The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-05
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

leave their sinking ship.
Owing to the closing of restaurants in
New York many French counts are out of
employment.
While the Beloit anti-horse thief as
ISOLATION was in session, thieves stole three
members horses.
That corporal who captured the state
house of South Carolina against the will OF
Gen. Ruger continues to hold the fort.
We had one long, bloody civil war to
save the union. Must we have another to
preserve the constitution P Washington
Union.
Hayes says he fully expects to be in
augnrated." Here, then, we are to have
another miserable victim Of blasted ex-
pectation.
davenport has ordered 70 naptha
street lamps and talks about making it
hundred. They are to be used outside
the gas district.
| The southern birds rather like it; they
are standing around handy to have the
Hayes salt sprinkled on their tails
Washington Un5on
The testimony Of negro Democrats in
Louisiana is universal that there is no
safety for colored man who exercises his
suffrage as freeman.
| Mexico has three presidents, and yet
she is no happier than the United States
which doesn't appear to be unanimously
certain that she has any.
| Many a man makes fool of himself
by some early love affair; but no thoroughly
good man is likely to speak of it with con-
tempt in after years.
The Washington Union has begun to
,alk about what happened in the days OF
| the republic. Il calls the present The
days of the Vampire. st Joseph, Mo-
Chronicle.
The third dance Of the winter course
given by the Turner society, was to have
come off tomorrow evening, but it has
been postponed until Saturday evening
the 18th.
-lfjustice prevails Louisiana will be per
United to cast her vote for Tilden. as it il
now more than ever apparent that thu
t Democrats carried the state by from 8,00(
to 10000 majority.
The plan to settle the presidential ques
/ ton by drawing lots will hardly do. TIL,
5 Republicans would insist on having a re
r turning board determine who had draw
the prize if they happened to miss it.
Samuel J. Tilden is still writing edito
rails for the Democratic papers, according
to the Philadelphia Press. It's pity tn
Press doesn't secure his services and sheC
beam of sense on its pages occasionally
The day on which congress settles thu
, presidential question is st. Valentine
: day. The Goddess of Liberty isn't goinl
IA. j NalnnkIDo Oh
wants gay young bachelor buck Ek'
/, Samuel Chicago Times,
A new election would give Mr. Tildel
q at least Ohio, Illinois, and pennsylvania
r TIE Republicans know this, and are weak
Iening before the firm attitude of the West
ern Democracy and the development
p from the disputed states.
Il Alfred Lundbla mot Lundblam) The
d boy who caused so much trouble in tn
Y county court on Tuesday, has bee
n delivered to Olof Levin, of Moline, VIII
i will probably adopt him, Mr.. Levin ha
d ! already adopted Alfred's sister.
e Why will the Republican press so per
/, sistentiy lie abont the vote of the negroe
e 10 the south, in asserting that they vote
a solidy for the Radical candidates, when
y is known that thousands Of the more inte
Re igent negroes in the south aud north ar
1t now voting with the Democracy
Is Tits the remarkable feature of every on
IL rage at the south, as reported for Republ
Il can purposes, that the chain of testmon
re is never completed without some feeders
Of official acting as link At one time it
Is a district attorney, and again a Unite
States marshal; but it is always somebod
Ewho holds an Appointment under Grant.
Matt Eagan, the brakeman on the 81
Id Louis road, who was injured while coul
r ling cars at Bader's station, on Monda
he night, is said to be doing well. II
e brother, Patrick, and his sister, Mani
Id have returned from Beardstown, and bot
r report him as being in good spirits. tt
lie doctor thinks he can be brought home
On next Wednesday,
ne One of the pleasantest drives behir
- a good team, and seated in a nobby cutie
is the road on the ice to Linwood. Pa
10 ties take this road every evening, and Il
10Y gatherings at the hotel there are rig
"a royalty social and merry, Mr.. Wood, Il
proprietor, knows how to get up a qui
!l1 little oyster supper for parties large
ID small When you go sleigh riding ne
u, time, take the river road on the ice
{ Linwood, and call on Mr.. Wood.
n The chief business Of the rifle clu
m in the southern states seems to have be
10 the protection of negroes against negrot
~ IF the whites had not interfered and Ike
an a. the peace there would have !been bloc
If times between the Radical and Democrat
ire negroes. The carpet baggers instruct
ast the Republican negroes to bull-doze t
70. Democrats. The whites intertered, pI
tected them, and the Jacobins are aug
because their plot failed.
About 800 hogs in Edgington tow
ship have died with the cholera during
-os present winter, and many more q
.rr afflicted
hss The ladies of the Pleasant Rid
90 Presbyterian church gave fair and les
~ val in their church on Thursday event
I'D which was a success in every respect.
ar. "A petition has been sent to Washir
ide ton praying that the post Office be tral
me ferred from Pleasant Ridge to Tay
Sc, Ridge, on the new railroad, and the nal
ex- changed to Taylor Ridge.
9TH Hollywood Grange, No. 1913, of BOWL
if township and vicinity, recently elected t
If. following officers, who were installed i
mt Tuesday evening: Master, H. Ohavt
ION Overseer, C. Keller: Steward, J. Kel
,llv Assistant Steward, j. B. McCoun,
i'm Gate Keeper, Ihos. Brown; Lectur
has Thos. Kyle; Chaplain. G. n. Adar
the Secretary, Thos. Jenkins; 1reasur
Joseph Starkey. After the installat
ors refreshments were served.
I'd Regular Secretion Essential to Heal
oct Tho reUular sacretion and nov of