The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-24

-Milt Barlow will be here Dec. 9th.
California trains next Sunday over the
C. & N. W. BY,
The police force has made 80 arrests
so far this month.
The mechanics of this city will give a
ball in Turner hall on Saturday evening
Dec. 9th.
The word ineligible" means, as de-
fined by Webster, incapable of being
elected to Office"
Circuit court (Judge Pleasants) COM
meuces In Aledo on Monday. In January
comes the next session here.
Somebody stole Supt. Everett's
pocket-book containing about about $40.
in the public library, the other day.
Grant says he wants a fair count, but
that means to count Hayes 10. 1t is like
his other saying, let no guilty man escape,
which means convict no friends OF his.
The three carpet-bag states-South
Carolina, Florida, Louisiana. The three
| carpet-bag governors-Chamberl from
Massachusetts, Stearns, from Maine;
kellogg, from illinois.
If Hayes shall be counted in by fraud,
there will be such tidal wave in 1878 as
never overwhelmed the Republican party
| before; and in 1880 there will be an avail
anche of votes that will bury it out of
sight forever.
The 2lst annual meeting of the Illinois
State Horticultural Society will be held in
Galesburg, Dec ~ to IA. Railroads carry
at reduced rates. A new feature this year
1 l. Al oil
oranges
| Charles Engel has erected himself a
fine frame building, 20 by 43 feet, on
the corner Of Fourth avenue and 4th
street, and has moved his -four and feed
store into it. The store he has just vacated
will be occupied by John Sutcliffe, pain
ter and paper hanger.
1t has been enormously stated by
some papers that the two Atkinson train
wreckers who were sent to the reform
school in this state were too old for admis.
sion. The fact is there was an error in
the mittimus and that having been correct
ed the boys are now lodged in that institu
ton esaeseo Republic.
The people may as well be reminded thai
J. Madison Wellss president Of the Louisl,
ana returning board, has rebel claim
pending before the Republican southern
Claims commits sion. Said claim amounts
to the snug sum of $450,OOO. A tolerably
strong inducement for Wells to run his
machine in favor of the party from which
he expects to get the cash.
-Swindles are practiced in the oyster
trade, and the dear people are finding il
out. Cans are branded Selects" which
are one-half medium and the other hall
water, and as for standard" cans, the
few oysters in them aren't half medium.
OF course reputable packers don't enter
into this kind of business, and the packers
that do it never brand the cans with their
names.
Marshal Halves says that Charles
Christy, the overcoat thief and ''squaler, "
is crazy. either from liquor or some other
cause. He was in the police Office this
| forenoon where he lay on a sofa crying
like child and muttering incoherently
about his being Charley Ross and about
some man who was murdered or would be
murdered in the Rocky mountains. He
was taken to the Union house. He ii
about IS years old.
The men who stole NJ. G. Kilgore's
| chlAs HIAlSh W do lCOOFOiCO uCLC SGcLCLudy
were named Jack" Flynn, Riley an
Rounds They were in this city about
week ago and Policeman Brennan had ar
rested and taken them to the marshal:
office On suspicion that they had stolen The
skiff-but they told pretty straight story
and al the officer had no information of &
skiff having been stolen, they had to be
discharged Rounds said his brother was
a policeman in Clinton, Iowa.
Newspapers on both sides may discus:
the situation, politicians on both sides may
wrangle over it, but when all is said and
done by newspapers and politicians thai
can be, then the people must render the
decisive Judgment. If they want presi.
dent elected by the returning board of g
carpet bag state, they can have him. Il
they want president elected by them
selves they can have him. And the sooner
they make up their minds what aud whom
they do want, and intend to have, the bet
ter it will be for all concerned.-&. Louil
Republican (Den1.1.