The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-25
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

police districts. +
We complain of cold summer. The
World says that New York has had frost in
every month this year. |;
The coming man is he who owes you.
-Aduertiser's Gazette. He is long while
coming in these parts.
The Danbuy Neps says ''this coun-
try really needs good five-cent cigar" It
also needs less poor ten-cent cigars.
Der DensoKrat, in Davenport, the most
influential paper in Iowa, has nailed to its
mast head the full Liberal state and coun-
ty ticket.
The returns from New Mexico, which
are now nearly complete, indicate s. B.
Elkins's (Democrat)election as delegate by
about 1900 majority.
They only keep one lantern on hiatt
trap called the slough bridge. During |
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 Beihls band.
JEFF Davis, instead Of hanging on |
sour-apple tree" is now climbing
mountains and breathing the free air of
Colorado. He reached Denver on Satur-
day.
Horace White, formerly editor of the
Chicago Tribune, has been comparing
America and England in an article pub
lished by the Fortnigktiy ReuieW, of Lon
don.
-Ex-United States Senator 4. G. Ross,
xub0 for hoe haar,
Of the Lawrence Kan. Journal Office. this
week assumed the assistant editOrship of
that paper.
The Democrats have made clean
sweep of Wyoming Territory, electing
eleven of thirteen members of the council
and eighteen of twenty-seven members of
the house.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
directors have declared semi annual div
idend of four per cent, payable October
q. The transfer books will be closed Oc-
tober 2. sta = ss-.
John Bengston will occupy the coraer
store in his new block, for a drug store.
| As the block is the finest in the city it is
expected his store will correspond, in fix
lures.
-Workmen are are engaged building
neat board fence across the west point of
the Island, and on each side of the cause
way, leading from the Island to fsSylvan
Water bridge.
Since Judge Grant of Davenport COM
menced to build hotel at the foot of Main
street in that city, it has been believed that
the D. & St. P. e. r. would come into the
city ON the river front.
"A crazy man believed to be John
Kipp, of Randalia, Iowa, was taken before
the commissioners of insanity, over the
river yesterday, and was adjudged fit
subject for the asylum.
John Warner, president of the street
railway company. is a christian, but it
made him grit his teeth when that load of
| Methodist conference broke the wheels of
one of his new cars.
-Oficialand reported returns from all
the counties of California but two,in which
the vote is very small, give Irwin, Demo.
crat, Sc, COL; Phelps, Republican, %, 69l,
! and Bidwell, Independent 81. 430. =
"A young father of twin babies, in this
city, being called to look at the darlings fol-
the first time, innocently asked the
nurse, which shall we drowned?" He
don't ask such questions any more.
An old resident of Dewitt, Iowa, wal
4 buried alive on Thursday afternoon nea
t Calamus, that state, by the earth cayins
e In on him while he was at work in wei
with a boring machine. He was dea(
when taken from the well.
y On Thursday, Oct. 2Sth, Gen. I. Fl
t Elliott, living miles east OF Princeton
will sell at public sale l25 head of BIZ
q pure-bred Berkshire hogs. Gen. Elliot
g has the reputation of raising some of tn
d finest blooded hogs in Bureau county.
: Our library board send their work t
" Davenport to be- done. People who pa
e taxes would like to know if the work neces
a. sary to be done for the library cannot b
done at home. Have they too become pos
sessed of the snobbish notion, that the
of must go from home to be considered ton
r ey?
ir 1t was brakeman's darling, and h
brought her bundle of silk as present
e saying it would make her pretty pull
t. back. Resting her hands on her broa
s. hips, she gazed at him moment and the
,e said: johnny, am your sweet palac
N car or your nasty little narrow gauger2
!" Then she made crinoline of it.
That is whole speech in itself, crowt
10 ed into two sentences, uttered by Cassiu
It's M. Clay to the New York San. II al
II against imitation, but still more agains
=, Grantism. 1 should hardly haze tarne
~ tory IN 1776 because of continental money.
ID A great many people of both parties wi
x commit that speech to memory, and man
no votes will be cast to vindicate it.
n In 1870, there were four Democrat
be governors; in 1875, twenty-fo Democrat
~ governors. In 1870, four Democratic legisl
re lures; in 1875, twenty-fou Democratic lie,
ST. islatures, In 1870. ninety Democratic men
i'll bers of the house of representatives of Il
on United States; 10 1875. on hundred an
" eighty members of that body. In 1877
twelve Democratic members of the sena
of the United States; in 1875, twenty eigl
ad members.
aus The Union is unhappy over the ia
ca that large number of the leading Repu
ne licans of the county have asked Mr.. s. j
OF Porter to be candidate for re- election
Is the office of county treasurer. Il tel
J! these Republicans that there is to be
60 regular Republican candidate with ;
,ut intimation that if they dare to support M
ne Porter as opposed to the Republican ca
sc didate, whom few boys ike Oliver OILS,
ne and Jim Parks propose to nominate, tn
ne they may expect abuse and that they "
Is be playing into the hands of Democrat
'ck The Union forgets that the average Anne
Ia can citizen no longer fears the party la
and now votes for the best men, irrespt
tive of party nominations. Mr.. Port
will poll more votes in Rock Island couu
vas than any man whom either of the old .;
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