The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-28

" OoetAOt AlltAucI.
Mercury Is above, at noon.
Gingles Il Brockman builds the hose
houses.
Canton, Fulton Co. is to have an opera
house, with seats for 1000.
The IS coal mines of st. Clair county
employ $500 men and boys.
Dull times for policemen and police
magistrates-as it ought to be.
The Sheriff of Madison county has to
give bonds to the amount of $500, 900.
Mckown says that letter wasn't DELAYED
through any fault in the post Office clerks
We are now reaping the usual winter
harvest Of frightful fires and railroad
causalties.
Bruenerts Harper House drug store is
becoming fashionable place of resort
especially for ladies.
A tourist who was asked in what part of
Europe he felt the heat most, replied
When l was going to Berne.
Twelve sleighs are being run across the
Mississippi ice bridge at this point. Az
erage receipts the last two days, $500
each.
THE ARGUS of last evening was not
strangely silent in regard to the Wis
consin mortgages. 1t gave the news on
that matter ahead of the Union.
The standard thermometer on the Is
land showed 80 degrees below zero on
Tuesday morning, the 24th. The mean
temperature that day was 1888 below
zero.
Dubuque has several cases of the small
pox. We again urge our Board of Health
to take some action in regard to vaccina-
ton. Much suffering and loss of life may
be prevented by it
The police of Desmoines raided on
house of ill-fame Christmas night, and ar
rested ten persons, one, whose name is
suppressed, being young man of high
social position"
Disasters on the lakes and the St Law
renee have caused loss this year of nearly
IS, 100000, one-third Of which, Sl,O35, 200
occurred in the month of November. The
number of vessels destroyed is 100.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway Company pays its shop employees
by the hour, and its train men by the
number of miles they run The plan
works finely, and strikes never occur.
The City Council should take some &c
tion soon in regard 10 lighting the new
bridge with gas. The government paid /
for the pipes and lamps, but intend that /
the city should pay for the gas.-DdpeR- /
port Democrat
MIR. Negus is looking over the ruins and /
thinking about rebuilding. Hope he will
put up three story building, with high
ceilings and about l4O feet deep-some-
thing that will look nice and rent for a big
price
Before you depart on railway trip now
a-days it is well to leave with your friends
a minute description of your person, ready
to be forwarded us soon as the accident
occurs, 1t will greatly assist in identifca-
ton
Susan B. Anthony and her fourteen
in suffrage have been held to
bail Of $500 each to appear at the next
session of the United States District
Court, to answer to the charge of illegal
voting.
The enterprising ganins of Springfield
are gathering frozen ears from the streets
and pedding them TO liquor and molasses
men for tunnels, but they do not expect to
fill orders for the largest size until the leg
islature meets
Judge Durell, the convenient carpet
bag creature, in New Orleans. who is
used by Grant 4 Co to overthrow the
State government of Louisiana, was born
in Durham, n H, and is a son of the
late Daniel NJ. Durell, of that place He
went to Louisiana a short time before the |
war, and was made Judge by President
Lincoln, for want of better timber. He
was active in cotton operations at the close
of the war
A secret organization of young ladies is
said to have been formed in a Western
town under the title of the League for
the Suppression of Male Flirts," and
much curiosity is felt by the masculine
portion of the community to find out how
many of their female friends belong to it
The problem is easily solved for one Miss
being equivalent to mile, it would take
Just three of them to make league
At ehGriDari near Kellogg the other
day young man named John Woods got
shot in the arm by the newly-made hus
'and, who did not relish the tin pan ser
made. Served him right. Ex-Gov.
8ebb, at Elgin, in this State, some years
Igo, shot and killed one or two fellows en-
ragged in the same sort of sport at mis-
louse, on the occasion of the marriage of
ms son, and the courts justified the act.
The chdTtUdri practice is disgraceful to
hose who engage in it, and ought to be
broken up.
The Osceola Democrat relates pleasant
title incident occurring to two gentlemen
While out hunting They chased a SOUR
el up hollow tree, and in endeavoring to :
ork him out brought down a tin box, /
doubtless hidden there in war time, con- '
aiming $1,000 in yellow boys" The
quirrel was paroled, while the happy
hunters marched home humming How =
leep the brave" &c.
The BOstOnian glass blowers are manu- ,
acturing relics of the great fire. They /
low bottles and other vessels into all sorts
+ shapes, resembling the result of intense ,
eat, while the inside is ingeniously filed .
nth all sorts of liquids, from cheap
Ihisky to castor OIL Corks are inserted
howing every degree of burning from
light scorch to half consumption, while c
he contents have the appearance of hav- :
lg remained intact. These relics sell
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