The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-17
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Lovely weather.
Hotel arrivals are picking up. 4
"A good many farmers in town to-day.
1t is bouncing boy and Clement Young
is happy.
The river is rising hgain-and is now
about ST. above low water mark,
ANY young man is made better by
sisters love. The love of another fellows
sister will do very we'll.
DIR. Gregg has blue glass windows iu
his carriage. Has the doctor got it as 10
his carriage, for the use of patientsf
-Four men in England were indicted
for stealing beans. What have they been
doing" asked the Judge. Bean steal
ing, " said the clerk.
We've got to economize, or this
country is ruined, was the soliloquy of a
Detroit husband as he kindled the fire
with his wife's hustle"
Said man in a street car: Don't
/ forget the baby; give my love to him.
Said the other man, evidently Londoner:
e amt aim; e's 'er."
Mr.. Pughe continuec to paint most
remarkable hkenesses. He has one near
ly completed of Mrs Ben Harper, which
is one of the best he has painted.
The governor has concluded to appoint
Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago; VIM. M.
Smith, of Bloomington, and j. FL. Oberly
| of Cairo. railroad commissioners.
i DIR. Truesdaie could not, without neg
Letting his patients, get his report ready il
time for publication to-day. He hopes t.
do so in time for Mondays paper.
County Treasurer Sam Porter ant
Chris. Gaetger have recently purchase,
two dogs from dog fancier in Edna, Mo.
which they claim to be full blooded Irisl
settlers. Chris. is training them.
3 The ice commenced running out a
Keokuk Thursday night; a gorge wa
. formed below the city, and the government
locks were Hooded. Six steamboats, wer
. at the levee but none were injured.
z On petition Of citizens of Buffalo Pra
granted, vote will be taken in that tow
It ship at the April election on the questio
!. of permitting domestic animals to run {
It large.
The electoral court, with 10000 fo
Tilden in Louisiana, gave the state
= Hayes They say the governors certif
) cate governs. If so, then Tilden an
n Hendricks will find the needed vote
e Oregon.
j. -"Charley, what is it that makes 20
e so SWEET" said loving mother one da
1t to her little boy, as she pressed him to h'
h bosom. Il dess when God made me OIL
4, of dust he put little thugar in, sa
Charley.
r; "A man in Sing Sing, New Yor
id planted nitro-glycerine, and the other d.
1T he went to dig it up. His pick struck Il
II can, and all the neighborhood though
as there was an earthquake. But the ma
ct Oh, where was be?
{ Special meeting Of the city counc
g this evening-to select judges OF the a.
CT preaching city election. 1t is expectt
that the water works committee of thr,
ID will give their views on the diarrhea que
10 ton, but nobody cares what they thin
about it,
-"CoMPARIsoNs ARE ODIoUs. TT
major (rocking Nelly on his knee for au
Mary's sake: Il suppose this is what u
like, Nelly?" Nelly: Yes, it's We
&C uiee. But l rode on real donkey yeste
BIT day mean one with four legs, "
rt know. Il Punch.
r. john II. Cleland K Co. have just
p ceived at their marble works in this city,
to large and beautiful red Scotch granite mo
50 ument, direct from the quarries at ABB
deem, Scotland. 1t is for Mr.. '
nd Cook, and will be put up in his family
in the Hampton cemetery. 1t has table
to- prepared for engraving names upon.
a. "A young lady of Bellevue, Ohio. be
IA young man a kiss that Tilden would
ne elected-he to pay if Tilden won, she
en- pay if Hayes was elected On the mol
w. ing of the Sth he called and paid the b,
on the 9th he called and took it ba'
That evening she paid the bet. Ne
ar morning she took it back, and he pa
on then she paid and he paid, and go Ii
Tho have been kept busy by the contradict
of dispatches ever since, and both decl;
ap- their willingness and ability to hold {
md until congress decides the question.
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