The daily Argus., 1876-01-28
NOTES HERE AND THERE
No police cases to-day.

NO ponce cases to-day.
The river was clear of ice to-day. and
the ferry boat had no trouble in running.
Patrick Burns, aged about SO, fell
dead in the streets, at Davenport, Thurs
day morning, from heart disease.
The trial of the Whiteside liquor case
been examined up to noon to-day.
Tie street car drivers in Davenport,
on Thursday, had their wages raised from
$45 - $50 per month That speaks well
for lie street car companies.
"A walk has finally been built between
Wagner meat market and the building
formerly occupied by Chas. Shemmer, as
a saloon, Oh Orleans street, just below the
jail
There are 100 registered distilleries in
the United States, of which only 80 are
located in the state of Illinois Yet this
state manufactures one-fourth of all the
highwines produced in the whole country.
A freight train brakeman named John
Spencer, on the Davenport 4 St Paul rail
road, had the thumb and fore finger of his
right hand SO badly smashed while coup
ling cars at Brush Greek, Thursday sthat
amputation of both was necessary.
The humbug of Educational Bureau
at Washington, to supervise what the
national government has nothing to do
| with, is deftly touched in this paragraph
form The New York Eueniag Post: Mr..
Cox's bill to abolish the Federal Bureau
of Education. ought to pass for two reasons.
In the first place, the United States prop
e-ly have no jurisdiction of the educational
interests of the country, and in the next
place, the Bureau is doing nothing, and
has done nothing, to promote them.
Sheriff Hitchcock arrived in Peoria
Sunday morning with Frank E. Hicks, for
some time agent of the T., 2. and W., and
United States express agent at Piper City.
While engaged there he fell among evil
companions, by whom he was heeced at
gambling while in a state of intoxication.
On the first of January last he would have
been called upon to settle, but, finding
himself about $4OO behind, he fed, going
to New Orleans. He finally, however
resolved to return and make clean breas,
of the matter.
The New York Tribune, in recent
article upon "The Red Man and Religion,
said: 'This Spotted Tail knows no
more of Heaven than the mustang which
he expects to ride there" A correspon
dent in reply asks the pertinent question
Il do not quarrel with this proposition
but ask what more do any-of US know?'
He says: 1--WE expect to ride into Heaven
on the mustang of orthodoxy, while the
red man expects to ride into and through
Heaven upon the mustang of nature
What is there more incongruous in the
Indians conception than in ours?" Al
last accounts the Tribune had not answered
the correspondents conundrums.
Putting a railroad into the hands of a
receiver seems to be good thing for the
travelling public and the employees of the
road, at least Mr. Clark of the Illinois
Central railroad, has sent statement t.
the Chicago board of trade transportation
committee in which be says that the SO
called bankrupt roads which are in tn,
hands OF receivers, are generally maxim,
money and paying expenses He instan
ces the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw, whicl
has laid one hundred miles of steel rail
} within the last eighteen months. Thei
employees have been paid promptly on tn
: 10th of each month, something that ha,
not been done for some time previous
Their engines and cars were in good con
dition. He thought it would be a goo
J thing if some of the Chicago roads wer
put in the hands of receivers.