The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-21
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Plenty Of mud
1t was water haul.
1t was che biggest fzzle of the year.
They were nearly all as cross as bears
last night
Even Old Probs is against the
wheeze-inhalers.
No use for the Hayesites to contend
any further-the elements are against
| them.
| An interesting letter from an ex-Re-.
this paper.
1t is too bad to worry our wheeze
inhalers about their failure. The fates
are against them.
| Ask any wheeze- inhaler about the
Bob lngersoll meeting and he will get
madder'n wet hen.
| The assistant postm aster, yesterday,
instead CT wearing the usual ornament,
wore a small red. white and blue feather
duster in his hat
Don't worry the horseback fellows
about their fizzle for Ingersoll. They rode
all around town with their feathers trying
to find some people to marshal, but had
TO give it up.
If you want to know what kind of a
man Hayes is, and what kind of an admin
Gen. Pratt, of Ohio, to be found in this
paper-'and don't you forget it.
From certain remarks dropped by
the Chicago wheeze-inhaler singers,w we in-
fer that the office holders committee were
short" Another assessment is needed.
The office holders brigade must "whack
up
-LosT-From the hat of one of the
assistant marshals yesterday-a little red.
white and blue feather duster-supposed
to have been lost between the first and
last p saloon he entered. Please leaye
at Union office.
The saloons fourished yesterday
the Republicans believed in the say
ing that you wont catch cold it you're wet
without and wet within and many OF
} them went to bed last night "drunker'n u
billed owl"
1t was honest Lew Steward that aided
many young man IN getting an educa
: ton. 1t was honest Lew that encouraged
, the poor emigrants to land here, and fill
the country with thrifty men and women,
I who to day rise up and bless him.
Why didn't the wheeze. inhaler com
mittees see that the bills of their speaker
and singers we're paid? We're they too
drunk to attend to such matters? IT was
; embarrassing for these men to say tina,
, the committees promised to pay. and then
have to pay themselves.
The Port Byron paper of the Dist.
says: Zone car comfortably filled and
= three empty coaches. left here yesterday
? noon to carry eight or ten of our citizens
!, down to the Bob Ingersoll blow at
Rock Island: Republics are ungrateful
o CordovsW
Justice Hayden says that when he
had his name and the names of his son
aud Mr.. Shoemaker entered upon the
registry, he was thinking of the Pennsyl
vania law which requires residence of
only 10 days (instead of Sol to entitle a
person to vote Since THE ARGUS post
ed" him he has ordered the three names
stricken from the registry. Right.
Conversation on the street corner:
Did you hear Ingersolls speech yester-
day?" Yes" What did you think OF
it?" We'll / thought that Bob and hi,
, speech was about as DR.. Gregg said when
,, he introduced him yesterday-'an honor
to the Republican party | tell you,
, sir, in my eyes, that's getting pretty well
down to the foot of the ladder. well
that's just about what I've been thinking
and guess III give Tilden and Reform
my vote this fall''-and they parted.
The Republican office holders were
awful mad and nearly all uery drunk last
. night. One of them, county official, was
roaming around through the rain swear
| ing that he could whip (hic) ny man o
(hic) says that B Bob (hic) n'soll (hic)
said that (hicl nigger's bet {hicl ter
: white (hic) man" Not even his political
! friends who had been drinking with him
RI would remain aud listen to his accounts of
what he could do They silently dropped
out OF the crowd-and the last seen of our
fighting county official he was talking to
the lamp post at Bengston's corner
MIR. Harper has made written con-
tract for French plate mirrors elegantly
framed, for every space in the Harper
+ House dining room, between windows and
doors, and reaching nearly from ceiling to
floor. The cost of the mirrors is So, 500
The ceiling is to be newly trescoed in oil,
and heavy body Brussels carpet on the
oioiSo pSewCSu 'nO trOlSS, oc III tic ouSE-
man House. Elegant walnut chairs with
a maroon leather and spring seats have
o already been put in. 1t will be one of the
most elegant dining rooms in the west.
Every table in the dining room has been
supplied with fresh flowers every day
e since last spring, until two weeks ago.
y The LIE Claire estate, in Davenport. is
valued at from $4,000 to $500, 900, and
there are about so heirs among whom it
is TO be equally divided-giving them some
$4,000 to $4,000 each. &. C. X. Mitch
$ I'll. Geo. L. Davenport and Charles f.,
, Putnam were the executors of MIR. LIE
Claire's will, and James Grant is the
: executor of Mrs. lie Claire's will. Judge
Mitchell is now dead, and the division of
the estate will therefore devo've upon Mr..
! Davenport, Mr.. Putnam and Judge Grant
The property consists of bank stock. bonds,
and the home mansion with eighty acres
=, If very valuable land around it, in one
D body, and nearly in the heart of the
city. The plan of dividing the estate has
DOT yet been settled upon, neither can it be
told how long time will intervene before
} the division.
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