The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-13
MOLINE.

6 - u1Ul1u6 pOOE 01e CUos sAo OoAuA5
since the 18th Of last May 81 .S05.08.
Deacon Richards did not remain ct
v alter Town last night IS was predicted.
s%The board of heslth has ordered the
abatement of several obnoxious hog pens
in the city.
D%Five tramps were gathered in BY
the police last night. A large proportion
of recent arrivals are from St. Louis.
B%The committee forwarded $500 of
the yellow fever relief fund to the South
to-day. There remains still 10 their hands
over $500.
1S-The geese are happy again, the
council having granted the prayer of pc
titioners 10 allow the present crop to run
until they can be fatted and marketed,
when the ordinance will be enforced.
n@The Sylvan boat club has issued
large number of invitations to their charity
bali. to be given at the boat house this
evening. 1t will undoubtedly be pleas
ant affair.
bG~The Union thinks it would be
good scheme TO have the city surveyor To-
cate the wits of some members OF the Syi-
van Beat club. Right, but there are some
who haven't any to locate.
D%Over 325 pupils are enrolled in the
west ward school building this, the first
week of the term, 496 at the central and
80 at the cast ward, making total attend
ance at the public schools Of over 600.
D@-Ospt. Morris has $50 greenback
fiat money bill 1t is series ~, | ST.
o73,529, and No. b. 1881, 753, 46O, 378,-
SCI, O73,2l9,64 Brick Pomeroy is treas
urer and A. Wildly Walker secretary.
1g-Sylyan waters glide more smoothly.
Peace has been declared and the breezes
have subsidized, The majority has coll
apsed and the minority will attend the
LiIiputiau Opera on Saturday evening"
Union,
Yes, they doubtless would like to attend
but as time rolls on and the time for going
draws nigh, and they still without an in
vitation, it becomes more and more appar-
ent that they will not attend, How sad it
is that the correspondence between the
boat club and Mr.. Harper was not FIRST
published 10 the daily paper published
simultaneously 10 Rock Island and Mo.
Iine.' Then this unpleasantness would
have been avoided and the minority
might have attended,
Sewing Machine Miller and the Cullud
Bredren.
For weeks the fat money lunatics have
| been laboring with the colored men of this
city, begging them to vote for their windy
candidates tor congress and state senate.
going to their houses and buying water
melons and lemonade, and fraternizing
with them to an extent they once pro.
uouDoed disgusting, in other people. The
American citizens of African descent have
been al this time guarded and provided
with republican arguments and we're con-
sequently in very unsettled state of mind
The nationals dirty work" committee
firing Of theiI unfruitful and unpleasant
task, conceived the grand scheme of cap
turing the colored vote entire By one diplo
, matte coup de tat They would brinG
the great. master intelIects of the ioca
commune 10 bear upon them aad thus
totally and irreVocably win them to thei
theory, or rather tallacy.
= Haney was interviewed and the plat
explained TO him, which was to gather tn
c1lored voters together and have him tel
them how essential to their peace of mind
yea, their very existence, it was that the
e should elect him to congress. Haney vii
8 stoop to almost anything but he considere
it beneath his dignity to puncture hi
= wind bag to allow an escape before an audi
0 ence of 80 or 40 negroes, and beside b.
must economist on his seauty resources
q of intellect, not of wind-in order to tn
more effectively annihilate Mr.. Henderso
in the discussions in the near future. NJ
be could not do it.
# Failing in this, the dirty work" con
;. mittee held conference and decided tia
!. McKinnie must fill the breach. Pat cat
= vassed the matter, and, concluding ther
l. was no glory and few if any votes for biz
2, in the project, at once made an appoint
II ment to speak at Galva upon the evenin
designated by the committee for holdin
the colored meeting. When they failed
; getting the above named gentlemen til
TX committee, of which Sewing Machine Mi
Ter is an active member, reluctantly col
scented to allow the conceited Joe to q
his views.
ID Last evening was the time appointe
ut and at o'clock about eighty persons
,e twenty-five blacks and the balance white
> assembled in the vacant store room fo
merly occupied by Ed. Knell as turn
ture store. The darkies had imported
ut colored speaker from Davenport, or rath,
he their white republican friends p had dor
"a it for them. His name is Albert Nuckol
De He opened the meeting with harangu
b about the late rebellion, and, assumir
~ that he was the mouthpiece of the colore
lie voters of Moline, said: We propose
- stay by the republican party until show
a something better, He was loudly cheere
K, By the republicans. After him followe
IS the egotistical Miller. He said it was n
os over production but under consumptic
l. that produced the hard times: made
r. host of wild groundless assertions whiC
E. he failed to back up with any show of arg
lie ment and invited any one present to pr
ID pound questions, agreeing TO answer
as confess that he did not know. A geDtl
I'd man in the audience asked him few siu
ct pie questions in relation to the issue
IS, bonds-the dates and amounts issued, ar
r he was unable to give an intelligent rep
es to any of the most simple questions. Att
Ut demonstrating the fact that he was CO
ut summate blatherskite and ignoramus
got down and ID. o. Reid took tae star
and amused the audience by getting
some stories in his inimitable style, al
the poor colored men wendell their W,
y home, their ideas more befogged than
q fore and pretty nearly determined 20 vo
is the democratic ticket at the fall electio
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Public squares are blessing to the COT
G munity. We can say the same of d
Dill I'D TX "a =. II