The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-24
NOTE sHERE AND THERE.

1t comes hard for man to keep a
pair of white pants clean, who was brought
up to snuff a candle with his fingers.
go in the shade, on the north side of
THE ARGUS office this afternoon. Sum
mer is here.
Anna Dickinson keeps pitching into
''the prejudiced, foolish sentiment of So
ciety which holds woman's venial fault
to be mortal crime. and mans mortal
crime to be but venial fault.
"A widow being cautioned by her minis
ter about flirting said she knew it was wrong
bible was her authority. 1t said wild
owls mite" She was flirting awfully at
last accounts.
God defends the right" is the proud
motto of Senator Spencer; and really there
seems to be something in it since the re-
port of the Investigating Committee has
been published, All that remains to be
done now is to have Mr.. Spencer expelled
from the senate.
The German-English school pupils
had procession to- day, and marched be-
hind band to Lynde's grove, for holiday
and pic mic, under charge of Messrs JOS
eph Rosenfeld, G. Speidel, Capt. Koehler,
and others, where the little boys and girls
had jolly time.
Mr. Geo. Snyder. who resides corner
, of Adams and Rock River streets, was at
: the city council room about noon and while
there began to feel unwell. and on reach
:, ing the street in front of Bamberger's store
q he fell. He was carried into the store and
" Dr. Truesdale called AS soon as Mr.
. Snyder recovered sufficiently to be carried
g home he was taken there in street car
. 1t was an attack of vertigo, to which he /:
: subject.
The Gazette now saves the expense o.
o a Rock Island reporter by copying THI
J. ARGUS locals, but makes an awful baC
IS botch Of the burglary of Geo. Crawford
n watch by saying: ''Mr. Porter's watch, ;
D. silver hunting case worth about $50, and
pair of his pants, were gone. Mr.. Porte
t. could not recognize the features or dress o
IN the Burglars" Probably not, as he wa
n, not there. This tumble of names is no
ps quite as bad as the spelling in its criticism
of the Moline spelling school, but
in shows how u nice, accurate, Woodworking
- intelligent reporter earns his money.
u On Wednesday of last week, Mr.. l
"a r. Lillibridge and family left their home
i'm 400 West Twelfth street, Davenport, an
at spent the day with some friends in th
lily country. They returned at IL o'clock ;
N. night, and found every room in the hous
he had been ransacked by burglars, who e
in fected an entrance through a cellarwa
ell Among the articles taken we're: 4 go
all watch, diamond and an emerald RIM
lat :. child's garnet ring, and about ten dc
lat lars in greenbacks and postals. The va
nd ue of the articles taken from the hOus
or were from $3.50 to $500. On the san
er evening the house of Mr., Miller, on Ma
lily quette street. was entered while the tau
As lily were at the circus, the thieves makir
his general search. In stand drawer the
eft found $40 which they appropriated.
-Artemus Ward was one day lyil
asst upon the sofa enjoying cigar in the lit
ner office of his publisher, in New York, VIII
9th a telegraphic dispatch from San Francis
at was handed him. 1t was from Mr. NJ
n CURE, of the Opera House, who inquire
IDS What will you take for ten nights in Z;
n a ifornia? ?" Without moments rehecti
her or changing his position, he wrote his /
t it ply in three words and handed it to Il
: of messenger. as follows: Brandy and W
got ter.-A. Ward" This was not all he d
lal. take, however, for soon afterwards N
: of CURE engaged the Snowman, and he Ii
ual tured in California with extraordinary 81
hey cess. The little dispatch-a $40 joke-N
law published in the San Francisco papers. a
g set everybody to laughing and anticipate
hey the authors arrival.