The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-05
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Why is president Grant like power
Of attorney Because he knows all men
by their presents Pr

Sing q song OF bribers,
Distillers full of rye,
Four and twenty CANCERS
Knocked into ''pi.h
If there is no third term, what will be- \
,ome of the carpet-bagger? 1t begins to :
ook as if his days were numbered. 0
The essence of Grants third term let a
Ter is that he is still candidate for the
nomination or any other-N T.
Sun,
-Gratitude-A bachelor made a will
leaving his property to the girls who had
refused him. For to them owe all my
earthly happiness. y
Tt will GOMEZ said a candidate for
mayor of St. Louis the other day, while
making stump speech, lust as sure as it
was that Romeo founded Rome"
The following legened is inscribed on
the front of butchers shop in an inland
town of Pennsylvania; "kash pade tor
little HALVES nut mourn two daze old.
If anybody has found a black veil
with string in one end, and white
rosary, they will do a kindness TO a
poor woman by leaving it at this office.
It's astonishing, says the New Orleans
Bulletin. to see how little there is Of some
ladies in these days of contracted skirts.
And it is equally astonishing to see how
much there is of some others.
Frank Blair didn't exactly invent the
third term hurrah. He simply said when
| Grant was first elected that he knew the
gentleman, and that he would never come
out of the White House until he was
driven out by bayonets or was carried out
feet foremost. n
Did you like the sermon, love?" ask
ed pious wife of heather husband on
their way home from church. well, my
dear, to tell the truth, he said, Il didn't
pay much attention to the sermon, but,
from the sweet expression of the parson' S
face, I should say he was a man who
wouldn't have to be asked twice to take a
drink
A western editor exclaims Boston
needn't attempt tie sell any of her shirt
bosoms, warranted not to rumple, in this
locality. Not muchl The sign, the ex-
cIamation, the sweet tremulous accent, the
|: delicious fragrance of her hair and breath
: all these may pass away in a moment,
but the rumpled shirt bosom remains ever
with you as present reminder OF past
joys"
Upon witnessing recently, stalwart
Indian carryingla drunken squaw up hill
a to the campoodle, near Austin, the lie
d ueille observes:
a The snow was deep,
e The hill was steep,
, | The sQuaw asleep,
3 but still that Indian toiled on, and if he
r. didn't cry "Excelsiorr' he said heal
# damn"
IS Geo. Clifford, from Michigan, stoppin
e at the Taylor House, had bone in his LET
re foot broken this afternoon while helping t
,e get street car No. 8, on the track nea
it Broadway. He was taken to Bengston
= drug store, where Drs. Truesdale an
if Craig dressed the foot, and he was the
n. taken to Taylor House 10 DR.. Truesdale
os buggy.
al "A tramp entered a hotel in Wheat
TT land, Cal, sat down at the breakfast table
lr and speedily demolished hearty meal II
ne then ordered another beefsteak, and on i
n, being placed before him, he sudden
cd covered his nasal organ with his hands al
er started for the door, apparently taken vii
ID bleeding at the nose. He passed throug
the hotel and across the street to a pun
Ill from whence he soon bolted down the tra'
n and made off.
thy james Forester, of Dubuque, Il
th that he had been grossly insulted when t
H. Herald of that city presumed to critici
ny the decoration day speech made by /
I'VE friend Rev. J. H. Rhea. So James SUI
is moned up his courage and published
EN- "chivalrous" challenge in che Times, ca
nc ing upon NJ NJ Ham, the offending ed
-, or, and we gods of war to furnish plst
lid and coffee for two" Mr.. Ham paid no
ion tention to the nonsense, but the grand
Dv- ry has, and the sanguinary duellist v
ont probably learn that he has broken law
his state.
VIZ D. B. Millard, who shot James q
,vo ans, his brother-in law, at West Liber
aJ Iowa, on Wednesday afternoon, the
, au was taken to Muscatine Thursday ev
ing, on freight train, for confinement,
the county Jail until the next sitting OF
district court. In his examination Def
Justice Shipley, at West Liberty, he '
way held to answer in the sum of $4,000. /;
lost failed to give bail. At last accou
sed Mr. Givans was still in critical condit
Iul- The condition of the wounds on the
VOC and neck do not permit efforts to find
remove the bail.
'oA' In the pockets of the nan who
me- drowned off the ferry boat on the q
the ult. we've found monthly statement
can coal mined by A. Lawson for L. Villa
Tho of Port Byron, a registered letter from
'n' Lawson, Des Moines, to Mary Lawson
La Sale, and prescription prepared
uty, A. R. Greenwood, La Sale, for A L
nan son. So the jury CINE to the conclu:
hi. that the name of the deceased was
Lawson, and that he came to his death
eie date above named by accidental dro
lded ing in the attempt to board the te
, re- steamer Rock Island "a
ially There was happy scene at Lit
, 10. Brewery yesterday evening-the occa
being the marriage OF Miss Jennie, dat
pro ter of August Littig, to Andrew Litti
The Rock Island The bride and groom
'vid> cousins. After the ceremony, a gr
g in wedding supper was prepared by
man parents of the bride, to which over
Gull persons sat down, seventy of whom '
sent of the immediate families of the Rock
n all land and Davenport branches of the
ces tigs. There were numbers of the
rates houses, from Milwaukee, Chicago, and
and err points. Among them were the par
not and grandparents of the bride and or
Ell In on both sides,and number of great 81
,cep- children. 1t was merry party, and
t the sic, dancing and feasting filled up the
the till long after midnight.-DaU. Dem.
!, for
0. A. No use iu paying $45 for suit mad
e st. order when you can get just as goo
'nlar style and quality for one half the MI
Ire the money at my store in Star Block.
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