The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-07
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MIR. Cullom is to speak here tonight.
We hope he will not forget to answer the
conundrums in last evenings ARGUS.
-"Fighting Joe Hooker supports
Samuel j. Tilden; telegraphing Colonel
Babcock supports Rutherford B. Hayes.
-Ex Senator Revels-colored, by ma
ture-supports Samuel j. Tilden; ex.sen-
ator Zach Chandler-colored, artifcially---
supports Rutherford B. Hayes.
-Lincoln's secretary of the navy, Gid
con Welles, supports Samuel j. Tilden;
Grants secretary OF the navy. Secor Robe
son. supports Rutherford B. Hayes.
The Pennsylvania war governor, A. G.
Curtin, supports Samuel j. Tilden; the
Pennsylvania war secretary. Simon Cam
eron, supports Rutherford B. Hayes.
--Lincolns assistant secretary of war,
peter II. Watson, supports Samuel j.
llideni Grants secretary OF war, Donald
Cameron, supports Rutherford b. Hayes.
AT meeting of the members of the
Light Artillery Co. held in Artillery Hall
last evening it was decided to give social
ball 10 their hall on Tuesday evening, the
18th.
-Cassius NJ. Clay, abolitionist, foreign
| minister by Liucoln's appointment, sup
ports Tilden: Godlove S. Orth, patronage
broker and foreign minister by Grant 5
appointment supports Hayes.
u know of no better recipe for keep
ing out of the penitentiary than to vote
the Republican ticket, said Bob lnger
soil at Greenfield. True. There's Robe
son. Belknap, andeBabcock. Nothing but
their devotion to the party saved them.
DIR. Charles Newbert, formerly edito,
OF the Belleville tlil.) Belleuiller Zeituag
Radical, and up to the present campaign 3
Republican, has come out boldly for Til
den and Hendricks, in card which ap-
peared in the iSterns des Westens recently
The Republicans of Lancaster. Pa.
held meeting the other evening, and, to SCI
material for bonfres, invaded the grave
yard of ST. Joseph's Catholic church O
that town, from which they took the wood
en- crosses and head boards and burned
them. Hardly grave escaped them.
The Radicals employ for political pur
poses during this campaign $4,000 Office
holders in the United States and the AS
sociated Press. The people have heavy
aging fact that the robbed largely out
lumber the robbers.-S Louis Times.
Billy" dark top knot canary, die
to day. He was presented to Alexaude
: Steel by S. o. Hand, of Chillicothe, Chic
and had he lived until January next h
would have been 25 years old-bein
hatched in January. 1852 Mr.. Loui
= Harms, of this city, will stuff the bird.
Yesterday, Wilson Smith, steward o
the steamer Dubuque, had the boss ca
Of corn on exhibition ar Chas. Long boa
store, on the levee. 1t was raised on h
+ farm in Black Hawk township, was !
inches long, and weighed one pound and
half. He has many more about the sam
size.
We could name a hundred leadir
Republicans in the different states wi
. have left their party to advocate Iild
y and reform. The names of some of the
. will be found in an article in this pape
We cannot think of q single lea ling Dem
= crat who has gone over to the other side
II an advocate Of Hayes
st The I'LL Herald. German indepe
dent or neutral paper of large circulate
IN in Will and adj lining counties, has throw
j. off its neutrality AMI come out for Tide
aud Hendricks The Herald states tn
~ in doing so ii but conforms to the wish
of nine tenths of the German voters with
a the range of its circulation.