The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-25
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

our paper.
The stencil in the marshafs Office to-
day was sickening. Ask Charlie about 1t
The weather continues mild and the
snow and slush in the streets render loco
motion very difficult.
The report of the financial condition
of tie county is expected to be completed
by Tuesday evening.
The Illinois and Michigan canal is
open for navigation between Chicago and
La Sale. This is almost a month earlier
than last year,
"A new pipe organ, built by Lancashire
& Turner. of Moline, has been placed in the
alcove of the Central Presbyterian church,
and will be in use tomorrow.
The sky has been heavily overcast
with clouds and fog all day and we shall
have to take the word of some more favored
region % to whether there was an eclipse
or not.
Near Middlebury, Clay county, Ind,
by the careless handling OF gun, on
Wednesday, David Z. Cook received the
contents of the weapon in his bowels, kill
ing him.
-Schenck, who has come back to vindi-
cate bis reputation, has met with another
cool reception, and it strikes him that
there is scarcely enough of it to make
much of fuss about.
John Morrissey says that Schenck
will have to retire to private life, AMI
adds, "but I would rather play Bob's
game of poker than be president of the
United States for three terms.
Senator Christiancy's young bride has
dimple in her left cheek. While some
people think it is very sweet, his daughters
say that it gives her mouth the appear
ance of being diagonally puckered.
-Kilbourne, the chief of Grants real
estate ring. having refused to answer the
questions of the Democratic investigating
committee. has been indicted by the grand
jury, and is confined in iail awaiting trial
"A scarlet sister, hailing from Or aha,
arrived at Rock Island few DAYS ago,
and was at once sent to the workhouse.-
They believe in protecting home industry
at Rock Island. chicago Post and Mail.
William Writ, farmer near Van
Vert, O., attempted suicide Wednesday
evening, by cutting his throat three times
with razor. He has been laboring under
religious insanity fer several weeks. He
will probably die.
The sympathetic Rochester Democrat
says: Extremes are hard. There are
women in the Sandwich islands who dress
| only in a cheap umbrella, and the mission
aries are just as severe on them as they
are on Mrs. Beiknap.
"A man named Michael Taylor, sup
posed to be resident of Fort w ayne, 1nd.
while hunting at New Haven, Ind. took a
boat on the Maumee river, accompanied
bv his dogs, one of which upset the boat,
and Taylor was drowned.
Several jealous women predicted that
! Mrs Bclknap would be shutting around a
kitchen in No. shoes for comfort, but we
hear of $50 900 takes" occasionally. aud
she may be able to loll about the parlor in
silk Balbigans and No. is for some
months yet.
A preacher show is in progress at
Rock Island The first Baptist church
wants pastor, and allows each Of the
thirty applicants to preach trial sermon
In this way they secure the Word for SIX
months without cost-Chicdg0 Post an0
Mall
The death of Chief Justice Nicholson
Of Tennessee, is announced by telegraph
The deceased was United States senator
in 1910, member of the southern conven
ton of 1850. and editor of the Washington
Union during the administration of Presi
dent Pierce
George W. Magee. of Chicago, who
was arrested upon a requisition from Gov
ernor Beverage, had long hearing before
Governor Pillshury, at St. Paul, MINI
Magee was charged with dsposing Of ;
large amount of mortgaged property il
Chicago in 1874 Governor Pillsbury
denied the requisition.
"A movement is making in Canada to
ward the bitter observance of the Christian
Sabbath. 1t proposes that no railwa,
trains be permitted to run between Satur
day midnight and Sunday midnight: lock
on cara's to be similarly closed; that n
delivery be made at any post Office Sunday
and no mails made up or dispatched.
The New York Graphic wants tw
good candidates for the presidential an,
vice presidential ticket not one somehod
and one nobody, but a pair of numbe
| one, we'll mated, "st.ong-and true" men
whole team" and no less. The Graphi
! is right, and talks prophetically when
adds: THE party defeats itself that put
a race-horse and mule on the course thi
year.
The Springfield (lll) schools hav
prepared for exhibition at the centeDnia
exposition nine bound volumes of spec
mems OF high and ward school work, all til
;1e ,H,,t, Il Il
Springfield schools since 1922, photograph
; Of school buildings and plans of the same
files OF school papers, and other matter
pertaining to the school interests of Spring
t field.
The late freedmen's bureau proves t
have been more rotten than hitherto sur
posed. The secretary of war recommend
a criminal suit against Bullock for embez
) Element, which is the polite term for steal
, ing, and the second auditor has gently re
minded that eminent Christian statesma
and soldier, Gen, 0. o. Howard. that b
had better fork over $22,500 before sui
| is commenced against him fer his recovery
Well may the Christian patriot exclainl
o! o! how ard this is!-Chicago Pc,
and Mail.
Matt" Head, the Republican abou
: whom there was such row last year in tn
, New Hampshire legislature, got himseI
again elected state senator the other da
on the cash system The papers are pub
fishing some of his letters, in which b
says he encloses various sums of money t
help me-. and promises more when h
gets around. One of these letters show
that Matt sent $50 into the little town G
South Hampton, and another from th