The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Considerable fever and ague in town,
Are you going to church tomorrow
Walking match at Darts Hall this
evening.
Carl Schurz and Zack Chandler have
had falling out.
The Widow Ben. Butler gets her
weeds from Cuba.
-"Hangman Foote," the Republican
candidate for elector -at-large in Tennessee,
is eighty years OLD,
Isn't this pretty go2" said Boss
Tweed. when he saw the official. And
isn't this hidalgo2" said the official
Fifty negroes belong to one Demo.
cratic club in Charleston. They have all
been threatened with death by Republican
negroes.
The members of St. Marys German
Catholic) church will give fair and fes-
tival in Darts Hall on Saturday evening,
Oct 7th.
That new style show case at Breu-
merits Harper House drug store is an
elegant affair aud attracts good deal of
attention.
-Pinchbeck has gone back on the
Louisiana Republicans and there is great
CONSERVATION among the Hazeanwheeer
GRANTEES thereat.
The panering, painting and granting in
the new First National Bank, was done by
Mr. Jackson Blackburn, a colored gentle
man, and excellent citizen.
AT o'clock this afternoon Geraghty
had walked 10 miles in | hour and 43
minutes, and Myerson had walked 9 miles
| in hour and so minutes.
MIR. Bristow styles the Republican
party ''the party of convictions" True.
There are Hessing, Mcdonald. Mckee,
Joyce, Avery Babcock, and Belknap.
There was never such spendthrift as
Rutherford B. Hayes. His uncle, Sardis
Orchard, left him a fine fortune, and 10
year it was all gone, if Ruthy is to be be-
lieyed.
Ground was broken for the founda-
ton of the d. & N. w. passenger de-
pot. on Front street, between Main and
Harrison streets, Davenport, yesterday
| afternoon.
The Chicago Journal is now worried
| because Tilden has tracked Tweed aud
caused his arrest and will yet bring him to
punishment. And the Aledo Record savs
his arrest lis believed to be canard, iss-
ued in the interest of Tilden.'
| Yesterday afternoon. several boys
were playing with a cider press on the
the place of Mr.. Jurgen Thiesen, in Rock
ingham township-and Mr.. Us son, aged
s years, put his right hand under the
screw, and had three fingers crushed SO
badly that DIR. Hoepfner, of Davenport
| found it necessary to amputate them at
the k1uckles.
| Mr.. Schocker, of the firm of West 4
Schocker, wholesale dealers in tobacco and
cigars and manufacturers of cigars. is now
in the east purchasing fine stock for cigars.
| Their business is steadily increasing, Lew
| West, in the Office, making everything
| pleasant where he is-and the Admiral, y
somtimes called the "Old Man" is always
ready to talk business.
A Hamlet correspondent of the Aledo
Banner says: Tom Lewis's band OF
martial music, when playing for the Re-
publican club meeting, the other night,
stampeded drove of cattle in field near
by, and the cattle run over drove OF hogs
killing eighteen or twenty Of the swine,
and the proprietor is going to sue Tom for
damages. This will bust the band
About l o clock this morning freight
train on the g. r. l. & p road jumped
the track about 20 miles cast of Ottawa.
caused by the axle of a box car loaded
With white sand breaking FIVE cars were
thrown down an embankment. two OF
which were loaded with hogs. The east
ern passenger train was delayed about five
hours on account of the accident, and did
not arrive here until after IL o'clock this
forenoon. The wreck has been cleared
away and trains are running as usual,
The right of the c. r. l. & p. folks
TO lay a track across Front street, near It's
: Junction with Fourth street. and possess
!, the four hundred feet river front south
of the street, as was attempted by them
on the 2Sth of August, when they were
stopped by the mayor while the city was
all in excitement, is to be tested in the
courts. Yesterday petition in equity
entitled "the Rock Island 4 Pacific Rail
road company VS.. the city of Davenport,
and the Davenport u Northwestern rail
, way company, was fled in the Office oil
the clerk of the district court.
II. f. Ingham, formerly of Daven
export, is ID Lincoln, this state, and i:
still the same dangerous, treacherons
creature as ever. A telegram from Lin
coin the l4th,i in the Chicago Times of thu
18th, says: IT. E. Ingham, young law
yer, got into fracas with one George Lee
r the colored porter at the Commercial ho
tel, to-day, Ingham commanded Lee to til
his horse tor him which was standing il
D front of the hotel The negro did not Dc
:. it according to the notions of Ingham
t whereupon the irate young lawyer struck
the negro blow. The negro returned il
: but failed to plant it in the right place
Ingham then drew dirk-kife AID started
= for the negro, who retreated in good shape
falling over chairs aud spittoons, closely
, followed by IEgham. who was stopped By
! one Pinkerton, Ingham then went off, bu
i shortly returned and swore that blood wal
s what he wanted, and followed the negro tt
e a saloon kept by David Pence, As soon al
q Ingham spied his game he fired his pistol
the bali taking effect in the negro's arm
= Ingham was under the influence OF liquor
at the time. He has not been arrested al
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