The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-31

Pleasant day.

HOy6S A6b6 AMI 4A304'
Pleasant day.
Travel over the ferry boat is very good
at present.
Judge Dillon is to crate in Davenport
on the 4th of July.
The river still continues to fall, and is
now about As above low water mark.
Articles of impeachment have been
presented SO the senate against Belknap.
Its Grandpa Hakes now. It's IL
pound boy, and Mrs. Mitchell is getting
along quite well.
If the Democratic house turn out Is
soldiers from Office and put 30 other
soldiers in, it is treason.
Only one marriage license was issued
for the week ending March 30th viz: %
Clyde Fleming to Clara Dodge"
Justice NJ. L. Pinkley wishes US to
say that he will be q candidate for town
clerk-if be gets the Republican nomina-
ton. Phil. Wagner is also talked of.
The Republicans will hold their ward
meetings tonight. 1t is only done for eff.
feet, as the candidates have been selected
by the Parks-Krell ring for some time
past.
An election for or against village or.
ganization will be held 10 Hampton on
Saturday, April 22d. w. B. Webster, L.
T. Baker and VIM. Edelman are the judges
of election.
Blaine says that he never gave post.
age stamp to be elected to congress
though he knew men who had paid $50.
900 for an election-and they probably
didn't give postage-stamp either.
"A SANDER upon Gov. Tilden has origi
mated in the st. Louis Globe Democrat
and the ST. Louis g. ID. is edited by old
Billy Mckee who ia unoer a three years
sentence to the Missouri penitentiary fol
stealing the government tax on whisky.
Roscoe Conkling. Grants principa
defender in the senate. the champion o.
every Job and the apologist of every crime
of the administration, is the choice of tn,
Republicans OF New York for the presi
dency. This is what is called ''Repuhli
can reform.
Invitations are out for social ball t
be given in Killers Hall, on Friday eye
ming. April 7th. The committee of ar
rangements is, VIM. Bahnsen, j. L. Wray
and Geo. Sanborn, and Spencer Mattisol
and Phil. Hoffman are the floor managers
Bleuer's string band furnishes the music
and John Aster serves the supper.
The residence of the Hon. Henri
Clay Dean. in Missouri, was burned OF
Tuesday of last week; nothing was saved
his magnificent library. the finest in tn
state, with his manuscripts and unpublish
ed works, the literary work of lie time
were all destroyed. The loss to Mr. Dea
is an irreparable one, and misfortune t
the world of letters.
-''Belknap carries New Hampshire,
was the exultant shout Of an easter
Republican paper the morning after tn
late election in that state. 1t appears no,
that Belknap was we'll acquainted in Ne,
Hampshire, Mr.. Sargent, 10 Manchester
having paid the secretary bride of $l2
900 for contract to put heating apparatu
into government buildings.
The presidents son, Fred. and SEM
tor Sherman's son were bankers in S
Louis The Grm is dissolved and Ere
Grant is ordered away to the army.
would be interesting to trace the connectio
between the whisky trials and the Mars
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cock from the White House and the n
storation of Fred Grant to his place in Il
army.
MIR Bristow comes from Kentuck,
but he cannot tell Kentucky story. NJ
Clymer's endeavors TO fasten guilt @
Belknap reminded the secretary so
least Philadelphia correspondent says
of the Kentucky legislator who cruelI
observed when he saw a colleague wres
ling vainly with question too great ft
his intellectual calihre, The geutlema
has taken too big chaw." What tt
Kentucky humOrist did say was shat tt
legislature-not a member of it-had 'b
off more than it could chaw."
The president will appoint NJ
. Stoughton minister to England in Dana
place. The president is noted for the i
consequential circumstances Which attra
him to some of his most prominent a
+ p intees. In this case he is said never
5 have met the man but heard his name an
t Immediately connected it with the bite
2 which form so important part of Il
; morning cocktail with which this COVER
: ment stcadies its hand to sign the commi
sion OF the post traders who buy the
privileges of the secretary of war.