The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-31

Some of the stone for the new vault
for the First National bank has arrived.
st, Louis cars now leave at ITO p. m.
instead of 9.45 as heretofore, See time
card.
A raft passed down Saturday, on
which vegetation had grown to quite an
extent.
That prairie schooner was notifedIby
our police to leave Union Square Saturday,
and it left.
Don't miss reading the interview with
Lewis Steward 1t shows the plain, frank
ways of the man.
People who carefully read The ARGUS
of last week and this week won't need to |
ask who is Lew Steward?"
When will, the Union tell its readers
where Parmenter was during the draft, land
why he didn't 60 to the WARP
The entire national state and county
tickets are omitted to-day on account of
the great length of the interview with Mri
Steward
What has happened to the East st.
Louis city government may happen to
Rock Island, If our council undertakes to
run in debt any.
We rather pity the Unaon. 1t hasn't
the courage to tell its readers whether it
| believes 10 Grants currency notions, or in
those of Morton, Ben Butler, Pig Iron
Kelly & Co.
"A letter from Sophronia Hadsell, a
little heather girl in India, whom the
Methodist Sunday school in this city is
keeping and educating. was read in that
school yesterday.
| One of the best speeches made at the
great ratification meeting at Tammany
Hall, on Tuesday evening, was by Col.
Nicholas Smith, the son-in-law of Horace
Greeley-N Y Sun.
So far from being weak it is seen that
Mr.. Tilden is one of the strongest men the
Democrats could nominate-the attacks of
his enemies rebound from him like shot
from the sides of an iron-clad.-Ne,o York:
Herald. July %.
We learn, through a letter from a
prominent public man in the western part
of the state, that of those Republicans who
in 1872 voted for Horace Greeley fully
ninety per cent. will now vote for Samuel
j. Tilden.-N y san.
OF the two thousand harvesters who
who have come into the county in the past
two weeks, and gone through the county
in search of work, probably not one thous-
and have found employment. The barley
and wheat crops are too poor in scores OF
fields to allow the farmers to hire assist
ance-Dduenport Gazette.
, -Chas. 4. Putnam, Esq, president of
the First National Bank, Davenport, has
rendered his resignation. This step was
made necessary by the pressure upon him
of personal and professional engagements,
5 leaving him no time to attend to his du-
ties. Major L. L, Dow has been elected
: to fill the vacancy thus created.
Hon, ii. II. Clausseu, Of Davenport,
was invited to come down and make a
: speech to the Hayes aud Wheeler boys
+ next Tuesday night, but he declined with
Q thanks. He says he is to old, -uuscdtin.
!, Tribune. The Davenport Democrat says
: Better send for his son, Ernst Ciaussen
= and get some good Tilden talk. "
Col Henry Q. Kent of New Hamp
shire, member of the Liberal Republican
National Committee of 1872, publishes
letter regulating the policy of Ethan Aller
{ and John Cochrane, and declaring that hi
b is for Tiiden and Hendricks, Col Kent il
IF worth dozen Aliens and Cochranes. Th,
# best men among the Liberals remain true
to the cause Of reform,
r The U, S. collector at Norfolk ha
II stretched Hayes and Wheeler flag acros
= the gable end Of the custom-house in tina
:, city. The government custom-house
- ought to be put to better purpose than tn
= display Of party flags, and government
\ collectors ought to be engaged in othe
C business than emblazoning the publi
:. buildings with political banners.
II -Keator & Co. 8 mill shut down Satur
If day evening, for a few days, owing t
n. scarcity Of logs, aud also to repair the los
II way. They have been saving some bi
,e logs lately. On Thursday they sawed
10 l6 foot log, which measured ~ inche
~ across the small end. and made 1910 fee
= of lumber. On Saturday they sawed on
n As feet long, and several "a feet and UP
N wards
ry Did you ever hear the joke on Ortiz
ar Venezuela Orth? 1t was something like
in An acquaintance met him and remarked
40 Should think it would go hard with you
ID Gottlieb, to be as hot as lime kiln Will
II this weather lasts" mot at ali, reptile
the dashing Venezouave; I've got use
if to it, like the eels got used to being skim
~ ed" DO you refer to the Venezu-eels
II inquired the other This is Orthentic,
During the twelve months ending Jur
80, 1875, the gross receipts of the Moline
Rock Island Street Railway Co. were So
es I50 II. During the year ending June B
d 1876, the gross receipts were $27, 845, 81
a an increase OF nearly $4,000 The large
receipts for any one month within the pa
~ year were $2,S52, in August, 1875. I'll
or smallest month was February, T6, 81 49,
d. a. The last semi-annual dividend was
cv per cent.
.at "A number of young men met Saturds
=. evening at Killers Hall for the purpose
II taking steps TO organize boat club. Fo1
as ty-eight names were reported on the roll
e. A. G. Morris, Eugene Biddison, w. Cha
a non and John Wheelan we're appointed
committee on permanent organization, ar
si j. S. Darrah, Michael Radigan, Geo.
on Coburn aud A. NJ. Garner a committee
ut bylaws. The name Independent Bo
l,r Club" was adopted, and the meeting a,
- journed to Tuesday evening next, whe
Oh the committees are expected to make the
to reports.
lily We have received a communicate
ty from a very respectable man in Co
in Valley, relating story about Republ
can office-seeker from Moline, candidate f
iW sheriff, being out there on Friday of la
ad week, going the rounds of the saiool
nv treating for votes. and speaking of Oh
in man who was not asked to drink, but wi
stole nickel from the candidate al
treated himself. Our correspondent thin
if this candidate isn't smart enough
avoid being robbed in a saloon he isr