The daily Argus., 1876-03-06
NorEs HrRE AND THERE.

NOTES HERE AND THERE
Watch for and challenge all illegal
voters.
The Davenport papers speak of
"7hos'' Dart and DR.. "" T. dregg'
"Sich is fame"
-Keator & Co.'S saw mill started VI.
to-day, with an unusually large force OF
men employed.
An extra number of the Neue Voths
Zeitung was issued to-day. 1t supports
Davenport and the whole ticket.
The only way to ever get any clear
water is to clean out the water board. Let
the voters see that it be done tomorrow. |
-Uncle John Ziegler is said to be anx-
ious for the election OF Butler and Woods:
Is Uncle John afraid of losing bis office
-Belknap's case will go into the civil
courts. IF he could get it into Iowa some
way, Judge Dillon would preside. And
then nothing but charge" would stand
between him and liberty. Chicago Times
Rally for Bailey Davenport, the peo-
ple's mayor, tomorrow. Begin 10 the
morning and cease not your efforts till the
boxes are closed.
-Oneyear in the state and three months
in the ward are necessary in order to vote.
The place where man sleeps decides his
residence-not where he eats.
Had not Democratic congress been
elected the country would never have
known the corruptions of the Republican
party or how the people have been robbed.
In the post Office partnership between
Murdock and Harverstick, how is the
division of the $4,000 year made? 1t is
necessary that the post office shall, In some
way, be made to keep the Union alive.
Read the revelation in this paper from
N. Y. Tribune of 1872, showing up the
Marsh business. Then, it was called a
Liberal Republican slander." Now, a
Democratic congress shows it to have been
| true.
The charge of larceny against John l..
Thompson has been withdrawn, Mr.. VIM.
Whitton, who made the complaint, being
satisfied that no theft was committed but
that the coat and vest claimed to have
been stolen really belonged to Mr.. Thomp-
son. t
| The eleven negroes who held a meet
ing IN the court house, Saturday night. do
not represent the better sentiment of the
better class of colored people, and all
colored people ought not to be held re-
sponsible for the action of the poor tools
of the Butler ring on that occasion.
| Don't say anything to the Butler
Bummers around the polls tomorrow in
regard to Belknap. or Babcock, or Joyce
or Mckee, or any of their other leaders
who are in the penitentiary Their leaders
are nearly all in the penitentiary and the
balance are on the road there.
The Democrats of the house of repre-
sentatives have discovered Republican
steal in the leasing of the United States
fisheries at Alaska, and another in rela-
ton to the disposition of the Cherokee
lands in North Carolina, but, really, we
havn't the time to write up the persona
history of all the Republican officials at
Washington.
The drunken orator of the Butler
negro meeting in the court house Saturday
night after the meeting, said: by Cd
we've (hic) freed the niggers-now le' (hic
free the id (hicj Dutch" The Butler
party ought to feel proud of their champ
ion When he gets too beastly drunk t
F go home he forces window in the circuit
clerk Office and sleeps there, on the foor
1t is reported from New Orleans tha
the house of representatives will max
another effort to impeach and remove the
s thief Kellogg from the executive Office 1t
? is two to one the attempt will fail, Th
, senate of that state is soundly Republican
and that party never makes any blunder
G in its lifelong work of protecting publi
i robbers.
: William Wclch, of Philadelphia, al
s ex~Indian peace commissioner, stated b
y fore the house military committee, las
Saturday, that he believed that two third
y of the appropriation for Indian service
: expended for the election of United State
!. senators. This is another manner, ,althoug
e not new ono, by which the people ar
+. robbed by Republican Office holders an
y Office getters.
III George Taylor. ex-Republican cor
n gressman from Brooklyn, n Y, has bee
D indicted for robbing the governmer
,e through completely with his brother Re
;. publicans in the bureau Of cotton claim
- Taylor stands very high in the estimatio
Is Of his party, having stolen not less tha
N $3,000,000 on his own account. and ha,
lie ing been of great assistance to otht
8 thieves.
Mr.. Pierrepont. the attorney-genera
has vindicated his right to be called a lea,
IL ing Republican, by refusing to send to tt
H. house of representatives any correspol
e. ence showing up the internal working
90 the White Heuse segment of the whisb
% ring The whisky ring, with other iii
as thievish combinations, is the support
IS, the Republican party, and whoever pr
e. tects thief deserves well of the Repub
Ie can party.
a Chester L. Root, the chief assistal
- in the United States collectors Office,
ut Chicago, has been indicted for crookednes
be and has skipped the town. Root was
of prominent Republican, and SO loyal to IL
GO great cause of freedom that he is suppose
to have made not less than half milio
a. aS Ii this business isn't stopped pretty SOC
ic there won't be Republicans enough left
il Illinois to fill the state ticket. Roots la
h words, as he passed over the Canada lin
were, Let no guilty NJ an escape. R
10 CARDS to Bah and Num-
:. = Hello, here it is again. The hou
IT, committee appointed to investigate Il
ng Texas Pacific Railroad swinde has ev
ly dence that Marshall o. Parsons, form,
Mt president of the company, expended ST
- 10000 of the companys bonds in bu,
&C ing the passage of the land grant a.
slr through the Republican congress. M
lis Pierrepont, now attorney general, was
ofi that time solicitor of the company, an
- divided the swag among his brother R
ne publicans.