the same as
: was done for the same Shepard by the
g last Republican legislature of this state.
v Two young men from Atkinson, Henry
. county, lone recently married )went to Green
= river to shoot ducks, each taking flask Of
'' whisky along. They lost their guns, theil
e ammunition, got no ducks, came very neal
losing themselves, and arrived at home il
4 a sad state of general decentralization, ,-ont
lying across the dashboard and the othel
. across the tail board of the wagon.
J. -"Auntie'' Williams (colored) applied
of to Magistrate Chopper to-day for divorc'
h from her ''ole man." Charles Williams, OF
the ground that ''he carried crock o
sour kraut to mother woman day" ant
don't provide for his own folks" "Aun
d tie" was in that happy condition produced
by corn juice and entertained hilariou
=, crowd with accounts of her family affairs
y y but she didn't get the divorce. @-+'
Bully boyl Didn't he stick to him !?
These were the exclamations of the crow,
when they saw how Will Steel hung t
that grey horse, running from his father
store out through Market square and ava
IS up Eagle street towards Mosenfelder'
ID store till he brought him to stand-stil
sy 1t was brave contest and bravely VOL
10 No damage except the breaking of on
~ hold-back strap and several black and blu
" spots on Will.
~ The spelling match between some Nc
is line people and some Henry county peopl
ali was very close contest, but the victor
nt was with Moline, both on the oral an
:. the written contests Miss Flora 6. Ferg
eu uson, of Moline, was the winner in the ora
Is, contest, and was presented with volum
" of poems. Mr. Charles Riley, of Moline
he was the winner in the written contest an
- was presented with copy of Mrs. Stowe
CT new novel, owe and Our Neighbors."
.oI About eight o'clock this morning a
be Levi Cralle, Of Moline City Express, We
rs, driving across the water trench at Wasl
NO ington and Illinois streets his horse b,
came frightened and jumped to one sid
- falling partly into the trench. The hal
elr ness was taken off and the horse stoo
If erect in the trench. After some delay
of getting plank, the horse was taken out G
eor an inclined plane, and Mr.. Cralle went Q
~ ~ his way rejoicing,
ne "A prominent citizen on Nelson stree
'ch who is the proud possessor of handson
tn daughter, went home to tea the other eve
RS. ing. and said, to bis wife Mother,
mo have finally succeed in my petition for
street lamp on our street, and it is goiI
out to be set directly in front of our gait
the A sudden scream and heavy fall sou
Be- ded from the next room. The alright,
ur parents rushed 10 there, The daught
- - lay PROSTATE on the floor. She had fai
'"' ted. .-Danbary Ne,os.
an- The grand jury was discharged fro
ore furthei attendance at this term, yesterd
tep afternoon. They reported three Indie
md ments One against Geo. W. Farrell
:. breaking and larceny (stole furs from Ry
va Bros). One against David McCarl al
rds John Doe for conspiracy (parties detect
en, in trying to enter shoe store on Thi
nil street,, and one against L. H. Ingham I
Ia assault with intent to commit murder.
o'o is probable that Farrell and McCarl W
plead guilty.-Dav. Gaz. May lst.
ire Geo. PI Riley, of Rapids City, VII
me not long since. pleaded guilty to the pate
the nifty of an illegitimate male child, of viii
80, Widow Clarissa Hudson was mother, W
'es sentenced to pay the widow 800 the FL
nat year, land $50 year for ten years there;
rid after, and went to Jail because he could n
NO. give bonds,in 81 .0O0,f for the payment,
on &c. He offered to marry the widow and b
en six other children, but she scorned hi
not and he went to jail He has at last fl
be- nished the bond and been released frc
and Jail.
,eo. The Cambridge Chronicle says: st
third boy concerned in the CISCO depot re
berry, Jennie Crowly, has been arrest
r. in Rock Island and delivered over to Sh,
us 9llss iff Vannice, tried before the county Coz
nu' here, and sentenced with the others to [
TI rUi State Reform School at Pontiac, and
. NC three have gone up together this week.
ION They are all little fellows, aged IL, l2 Al
nap 123 years respectively, and quite small
an, their age. They had not bad faces, nat,
rev ally, and probably would not have be
on bad boys. under proper influences; /