The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-22
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

reduce the salary of your police officers. |
"A Kentucky paper has at the head of
its columns-'For 1880: Pork and Beans"
We have shot gun loaded for the
first one who sends poetry on gentle spring
The will of Mrs. Clarissa Cook Of
Davenport is contested by her two broth
ers.
The Elgin Leader announces eleven
candidates for town collector. Who is left
to pay taxes?
The N. Y. Herald says that the
Greenbackers failed at Speaker-makiug,
as they do at everything else except dis
turbiug the peace
The total valuation of Railroads in
Iowa is $22, sos. 900, an increase of nearly
$500. 900 over 1878. This will give tax
of about $3.50 mile.
Come now, what has become of the
agricultural editor of the Davenport Ga
zette. That paper has not said anything
about him for several days.
-Ex- Governor Denison, of Ohio, likes
Sherman rather than Grant for President,
and believes that Tilden and Hendricks
must inevitably be renominated by the
democrats.
Stephenson county grangers run
store of their own in Freeport. -EIgin
Leader. farmers used to run one
here. but the store run them before they
got through with it.
The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution sug-
gests that if Governor Hampton has en-
tirely recovered he lease his mule to some
prominent Republican politician Let
him be backed up alongside OF the Widow
Butler few minutes.
Baltimore Gazette: 1T is not sur
prising that the Englishman. R0well, car
ried off the prize in the New York trotting
match. 1t is not the first time that an
Englishman has displayed his agility in
running away from American citizens
Prof Young, who We believe pretends
to be CHS Of the leaders of the National
party, wants TO be missionary 10 the
woman's temperance cause for the period
of six months, having rendered his services
to the convention 10 session In this city
during the past week.
AS 90 instance OF the wisdom OF
the DaVe8pogt city council reducing
the pay of beF posise o!Ecers, the
Gazette menti0uA case where al
officer after "a hard russell arrested a
drunken brute who had knocked his wife
down with a chair, pounded her 10 the
face, and finished By kicking her and
his eniiGron into the street. A nice repu.
tation for a christiau c4GmuDity.
The LIE Claire Pilot processes 30 be
working like d good and earnest christian
and is continually calling upon God and
the temperance women to help it along
and at the saEe t;Ee it sings its little
Ratchet at the pious editor % lae Daven'
port Gazette in the following savage man,
ner: The Gazette, sheet that is motor.
ious for getting down to dirty work, anC
praying good Lord and good Devil for less
money THAI 0uGss t0ok for betraying hi
maker" Again 1t says 'GlsaFiy it is evil
dent that the Gazette can do dirtier snC
meaDer piece of work for smaller pay thar
any paper claiming responsibility in tn,
/ State of Iowa.
The UHi6E shows its mercenary ma
ture by defining its objection &c the regu
Iations of the Catholic church in the buria
of the late officer Rosen6eld, with the in
situation that the money paid was kin
: of perquisite which weot into the poke
of the priest. 10 this the incompetent
show thsir ignorance. TIE ceremonie
for which the money was paid are as i'm
o portant to the devout Catholic us the fur
t nishing of Il coffin and shroud, to whic
the Union makes no objection, and {
o vastly more importance than paying fc
S carriages to carry city officers to th
t funeral The ARGUS has no desire to dis
I cuss the regulations of the Catholic church
? but when Father Mackin returns frol
e Chicago be may deem it proper to explai
t for tho information of those likely to b
e misled by the Union.
e Because Justices jury decided ths
C iH the case of the burning of private prop
r erty where the property of others was nc
t endangered, that the authority of tn
owner or agent supercedes tbat Of tn
chief engineer Us to how much water sha
be thrown upon the FIRE from private hoSt
the Union takes occasion to exhibit it
usual spleen sRainstthe city attorney. 1t wa
claimed the ordinance yss not intended t
apply to the ease in question, and becaus
= jury so decided, the inoompetents of tn
) Union stand back and yuck at the city at
torneys salary. 1t is the salary that hurt
them. They cannot comprehend how an
one but republican has the right to draw
"a official salary, however insignificant i
may be. 1t is such things as this, that ca
,, to mind the saying Of Horaoe Greeley whe
that CID philosopher, 10 trying to accouu
for the doings of just such incompetents
; designated them as, "the little sopls whom
providence for some inscrutible puFpos
permitted to edit the majority of repub
lican papers. The point in the case, upo
which the jury decided. was that the chic
engineer did not proclaim his office befor
giving the order, they taking 1t for Law
, that az officer must say that be is an off
Ger before Droeeeding 10 nerform his dutv