The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-14

Nv eatner more mild ana piea6anL
Considerable hay was on sale in Mar
ket Square to-day.
Capt. Hutchinson's Black Hills excur-
sion is to be here tomorrow. a
Travel over Sylvan Water and Rock
Island bridges is very large.
Considerable damage was done at
Dixon. Iowa, during the great storm OF
Friday the 10th. va
About 90 men and boys are now en-
ployed in keator & Co.'S saw mill-a
slight decrease from last season.
-Biehrs band, Of this city, will give q
grand centennial ball, IN Turner Hall,
Goal Valley, on next Friday. Everybody
| is invited. a.
The seventh annual ball of the st.
Patrick Benevolent society will be given
in Killers Hall on next Friday evening
st. Patrick's day. .ass.5 ssass
Last night of Tremaine's charming
| sun pictures of Europe. The hall was
quite full last night. and everybody was
delighted. This is the fourth night and
the audiences have increased every night.
| AS stated in this paper last evening,
Deputy Collector Eph Wood, this morn
| ing, released the Milan distillery on Mr..
Frysinger paying the costs. 1t was i'm
mediately seized again and advertised to
be sold on April ed. a.
Mr.. Dana win be the seventh Mass
achusettsian who has served his country al
the court of st. James, viz: John Quincy
Adams, Abbott Lawrence. Edward Everett,
George Bancroft. Charles Francis Adams
and John Lathrop Motley.
"A farmer, named August Arpe, living
in Aliens Grove township, Scott county,
Iowa, was killed by lightning on last Fri
day. His body was found on Saturday
morning in his pasture. and with little
hole at the base of left side of the neck, 9
sixteenth Of an inch in diameter.
Geo. McGee, brakeman on the Rock
ford road. on Sunday, had the first finger
of his left hand taken off at the second
joint aud the middle finger at the first
Joint, while coupling cars at Carbon Cliff
He was brought to this city, where DR.,
Plummer dressed the wound. His folk.
live in Davenport.
BY runaway. last night, Mr.. Johr
lSchindler was thrown from his buggy, neal
the corner of Illinois and Madison streets
rendered unconscious and severely injured
He was carried into Chris. Koerber
saloon, where he remained until this morn
ing, when he was able to walk to hi,
brothers, Thomas SCHNEIDER. The bugg.
is almost total wreck. 1893
1T is a great year for the old men
grandfathers who have been neglecte'
, and made to feel that they were in tn
way, and wished they were dead, VIII
, have long been thrust away in the 6tche
and left to humble to themselves in tn
chimney corner, are astonished by bein
: brushed up of an evening and brough
into the parlor, where they are shown O
, to the company as centennial relics
g Grandfather, you knew Washington
, didn't you?" screams granddaughter i
l his ear, for he is very deaf Yes, yes,
9 says grandfather, the gin'rel borer'd
chaw terbaccer Of me many and man
. a timer' The old man is going to Phils
. delphia, sure. s...
There is some twaddle about startin
J, third party for the presidential election
i 1t can't be done, and won't be tried. In
e short time the main issue will be joine
E between the two existing parties, and I'M
, them will be whirled all the political force
: of the country. In the campaign of tn
s year, no third party could do anything bl
e guerrilla skirmishing and blackmailinl
4 | and no such business can be tolerated vi
: der the present circumstances. One of Il
ftwaddlers about third party says Il
people are mad enough" just now to rus
e into it. There are some people who al
e often mad enough and silly enough to NAL
- fools of themselves; but even these W
: keep clear of the folly of third party th
year. Two parties are sufficient for Il
- presently Y. Sun.