The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-22
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The present month has five Saturdays
five Sundays and five Mondays.
She wanted "piany fifty those
''piany fortys" were too common.
The Rock Island Railroad earnings
for the first two weeks in May show an in
crease of $4,000.
Die Observation-Disclosures"
is what the Stats Zeitung calls the dis
tilleryifrauds. 1t is big word for big
thing.
mo, mister, | give up them vanities
now was the report of blushing bride
to the parson who tried to kiss her. If
this thing continues salaries will have to go
up
The night trains for St. Louis will
leave here Sunday evenings. and not Sat
urday evenings and arrive from st. Louis
Sunday mornings instead Of Monday morn
ings.
The discovery of the whereabouts of
Mrs. Nichols had not been effected up to
II clock last night, She was with rela-
tives not hundred miles from Fulton,
| ILL.,, at noon yesterday.
The ex-wife of Champaign merchant
| lately made her appearance in that village
as driver of " the Roman chariot in a
circus. The husband took morbid in
terest in her performance, as it moved old
memories of sir-cussirg in the domestic
arena.
Several uncomfortably loyal journalists
are in great CONSERVATION because the
Democratic nominee for governor of Ken
lucky is an ex-Confederate. 1t may con-
sole then to hear-of course they have not
heard of it-that on the same ticket there
is a man who served in the Union army.
"A Des Monies, Iowa, special says
'kluge, the demon who beat his little
daughter to death in a most brutal manner
in the presence of its mother, because she
could not get her Sunday School lesson
and who was sent to the penitentiary fol
life. few months ago, is dying of remorse
His wife has been sent for at his request
AT Crcston, Iowa, on Saturday last,
brakeman on the G, B. 4 O., named Peck
was standing checking cars with his bacl
towards car that had been thrown on
: side track loose. The supposition is that b.
did not see it, or know that it was coming
until it struck him in the back and kuocket
him down, run over and cut off one leg jus
below the knee, smashed one foot to a iell,
and crushed one of his arms in fearful
manner He died soon after.
The way they do it at Marshalltowr
Iowa, as described by the Times -
:, young man lately FROM Sweden, by tn
name of Sundelt became involved in diff
Guilty with kitchen maid at the Bowie
House, last Friday evening. The buxom las
smote him hip and thigh, his curly lock
and spotless shirt front were baptized wit
). dishwater, and yet not satisfied the gil
k maiden female caught him by the seat of hi
) unmentionables and yanked out peice a
large as door mat"
From the Prairie Farmer
v FROM Rock ISLAND Co. I must bea
;, testimony for our Grange, that we al
alive, and. not only alive. but stronge
. in numbers and interest than when organ
n lied more than two years ago We hay
}. never failed to hold regular meetings, e.
cept in two instances, and they ON accouI
= of severe storms How many Grange
II can show as good a record? Our Count
b Grange was organized on the 25th
is March, but we have not all the detail
, worked up. Our regular quarterly NEE
i ing will be held at the court house,
Rock Island, on the first Tuesday ar
: Wednesday in June Correspondence wit
secretaries of other county Oranges, ar
7 copies of bylaws, where they have the
printed, would be appreciated. FRAN
: HARRIS, Sec'y, Ridgewood Grange, 1923.