Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-29
SCRAPS.

Cambridge is lively with business.
The arsenal clock is all right again.
Mind your own business.-Cdtdcazy.
Chickens and oysters at W. c. Welch's.
Gents furnishing goods at Burwell & Bal
ley's.
The ARGUs-with its hundred is il sees
for all.
Fine-cut tobacco and choice cigars at
Fishers.
Elegant New Years call cards printed at
this Office.
A fowl remarkably your poultry at ".
c. Welch's.
The ice never was in better condition
for packing.
Plenty of work for labore-s on the D. &
81. p Road
Fishers cigars challenge the admiration
of the public.
Rock Island is about $50 feet above the
level of the sea.
Eleven of the Vieunese girls are concert
ing at Chicago.
The Southwestern Road is doing heavy
through freight business.
Track layers on the d. & St. P. road re-
sumed work this morning.
There is no cessation of the lively hat
trade at Livingston & Cos.
An emigration protection, society has
been organized in Davenport.
| Qusrtermsster General Meigs left for
California yesterday morning.
4 l attrybut mi success in life to mi devos.
hun to spellyinR,-Josh Billings.
The river at Fulton is on the same Level
with the waters of Lake Michigan.
The Duke Alexis will probably buy one
of l. BAmbergsr's elegant wintOr suits.
Speidel, the druss.Ss, prepares prescrip
tions - careful snd scientific manner.
/ Let your motto be selfselisnce, faith
honesty and integrity. FiSke J
Fresh oysters always TO be had at W. c
Welch's.
The engine in the workshop Of the Arse
nal came to a stand still yesterday noon.
The railroad embsnkment across the foo
of the Island is to be sevsateen feet high.
Trains will probably be put on the trunl
line ofthe D. d ST. P road in about week
Alex. Steel has just received big lot o
bolt ends, and wants the public to know /,
No msiI from St. Louis last evenin q
Can't GROSS down there on saccount of tn,
ice
, Cuffs, col ars, ana neck ties at BurweIl 4
Bsiley's, as well as other neat articles o
dress.
". C. WEIGH has some nun Der one tur
keys for sale
For New Years present get one 0
Speidels charming toilet sets for you
friend.
Burwell & Bailey have some of the mos
fashionable furs ever brought TO Roc
Island
Rev. Mr. Merrill, Congregations miui.te
at Topeka, Kansas, has accepted coil t
Davenport.
The Moline Plow Company will MAX
10000 plows aud 10, 600 walking cultivator
this winter.
Gentlemen who desire to do the thing i
style, will make New Years calls in swa
low-tailed coats.
Scott county has "A psupers in all ?
of whom are insane, and temporary relic
is extended to 800 others.
Mercer county has been attached to th
Judicial circuit heretofore composed of Roc
Island and Henry counties.
A sleighing party Of young folks nas
an excursion clear across the county las
night Got back this morning,
Friend Cox. of the Rockford railros
office, has returned with handsome wife
and settled down to business sgain.
So many people have been marie
around here lately that we've qui, boardr
and gone to living on wedding cake.
The Russian waters are usually yer
severe. Can it be that our severe winter
occssioned by the arrival of the D"ssiAn
In reply to 80 i"qn1ring correspondent
We would say that the rings which Quee
Esther were upon her lower termini wer
toepsz.
Joel W. Martin, aged "a, and Mrs. Prov
denos Baker, aged 10, have Just been ma
ried at Cambridge She probably wsnte
to take care of the boy.
The dwelling of Eugene BirchErd, c
Pleasant Valley, WAS burglarized on SUI
day last while the family we're absent.
watch and pair of pants cribbed.
A three year old daughter of Phillip Low
of Cambridge township, fell into a tub
hot water last Saturday evening aud was 1
badly scaldsd that she died the followin
day.
1t is the style nova days when an Ell
gagement is broken off for the lady not
return the presents given By her fancee, I
even the engagement ring, which she keep
as an Indian keeps a scalp, as a trophy {
former victory.
There once vas two cats Of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too man
So they quarrssd and 81,
They scratched and they bit,
Till, excepting their nails
And tips eff their tails,
Instead of two cats their warn any,
LORD HAWLEY.
Mr. Hawley, q Republican member fro
Illinois, showed q strange ignorance o! fac