The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-09
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food skating on Sylvan Water.
California train next Sunday oyer the
>. & N. W. R. R.
The thermometer was 10 degrees be-
ow zero at midnight Thursday night
Every federal officer for the next
four years IS the partaker Of fraud
j. S. Farrell, of this city, has gradu-
ated in the medical department of the
Iowa State University, and been granted a
diploma.
Mr.. Returning Board Hayes is going
to make Mr.. Willing Acceptance Wheeler
an ex-ofhcer cabinet adviser. This as
new idea.
Cyrus Conkling, in Edgington, will
sell off his stock and farming tools, at auc
ton, on Saturday the 18th inst, beginning
at 10 a. N.
Robert T. Reid has commenced max
ing the list of delinquent taxpayers which
is required to be published every year and
it will appear in The ARGUS in due time.
Not load, of any kind. was weighed
on the city scales in Market square, yes
terday-a Republican indication of the re-
vival of business since the inauguration OF
His Fraudulency"
Mr.. RIB. Hayes's new secretary of the
navy, from Indiana, is only rs years old.
The people of Indiana wanted Gen.
Harrison in the cabinet but Morton don t
like him.
Capt. MoKown bought and paid for
load Of wood on Market Square the
other day but it was not put in his wood
house-the driver probably made some
mistake, and left it at the wrong house.
The ice in the river this friday fore
noon has stopped as far as the middle OF
the river, and the balance is moving very
slowly. Mercury at zero this morning.
How that for the middle of March?
A panic occurred in the 10th street
Catholic church, in New York, on Thurs.
day evening, caused by the fainting of a
woman and some idiot crying fire. Seven
lives were lost and many persons injured
Cornelius Benedict, a boy Is years Of
age, living in Andalusia, had one of his
legs broken in two places the other day
while playing-another boy fell or jumped
upon him while he was lying on the ground
The child which was found on the
door step of Thomas Splaiu, on the 9th o.
last December, has been adopted by Mr.
and Mrs Asa Rogers, of Buffalo Prairie
and will have a C mf0rtable home in fu-
/ ture.
There is no love lost between Senator;
/ Morton and Blaine, as the latter had am
7 Pile reason to know, or at least to believe
at the time when his transactions in rail
road bonds were the subject Of genera
attention. - Chicago Tribune. It'll.
Remember that in the last election thu
white citizens Of this country gave Samue
J Ti'den majority of one million votes
And yet there are fools who suppose tha
rutherford B. Hayes can get along as
fraudulent president,-N y SIN,
Nose Lathrop is firm believer in tn
virtues of blue glass" And he has
good reason. The other day he put sew
eral blue lights 10 his dwelling house an
the next day his wife presented him with
fine, bouncing boy.-Princetom Tribune
The very concise, pointed and convin
cling letter from DR.. Plummer in tn
ARGUS Of last evening badly worries VIVA
few nasty water advocates there are left
1t Is such an effective review If the cas-
that the don't b'leve it" squad have moth
, ing left to stand on.
The coroner's jury on the AshtabuI
bridge disaster, after an exhaustive inveS
: tigation decide that the railroad compau
, is alone to blame and upon it rests tn
! fearful responsibility for the loss of lii,
Common carriers must carry safe or pa
> all damages.
] The opening note Of defiance Of tt
r presidents policy toward the south W;
sounded yesterday In the senate, and
, will surprise no one that MIR. Blaine al
= rcartd in the lists as the champion Al
;, leader OF the blood shirt and carpet bi
= element Of the party Chicago Tribun
= It'll.
j They had loaded gun and we hs
= none. That's the way they succeeded
G robbing the people of their rights. If;l
V army and navy had been under the co
Is troll of the Democratic party, instead, as
d was. Of the Republican party, there new
= would have been the first pretense tn
>. Tiiden was not elected.
z From the police reports in the pape
It we should say that Rock Island was
u tested with ii large and active set
le roughs, who are constantly guilt Of Grim
ID Of all grades, from petit larceny to hig
ID way robbery-and from assault and b
terry to attempt to murder A not We
cnviable record, by the way.-AIedO 1
Oh cord.
Mayor Butler may we'll be proud
the handsome compliment paid him
g Tuesday. for only four men in Rock
an land. previousAto him, ever had the co
h. pliment of an election as mayor witho
~ an opponent. viz: Mr.. Harper, in I8i
W Dr. Gregg in 1857, Bailey Davenport
his second election 10 1862, and B.
Kimball as successor to Eggleston's unt