The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-12
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

II WOULD sGoRN AND CONDEMN MY
RIGHTEOUS TITLE IF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY HAD SECURED MY SEAT BY
FRAUD. "-President Samuel j. IElden.
is this doing the square thing. Rich
ard2
-Gottlieb Beck, book-keeper at Geo.
Wagner's, feels several inches taller to-
day. 1t is boy.
Lady Audley's Secret" and BLACK
Eyed Susan at Darts Hall, tonight. |
Don't miss this opportunity.
THE ARGUS desires to call the attention
of the Steamboat men and others inter-
ested in river improvements, to an article
cut from the N. Y. Herald, which will be
found on our inside pages. 1t is COM
munication from the pen of Mr.. Henry F.
Knapp, we'll known Civil Engineer.
The performance of the English
Opera Company" of which particulars
will be found in another column, will not
take place until after this cold snap has
passed away. The airy costumes of the
two vocalists will not admit Of their making
an appearance during such severe wealth
ers.
Anyone who says we have not good
weather maker is a-well-is mistaken.
Dick MansiIl has given US enough
weather in the past "a hours to do duty
for six months. The principal objection
we have to our Dicks weather is, that he
gives US too much. More than that, it
comes ahead of time-he says look out for
disturbance about tho 18th. There is a
| statute that provides penalty for malici-
Gus mischief, Richard.
We protest against this, inasmuch as
| 1t gives the woman who supports her hus-
band such limited field for her exertions
l-MOtlne Dispatch, 1t is really too bad,
Louise, that your efforts to support the
Originator" should be confined to a linn
tied field. The combined functions Of
chief editress, boss dishwasher, and gen.
era. utility, should not be forced upon you.
In your name we appeal to Susan B..
Anthony to rise up and GEEK, for you. that
emancipation from thraldom for which
your heart yearns.
The two editors (both english of the
Union, aud one other Republican, are the
! only advocates of a stalwart ticket. By
such incompetent advisers is the policy
of a once strong party controlled-their' S
the ponderous intellect that supplies ideas
to party that once numbered among its
members statesmen and scholars. Their
conscious incompetency to guard the inter
ests OF the republican party makes them
dread fusion with the democracy, when
there is not democrat 10 the city who
would vote for a fusion candidate.
We learn from an Iowa exchange that
the celebrated (?l Alexandra RicarG o~Al-
ladin- Wizard Com animation, were billed to
appear at keota. Iowa, for two nights, but
cid not put in an appearance. The reason
is given that they busted up in Washing
ington, and then the cruel writer says,
from information at hand, it was snide
affair anyway, The advance agent was a
young man named Hodges and hailed from
Rock Island" The paper then adds
this is the same company that the Rock
Island ARGUS speaks of as jumping the
town and leaving printers bills unpaid.
Verify, the way of the transgressor is hard,
The Gazette says that the organ o.
the National party has announced its in,
tention to run a straight Workingmen'
dark lantern ticket. There are many mel
in the National party who deprecate
partizan contest over city officers, some o
whom, last spring, said they desired t,
vote for the citizens candidate for mayo
but could not, because they acre saoorn t,
T vote for the dark-lantern candidate. Tn
Organ was the apologist for the secret so
ciety at that time, and will doubles ap
pear 10 the same role again, at the sam
r time depending upon the power of it
, oath. bound league to make its duped fol
lowers vote for the straight ticket which i
shall dictate TO them. Yet respectabl
3 business men encourage this Organ ant
apologiSt OF an oath bound political league
r by their patronage. Perhaps they do g
IN fear OF black mail.