The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-30
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-ROck lSlanu ScnoolS open next MON
day.
-Chcago's annual Exposition will open
next week, and continue for a month.
The Iowa state fair will open at
Cedar Rapids week from next Monday.
The Illinois state fair will open at
Ottawa next Monday and continue through
the week.
The difference lies just here Hayes
tells what he will not do and 1ilden tells
what he aoiU do The one is an equivoca-
tion-the other is pledge.
Emma Bliss plead guilty yesterday
afternoon to petty larceny and was sentenc-
ed to 10 days In the county Jail. There is
a charge tor grand larceny still against her.
Zach Chandler is the commanderin-
chief of the Republican army in the presi-
dental campaign. What sort of reform
would come in with Hayes under such a
captaip,it is easy for everybody to imagine.
Seven boarders in a Davenport
boarding house were robbed, the other
night, by a fellow boarder in SUITS rang
| ing from 81 to Sl4-$45 in all, their wal
let's thrown into the back yard and the
thief came to this side Of the river.
People who attend the fair should re-
member that they can procure a good
meal at all hours at the "Aster House. "
| Mrs. Aster has charge Of the kitchen in
person and this fact is enough of itself to
warrant people in going there when they
are hungry.
| Superintendent Kimball has received
word that Albert |. Gamble, clerk in the
G. r. l. & p Z. r. freight Office in Mus
catine, who absconded with over $500 q
the company's money about a month ago,
has been tracked to his fathers home in
Rome, n. Y, by the detective employed,
S. w. Crawford, a quaek doctor,
confined in Jail at Berkeley Springs, w.
Va, and awaiting trial for the poisoning
of William johnson, respectable citizen
Of that county, two weeks ago, was taken
from prison by body of seventy-fve
masked men and hanged.
Now we have it. Gov Hayes has
been accused of cheating a soldier out OF
$500 bounty money, and Gov. Tilden has
not only absorbed several railroads, but
has stolen an entire canal, water, tow
paths, bridges and all. The great issues
are now in our midst, as it were.-N. T.
Tribune, 26th.
The c. r, ]. & 2. r. r. management
is reducing expenses and reducing help
At most of its stations the wipers anc
many other laborers received notice, OF
Monday, that their services will not b.
required after the last of this month
; The fremen of each engine will be required
to act as wlpers.
Mr. W. FL. Hodgson was agreeably
| Il 10, % -
Ucal Lodge, No COS. !. O. O. f., in bein!
presented with fine embroidered pas
grands collar The presentation wa
made by j. W. Mathews, n. G. Mr.
Hodgson made suitable reply and ate
adjournment invited the lodge to refresh
ments.
= "A force of laborers IS at work on thu
line of the ID. & n. W. Railroad, between
Pine Hill and Summit Avenue, under tn,
= directions of Mr. Ryan, repairing the road
No time twill be lost IN getting practical
at work, for we are told Superintendent
Henry is taking measures to employ
= large force of men who will be put t
y work as soon as practicable. -Dauenpo,
Democrat, 29th
n Some of the political prophets pu
down Illinois as safe for Hayes. Don't
so any more Hayes may carry the state
e and then, again, he may not Illinois
n not safe for any Republican candidate
No troops have arrived here yet Tn
people are united against the party {
IS public plunderers, and they intend to bes
the whisky ring. Just wait till Noven
ber.-Springaeld Register.
RS Harry Robinson's Ministries gave yer
good satisfaction last evening. Some {
:. the long drawn colloquies were tlresome
rs but on the whole it was capital perform
D. ance Geo. Robinson. in his celebrate
female representations, was inimitabl,
Next to Leon he is really the best actor
rs female character on the stage. And h
presentations are the more difficult becaus
they are white instead of colored TIL
band is really much the finest of any G
the road. They perform in Moline th
Or evening,