The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-13
NOTES HERB AND THERE.
Charlie Long the wharf,master. is

AC uldI HllOu DOSS oTduI UUW IldLSS
more than all others is Ben. Bristow.-N,
Y San.
Hancock rather got the best of Bah
cock. Let the court of inquiry adjourn sine
die.--&. Louis Rep.
Sunday and Monday bright and pleas
ant-the first time the sun has been seen
for week or ten days.
There was disgraceful row in front
of the Young America about O. clock last
night. No arrests as yet.
The New York Sun says that the late
message of the president is the largest
message that Grant ever signed"
If Secretary Bristow is not turned out
of the administration, he will soon have
the most of the administration in the pen
itentiary.
Nearly everybody is going to the Old
and Young Fciks's party at the BELOW s
| House, Thursday evening. 1t will be a
really sociable, good time.
--Iheo. Nilsson is now keeping the sa-
l1Cn on the corner of Orleans and Madison
streets, formerly occupied by Ueo. f,
Adelman. Mr.. Auelman has gone back to
Moline.
The theatrical entertainment at Tur-
ner Hall last evening, was largely attended
and we'll liked. After the performance
the young folks had a pleasant dance.
The new board of trade building at Pr
oria is to be opened with considerable pom
and circumstance on Wednesday. We dc
not learn that anybody in Rock Island has
been invited.
-W.P. Bissell, wholesale and retail hard
ware merchant, of Davenport, has failed
Liabilities, 100000; assets, $4,000. He
! proposes to pay 80 cents on the dollar.
Other failures are rumored there.
-Ex-congressman j. D. Ward, of Chi
cago, Grants district attorney, has beer
found to be partner in one of the dis
honest distillerics, and has been removed
Mark Bangs, of Lacon, Marshall county
has been appointed in his place.
The Union makes Grant say, iu a tel
gram, on Saturday, that he had buG one
objection 10 the selection of any party tC
represent the government in the matter
the St. Louis whisky trials end that wa.
fearless attention to the duties requisite Il
the Office.
VIM II. Stoddard, young|m from
Danbury, Conn. who came west, but wa,
disappointed, started for home on CHARLEY
Everts' $ train Thursday night of last week
Just this side Of Ottawa he tried to cut hi.
throat with a jack knife while in his sleep
ing berth. He made a bad Job of it
besmearing the berth with blood, bu
doing himself no particular harm. He wa
left at Ottawa, and will go home when hi
throat gets better.
i The Chicago Journal, in the thirty
second year OF its age has put on a neat
new dress and is as sparkling as at sixteen
1t is the newsiest paper in Chicago ant
furnishes more items that interest NOR
people than any paper on our exchange
list. If it wasn't for its horrid politics
would be model paper 10 every partic
ular.
The distinguished ex-senator and ex
governor Henderson, of Missouri, was EN-
, ployed to aid the L. S. district attorney i
prosecuting the whisky thieves. In b;
speech to the jury he said something abou
the action Of the president which tina
/ functionary GlGn'C like, and straightwa
Gov. Henderson was dismissed EmplOye
of the government are not permitted t
make any remarks about our -four year.
king" L begins to look as though th
r president wanted 10 hush up the business
The last Republican house of repre-
, seGtatlyes, III order to gag the minority
t made rule that motion to suspend til
v rules must be seconded by majority. an,
S also inserted other provisions intended t
, cut If debate and restrict the privilege
t of the minority. The first thing done
5 the Democratic house was to expunge TIL
? odiouS rule. thus restoring to the Repubi
: cans now in a minority, the privilege
y they when a majority deprived a Demo
crate minority Of This was heaping Goa
of tirc Oh their heads.
y subscriber to The WEEKLY ARGU
living in tfalva, complains that he doe
# not rycrive his paper until the latter pa
n of the next week after it is published, a
though il is placed in the post office an
, ought to reach him in the forenoon on Sa
u urday-the day it is issued. Whose fau
is it? Is there mail agent on the Poor
8 road who would like to be removed or r.
Y duced in rank, as the one who threw ii
> Rock Island mail bags off at Moline was
e THE ARGUS will watch, and the man WI
). is at fault may come to grief.
IS The article in this paper in relation t
IS dynamite will be read with interest in vie
e of the explosion on Saturday at Breme
!, hater. The statement that dynamite vi
d not explode by conclusion seems to be Co
d tradicted by the telegram of Saturday,
I. this paper, which says: The baggas
d was by accident dropped, and the coucu
or sion caused the explosion" But, to-da.
$, 1t Is telesraphed that the fend who ser
lie 1t 70 the ship intended it to e
Is plode on the ocean. u so his fuse W.
ly not we'll arranged. 1t SEEM ;ncred;b
r that human being could plan so 20
10 strous scheme for the sake of killing oil
y passenger against whom he held mort
is grudge.
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