The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-26
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Election fer two members of the boar

Colfax are in favor of Hayes and some
fever and ague pills.
Street Commissioner Marker has a
force of men at work repairing the cul-
vert on Moline avenue near Brooks's
crossing.
"A new sidewalk, made Of artificial
stone, manufactured by Kaufman Il Wray,
Of this city, is to be laid in front of the
building occupied by Cleland u Co. Sur
yeyor Stoddard set the grade stakes to-day.
The Greenbush and the Island City
base ball clubs, of this city, both amateurs.
played for bat yesterday, near the
Fourth ward school. The score stood
Island City "a, Greenbush Is. Too many
tallies for good players.
Mrs. Celia Campbell and the hero Of
the morphine ill sensatlon-Mr. GULL, |
the. young civil engineer, went over to
Rock Island this week procured a marriage
license, and We're made two souls with |
but single" etc. Let us draw yeil.-j
Davenport Democrat, path.
1t is all right for government officer |
to hang out the Stars and Stripes, but |
that toy flag of Deputy Collector Woods |
is not exactly the thing. Are there not
enough "loil' leeches about that office to |
SCN q lCS DuuklliS AdR
The annual commemorate at Academy |
Immaculate Conception, Davenport, takes |
place on Thursday The programme is an
attractive one, and the new hall being |
large and we'll ventilated, the large
audience they are sure to have will be very
comfortable.
Did Will Steel and Pierce stop little
too long on theStr. Lake Superior last eve
ming and get carried TO Muscatine? There
were many anxious enquiries on that point
to-day. And some people intimated that
he passenger list on that boat was an
attractive enc. What can have become OF
ahose boys?
We learn from Capt. j ohn a. Jordan,
of Rural, that the corn in his neighborhood
was affected by frost, during the late cold
snap, several inches Of the leaves willing
and hanging limp as rags. He thinks it
will recover, though the growth must be
retarded He says the melon vines were
absolutely killed by frost.
As the freight train which arrived
here this morning at o'clock, Conductor
Gentle, was passing the new shops in
Chicago, last evening, an employe in the
shops named j. flanagan, aged about
20, who was riding on top Of the train,
either attempted to Jump or fell off and
went under the wheels, losing both feet
and mangling one hand.
JAS Daruel, employed in Atkinson's
brick yard, Rock Island, was in this city
on spree yesterday, and while going
along Second street in the vicinity Of Flat
Iron Square, met colored woman named
Anna Smith, who he, without any cause
or proyocation, assaulted, kicked and beat.
He was arrested by Officer Grady, and
after a hearing of the case before Justice
Kaufman this morning he was fined Sl5
and costs. -Dooeaport Democrat. 24th.
An inquest was held on Saturday, in
Hampton, before l.. T. Baker. Esq, j. 2.
and jury, with Henry Clark as foreman,
on he body of Mrs, Ann Caloert, finding
: that she came to her death by being run
over by a train OF cars on the Western
Union railroad; that the officers Of said
train were L. q. Martindale, conductor, f.
l.. Bliss engineer, AMI Charles Harrington
= fireman; and that due diligence was ex-
! ercised 10y the engineer aud others in
charge OF said train 10 prevent the acct
dent"
Hayes stands no fairer as a personally
Y honest man than did Grant, and yet under
p Grant has grown up system of corruption
and plumber that has appalled, the country;
; banded brotherhood Of robbers has been
- fostered under party shelter that has
0 proved itself not only strong enough to de-
/, feat the nomination of Bristow, but to
, actually nominate Hayes and drive Bristow
{ from the cabinet. Don. Cameron nomi-
e mated Hayes, and the bare statement is
r enough to discourage every citizen who has
+ hoped that both parties would rise to an
los Tn -, h i l., Il
most corrupt elements.
: For twenty years no list of defaulter.
= to the government has been published
Il though the law requires such publication
" annually. In response to a resolution o
:. the senate, an exhibit of the defalcatiol
81 for the last forty years was sent to tina
ID body or yesterday by the secretary of til,
OF treasury. Mr.. Sherman objected to til,
er printing Of the document because i
l., would be a great scandal to publish tn
y y list to the world" But if defaulters d.
Oh not want to be scandalized in that way
h there is nothing to prevent the paymen
II Of their debts. The Ohio senator seem
to be singularly sensitive about the list.
~ he afraid it may hurt somebody Chicdg
r. Tines
~ Last evening q stranger with a hac
driver stepped into Drube'S to get cigar
and man who, it is supposed, had beer
81 in the hack with the stranger followe
&c into the restaurant and accused the strau
ne ger of having robbed him of his watch
It, Some high words followed and Mr.. Drub
Immediately showed them out. On tn
sidewalk the Jaw" was renewed and quit
ne crowd assembled, when suddenly the &C
"a cused pitched into the accusor and after
few blows the accusor ran. Some peopl
IL said the man who lost the watch was
Us employe Of the Western Union Railroad
is The crowd hung around the locality for
be long time, blocking up the sidewalk n
arrests, and no policemen near An
% nobody seems to know anything about II
1t The general belief is that somebod
of robbed the man of his watch-and thG
Id three are too many pimps and pickpocke;
- around town.
re The Steam Yacht "B. T. Ramsey"
We A small steam yacht has been fitted u
or in the Rock river above the dam at NJ
he Ian, capable of carrying about 20 person
e. for pleasure purposes, and trial trip VIZ
of made on Sunday, up the Rock river a mi
st or two, with IS persons on board. P.
re Remington, acted as captain, Frank Ebe
Of hart as engineer, and j. d. Remington
ed the original Wild Jim, of THE ARaU
ne office, as pilot The trip was voted su
On cess, land the boat will now be fitted u
he with awnings and comfortable seats f