The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-27
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Prayers were offered, in Trinity |
|, church, yesterday, for Mrs, S. M, Gold |
smith who is dangerously ill.
About an inch and half Of snow
last night-but it is fast disappearing IN
der the rays of the sun to-day.
-Hayes's home is in Fremont, Ohio, |
: and that is where he made his tax returns. |
5 Fremont voted 96l for Tilden aud 573 for
Hayes.
> The proceedings of yesterday in South
, Carolina will not convince the country that
the canvass is honest and fair.-Neao York
EUening Post Ind. Rep
Grant ordered the army down south
to secure an honest count of the Uotes
r actually cast" That's what every honest
man should desire Shall we get it
: Geo. Courtney, the engineer on the
Peoria road. who was injured in the acci-
dent on that road short time ago, is i'm
: proving slowly. but is not able to walk yet.
Neal Cara, the young man who
wandered from his boarding house in this
city few days ago while insane, is i'm
: proving rapidly under the. treatment of DR..
Craig.
The d. & n. W. Railroad company
IudfC GJUCh AUS III -Ou
Front between Main and Harrison, south
J. of the track-which will take in about
t eight car loads.
s If Mrs. Cynthia Belcher, of Port By
ron, doesn't get her letter as soon as she
should, it will be because her correspond
L ent put it in The ARGUS box instead Of
+ in the post Office.
: The members Of the Louisiana re-
a turning board have no reason to feel pulled
up by the extraordinary manifestations Of
national confidence in their integrity -Neoo
York Tribune.
y The dramatic entertainment in Turner
II Hall last night was well attended and
T much liked by those who were present.
After the entertainment the young folks
had pleasant dance.
# Bud Doble with his celebrated trotter,
If Goldsmith Maid, and two other fast step
pers, passed through this city on Satur-
day evening. over the c. r. |. 4 ?. r. r.
$ bound for San Francisco.
h Grant has introduced a new method of
!, avoiding trouble from his political oppo-
u nents. 1t is to call in the army and navy
a to help him defend himself when he is in
d tight place. How do the people like the
# new idea?
IS Grant, in concentrating troops at
q Washington, is trying to 'bull-doze" con,
q gress. Il British king, Charles l., tired
e that game once, and it cost him his head.
y There is no law in this country against
q hanging president, ifhe commits treason,
City Marshal Halves, it is said, will
e be sheriff elect Perkinss deputy, and
= Deputy Marshal Miller is mentioned as
II Charles successor as marshal. Phil has
}, made a very good deputy marshal and
would, no doubt, make a good marshal
. The action of South Carolina return
+ ing board is not only in defiance of the
o deeply founded principles of the Republi-
can party, but it is in the last degree revo.
4 lutionary. No man can afford to be made
q president in that PhildIe}ptjd In.
Q quirer Rep
}, Judge Peasants has approved the
e bond of L. f. Harson, circuit clerk-elect,
with the following security: Bailey Daven-
5, port, Z. L. Mitchell, Alvin Hull, S. B.
e Stoddard and E, W. Spencer. 1t is in the
t penal sum of $4,000 and has been for =
y warded to the secretary of state.
o 1t was lack Chandler, owner and
y manager of the Republican party, who
d sent the following order to the Republican
e newspapers: Claim the election of Hayes
d anyhow Wen furnish the votes when
u the time comes" That's the reason the
ot Davenport postmaster keeps his rooster
)r up.
he The New York Herald. and Tribune,
+ both of which papers supported Hayes,
II give Tildens majority in Louisiana, on two
electors, at 1896 and on FIVE 9,249. IF so
Fl decisive majority had been given for any
d candidate IN q harm tot vvcy,l1
- one have dared to talk about reversing by
a bareiaced throwing out of votes?
y Rev Enoch Mead, of Rockingham. a
. resident OF Scott county, Iowa. since 1887,
~ met with a terrible accident Saturday af
- ternoon, in Davenport He was seated
upon a wood rack of his wagon when his
e horses became frightened and ran away.
i Tie was thrown to the ground, head first
and his skull was crushed, oyer the left
eye, for the length of two inches by u
width Of one iGch He is IS years OLD, and
the chances are that he cannot recover.
The proposal of the governor of Flor
le ida to count the electoral vote himself is a
piece Of the most appalling impudence
n. Suppose the state Of New York had gone
r. for Hayes, and Coy Tilden had proposed
to take the electoral vote off into some cor
uGi dDd CduNdSS IL ali ny HlU0SGlI, WHAT
Sc Repubi. can howl would have gone upl
m There seems to be no limit to the menda-
20 city which the Republican party viii not
y only exhibit but defend.
'0 On the east side of the First National
lg Bank building (Hulfs Block is a sign.
as First National Bank, u. S. Depository, u
" and the other day two innocent and uusop-
- histicated individuals, wholly ignoring the
= signs in the front windows and over the
ne door, went up the side stairway to DIR.
st Lawrence's Office and enquired where to
th find the bank The DR.. gave them the
co necessary information, when-one of them
~ said: I'VE noticed the sign read U. s.
oi Depository and supposed u. s. meant
y; Up Stairs" The DR.. was too polite tC
rs laugh in their faces, but it is suspected
ut that he could not help little mild cacklna
= ton after he closed his Office door, Up
t. Stairs Depository was good
of We examined that picture and mistook il
for Autograph of Barnum or Montgomery
n. Queen. As both use the same plate We
: couldn't exactly tell which it was inten
\ ded for. It seemed to us that the veteran
IS Snowman was advertising rather early il
I'd the season. The picture, if sthe engravel
q. has done his duty, makes bis subject look
- harder than Barnum did last year, his
oi face looks fuller, and his hair is cut shorter
s. His cheek is the most prominept feature