The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

No police cases to day.
The song Of the streets-muddy eros
sings.
The weather seems mad about some
thing.
Our public library is well patronized
just now.
Keep steady. Leave the getting
drunk to the other side.
DIR. Plummer says there is consider
able diphtheria in the city.
The lecture bureau men pronounce
the season abominably dull.
Billy Wilson's cigar store (Hengst-
ler's old place. is now open.
The Democratic meeting in Daven-
port last night was "rouser."
Water rents should be paid. The city
needs the money to pay bills with.
p. T. McElherne addressed a good
Tllden and Reform meeting in Rapids City
last hight.
Mrs Louis Jackson, care Capt.
Berry, Alton, ILL.,, is the latest one dropped
in THE ARGUS box,
The remarks of Gov. Tilden, publish
ed in this paper, are good after election,
and will be read with interest by all.
If it is true that the Franklin has
gone off on an Arctic cruise, there is no
doubt that it will reach the North Pole,
for Tweed is adapted by nature to ''pick
his way" through ice-bergs, or anything
else.
The Globe Insurance company has a
neat way of. advertising, by means of
globes,-a very neat article for a desk or
library table. HE ARGUS office is indebt-
ed to James Nj. Buford's Insurance Agency
for one.
The first thing that Tweed will say on
touching land: oh! where are my old
pals, my long lost brothers in iniquity,
Tom Murphy Ben Minierre, Tom Stuart.
Jay Gould, and others-the friends of Gov.
Hayes"
"A shipment of fine school furniture,
seats, desks, etc., from Sterling, and direc-
ted to Taylor Ridge. on the new Rock
Island & Mercer County r. r., arrived
via. the St. Louis road to-day, and was
sent forward.
What is the reason the county clerk S
Office was closed until after 8 o'clock this
morning. keeping people waiting at th<
polls for the books needed at every voting
place in this township. Was there no one
who could open that Office before that hour
in the forenoon2
The term, grass widow, is said to
be corruption of grace widow, phrase
applied to one who becomes q widow by
grace or favor, not of necessity, as by
death; and originated in the early ages Of
| European civilization, when divorces were
seldom granted by the church.
Hon. Alexander II, Stephens, Of
Georgia, walked three or four miles the
other day. He no longer uses morphine
and has sound. natural sleep. While
getting well he has been writing for ont
of the cyclopadias, biographies of south
erners, and articles on southern subjects
Don't omit reading the article in this
paper from Hon. Leonard SWEET. in regard
| to the Sullivan trial. Mr.. SWEET was 9
law partner of Abraham Lincoln and has
a reputation Of being an accomplished
lawyer We should be glad tC publish hi,
article in full, but our limited space for
bids. 1t can be found in full in the Chi
eago Times Of Saturday the 4th-in thu
appendix.
There was an account in Monday even
| ing's ARGUS of the arrest of a forger il
Davenport named Temple. The fellow
played a pretty sharp game in justice
Kaufman Office that day just before hi
examination was to take place. While tn,
Justice stepped out moment, leaving tn
checks and other papers in the case OIL
his desk, the prisoner, unobserved, steal
thily approached the desk, and snatchinl
the checks threw them into the stove
where they were consumed. What effeC
upon his case this destruction of the eyi
dence will have, remains to be seen.
Thirty years ago in California met
would flock in crowds to catch a glimps
of that rare spectacle, q woman. Earl
one morning it was noised about in tn
Canon Camp that woman had arrived i
the night. Everybody went to the camp
ing ground, but only tho hem of a Gallo
dress was visible. Fetch her out, W
; want to see her, said the rough miners t
her husband my wife is sick, )" said he
we have been robbed by the Indians, an
we want rest. J." Fetch her out, was tn
only reply. She came to the door, the
! swung their hats, give three cheers and
, tiger, collected $4,000 in gold. cheere
, again, and went home satisfied.