The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-25
NOTES HEB AND THERE.

Very pleasant day.
The city bridge at South Rock Island
is now completed.
Articles inside this paper deserv,
careful attention.
Theatrical performance in Turner hal
tomorrow evening.
The decent Republican papers arr
showing great disgust at the dishones
carpet bag returning boards.
The Louisiana returning board refuses
the attendance of newspaper reporters, il
order that their deeds of infany may no
be laid before the people daily.
Peter Connolly is the name of the
stranger who was fined SIS and costs yes
terday morning, by Justice Hayden, fol
being drunk and disorderly. The name
was IN the copy but was omitted by mis-
takesof careless eompositor.
Every member of the supreme court
of South Carolina is Republican and the
court declares that every legal power vii
be exhausted to enforce its orders in rela-
ton to the dishonest, tricky and infamou:
returning board. The people hope SO.
"A special from Charleston. s. G..
says The returningsboard are reported tC
have acted under the advice of Judge
Cartier, of Washington, and ex-Atty-Gen.
Alderman. Many leading Republicans ex
press unqualified indignation at the law
less conduct of the board"
Official returns from Illinois assure
us taat Al 900 Republican voters were in
Inundated in Illinois. Hayes majority be
ing that much less than Grants in 1872
In Ohio more than $4,000 we're intimida
ted in the same way. Louisiana can show
no such terrible picture as this.
port Democrat.
james Clark, 65 years of age and al
uncle of Gen. Phil Sheridan, attempted t.
commit suicide in Green Island, Jackson
county, Iowa, on last Saturday, but ht
was prevented by his wife. The alleged
cause is said to be depression of spirits
owing to the financial embarrassment o
his son, a merchant at Green Island, VIII
has been badly pressed by his creditors
The Grant regime caused it to be tele.
graphed last night that there was a tul
cabinet meeting to-day, lasting two hours
A general consideration of affairs in Louis
lana, Florida and South Carolina, and
various complicated questions growing
out Of the presidential election received
attention" just what Mr.. Grants clerks
or Mr.. Grant himself has to do with the
affairs of a state, the people don't quite
understand.
The. Louisiana swindling returning
board turn their business over to a lot Of
Republican clerks on all the candidates ex.
cept governor and electors and the
clerks work in secret. The Demo
Gratis asked for three of their own party
to be present to witness how it was done.
and compare the returns and the tables
They were refused ! This shows that
the Republicans mean dishonesty.
W. L. Wells, aged 60 years, and one
of the boldest and best counterfeiters in
the country, was arrested in Howard coun-
ty, Iowa, last Saturday, by Z. s. Marshal
Heberling. He confessed his guilt Iowa.
of all states in the union, is the place for
all sorts of outrages and crime, and How
aid county has been, for a long time, the
headquarters of lawlesss gang of counter
letters and horse thieves.
Billy Wilson's cigar store is beginning
to draw customers pretty we'll and getting
to be favorite place of resort. Billy
thinks of opening regular railroad ticket
office for the sale of tickets on all the roads
from this city, and having a @telegraph op-
orator to keep people posted as to the ar
rival snd departure of trains Also to
keep, on sale, tickets for foreign steamship
lines. This, with the cigar business, would
pay and such an office would be a pub.
lie convenience.