The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-03
Editorial Notes.

Wnetnef the Dack door OF the new Cnlcag0
postofice shall be on Dearborn or Clark
streets. To the people of any other city
in the union the location of the back door
of public building would be matter of
little moment, but to Office holders, bank
presidents and the like in Chicago, it is
important to so locate the back door that
they may have easy egress, unnoticed,
when they desire to take foreign tour
slip away as it were, without saying good
bye.
This is decidedly an off-year-every
days telegraph news brings US notice of
fellows in all parts of the country who are
off with some body's money. and the next
heard of them most likely is, that they are
aboard ship in the ofing.
In accordance with the request of the
Sioux Indians. it is understood that the
Benedctine fathers, together with the lay
brothers and sisters of the order. and to be
allowed to establish missions at the Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. Other
Catholic missionaries are anxious to CO.
operate in aiding the indians to establish
themselves on permanent peace footing,
and the administration, it is understood,
will favor them IN their efforts.
1t is heralded from Washington that
the president will hardly be able to at
tend" the funeral of the late Senator
Morton. The cabinet will probably be
represented by Secretary Thompson and
Attorney General Devius.
| The senate has appointed six and the
house seven of its members to attend the
funeras of the dead senator. The senate
] adjourned until Tuesday next. The house
refused to adjourn except for the day.
There is no mn in the House who him
self prides more on being known as the
great objector of the present session than
MIR. Prdemore, of West VIRGINIA. The
only business he did yesterday to earn his
salary was to cxclaim Il object"
The citizens of Indiana now in Washing
ton held a meeting yesterday, presided
over by Gen. Thos. NJ. Brown, which
adopted resolutions of respect to the
memory of the late senator and of con-
dolence to the bereaved family.
4 And Gov. Cullom has also designated
the 29th inst, as an appropriate day for
turkey and thanks
The auditor of state. has taken steps to
prevent the commercial league of Chicago
from doing any more business 10 the state,
and the matter is now in the hands of the
attorney general The commercial league
is an offshot of the defunct Protection
Llfe, managed to great extent, we under
stand, by the same officials. The auditor
holds that the League has no legal
authority to do any insurance in Illinois.
/ The October failures 10 New York were
81, the largest number in any one month
of the year. The aggregate liabilities were
upwards of $3,600,00O.
The Cameron clan chief wouldn't care
, so much, if at one time Welch hadu't
endowed chair of literature in Pennsyl
vania university. He could forgive Hayes
f anything else but the appointment of s
man who made this deliberate move to turn
all the boys in the state into dam liter
ary fellows"
Even Hiram Price, the member from
Davenport had the temerity to get up il
what he styles rebel congress" and at
tempt to offer u bill revolutionizing. re-
monetiziug or demolishing silver--hi ex
j, act words were lost in the wild scream o
d the great objector's Il object" and Hiram
sat down again-but he felt huuibleG
because be couldn't talk back" to the ex
D rebel representatives. He pocketed his bill
c and bis ire a, the same time.