The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


lis there going to be another Republi-
can meeting here2-it looks like rain.
Street Commissioner Marker has men
engaged cleaning the mud off the street
crossings.
"A mans wife is his best lawyer. his
best CO 1sel, his best judge, his best ad-
wiser, and also the cheapest and most
reasonable.
"A Roman lictor," said Bates, whose
historical information comes by detail:
"A Roman lictorl Well, [ s'pose she
deserved it. No one but the Roman
knows"
Remember the meeting in Killers
Hall this evenipg-it will be the last one
before election. The next meeting will be
a jollification one over the election of
Samuel j. Tilden.
People complain thatour competent
county Judge. S. s. Guyer, is in the habit
OF showing his partisan spite whenever he
issues naturalization paper to man who
he believes will vote for Tilden and reform.
The city of Davenport has been sued
for $500 damages by Miss Elizabeth W.
Andrew, of that place. on account of her
being thrown from buggy aud receiving
severe injuries owing to the bad condition
of the street.
-Bristow is sick and gone home to
Kentucky. 1t is astonishing how many
men were struck by that Indiana lightning
Even Morton, stroug on his pins as he is,
was knocked from the banks of the Wabash
to the shores of the Pacific-"and yet he
is not happy.
In the country they are having husk
| ing bees now and the young men hun
for red ears while the young woman
watches him out of the corners of hel
eyes. It's the same as in the city; thel
cherish sentiment and are tied together
and snarl away their lives in pairs.
He was carving at dinner, relates tn
Cincinnati Times, and thought he mus
talk to the aesthetic looking angel on hi
right. How do you like Beethoven
said he at a venture. "Wall cooked" sal
she interestedin the business. athand. Thu
does casual remark often awake un
expected harmonies.
Since the fire at McDannelPs bllliar
rooms Mac" has been fitting up and pu!
ting in new tables in place Of those dam
aged by the fire, and this morning b
opened the rooms again for business Tn
walls have been neatly papered and paint
ed, and. with the new tables, the plac
presents a very attractive appearance.
One of the most sensible items 10 til
new postal law, and one which everybod
; will appreciate, is that which allows
: person to write his or her name On til
: wrapper and also the word from to lie
the party receiving it know who it
) from without violating the law. 1t allow
the sender to write on the package th
, number and kind of articles it contains.
The Union publishes, as telegraph
over column of stuff which is cut bodil
t from the Chicago Tribune of YESTERDAY
and which we read in that paper last ever
ing-not a word of which appears in tn
Gazette of this morning. AS unfair an
partizan as the Associated Press is, it hs
never fathered such lies as that pretende
Telegram contains.
Maj Beardsley said to reporter fl
this paper, at the dinner table at til
Bellows House yesterday that he W.
not going to Rapids:City-th4t he and b
L Democratic partner, Mr.. Kenworthy, ha
agreed not to make any speeches tn
/ year. The allusioD the Union makes
+ an old trouble which meyer ought to hay
e occurred and which causes no unfriendl
n ness now, is more offensive to Maj. Beard
:, ley than it is to US. He deprecates it
l., good round Saxon-while we care nothir
: about it. 1t all grew out of miscoI
r ception Of facts, and it is greatly regrettc
+ by those who had any connection with
# as they have often stated to US. Fl
r Union has often been requested by Ma
r Beardsley never to allude to it,-and
y displeases him to have any such allusior
b made. We care nothing about it.
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