The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

The Turner Society will give dra-
matte entertainment in Turner Hall next
Sunday evening.
Good day for the farmers who brought
hay to the city-dIizzling rain. 1t makes
their loads weigh more.
cloudy, misty. snowy, clustering, dis
| agreeable day. When will the Hay can
vassers get through with their work?
When will our township highway
commissioners open the road from the
cemetery gate to South Rock lslandf
The new book store of McCune u
Wiley formerly Bengston's drug store is
expected to be open in two or three weeks.
| It is the finest location in town for the
business.
Invitations have been printed at The
ARGUS JOB Rooms for THANKSGIVING
ball in Concert Hall, Hillsdale, on Thurs
day evening, the Both. The Light Guard
Band, of this city, will furnish the music.
Since the LIST of April Weighmaster
Thornton has weighed 4.4l8 loads OF
country produce on the scales on Market
Square. The figures from the other
scales in town would probably double this.
Nothing new has transpired concern
ing the frightful shell business at VIM. ID.
Prices residence in Davenport. Hiram
Price has offered $500 reward for the
creature who threw the shell-makine
81, 700 in all, now offered.
Jacob Kramer, who has just returned
from Pontiac, where he had taken Eddie
Stemple and Twink Smith, to the Re
form School, says there are now Isl boy
confined in that institution. He had q
trouble in taking his prisoners to thu
school.
-Buford's block is undergoing needet
improvements. The floors in the Beings
ton.store and in the Kane store are Deinl
raised and the rooms newly fitted up. VIM
Il E. Chopper is doing the work. Lit tn
rooms on the second, third and fourth
floors were put in good order and kept s
they would probably find tenants.
What did the prominent Republi
cans go to New Orleans, in response t
Grants military order and invitation TO
if it was not to see fair countH Now
they decline to have anything to do wit
the matter. They could have stayed a
) home and done that. State Reg
ister.
Alex. Steel will move his sales stor
into the store in Buford's Block recentl
. vacated by Mike Kane. He will retail
the two stores on 18th street, adjoinin
THE ARGUS Office, for storage room an
heavy business. The shop formerly use
by Kane has also been rented by Nj
Steel aud will be used for storing bulk
articles, such as wood work for wagons
sleighs, ETC., etc. It looks as thougl
"Aleek" was going to do big business.
There were originally thirteen state
that formed the Union. OF these, eight
and probably nine, voted for Tilden, an
only five or four for Hayes. Now Their
are thirty eight coequal states in the union
and of these twenty are believed to hav
voted for Tilden, and only eighteen 70
Hayes. Tilden has 203 electoral votes
and say 100000 popular votes, Will
: Hayes has 166 electoral, and only 5000,
, 900 popular votes.-Tilden, therefore
has majority of 81 electoral votes, an
100000 popular votes-and this is his It'll
to the presidency,
The words of ex-Gov Horatio Sey
mour are always weighty and sagacious
He censures Grant for sending a partisan
I 1
that there must be general acquiescenc
in Mr.. Tilden's election; that the Repub
| licans cannot afford to be responsible 70
an electioneering miscount; and that the,
2 would be utterly ruined if they shout
seize power through fraud. Mr. Seymour
observations upon these and other feature
of the political situation will be found in
structive and interesting.
+ Grants attorney general, Taft, think
it would be great hardship for the PEG
pie of Vermont to be represented in thei
? electoral college by one elector whom the.
did not deliberately choose. Perhaps
would; but would it not be at least al
equal hardship for the people of Louisan
to be represented entirely IN their electors
5 college by eight electors whom they di
f not choose? And would il not be irsuffel
able hardship for the American people t
have imposed on them a president whor
they not only did not choose, but emphat
cally rejected?
. Pitt Kellogg's antecedens are in pei
r feet harmony with his present conduct |
, years that are gone he lived In this see
tion-speci6cally in Pennington In thes
= days he came to Peoria to get his goo
clothes. A merchant is doing bushes
in this town to day who, years ago mad
him a suit Of clothes The unpaid bi
for those goods is still in the merchant
; possession, and the last time Pitt visite
Peoria he didn't have the grace to call o
: his old friend, and even apologize for hi
:, neglect. That's the kind of a. roostt
q Grants governor Of Louisiana is.-Peor,
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