Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-25

,-,,. Back from the Holy Land.
go, socicty Items-The Great and
,,.r and Other Great Men Nye
q, Met.
.r,,,rishr, Isg., by Edgar w. Nye.l
,,.-,.urr. y. c.. January. This has
,arv gentle and balmy winter for
&c tar heller us well as. the Cape
a.-bmqtic aud bronchial wheeler
tba frozen home of the abolitionist
may have been spending the season
,.,ri.al growths are getting along
-.-. here if kept indoors, and such
.r,r,.l vegetation as the John pine,
,oog1fl and the horseradish are
WING in tine open air.
MAJOR Zguuiou b. Vance has returned
-, rha Holy Land with new story
.s5 ND on the Sea Of Galilee. 1t is a
Ser
Nsp..ar Vance i, looking well and re-
r, his senatorial labors with re-
raI yI-or and a travelled air which
North Carolina people alone lack to
+. Us shine.
/ r ,lvs that Baireuth is pronounced
r3.-
s.rstar Vance was there during the
amer mlrp-lio | do not know what
rnn-5gLo Is. but | think it was that.
-7.d several stories illustrative of
i naunu humor while at Byroit. and,
1 understood it, interspersed between
4 Wagner selections. They were not
/ 10 received.
/ lie told an anecdote of Ex-Governor
tolr.,. of Wisconsin, regarding an ex-
SErgnca me had while in the army.
4fter forced march of eight weeks
hiring which the brigade did not touch
&td. being anxious to close the war,
lev camped one night at IA crossroads
thera j. WAS found that in an old de-
tr5I tobacco warehouse there were Sc
baed three barrels Of sparkling, home
/ babe. Dent corn Heldsick, grown on the
ace
The boys tried to get at it. but the
SH--T- saw mt once that there would
b. be more than enough for themselves.
! D. 50 placed "A guard over the liquor.
j. the night the boys got into the base
bent o.. the warehouse with eight clean
'as1uls and an anger. and in the
foru- it was found that two Of the
barrels We're empty and most of the bri-
DE fu.i
The following night, after apolliuaris
bGl family prayers. it was resolved to
r. ami get the other barrel in order to
s05the that vague unrest and one thing
Rnd another which one feels after an
Undue Indulgence IN spirituous. vinous,
malt or ralmented liquors. They did not
know that the guard had put the third
barrel on two sawhorses a foot above
their auger's utmost scope. All night
they bored holes into the nocturnal
bosom Of the scooting hours. all unmind-
I'd that the guard slept by the barrel in
anew place on the floor.
Toward morning Governor Hoard took
ae auger with Il heavy heart and bored
new hole III the bosom of the night.
De did not strike what he sought, but
here was a wild shrek from above, and
when the governor pulled the anger out
ie found on 1t the fragment of gray
rmy shirt and birthmark. Leaving
ne eight new tubs where they We're,
lso over 100000 new anger holes that
ad never been used; they all went
way.
Senator Vance told it better than l
ave. but when he got through the Ger
nan friend Of Nogner said:
'lm-yah. Vot kahn of a story vas
That Is a humorous story. That is
american humor."
No my frain; oxcoose me. Dot vas
oJ Foomar; dot vas a tam lie"
senator Vance will. during this ses-
oA' move the passage of an act author
ing the city Of New York to buy the
.Teet bonds of the city of Asheville.
lie city has been authorized of course
''he time ago to sell, but New York
DIS not bought the bonds. no doubt feel
y some hesitation without congress
ohal authority, but this will be soon
'Ale'leG by act Of the national legisla-
IRE and all will be well.
1he colored people of Asheville each
'I celebrate on the LIST of January
's' emancipation from slavery They