The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-16
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No police cases to-day.
BE yourself Ape nobody.
Great gifts make beggars bold.
"A genuine roar back An echo.
Sad spectacle-Broken eye-glass.
Late nights make early graves.
oh, the snow, the Boot-full O. snow!
1t is the duty of the police to see that
people clean off their sidewalks
1t is wiping away tears, not shedding
them, that proves you're made of the right
stuff
Funeral of Mrs. Joanna Butler from
st. Joseph's church to- morrow forenoon at
10 o'clock
When man has seen his best days"
there is one consolation. He has generally
seen his worst ones.
Stone ballast from ships coming In
for cargoes of cotton is being used to pave
the streets of Galveston.
B. Pulford, Savanna, ILL.,, is the latest
victim of stupidity 10 the way Of dropping
letters in The ARGUS box,
What railroads need for rails and
bridges is some material that will not crack
when Jack Frosts steps on it,
Any person selling, in the state of Lii.
nois, coal oil below $50 per cent. fire test is
liable to pay penalty of $500.
Turnkey Munger had three of his
prisoners at work to-day clearing the snow
from the sidewalk around Court square.
Isaac j. Worden has been held il
bail IN Boston in the sum of $4,000 fol
shipping giant powder over the railway t.
Albany.
Its an ill-wind that blows nobody
good and many poor men found EN-
ployment today cleaning off the snow
from sidewalks.
Elder Encell will conduct bibl
reading in the basement Of Christian
chapel, tomorrow evening, at 7 O'Clock
Come one, come all.
The lady who dropped her pocket
book on the corner of Second avenue anC
18th street, to-day, can have it by calm,
on Squire Chopper
VIM. N. Jarvis, for a long time il
charge OF the Peoria and Rock Island de
pot, has assumed the management of tn
Rock Island branch of the Galya Goa
Company.
| Mrs Mamie Velie formerly Mrs
Mamie Weir has repleyined a gold watch
worth $l85, which was worn by the lat
John G. Brown, and which, she claims
belongs to her.
What shall it profit man if he stea
the vote of a state and lose the respect O
the whole people? An answer from re
turning board Hayes is respectful
solicited.-St. Louis Times.
| The end of the year makes another
volume of magazines or papers, and Tn
ARGUS BINDERY is just the place to g,
to have them bound and preserved. Bount
in any style to match others, and at tn,
lowest prices.
Not long ago one of our subscribers
business man, who watches the tele
grams pretty closely every evening, mad
thousand dollars, clear, by acting quickl
on information published in THE EVEN
ING ARGUS. This fact we have from tn
man himself.
| George d. Moore, Of Port Byron, ha
been appointed administrator of the estat
OF the late Charles Gray, who died sud
denly OF heart disease at the Maxwell
House, Port Byron, couple of weeks age
Jesse Maxwell and Nathaniel Dorranc
are security for the administrator
The Republicans don't take Wah
Oh, no! When that peshlent demagc CUE
Senator Wright, OF Iowa, made a speec
in the senate the other day in which h
asserted that Iowa aoould furnish 10000
men to help inaugurate Hayes, what di
he mean? just scare, We suppose.
james Gordon Bennett has gone t
Europe, Having fought a duel, he wa
liable to arrest, trial and Imprisonment i
the penitentiary. under the laws of hi
state, and, being thus amenable, he avoide
t the consequences by laying off in b
private yacht, in New York Bay, and.
taking an outbound steamer, escaping t
Europe as criminal. Mr. MAJ
according to all accounts, was not injured
but he too is evading the officers.
The louisiana congressional con
mittees have settled these three point,
Eliza Pinkston is a traud of the fir
o magnitude; school teacher Watson WI
E killed by negroes because of his crimin
q immortality; and organizer" Dinkgra,
was killed by man named Wimberl,
whose brother Dinkgrave had killed in
: fight. These three were the premium
a "outrages" which caused Kellogg's r
. turning fraud to disfranchise $4,000 Den
: ocratic voters in Louisiana.--,&. Lou
: Times.