The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-22
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Don't stand In the door way.

Work is progressing well on the
Broadway Presbyterian church,
The A. O. u. w. lodge room is being t
fitted up with inside window blinds il
Paper 10 the streets is liable to scare 1
teams and cause frightful accidents. II
The western mail was about an hour :
and half behind time this morning. +,
Men are at work at the culvert west
of the center stables on Moline avenue.
-'Tilden, reform and constitutional
liberty is the campaign cry of Cassius Nj.
Clay.
Grant continues to unload himself of
the small reform element in the Republi-
can party.
People who sweep or place litter, gar
bage, etc, in the streets are liable to fine.
The police should enforce tue law.
Keep your temper while discussing
politics. 1t is equal to heaping a whole
bucketful Of Goals on your opponents head.
Wendell Phillips thinks that Hayes
will be elected; also, that the Republican
party is about as corrupt as parties ever
get to be.
Reform with the Republican party !
begins with the nomination Of Godlove S. |
Orth, the hero of the Venezuela swindle, |
for governor Of Indiana.
In settling the accounts in regard to |
the strip taken from Moline and added |
to Rock Island township last fall, Rock |
Island came about $500 ahead.
Miss Jennie Briggs has been selected
to fill the remaining vacancy among the
teachers in our public schools, but her
place has not yet been assigned.
Post office loafers who block up the
door ways should be reminded by the
police that others may wish to pass 10 or
out without coming in contact with them.
THAT fortune is thus explained by the
| Worcester Press. Sardis Birchard sold
whisky, made big fortune and willed it
to his nephew-Rutherford Birchard
Hayes"
1t was in place Of Geo. Mixter and
not Of Fred Weyerhauser that Maj Butler
was chosen a director of the glass works.
Mr.. Weyerhauser was not a member OF
the board.
The idiots who can't read the signs on
| The ARGUS letter box are not all dead yet.
To-day's exhibit is as follows: Mrs. +. 5.
Tay lor, Orfordsvile Rock Co., Wis,
Placed in the post office.
"A subscriber writes: Would it not
be good plan for President Grant to
keep his cabinet mounted and in the
saddle, so they may be ready to vacate at
moments notice Boston Post.
The Utica n Y. Herald (Republican)
two years ago said Mr.. Tiiden is a gen
tleman of culture and refinement Now
it calls him all manner of names. The
canal ring has been burst in the mean
time.
Whatever of odium attaches to the
president because of this course Mr..
Hayes must share, because all that has
been done is in his interest, and is for the
purpose Of promoting his election.--Balti-
more Gazette.
john Blake, aged about 25, well
known IN this city, died at his residence
corner of Adams aud Orleans streets, yes
terday. He has been sick for long time
with consumption. His funeral took place
, to-day and was largely attended, there
being about 60 carriages in the procession,
Emory A Storrs, attorney for Bah
, cock and the whisky ring, has made a
great speech on politics at Aurora, III,
1t was for Hayes and will probably cost
him some-votes. If the Republican party
means to win, it had better psy every such
orator fee to close his mouth. N Y
Tribune.
Next Tuesday evening Darts Hal
a will be packed full, to see Haverley
2 Minstrels Milt Barlow, the best delineatoi
o Of real negro character in the world, vii
he there, We hope it will be cool weather
but cool or hot we are bound to see Mil
r Barlow and the other remarkably fine
+ performers of that company.
MIR. Warner is doing good work OF
D. kimball street and Second Avenue, will
Z the small means at his command. A
{ buggy can now be driven through Kimbal
{ street, and it will not be long before th,
I same can be done on the Second Avenu,
extension. The bridge and trestle worl
: should be raised as high as possible so a
{ to make an easy grade
); How many buggies are there in Rocl
4 Island with hind wheels that follow in TIL
: track of the front wheels? Very few. Nearl
! every buggy has its axels or wheels sprung
y by crossing the rails. This would no
:, occur if our city council enforced the cor
:, tract by which the street cars are pei
:, mitted to run. Do the passes which tn
+ members carry in their pockets proven
a them from enforcing the contract?
T. The name of Moline Avenue shout
|: be changed to Sawdust Avenue No on
n ever saw such Il piece of stupidity 8
i covering broken rock with sawdust, ez
e pecting the material to pack and make
e good road. Moline Avenue is worse tina
a corduroy road, and it never will be
ID ecent road until the sawdust is removed
The author of this sawdust nuisance is NJ
/ willing to be known.
p "A dispatch from Hopkinton, Iowa
&c says a pleasure party Of six went sailing G
e the Maquoketa river, Friday night, ii
y DIST, and had gone out but little wa
when the boat upset and only two youn
men were saved Those drowned wei
b Mrs. West, Miss Billings and Mrs. Hayde1
and a young child The bodies of Mr.
Billings and the child have been recovere,
The list Of real estate transfers pu)
lished by the Ua0iH contains mortgage
which are not transfers or sales but a
only securities. To publish the fact thi
Richard Roe sold his farm to John Dt
and then that John Doe sold the san
immediately back to Richard Roe is 6
absurdity. a mortgage is no sale
transfer of title, but only security for pa
ment of debt THE ARGUS PUBLISH
only sales or bonafde transfers.
The New York Tribune, speaking
the effort to suppress lottery robberie
says: Still, until general massacre
=, fools can be ordered, this and all 9th
''- lotteries will continue to do busine
more or less profitable The fallaciol