The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-14

to look after the poor.
Susan B. is getting old-her lecture
at Cambridge was failure.
: Lawyer Peppery, Of Aledo, has had q
little IRE among his law books.
Everybody calls this Indian summer.
Some like it-business men don't.
Even the printers in Peoria are join
ing the Murphy blue ribbon army.
lis it true that the city has paid for an
assistant for our efficient street commits
sioner2
The pork packing season has now
fairly opened. Mr.. Gilmore is running
full handed.
There are thirty-two bachelors in the
diplomatic corps at w ashington. Thus lie
crime in high places punished.
Some of our sharp shooters have been
hunting again, 18 quail is the number
reported by Uncle John and Thomas.
The Peoria papers are boasting of the
fine frescoing of the dining room OF that
excellent hotel, the Peoria House.
THE ARGUS Office is prepared to sup
ply dancing parties with something extra
in the line OF programmes and invitations.
The ice men are anxious to commence
work. Suppose Mansill should continue
this weather as he did year or two ago.
Two married and six single women
were elected to the Office of county super
intendent of schools in the state last month.
Mrs. Mary Whiteside Emery has been
appointed vice president of the Girls
Industrial school of Illinois for the ninth
district.
Gail Hamilton" is studying astron-
omy. which moves the Chicago Times to
remark that all the planets are rushing for
places Of safety.
Rev, S. L. Harris, D. D., rector Of
st. James church, of Chicago, was yester.
day elected bishop of the new Episcopal
diocese Of Quincy, in this state.
Old Father Hubbard
| Went to his cupboard,
L And took down volumes ten;
And chuck full of port
He waltzed into court,
And went for us travelling men.
The EUening Journal of Peoria thinks
that if the lawyers who are defending
Scott-Rande exert themselves too much
they will succeed in getting their Glen
hung by mob.
| Dixon, H., Is organizing debating
lclub. Dissipated felines and aspirants to-
fmusical honors of the brass persuasion vii
be compelled to suspend operations in tina
town.
Have you seen Cutters new sidewalk
| To whom dues the material of the marrow
guage taken up and thrown into the quite
belong? Why was Mr.. Cutter singled out
when so many other walks were worse thar
his? What say you Mr.. city attorney?
Someone has reported that Mayo
Butler has vetoed the resolution placing
proper gas lamps at the waterworks. N
one has heard of any opposition lie eve
made to the 100 naptha lamps put VI
about the city. Information on this sub
Iject might possibly be interesting
The following advertisement appear
in an exchange and we copy it for the ben
eft of the millinery establishments. jew
elry houses are of minor consideration
Wauted-Situation by young man wish
ling to make an engagements with a mi!iner,
or jewelry house.
/ Did any of the fnanciers of the cit
council ever estimate the amount of none
that has been expended in macadamizin
the streets during the past ten years, an
how much better the streets will be at tn
end of the next ten years if the sam
course is followed and the same materis
used?
When a Boston girl accepts love
she says. Beans it's you, yes. Ne
! York Herald. When New York gil
> accepts a lover she says, ~Cents it's yoI
yes. Boston AdUertiSer. When a d,
troit girl accepts lover she doesn't use an
slang She simply hands him her chez
: for $1,000 to get the layout. Detroit Fir,
t Press. When Rock Island girl accep
: her lover she warns him to beware of I'll
= old man, or be will get laid out.
+ The editor of the Davenport po
0 Office had better watch out, for the Ulsi0
seems to be superceding the Gazette in Il
, affections of the republicans in Moline an
$ this city, When Potter was editor Of Il
. Gazette he started out to run" this col
gressional district, build the Hennip
canal and superintend the construction
20 the arsenal Better come over, Edwar
and continue these projects. The Hennip
canal especially is comparatively a ne
r project at this time, and it would be prop
:, for some great mind to grapple with til
O subject. Come over, by all means. or Il
Union will steal all your Moline and Ro,
Island subscribers, and then You can new
y accomplish Potter's dream of running f
: congress 10 this district.
e e. r. Page, of Council Bluffs, pul
II lished an open letter in the Inter Ocea
recently, in which he invites COL Bob Il
gersoll TO publicly discuss with him 4
4 existence of God and the Immortality of Il
d SOUL He is evidently Ya1kee of t
r, wooden nutmeg variety, and, therefore,
IS brings the question down to business bal
by saying: I'VE are paying In Aneri
one hundred millions of dollars annually
the support of institutions devoted to t
n worship of God, II you are right in 20
- views, all this is waste of money and e
% ergy; the question involves millions up
ID millions of waste on the one side, and t
ir peace of the soul on the other, and if you
4 | have any light to give by which man ID
= be guided in the search after truth. 0
q duty is clear and we have but to perform
N 1t is the only medicine | would give
Is my Baby, mother said, speaking OF |
a Bulls Baby Syrup. At all drug store
a rs cents
n Darf;oo ruauffnV 4 10 heat soft oaoI