The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-03
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Grant is bad precedent.
These delightful spring-like days |

-Grant is bad precedent.
These delightful spring-like days
Theatre at Turner Hall tomorrow
evening
Mask ball at Turner Hail. Davenport,
tonight.
The military party is not SO military
asst was
Merchants says business is picking
up little, -
The war governor" of Indiana turns
out to be merely Quaker gun after all.
The river is rising and the water now
guages at about 6. 2 above low water mark.
= Navigation is now open from ST. Louis
south and boats are making regular trips.
Hayes now says he leaves the whole
thing in the hands of congress. This is
all he can do. Many thanks.
Mr.. Harper has given the artist,
Pughe, an order to paint his portrait aud
also the portrait of Mrs. Harper.
The Whiteside county case is still
pendlng-but, at noon t. day, court ad-
Journed until o'clock Monday afternoon.
-Cowgill,o of the Florida returning board,
wants to sell his piana and other articles
OF furniture. He is getting ready to move
Mr., Blaine has overcome his modesty
and made his first senatorial speech Very
naturally it was on the side of strife and
civil discord
Morton sneeringly remarks that Ed
munds has burned his ships behind him, -
but the Washington Union says, mo it
was only his Ferry boat"
When Conkling goes for Sherman the
latter feels like an icicle on a water pipe
He doesn't know whether to hold on OF
thaw off, Washington Union.
Let the bloody-shirt be divided and
the pieces be donated to Morton, Logan
Sherman, Boutwell,, ct i'd 0nme genqts, tc
remind them of theirldeparted glory.
The January jail bill against the city
is only $l2, 20, which Marshal Halves SAYS
is the smallest amount since he has beer
on the police force. 1t was very dul
month in the police circles.
Ben Stempe says he was one of the
number who testified that he did not hay,
criminal connection with Annie Kittell
Charles Patterson and Frank Arrison
two other witnesses, are from Davenport
Matte Swisher and Annie Woodward
of the "gunboat" crew, were Discharged
from Jail yesterday,-as they had n
money to pay their fines and their healtl
had commenced to suffer on account of to-
close confinement.
Frank L. Pultz, travelling man from
Chicago, and Mss Alma r. Carter, daugh
ter of another travelling man in Desmoines
were married at the Harper House, Fri
day forenoon by Magistrate Chopper. /
! was an elopement affair-which both par
ties generally live to regret,
, The huge boulder just below Rocking
ham, mentioned in this paper sometim
ago, will not be moved to the grave of tn
late Edward Burial, Jr., in Chippianocl
: cemetery. this winter, owing to the ic
] having become too honeycombed to ALLOW
, OF its being taken across safely.
Charlie Emeigh had narrow escap
from fire last night-when closing up hi
shop, under the Masonic Temple build
ing.-a kerosene lamp exploded Deput
Marshal Miller and Policeman Gormal
extinguished the flames Better use gas
Charlie, 1T is much safer and better, eve
if it does cost little more.
President Grant has changed from
silent man to a garrulous entertainer c
newspaper reporters, and taken to givin
them audiences every Sunday and furnish
ing them with gable of all sorts, H
likes to see his name in the papers, t
read what they say about him, and seem
to regret that he did not before discove
this easy mode of communicating wit
the people. One Of his latest efforts i
this line, and one showing a good deal c
lcOmmOn sense will he fOuud in This ma ma,
Billy Wilson, at his cigar store, ough
to have tickets on sale for all the railroads
{ and telegraph wire running into hi
store so that he can know where trains ar
and how they are getting along. He has
l nice store-a favorite place of resort, an
: in central location 1t would be an az
commodation to the hotels, to travellers an
o to citizens to have some central ticket Office
> where tickets and sleeping car berths ca
be had, Billy's is just the place, an
he is just the right sort Of man for tn
p business.