The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-06

BG%The Moline Plow Co., expects to
resume on Monday.
B9rThe highway commissioners will
meet on Saturday
s@HG German theatre at Timm's Hall on
Sunday evening.
1.-Two tramps were provided lodgings
in the calaboose last night
H9sn Something is on the tapis, judging
from the consultions at different p-ints.
BesHTHE ARGUS can be had at Glen
denim d Martins post Office drug store
every evening.
Bg~Oficer Olsen says he is getting
rusty. He longs to collar some one just 20
keep his hand in.
B9J. z. Peterson, the man who was
shot accidentally, on Sunday, is very low
and can hardly recover.
11That letter from Cordova is a
'clincher. 1t has caused a cummotion
in the camp of the faithful.
a9rThe second span Of the Rock river
bridge is expected to be in position in a
few days. The work progresses slowly.
Bg Miss Sarah Reed has been appointed
librarian at the public library during the
absence of Mrs. Kate Holt who goes east
for an extended visit. Miss Reed was
ten mporarlly in charge about month ago
and proved herself amply qualified to fill
the position,
BAH Henry Monrhau, the moulder, who
lost his leg two weeks ago by being run
over by a Western Union freight train,
is mending rapidly Dr. p L. McKinnie,
who is in attendance, says unless he expel-
fences some unexpected relapse, he will be
able to 60 on crutches in a couple of
weeks.
R9Some stranger, supposed to be in
sane, entered the apartments of Miss Ida
johnson. near the Chicago depot and is
said, attempted to chloroform her. The
same party is supp Dsed to reside in Daven
port. His name is Withheld for the present
to afford the police an opportunity to ar
rest him. The insanity dodge will not work
B9rThe Union this morning resorts t,
the usual game of bluff by stating tha
Lundy carried torch on Tuesday night
This is untrue In every particular. Mr.
Lundy attended the Democratic mectin,
but be did not carry torch and the write
in the Union knows that he did not
Truly-"for ways that are dark, an
tricks that are vain, etc.
{: Ba The new system Of drainage pro
posed for Sugar Hollow promises to prov
n ftuiy equal 10 the requirements IF tn
G residents of that section and will be les
: expensive by thousands of dollars tha
e the plan at first suggested The ne'
\ cutters being built along Salter street wi
=, be filled with rock lining and the grade {
e the sidewalks raised sufficient to prever
? any overflow The owners of propert
e along the line of the Hollow have bee
e promised relief for years and it is abou
tune that something was done.
e BgFish, the correspondent of the Gc
il zette, is generally conceded to oe consciel
tious, and in his report of Tuesday
l. Democratic meeting he says: The Den
= ocrats Can boast of having the large
d turnout they ever had in this city" b.
n to-day, compelled, no doubt, by partisa
duty, he rushes to the rescue of the Il
p publicans who did use every means
lie their lower, or at least some of them,
make the meeting unpleasant 1t won
AZ work however. bluff won't win, and II
lie Gazette, and the Union. also will find th
J. il is better to be fair and impartial than
j ow to the will of party mandates III
ar Democratic meeting aods grand success
Of There aoere number of converts mad
in and all fair minded men say it was tt
- largest, most imposing and successful
ID monstration ever held in Moline.
nc B1The Moline reading room is su,
e piled with II papers. Of these l3 a
n weekly, daily. Four of the week
in papers are neutral in politics OF Il
others, s are for Hayes, /, the Wort
IT IT. costing S yearly, is for Tilden OF Il
II dailles, 3 are tor Hayes. /. THE ARGU
"a "a the only paper furnished gratuitously,
"a "a. for Tilden. The vote Of the town is pro
by ably iu about the ration of TO in fav
oi of the Republicans In other words
investment of 81 is allowed to the repr
lse sentatiou of the political views of abo
he h two ffths of the population of the tow
Tor These facts seem singular when such =
rers as the Louisville Courier Journal. Il
Of st. Louis Republican, and the Chica
I'VE Courier. Tilden papers, might we'll Ia
lu ,h the place of some now provided. Ha
in these facts ever suggested themselves
:, the library buard2
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