The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-22
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Very pleasant daY.

NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Very pleasant day.
Mask ball at Liberty Hall tonight
Special meeting of the city council
this evening.
Phoenix Hose Co.'S. mask ball on
Tuesday evening,
The ice under Rock Island bridge is
about two feet thick.
Half dozen runaways yesterday but
nothing very serious.
There was considerable racing yester-
day on Third avenue.
Even in the hardest times clocks en-
ploy their regular number of hands.
Every sleigh in the city and many
dry goods boxes were on the street yester-
day,
w. B. Keen, Cooke & Co, we'll known
Chicago booksellers, have gone into bank
ruptcy.
Eliza Pinkston is prominently men
toned for position in Hay es' Kitchen
Cabinet.
Freight business on all the railroads
has been very dull since the late snow
blockade,
"A Michigan jury lately declared that
a man had come to his death ''by an un-
known wagon.
The police should arrest all persons
who race throug Oh our principal streets
with horse and cutter.
OF course Noah took swarm of bees
into the ark, else of what use would the
archives have been to him?
Very little travel oyer the bridges
now. The ice bridge is the popular route
across the Father of Waters.
Pray for the poor with all your might
and now and then throw in a loaf of bread,
| basket of potatoes or barrow of coal.
The members of our police force are
getting rusty-nobody will get drunk, have
row, or do anything for which they can
| be arrested.
The baptist church was crowded last
evening. Two persons were baptized,
Sermon tonight, Hour of services each
evening this week 7:l5.
Festival by the Burns Club, at Lahr
mans Hail. Davenport, on Thursday eve
eniug Many of our citizens attend the
festivals given by this club.
"A Detroit restauraIter hangs out
sign of free chops" and when the Ole
loaferS come around he shows them an axe
and wood pile.-Detroa Free Press
Letters for Isaac Boyce, of Pennsyl
vania, and Mrs. Jane Herman, of Iowa
we're dropped in THE ARGUS box yesterday
They have been placed in the post office
If there is a single Republican VIII,
doubts that majority of the legal voter
of Louisiana voted for Tilden let him reat
the article in this paper from the New
. York Tribune, strong Hayes paper.
"A Kansas lawyer, who was defending
man on trial for wife murder, souRh
for some euphouious and innocent phras
with which to describe his clients crime
and finally said: He winnowed her int
: Paradise with fence rail-
is "Me-I-I-G General Tuttle-
didn't | boys?" still engaged in fghtin!
, the id government" or talking t
the whole nation" drumming for Cover
nor of Iowa on the statute OF limitation
e plan? Which ?-Ioaoa State Leader.
t The first regular meeting of the 'Firs
D Congregational Society" in Killers Hail
yesterday afternoon, was we'll attended
about rs persons being present The re
marks of Rev. s. S. Hunting wer
attentively listened to, and appeared to b
appreciated
q On Saturday forenoon Mrs Patric
Kirk, of No. PA East Locust street, owe
the river, was accidentally shot in the RICH
.high by her I0-year old son, who wa
playing with. what be thought, an ~
j loaded pistol The wound is painful, thong
K not serious.
a Poor Morton made a speech to da
/. against the electoral count bill, completed
stultifying himself. and eating his ow
words, 1t was a disgraceful spectacle, 70
: a public man, and, if possible, sinking biz
e still lower than ever in public estimation
e We do not consider it worth composition
/ and therefore it goes in the waste baske
and what we consider better matter fill
the space to which we are limited
a The coolest day of this winter,
e shown hy the thermometer at the dra
e Of Rock Island Bridge, was on the 9th
December, when it indicated, at A. \
~ 20 degrees below Q, and at noon and a;
D o clock IN the evening it was below
The Warmest day since the river close
c. was On the 18th of December when Ii
d mercury was 26 above at 6 y. NJ 46 alloy
- at noon, and A above at 6pM
l., When the late James W. Nye was
= Democrat he was very intimate with Jol
% Van Buren,, and when he changed h
~ politics his relations with Governor Sewal
r were Of the same character In polite
! address which he delivered at Osweg
somebody interrupted him by saying
O. You are Stewards bottle. holder
t well, said Nye, they used to say | W
John Van Buren's bottle holder. but n
II duties are lighter now | don't have
draw the cork SO often.
The Springfield, Mass, Republican
II a Hayes paper, SAYS: There are goC
IS many reasons for the falling off of the r
20 publican vote in Mississippi besides intiu
. dation. One of them was forcibly stat,
by witness, before Mr.. Morton's col
mittee from Holmes county, who testi6
that in his capacity of district attorney
"a had indicted nearly all the former Repu
at lican Office holders in that county for va
a lous crimes and they had fed the stat
in The result was, that when the preside
tial campaign opened, the negroes had
IL leaders, and the work of organzng the i
he norant masses Of the party, getting ticks
ID printed and attending to the various Gle
10 ton details went by default"