The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

hnOtnef immense n00Q OF ram ITom
$3.50 to 4:30 this afternoon.
The new gas ordinances will be found
In our advertising columns.
"A confectionery store has been opened
on Illinois street, three doors west OF Dock |
street.
Missionary strawberry sociable at Mrs.
j. w. Spencer's this evening. Everybody
invited.
Thanks to B. f. Thompson, Esq. of
Los Angeles, California, for copies OF
California papers,
Brick Pomeroy, Blantou Duncan Old
Joe Ledlie, Aug. Belmont, and Boss
weeds crowd dom want Tilden for presi-
dent
Iowa Republican convention refused
to instruct for Blaine, though the delega-
ton Is SAID to be all or nearly all for
Blaine.
Missouri Democratic convention re-
solved to give the electoral vote of the
state to the Democratic nominee, whoever
he may be.
| The graduating exercises OF the 18th
grade of the high school takes place one
week from to night in the Central Presby-
terrain church.
Read the clever sketch from the Chi
cago Journal, a Republican newspaper,
abou& Coy Tilden and bis enemies, to be
found in this paper.
Tennessee Democratic convention
chose delegates to ST. Louis who are said
TO be for Hendricks, with 2 or 8 exceptions.
They were not instructed.
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showed that Bourbons never learn any
thing. A resolution to repeal the two
thirds rule was voted down by four to
one.
B. D. Buford 4 Co. had men at work
yesterday afternoon, removing a lathe
J from the ruins of the building formerly
occupied by Fleming & Co. as plumbing
shop.
Street Comr Marker is building a
sewer from Howard street along Moline
! avenue to culvert which crosses the
avenue little above Howard street, dis
, lance of about IS feet.
The ARGUS has published the most
full, accurate and complete account of the
Republican state convention Of any paper
US this county, and is the only paper which
has published the votes given to each can
didate.
1 There were fewer politicians thar
( usual in the decoration services in Chicago
This would go to show that decorating
soldiers graves as stepping stone to office
is not as useful as it was in earlier days
Chicago Times.
The Detroit Free Press says Nothing
looks much lower than a low-neck dress,
And the Chicago Times leaves great dea
to the imagination when it says 1.-The au
thor Of this observation probably tried to.
Mr.. Thornton, who has been weigh
master on Market square for three years
says this is the dullest spring for weighip,
o he has yet seen. The establishment O
public scales in other parts of the cit
!, probably accounts for the fact.
/, The Chicago Tribune, in two column
:. article, is terribly severe on the lllinoi
: Republican state platform, and closes b,
:, saying: LetfRepublcans in other state
not do the Republicans of this the cruel in
Justice of supnosing that they indorse tn
;, monstrosity.or cou ltenance the stabs it in
$ flicts on Blaine.
l. Hon, Carl Schurz's lecture GA zee
l. tennial thoughts" before Sylvan Boa
Club, in Moline, the Tri- City Times says
e Was one of his best efforts in which h
" mercilessly dissected the rotten carcass
is the administration and showed ND tn
underlying dishonesty of American polite;
'r and commercial life. +"
e "A telegram in relation to the MARY
= land Democratic convention says: .Th
j. sentiment of the state is unmistakabl
for Bayard, but delegates preference
he cannot be stated" A resolution wa
10 adopted that delegates TO St. Louis /
e. left unpledged and free, in their judgmer
d aud discretion, as TO the selection of ca
didatss for president and vice president,
r The chapel at Mercy Hospital, Davel
I'd port was the scene of the solemn cerem
MES attending the reception of two your
ladies', yesterday, as novitiates in ii
Order of the Sisters of Mercy-Mi
Alice Lynch. called in religion "Sist
Mary Ursula Joseph" and Miss Ma
in Maloy, in religion Sister Xavier Joseph
:. Rev. NJ Flavin acted as the deputy of Il
~ Bishop on the occasion.
Il The report of collections of intern
q; revenue made during the month of Ma
III 1876, by Thomas Thompson, deputy O.
hi lector, in Davenport, shows aggregates
follows:
1. Special tax stamps. 1000