The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-02
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Royal Japs at Turner Hall to-
morrow night. ID
-Christianizing Chandleris what they
call the result of the late u. s. senatorial
election in Michigan.
The Peaks had rousing house last
night. Tonight they give their last per-
Torrance here.
-MacEvoy's Hibernicon will exhibit at
Darts Hall, Saturday evening, Feb. Ga
really interesting and instructive entertain
ment.
The public debt is still increasing |
The Republicans promised to reduce it ten
millions a month, but they are increasing |
debt and increasing taxes and duties also,
Call home your hell-hounds; they
are worse than the first lot. is the laconic
dispatch that Field, Kelloggs attorney
general of state, sent to Ben Butler, the
other dav.
Political geography class, stand up
Which state adjoins the District OF Co
lumbar" Chorus: Virginia" Wrong
you idle heather !-Tennessee-it's AID
sent to Washington
The mayor of Memphis was so elated
over the election of Andrew johnson as
senator, that he turned loose the chain
gang and sent demijohn OF whlskey to
the AUalanche Office
Tomorrow evening, at the Newcomb
House. in Davenport, occurs the annlyer-
sary Of the Keystone Society, and it will
be most enjoyable affair. All Pennsyl-
vanians are invited.
John Quincy Adams was the only ex-
| p~ocidopf oloo4ol 20 tho IT 9 honca
Of representatives, and Andrew johnson
the only ex-president now living is the
} only e4-president ever elected to the L. s.
senate.
The City Council voted. last evening.
to allow the penniless and defrauded' 'Japs "
now stopping at the Rock Island House, to
give an entertainment at Turner Hall
= Wednesday evening without taking out {
y license.
Fl We are requested by Mr.. Frank /
Jervis to say that there is not particle o
truth in the report spread by the Rock Isl
Y and Uniop as to his engaging the Roya
e Japs for six months tour.-Dapenpo,
r Democrat.
o Robbers have a new dodge Whel
an express messenger goes into place Q
:, business and walks up to the counter t
d deliver package, they throw arope over hi
n neck and pound him senseless and ru
away with his packages. That was don
in Memphis yesterday,
The St. Paul Pioneer, on the 24t
PC says; ''The strong denial sent frol
Shreveport, of the truth Of Major Merrill
10 report of the condition of affairs in tina
lie section, is hardly called for. No san
ii man in the North ever believed wor
10 of the yarn, The author is too we
. . known"
r. The New York Times says ''Presider
u Grant can, by a aoord, give peace an
er prosperity to Louisiana He holds in h
ID hand the key which unlocks this who
70 complication. Will he use it? He mad
Kellogg, Packard, Casey and all the res
u and he can unmake them in an hour an
be give Louisiana and all the nation peac
w Let us have peace.
K Mr.. Ingham returned from Chicae
he yesterday, having been held, with otht
= parties who were concerned in the dificu
~ ty which caused his arrest In that city,
bends OF $500, to appear before JUST,
We Scully tomorrow. He says ne will be
no hand to prove that he fought in selfd
A., tense, and used no knife. Gazette, til
~ n1OrninQ
;" Yesterday, a man by the name
IS Ransom, while trimming trees on the far
he of Joshua Wells, about five miles abo,
Moline, fell from tree to the ground, ar
hr broke his right leg in two places just abo,
~ the ankle. DIR. Jameson, of Moline, ha
10 pened to be near at hand, and set the br
ar ken leg. 1t was pronounced very bs
Ir, break, and will require long time to hes
Mr.. Ransom lives on the bluffs back
;, Moline, and has a wife and children.
ny No wonder there is consternati,
ltv among the leading statesmen at Washin
'ut ton over the election of ex-Preside
If johnson to the senate. 1t lis related tn
10 this somewhat eccentric person has kept
ii complete record of all the letters viii
lat were sent to him by members of congre
ers while he was President. applying f
ere offices and other favors, and that he
do very liable to read interesting selectio
from these whenever he is harassed
debate.
Logan, in his speech On Grants me
sage on Louisiana affairs, in reply to t
rly Democratic demand Ito withdraw t
aw troops it they want peace" said he h
w. heard that demand before. -"Withdr;
:, your troops frsm Sumpter If you wa
the peace" Jes' so. And Logan was the We
,di- man who then made the demand, and W
the going to require Illinois troops to mar
;tb over his dead body if they went to the
~ sistance of Sumpter Somehow, Log
l'h amt dead yet.-Jacksonuill Sentinel.
'ss. On Sunday evening the chandelier
of the ME. Church in Milan fell with a cras
| while the IS lamps were lighted, break
m all the lamps. The people rushed c
p Of the house pell-mell, in gre
" alarm but fortunately the
ge- was extinguished without serio
of damage. The chandelier was suspend
Mr. by rod running up through a joist
-, beam. secured by nut at the end of t
tn rod, 1t is supposed that in turning
chandelier around to light or adjust t
lamps, the nut remained stationary a
thus the rod was unscrewed from it a
IN. fell.
To say that lawlessness, turbulence and bio
as, shed have character lied the political affairs of
STATE since its organization under the reconstr
ton acts,is only to repeat what become well kno
as part OF its unhappy history Grants Ness
on Louisiana.
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