The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-31

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ner Hall tonight, and viii be glad to re
ceive their friends.
Mr.. L. B. Collamer who died recently in
Davenport, was GO years old He was
born at Sandy Hill, n Y.
Rev. d. S. Watson, formerly pastor of
Calvary baptist church, in Davenport,
died, last week, in San Francisco.
The gas war being ended the street
lamps in Belleyille were last week lighted
for the first time in nearly a year.
One style of bonnet is called the Man
sard, because it takes great deal of a
mans hard labor TO pay for one of EN-.
The lee bridge in front Of the gas works
has gone up, and sleighs now runto Sylvan
Water bridge and from there over the ice
to the other side
The old inhabitants of the LA Plata re-
gion complain that with an immigration of
l,2O0 Italians in a single day, they cannot
lay platters for all of them
The last rail of the Paris aud Decatur
railroad, and also the Chicago and South
eastern, known as the Mattoon and Deca-
tnr railroad, was laid Friday
The maximum grade on the q. Il, !. X
P. between this city and Kellogg, Iowa,
will be about forty feet to the mile after
the work in progress is completed.
! The hmm pokes fun at the Greenbush
Mission School, and ironically says Mr..
d. F. More, deserves great credit for the
interest he has taken in the work
Moline is determined to dance her heels
of The social Club dances at Otto's
Hall tonight The Scandinavian Dancing
Club at the same place tomorrow night.
Our literary critic says there couldn't lie
a more appropriate title for a recent novel
than "A Capital investment, because,
like the best advertised railway bonds, it
has a crude interest
Lucy Stone will not lecture this winter.
She is engaged upon an exhaustive com
mentary on the ancient legend Rock the
cradle, Lucy" with illustrations drawn
from personal experience
/ There viii be a theatrical performance
at Reese Hall, Moline, this evening, fol
the benefit of the German school Mis-.
Fabian, daughter Of Charles Fabian, vii
perform ballet dance in character
The Rev James NJ Stone, formerly /;
Protestant Episcopal clergyman and Presi
fdent of Hobart and Kenyon Colleges, wat
recently ordained Roman Catholic priest
by Archbishop McClosky, in New York
Die" Yates is understood to have tn
promise that the President will give hin
the Goyernorship of one of the Territories
upon tenure conditioned upon his stric
adherence TO temperance principles ant
practices
A pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter an
four feet deep was the chief feature of
California dinner recently. The enioymer
! Of the guests was married somewhat by
child falling into the pie and drownin
before their eyes
A clairyoyant trio, two women and
man, have been travelling in the Sout
pretending to cure epizooty by the lay
ing on of hands They practised on
Kentucky mule, the other day. and III
firm has since dissolved
Up to the present time Bureau count
. has ditehed over so miles of her swan
lands These lands, dozen years ag
were supposed to be almost worthless. b.
T. since they were ditched they have becon
, some of the best in the county.
. In Brooklyn, n. Y, the police rely u
:. on the press to give them the earliest i
d formation of dog fights and gambling r
+ sorts The Chief of Police complains tn
f his force is not large enough to keep mt
!. around the sporting saloons of New Yol
d to find out when dog fight is coming {
G in Brooklyn.
8 A benevolent st. Louis man secured Il
/. Christmas benedictions Of the newsboys
Y giving each Of them a new cap. III
e proud and happy recipients rushed hea
Q long to the nearest pawnshop and ''spouteC
V the new head gear for money to buy ma
nee tickets to the variety show
President Finney argues in the Ina
J. pendent that man should maintain so hi,
J.: a communion with God as not to feel d
n necessity of worldly amusements, sport
N ,,ast;r,ao n,d avn;ta,,,antg 20 ,,aL-o b;s n
Y jOyment satisfactory" And yet that nj
TO used to kick football clear over the cole
s. belfry; and enjoy it, too.
/ Somebody writing in the London CD
al talks-the miserable wretch about t
st ''unpopularity of women" He declar
ID that there are more bachelors than the
is used to be; that women have lost t
lie charms of patience, modesty, unsel6s
s ness, and that consequently "Old maid
Ie are swarming everywhere and making t
A. earth hard and dreary desert.
!. The three boys who broke into Young
" saloon, and Langley's warehouse, in Il
city, Sunday night, and who were arrest
s for similar offences in Davenport, ga
s. their names as Joseph Smith, Robert 1
" Iison, and Richard Brown. They VIZ
2, examined to-day, tthe 3lst) in Davenpo
RS and Allison was held, in $500 bonds
s trial. The others were discharged, a
at are now in our Jail. Their case will
J. presented to the Grand jury, next we,
L. Marshal Mitsch informs us that he fou
the four boxes of cigars they stole fir,
ne Young's hidden in Davenport One
he the boxes had been opened, and part
II. the cigars taken, but on the person of {
" of the boys he found the same brand of
y gars.