The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-10

ag~The tramps are disappearing-only
one in the calaboose last night-James
Boyle, aged 43, native of Ireland.
Ay~ How much will the tax payers have
to she'll out fer calling cut the militia and
mobblng harmless men who were looking
for work?
GS9@ The commissioners of highways
met IN the office of Town Clerk Turner
on Saturday afternoon, but adjourned with
out transacting any business.
Esg@ The dedication exercises OF the
Gustav-Adolph Lutheran church, yester-
day, were carried out according to the
programme published in THE ARGUS.
B9g~ Owing to continued ill-health
Turn" Young has been compelled to
| give up his candy stand, in the post office,
aud hereafter people who have been buy
ing The ARGUS from him can get it
at Morey's drug store.
| Bzg~ Mrs. Ellen Welch made complaint
against Geo. Hoxey and Ed. Young this
morning, before Magistrate Swander,
charging them with disturbing the peace
| by using profane and vulgar language to-
! ward complainant and her husband. All
the parties live on the bluff, ARE neighbors,
aud continually quarrelling. This is not
the first time Mrs, Welch has complained
| on these young men.
Dsg@ Quite number Of tramps have
obtained employment in this city and ST
lar they have given entire satisfaction tC
their employers. One tramp refused tC
work for VIM. Mill for $40 per month
and this fellow has been pronounced al
"ex reb OF course good many of these
men may be worthless fellows. but ;
majority of them seem to be hard working
men, Those who have work to do shout(
give them a chance.
GSg- \ weli-known farmer living on th'
bluffs near Carbon Cliff, says that on las
Friday evening two tramps called at hi
house and asked for lodgings and some
thing to eat. He wanted to test them an,
how much they would eat, and he say
in less than Is minutes after sitting dow
, to the table the two had deyoured tac
gallons Of milk ana three l0dreS Of tread
they slept in the corncrib on some hons
: blankets, and the next morning when til
farmer arose he found them both at wCr
choppiug wood, and before breakfast the
had chopped enough to last the family fC
month. He had no further work fC
them and they continued their tramp.
! BSg@The Moline editor Of the Union, !
: that paper on Sunday morning, makes
sickly attempt to defend our ignorant Gil
marshal, Jim Wells, for his ridiculous r
mark that nlne-tenths of the trampS wei
eX-rebels and that they had come north I
. live Oft our people without working. A
intelligent men know that, every winte
hundreds of lahnriDp mon and harvest o
4, IN the north have been in the habit
going south TO find work during the Einte
4 when they again travel north with Il
a harvest, This year, possibly, there N;
r. be more men looking for work than
J. years past, owing to the extren
hard times all over the country, and tt
IS suspension Of work in the iron and rollil
mills in Missouri and in the southern pa
IA of this state. Our intelligent" wants
know why the tramps have come north
soon this year and passed through t
very country where the people are nt
a harvesting II he had rad the tc
st graphic dispatches for the past few wee
is he would have learned that the whl
country south Of here is swarming wi
"a men, and that those who have arriv
re here have only pushed ahead in order
IS secure situations before the main bo
e arrives. They are a necessary class
of laborers, without which the farmers Of t
h. northwest would find it impossible to
cure their crops. They should be treat
8 decently-but ii roughs or criminals
or found among them they should be pr
oc ished.
ty A HOEKIBLE CRIME IN EI0LIH