The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-26
NOTES HERT AND rHERE.

The old Dement, House at Fulton was
burned on the morning of the 25th,
Fashion favors the greatest possible
depth in fringes, some of which measure
inches.
The new style of ladies' hat leaves very
little room for the brain. The inventor
knew what he was doing
Whenever a savings bank closes there
is joy in the beer saloon. One "bust" is
the cause of many ''busts."
The New York republican state con-
vention and the Wisconsin democratic |
state convention will meet to-day.
If Joseph were Freedman's Bank
On which defrauded negroes soured,
Thou woulds't have stripped and left him blank
And bare. o Howard.
And now we hear a still small voice
saying; The nasty moths have just ruin
ed my furs" Any sensible man will know
what is expected of him.
The news from Fort Ellis limiting at
the surrender of the Nez Perces is proba-
bly, little premature. No one seems to
know where the unfagging Howard is.
Chief Joseph--may his tribe decrease
Awoke one night from dream of peace
And saw General Howard ninety miles west,
And said, Poor man. let's give him rest
Two colored walters on the steamer
Dubuque got into a butcher knife fracas
on Saturday, between McGregor and
Prairie du Chen, and one of them was
nearly killed.
The people of Alton are not disposed
to relinquish the contest over the location
of the southern penitentiary, but will file
with the governor protest against that
location.
"A Connecticut editor wants to know if
cats can count. We decline to answer.
We discover in this insidious question a
proposition to reopen the electoral-commis-
sion controversy. Rochester Democrat.
Since the introduction of female post
masters girl goes up to the window and
says. lis there letter for Miss Margaret
Robinson?' Yes" says the female
postmaster, here is one from John Nc
Jones.
The young lovers who last spring were
married and swore by all that is beautiful
that only the great blue vault of heaven
should overspread them are now QUARREL
ing with each other because he lets moss
quitoes in on his side and she rolls all the
covers off.
Articles of Incorporation Of the St
Joe, Osceola and Des Moines narrow guagt
road, capital $l,O00,OO0. and the st.
Joseph and Des MONIES narrow-guagt
road, capital 1926, 900, have been filed Will
the secretary of state, of Iowa, at De:
MONIES What has become of the narrow
guage or dummy road between here ant
) Milan? Somebody said all the stock was
or could he taken. Who has backed out
October is now close at hand, and, a
it approaches Hayes and bis claque grow
perceptibly more nervous and redoubl
their efforts to fix things up. The mer
r shadow of the coming session chills then
e to the marrow. This is more suggestiv
+ than surprising; in fact, tits not surprising
: at all. That the man whom the peopl
didn't elect, whom they rejected by al
? immense majority, should shrink under tn
circumstances from facing the people
representatives, is perfectly natural.
in his apologize Grafton at Worce.
ter, the Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, late 0
the eight-to-seven commission, uttered on
/ pertinent and important truth. That va
when he said that the people and histor
woIld pass upon the work of himself ant
his fellow commissioners. These cor
spirators against constitutional liberty ar
& already arraigned before tribunal frof
: which there is neither escape nor appea
y and where no tissue Of technicalitieS, how
ever lngeuiously woven. will avail to cove
the crime or screen the criminal.