The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-21
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NOTES HERE AND THERE.
"A small fire occurred away out in the
northwestern part of Davenport Friday
evening.
The Union resorts to forgery. Lies.
kerosene lamps, bloody shirts, and forgery.
are the usual Republican arguments now
days.
Strange to say, the woman who
poisoned herself MRS, KENT still lives
and may recover. She now expresses a
desire to live.
THE Leap Year Club" will have
picnic on Credit Island on Thursday. The
United Presbyterians will picnic at the
same place Friday.
The annual camp meeting of the
Methodists of the Rock Island district will
begin at the grounds in Tyndalrs Grove.
four miles south of Milan, to- morrow.
Bob Ingersoll, the leading Republi-
can orator, says: Who can worship God :?
Who can bow the knee to such monster?
Who can pray to such fend?" See
lecture on 'the Gods, p. l6.
The Republican file leaders are
begging hard for money from their monled
men to pay for torches and other follies of
the campaign, and they get badly bluff
ed off in many instances.
1t is a grievous scandal that Gen.
Babcock still draws pay from the federal
treasury. He ESCAPED condemnation in
the civil courts, but the judgement of the
American people is that ne should be dis
missed, in disgrace, from all public employ.
Boston Transcript. rep
Joseph Schupp, a deaf and dumb
man, living on Orleans street, and EN-
ployed in Weyerhauser and Denkmann' S
saw mill, had one of his hands badly In
iured this forenoon while at work around a
saw at the mill.
The Clinton ferry yester day came
down with an excursion from Clinton and
Lyons composed mostly of Swedes. A
colored band was on board, and the Scan
dinavian and American flags were both
displayed.
"A funeral procession was attacked by
hundreds of hornets last Saturday fore
noon, in Davenport, near st. Marguerite S
cemetry, because hackdriver hit a nest OF
them with his whip. Great confusion was
produced, for awhile.
Miss Matte Haskell Aledo. ILL.,; Miss
j. f. Webster, Geneseo. ILL., and Mr.
Henry Jones, Muscaine won't get their
letters quite as quick as they ought to be-
cause some stupid folks didn't know the
difference between The ARGUS letter box
and the post, office.
90 the front aud in the bay-windows
OF certain grocery store in Davenport, the
following placards are conspicuous: "Ott
| Need unny-5 Spules BeS Fred fer %
Sence" Is it not high time that thu
schcol,nasters and schoolma' ms should re
turn from their summer vacation and opel
their schools again?
If single action Of Democratic lu-
vestigating committee drives from the
track the head of the Radical ticket il
Indiana, will not the positive evidence o
Shelby NJ. Cullom's completely with The
Pekin whisky ring do as much fer th,
Radical party 10 Illinois? Time will tell
, Remember, when confronted with tn
Republican lies about Tilden. that fou
) years ago this country was lied, bullie'
! and bought into prosecuting Horace Gree
ley into his grave, the victim Of a mora
assassination, more cruelty murdered thai
was Mr.. Lincoln,-and for what? I
give the presidency to Grant to turf
the White House into thieves den and a
brothel!
The funeral services Of the late Capt
Nose Mullen, in St. Marguerite's Church
last Saturday forenoon, were attended b
great congregation. Steamboatmen j
port attended in body. Father. Cosgrov
delivereda very impressive discourse, speal
iug in high terms of the character of th
3 deceased, his honesty and industry, Tn
procession to the cemetry was Of immens
! length.
: The Republican congressional CONVEX
ton in the Davenport district will be hel
in DeWitt,at Works Hall, next Wednes
!. day, at 1890 A. NJ, and the Democrat
/. congressional convention will be held a
. same place two days later,at II AN, Til
!, primaries, Saturday evening, Murphy de
II egates to the county convention were ele
ted-eyery meeting favoring him. II
Cedar and Jackson delegations are said [
be composed of Murphy men. In fac
his opponents in his own party here col
IS cede his nomination" And if he is nom
mated The ARGUS comedies his election
About 10 0 clock last Saturday aftel
e noon, woman named Marie Schmidt a
s tempted suicide by drowning, 10 the riv,
, near the foot of Fillmore street. She ha
y waded in so far that the water was abo,
her waist when two men saw her and Gale
II 10 her to come back instead of obeying ST
e threw herself forward, but her CLOTH
d would not allow her to sink They rushed
1T and caught her. and forced her back to Ian,
IS despite her struggles and rawlings. 81
e was intoxicated Officer Mcguire led h,
re to her home on Second street, near Gree
lie and told her husband what had happene
'r eDjoiniDg him to take care of her. TT
is husband replied, why didn't you let Il
E. old bitch drown-she ought to have die
RS long ago. The husband was drunk, to
,e Davenport Gazette.
le Sunday afternoon, about 6 O'Clock.
man who gave his name as Bosler, W;
" riding along Front street, between Wasl
y 3 Ingtou and jefferson. when his horse ga
~ sudden start and the man jumped OIL
70 and let go the horse. The woman was
~ the buggy and the horse ran up the S
Is Louis railroad track and capsized nei
y Cables coal Office The woman was n
a much hurt. The buggy was damage
y perhaps $40 or SIS. The team belonge
T to Mr.. Kerr's livery. What made Il
4 horse jump is not known but it is probab
~ that be stepped on something which fe
e up against him. or that the man hit hi
I by accident. He was a coward to aband
! team and woman as he did. After Il
y !, accident Bosler picked up the traps an
~ returned them to the stable and lit oul
~ for Sterling with his woman, ON the trai
~ leaving Kerr minus repairs and use
- team.
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