The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


THE Lord is against them
Our streets are very muddy.
Nice night for an outdoor meeting.
Good weather for Republican torches.
Phoenix martial band ball in Hitler
hall tonight
Tom Thumb casts just as big vote as
Long John Wentworth.
Gov. Hendricks in Peoria Friday
Half fare on the railroad
Don't neglect careful reading of Gen.
Stoneman's letter, in this paper.
The Detroit Free Fress man spells it
limb Lame" and the effect is weird.
Mr. Mulligan Blaine is afiuent in
falsehood and inexhaustible in invectiye.
John L. Thomas and Miss Mary Ann
McTaggert, both of this city, were married
yesterday afternoon by Justice Pinkley, in
his office.
-Eph. Wood thinks "theiLord must be
Democrat and he didn't say it as
though he liked to, either. Eph., you re
gone this time sure.
Hayes papers have quit figuring the
electoral college and gone to constructing
Tilden's cabinet. This shows that they
think he will be elected,
-Hengster's cigar and tobacco store is
now in Kellerstrauss i Vogele's new
block, just across the street from the old
stand, and it is, without doubt, the finest
cigar store in the city.
Charity Grove, No. 80, u. A. o. D..
gave very pleasant dance in Killers hal
last evening which was we'll attended
Bleuer's band furnished some excellent
music and Mrs. John Aster served q
spledid supper
MIR. w. D. Wilson, who had some
| talk of going into partnership with Mr.
| c. ?. Henstler, has concluded to fit VI
Hengstler's old place and open a cigar and
tobacco stand there. He will be ready
for business in few days,
If 1ilden is elected, there will be har.
mony and happiness throughout the coun-
try. II Hayes is elected, the south will
be utterly discouraged and hopeless, and
we may look forward to a further long
period of political and social turmoil.
There is every probability now of Q
stampede, next week. that will leave Hayes
without several of the states upon which
his friends have confidently counted. anG
which his opponents hitherto haye beer
inclined to concede without much dispute
AT Quincy, the Hon. o. Fl. Browning
a bosomIriend of Lincoln, and former
secretary of the interior, one of the purest
and best of Illinois statesmen, presided
over the meeting in the opera house in
which Col. Morrison addressed an immense
| Ia J
Reform.
Geo. Courtney, the engineer who was
injured in the accident on the Peoria road,
yesterday forenoon, is improving rapidly
under the kind treatment of Uncle 10 Co
net and his wife. His injuries are pretty
serious, however, as he was badly squeezed
and had both legs scalded from the knees
down. Dr. Plummer attends him.
The Chicago Times says HI who halls
man upon the highway and demand:
your money or your hfep' is called rob.
Der. He who goes to the civil servants Of
the United States and says, "A percentage
of your salaries or your place." is a gen
tleman. patriot, and civil-service re
former: is, in short, Zachariah Chandler
Now that Mr.. Tilden has disposed
| AudAlS Va lilO SlAly tWaoAlS dbOuG DtIIiO
crats paying rebel debts aud war claims
Mr.. Mulligan Blaine's inventive genius
will be taxed to invent some new Islander
in season for the election. But there il
Father Taft; his imagination is known to b
very powerful, and pereaps he can assis
the stricken bond trader. Is there moth
ing about the Pope or the African SLAVE
that would answer?
Deputy Sheriff Sheriff SiIvis started
for Joliet last evening with Edward anC
Isaac Westphal, father and son, sentenced
at the late term of circuit court to q
years in the penitentiary, for burglary
fThe reason of the delay in not taking
them to the penitentiary before was tina
they were both indicted, with Alex. Val
cntine, for the murder of Nelson Stark
the Swede shoemaker near Orion, and i
was thought they would have their trial a
the present term of circuit court in HEM,
county-but from present indications tn,
trial will not come off this term.