The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-25
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

-Ihe CITY pound Is again without an
occupant.
The ball of the Wide Awake Hose
and Hook and Ladder Co., takes place this
evening in Killers hall.
The most odious kompound kno ev
IL welth and snobbery; it liz rather wuss
than pride and poverty.
The man who has nothing but the
truth to tell olwuse uses the fust wordes
he kan lay hiz hands on.
Mary Simpson, who was arrested in
house of i'll fame Sunday morning, has paid
her tine aud been released.
Il admire pashunce, but | kno lots ov
people who are pashunt just bekauze they
are too lazy to be ennythinc else.
The sweet girl graduate this season
will wear calico, and her admirers will say
that she looks like a print sis Boston
Globe.
Talking of Kansas crops, the Leaven-
worth Times says: THE wheat has
headed out, and the crop promises to
be the largest ever raised in the state
-Thare il lots ov able bodyed people
lying around loose who might have pre-
served their Importance if they had re-
manned fourth corporals. but making them
captains haz ruined them for life.
The Republican county convention
oyer the river recommended Edward
Russell, editor Of the Davenport Gazette
and postmaster in Davenport, as the Re-
publican candidate for congress.
That's the main building" said a
guide at the centennial to greenhorn
from the pins-tree state, the other day.
"Golly!' replied the loyal son of Maine, Il
knowed our boys would put up somethin
| fine"
We have looked over the Springfield
papers with great care for several days to
| find some mention made of the man who
furnished the brains and built up Deere's
| pillow works." but we failed to find his
| name.
The Mississippi River Logging Co, Of
which Mr.. L. Weyerhauser, of Rock Isl
and, is president and manager, has about
three hundred men at work in the Beef
Slough booms. About l25, 100000 feet OF
logs were cut by this company last winter
which, with those cut by members OF the
company, and large numbers belonging t.
mill men up the river, will make lively
seasons business on the Slough.
-Harpers Weekly, which certainly has ;
very accurate knowledge of New Yorl
politics, chides Republican papers which
exult over the fact that the canal ring ant
the worst elements of Tammany Hall hav,
joined hands to oppose Tilden, for, say
the Weekly, ''Tammany Hall and tn
canal ring have not such prestige beyont
the state that their opposition would avail
in the least degree against the bette
Democratic sentiment of New York AM
the clear PERCEPTION of the situation.
AS rule, a man who advertises for
wife must be a fool or a knave. TIL
Young Professional Gentleman" who ad
vertises for a respectable young lady i
Chicago to marry him, seems to be an I'LL
usual compound Of both He is "a natiy
Of Europe" ana intends to visit tina
beautiful continent this summer" 1t wi
J be an advantage to the lady who will cor
sent to 60 as his wife that ''he is we'll al
quainted all over from the rocky shore
of the Baltic to the romantic Mediterranean
Sea. She must, however, have. fo
certain moral reasons, some wealth.
; She can't expect to make the journey wit
such an accomplished companion for moth
ing. She must pay the expenses, AM
these, we suppose, are the moral reasons
referred to.