The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-25
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i i6utl Vi uuCAS oe koWdu lake. SO says
John Warner.
The latest name for blonde hair is the
Tight fantastic tow.
-Crusading is no use. IF you want TO
crowd the saloon-keepers, put high tax on
slate pencils.
Our city marshal publishes in Dav-
export paper his division of the city into
police districts.
We complain of cold summer. The
World says that New Y ork has had frost in
every month this year.
The coming man is he who owes YOU.
| -Advertiser's Gazette. He is long while
coming in these parts.
The Danbuy Ne,os says ''this coun-
try really needs good five-cent cigar" It
also needs less poor ten-cent cigars.
Der Demokrat, in Davenport, the most
influential paper in Iowa, has nailed to its
mast head the full Liberal state and coun-
ty ticket. as
The returns from New Mexico, which
are now nearly complete, indicate s. B.
Eikins's Decentralization as delegate by
about 1900 majority.
| They only keep one lantern on hiatt
trap called the slough bridge. During
the repairing, two lanterns would be a great
accommodation these dark nights.
last evening about thirty couples Of
Of our young folks, assembled at Wide
Awake Hose house, and had very pleas
ant dance, to the music of Beihl's band.
JEFF Davis, instead Of hanging on
a sour-apple tree" is now climbing
mountains and breathing the free air Of
Colorado. He reached Denver on Satur.
Iday.
Horace White, formerly editor of thu
Chicago Tribune, has been comparing
4 America and England in an article pub
lished by the Fortntghtly ReUie,o, of Lon
; don.
-Ex-United States Senator Il. G. Ross
who for year or more has been foreman
Of the Lawrence Kan. Journal Office. thi
|, week assumed the assistant editorship o
that paper.
The Democrats have made clear
sweep Of Wyoming Territory, electin.
eleven of thirteen members of the council
and eighteen of twenty-seven members O
the house,
The Chicago, Rock Island & Paci6
directors have declared semi annual div
idend of four per cent, payable Octobe
II. The transfer books will be closed Dc
tober 2.
John Bengston will occupy the corne
: store in his new block, for a drug store
7 AS the block is the finest in the city it
f expected his store will correspond, in fiz
a lures.
It -Workmen are are engaged building
s neat board fence across the west point G
r the Island, and on each side of the cause
t way, leading from the Island to fsSylva
n Water. bridge.
1t Since Judge Grant of Davenport con
menced to build hotel at the foot of Mai
% street in that city, it has been believed TIL
n the D. 4 St. P. B. r. would come into Il
I. city on the river front. p,
! A crazy man believed to be Jof
: Kipp, of Randalia, Iowa, was taken befol
4 the commissioners of insanity, over Il
= river yesterday, and was adjudged
subject for the asylum.
- John Warner, president Of the stree
Sc railway company. is christian, but
d. made him grit his teeth when that load
nd Methodist conference broke the wheels
one of his new cars.
~, -Of6cialand reported returns from ;
~ the counties of California but two,in WIFI
't- the vote is very small, give Irwin, Dem
or crat, 56,6OI; Phelps, Republican, 29,69
ed and Bidwell, Independent. q. 430.
ot "A young father of twin babies, in Il
l city, being called to look at the darlings
he the first time, innocently asked t
nurse, which shall we drowned?"
Idan'k aoly cY.oh
An old resident of Dewitt, Iowa, "
Of buried alive on Thursday afternoon ne
hit Calamus, that state, by the earth cavi
b,o IN on him while he was at work in a W
= With boring machine. He was de
me when taken from the well.
ter On Thursday, Oct. 2Sth, Gen. I.
mt Elliott, living 2 miles east of Princett
lex will sci! at public sale 125 head of
the pure-bred Berkshire hogs. Gen. Eli
20 has the reputation of raising some of
VI finest blooded hogs in Bureau county. =
uc- Our library board send their work
for Davenport to be- done. People who I
the taxes would like to know If the work nee
lea. sary to be done for the library cannot
,ro done at home. Have they too become p
~ sessed Of the snobbish notion, that Il
s oil must 60 from home to be considered
ler- ey? ~
,eir 1t was a brakeman's darling, and
brought her bundle of silk as prese
are saying it would make her pretty p
put. back. Resting her hands on her br,
dis hips, she gazed at him a moment and q
E he said: johnny, am your sweet pal
ri, car or your nasty little narrow gaugel
wiz Then she made crinoline of it.
'ei That is whole speech in itself, Gro
VINO ed into two sentences, uttered by Cass
asts M. Clay to the New York San: Il
, II against imitation, but still more aga
49,, Grantism. l should hardly hare tar
A'n tory In 1776 because of continental mon,
and A great many people of both parties
ex commit that speech to memory, and m
Who votes will be cast to vindicate it.
ouu- In 1870, there were four Democr
the governors; in 1875, twenty-fo Democr
governors. ln 1870, four Democratic leg
are lures; in 1875, twenty-fou Democratic
Dusi- islatures, In 1870. ninety Democratic 10
will bers of the house of representatives of
49,, United States; 10 1875, on hundred
eighty members of that body. In /
twelve Democratic members of the Sc
of the United States; in 1875, twenty-e
had members.
thus The Union is unhappy over the
'rteo that large number of the leading Rel
the licans of the county have asked Mr.. s
r, or Porter To he n Candidate for 70. elact;o
'n rs the Office of county treasurer Ii
T, l. these Republicans that there is to
'erea regular Republican candidate with
put intimation that if they dare to support
best didate whom a fsw bovs 1;Le 0l;ver n