The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-27

lightning, TINS forenoon.
The appearance of the walls of the
jail building has been greatly improved
by several coats of paint and whitewash.
Republicans of the northwest are fully
in accord with those of the east 10 opposing
Hayes's so-called southern policy, which
they denounce openly as Hayes surren-
der"
III the electoral commission had not
cheated Mr.. Tilden out of his rights, the
country would have reacted from the stag
nation that now exists, and have been ami
mated with a new life.
Turnkey Munger returned this morn
ing from the insane asylum at jackson
ville-where he had taken Miss Josephine
Peterson, the woman adjudged insane in
the county court on Tuesday.
Fred Schuler, living two miles north
| OF Sterling, lost all the hams from his
smoke house, one evening last week. As
fresh wagon track led to Sterling there is
where the ham fat man" must meat his
reward.
Tim Riley, the color-bearer of the
Hayes party, wants a divorce and has Sc
cured the aid of Lawyer Corbett while
Lawyer McElherne will look after Mary's
interests, she being detained at Joliet by
the state.
| The avalanche of extracts from Re-
publican newspapers reproduced in The
ARGUS in regard to Rayes's course must
make any Republican party man sick of
him and sick of the fraud which made
him president.
"A Galesburg youth invested a dollar
and half in New York firm to discover
How to appear we'll in society" The re-
cipe which he received by return mail was
short, simple, and easily understood: al
ways keep your nose clean. and don't suck
more than one finger at time"
Senator Allison, who halls from the
banner state of Iowa, which gave the lar
gest majority in the union for the Repub-
lican ticket in November. being at Wash
ington, declares his people are against the
course pursued by the administration aud
will signify thei.. displeasure at the first
opportunity.
Last Sunday night some of the Jail
birds in the Monmouth Jail again tried to
escape. This time they sawed hinge of
the cell door to get into the hail. Once
in the hall the cid hole is still available
No one knows how they got a saw. The
only utensil yet found with which they re-
moved the bricks is a spoon. They declare
they will yet get away.
The children are doing their best tc
destroy the young trees 10 Union Square
by bending and twisting them about anj
swaying them to and fro, Better put
stout picket fence around the square anC
keep everybody out of it until the people
get ready to build city hall there anC
improve it with walks, fountains, lawn
and flower beds.
: The London Spectator says: Mos
| people when they marry are the untortu
nate recipients of a vast quantity OF wha
can only be described as ornamental rub
Dish, procured at large cost from divers
? fashionable establishments tor the encour
agemept of bad taste and waste of money
Surely there must be few Of US who hav
not groaned in our time under this plagu
of ormolu, and been finally crushed by tn
: arrival of seventh blotting paper O
twentieth inkstanG.1
e The rumors IL at Mr.. Hayes cor
Y science is driving him to the point Of re
J. signing his office must be considered witt
l. many grains of allowance. To suppos
l. that his conscience now is any tendere
Y than it was when, tacitly acknowledge
l. the frauds of his title, he inveigled tn
/ house of representatives into recording th
,e Judgment of the electoral commission, is t
r SUPPOSE that abuse of mans conscienc
soften it, when all experience teache
that it has preclsel y the opposite effect.
y That was good joke on three of Roc
Islands nobby young men yesterda
morning, who took Johnny Weyerhauser
,f yacht and proceeded down the river for
\. quiet sail, but after going nearly to ii
3 mouth of Rock river couldn't get back
e didn't understand the working of th
g blamed thing they had to foot.
" home, and afterwards hire two men
to bring the yacht back. fhey had lots
If fun.
st -Weyerhauser & Denkmau have, will
out doubt, the most complete saw mill
this vicinity and make nearly twice
)ll much lumber as any two mills in this cit,
Moline or Davenport, Since the m
started this spring, with the new and in
lis proved machinery which was put in duriI
ch the past winter, they have cut on an ave
an age about 140, 900 feet of lumber per da
ID. The firm employ about 200 men. 95
er whom are engaged entirely in the mill.
ss The following divorce cases are on Il
er docket for the May term of our circU
an court, viz: John NJ Kisksdden VS. HarI
Is. ct Kiskadden; Nancy Croxen VS. Villa
ls' Croxen, sen Margaret Kock VS. Andre
IN Kock; Malnda j. Dennison VS. Philip
Dennison; Jennie Reddig VS. Wesley Re
on dig; Oric Coborn VS. Milden Color
:" John Moeller VS. Sophia MoeIler; Timotl
Riley VS. Mary Riley; Emma A. Flemi
Holm II Elap1inu. Nj III
nm VS. Emanuel Hammel, and Josephine II
ger VS. Jacob Hager.
"A North Henderson correspondent
lal the Galva Journal says: "There was
w. exciting trial here few days ago betwe
n seven sulky plows. The Buford, Evar
,oA Skinner, Davenport, Canton, Moline Pr
- Co., and the Deere (Gilpin). We are tC
10 80, that the Buford and Deere are the t
n ri; best. The Buford is made at Rock Isla
,ar and the Deere at Moline"
at BY the falling of large rock in G
all of the coal mines in Rapids City, on Thu
sh. day, James Berry, miner. was severe
tar iDjured-the rock striking him in the ba
breaking several bones, though the spil
column is not broken. DIR. Morgan.
ots Port Byron. attends the injured man, W
nd at last reports was in a precarious CT
dition.
On Wednesday night of last we,
set the 18th, the house Of John Muhlenbu
and in Eliza township. Mercer county y
tp- struck by lightning. The house was
t most demolished; a dog under the bor
-. was killed, and bed post splintered
tu' the fluid, but, strange to say, neither
- NJ, or his wife, occupying the bed, WI
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