The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-28
NOTES HIRE AID THERE.

Rock Island has seventeen secret So !
cieties.
Eleven couples made happy in the
past week.
-Bricklaying has commenced on
Kellerstrasss Star Block extension.
The county superintendent Office
in the Court house is being newly papered
Nine males and three females arrested
in the past week, according to the marshals
book.
The election of Hayes means the con-
! tinuance in control of the same men who
have run the political machine for the last
| eight years.
Columbus Delano is going to take the
stump for Hayes and Wheeler in Ohio
1t was this patriot who left the cabinet to
escape impeachment.
The insincerity of Republican profess
SONS OF love for loyal men and soldiers
is beautifully illustrated in their county
ticket in this county.
"A stray horse was picked UP last
night aud taken to kerr's livery stable. 1t
was claimed this morning by j. T. Miller,
who keeps stable on Market square.
MIR. Evarts spoke, in his Grafton, july
4th, of 'our debt to the men of l776.'
All. would that all our debts were to the
men of l776.- Turner Falls, (Mass.) Re.
publican.
Young ladies crazy to go on the
stage" may benefit their lunacy by remem-
bering the fact that there are 262 actresses
in New York waiting an opportunity to
display their talents.
The prairie schooner which has been
anchored 10 Union Square for few DAYS
past, has hoisted sale and gone. Why do
the police permit that square to be used
for that purpose?
The Union, has no remarks to make
on the bargain and sale by which Wiser
was cheated out of the nomination for cir
cult clerk and Harson and Hale Bowman
traded to make Harson clerk and Bowman
deputy.
-Landaulet Williams is for Hayes aud
Wheeler and he too, will take the stump
early, and why? 1t is because he hopes in
Republican success it will be made lawful
for government officers to be furnished a
landaulet for their family use.
The Democratic house passed a bill to
equalize the boUnties OF Union soldiers.
, The same bill has been before the Repub
, llcan senate for months, and is not yet
acted upon. Why don't the Republicans
point to this act of the Democratic house
as Il confederate act?
AS the Republicans want to carry
. Louisiana, it may be necessary for Carl
4 SchurZ to stump the state for Packard
If he can go back on what he said Of
Hayes in the Fifth Avenue Conference, he
need have no scruples about swallowing
his denunciations of Packard in the last
. Missouri canvass.
Annie Anderson, Swede baby, about
, "a year old, whose mother died at the poor
farm about month ago, where she had
been sent from Moline. was recently left
9 with Mrs. Peter Hill, of this city. who was
! to take out papers OF adoption on this
: week, was taken sick day or two ago and
died yesterday forenoon and was buried
this afternoon.
: The Valley Guard Brass Band,
. mposed Of Is men in An9alusia, have
:, recently purchased l3 splendid new bras.
4 instruments from d firm in Chicago, at a
cost Of $500 aud the band is now able to
/ play several pieces upon them The off
e GERS Of the band are Charles Houston,
0 president: Il. ". Buffum, secretary: and
n
biehl, OF this city, is the teacher.
Charley Simmons. a harvester, vas
l. discovered this morning, near Beugst0n' ;
e drug store, nearly exhausted from loss OF
blood, as he had been bleeding at the nose
since last evening about clock. He said
that he came from Chicago last evening
q on freight train, and that he had had &
e similar attack the day before He wa
a taken in charge by Super visor Aster, DIR
Craig was called and succeeded IN stoppins
the flow of blood.
: As MIR Chqs Hansgens family wa
y going to picnic on Big Island, this morn
lng, when near ChIppiannock cemetery
they were run into by wagon coming tt
town, and August Hansgen, who was driv
!, ing, was thrown out. The horse ran
i, short distance, when the rest Of the famil,
e we're thrown out. and Amelia, aged abou
IF or 7, severely injured. The horse wa
Il caught. Mrs. Hansgen was out at BIZ
l. Island at the time.
|. 1t will be remembered that a humble
r of young ladies' in this city invited thei
young gentleman friends to a leap yea
,, excursion and party short time since
and that splendid time was had. Tn
h young ladies made themselves so yer,
agreeable that the gentlemen concluded
reciprocation would be fair, aud conse
?. quently chartered the Newsboy to go t.
Is Linwood and return this evening.
. Tho Democrats of Missouri have nom
i mated for governor Gen. John S. Phelps
# who was for l6 years continuously a mem
r Der of congress, and resigned bis seat t.
enlist in the union army 10 which h
served to the close OF the war, working hi
D. way up to the rank Of brigadier and render
ing brave and important service to hi
" country, His nomination by the Missouri
At Democracy is an abundant answer to tn
II red mouthed calumnies uttered by Genera
If Tutte in his recent speech at Des Mones
Is Hon. Charles Durham, lady an,
lee daughter. have wrapped their tents arouGt
,, , them and silently stolen away for
j. month sojourn among the rocks the hill
the woods and sea breezes of New Eng
~ land. On their journey thither they vii
IT remain a few days in Canada, view Ma
as CARA, spend week in western Massachu
Oh sets. then settle down on the banks of the
- Piscataquis river in Maine for rest
y Having refreshed themselves, they will
I" seek the seaside go down to Narraganse
= Bay and stay awhile, then trudge on t
y Philadelphia to see the big show. Afte
20 which the party will return home Gene
,0 50 Republic.
ID The annual John Warner pic mic tool
e place on Big Island Thursday afternool
re and was attended by oyer 200 men from
the Quadrilateral Cities and vas voted
great success Some idea of the dune