Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-02
SCRAPS

What is it 10 be? Why, verb.
Peach aud plum trees are in blossom.
Flour has advanced 40 cents per barrel.
Go and see LiviDgstOns large stock of
hats & caps.
John Henry, of Davenport, has re-
turned from Texas.
House cleaning is in order sverywhere.
To our sorrow it is said.
l. Bamberger is ready to supply YOU with
hats, caps, furnishing goods, &c.
The net earnings Of the Central Pacific
railroad for 1871, were 2,22O9ItO4.
The funeral procession of the late j. Il.
Hoering consisted Of about 10 carrisges
Over $50, 34G tons Of freight were shipped
down the Mississippi 10 ST. Louis ia 1877.
ItIss fact that q. q Mayo is selling his
immense stock of dry goods at New York
cash prices.
The bridge builders will soon leave for
other SCIENCES of laber. Sons have already
left for ST. Charles, Mo.
Steamboat Captains com plain of the
scarcity of deck hands Railroad building
is absorbing the great mass of the floating
laborers
/ Calico, the well known cloth, is named
from Cslicot, a city in Inds, from whence it
FIRST came. Calico was not known in Eng
land al all until as late as the year 1851.
Col ID. F. Willisms, ex-csndidate for
Mayor, Of Davenport babe sdieu to tina,
city yesterday, to take Up bis abode in
1 Quincy, III.
The Northern Line Steamer, Minneapolis.
was disabled at Lyons. toe other day By the
bursting Of her cylinder head, and has laid
up at Dubuque for repsirs.
The experience of large number OF
Dsvenporters, yesterday, strongly ex-
smpli6es the fact, that too much Book
beer not only cheers bat tns5riates.
Ons who ough: to know tells US thar
moths may be kept out Of furs suG voo'ens
by simply wrapping the articles in Dolly
Vardens. They can't ess Dolly VArdens
As our Thermometer Was in STATE Of
congsla,ion this moroiug, We are unable TO
give the exact s.a.e Of the temperature, but
We opiue ,hS. it must have been about 40
degrees below the point Of comfort.
Monroe p. Thorirzton, son Of Hon. James
/ Tboring;on, Of Davenport, has been recon
nendsd to eli q vacancy in West Point,
which sill occur June lat 1873 he will
succeed the son Of Hon Henry O'Connor.
I.inerant peddlers have begun to crawl
gu, Of their holes, where they have lain
dormant through the winter, and to impor-
tune people to buy their goods, which are
always par excellence the best in the market
and sold al less than first cost. OF course
none of these we're ever known to deviste
from the truth; oh no, they are always
"squsr' in their dealings.
Mr.. VIM j. BrohArd, one of Davenports
brightest legal limbs and social ornaments
has gone to Schenectady, n. Y, ostansibly
for four weeks visit, but really 3, to practice
at the bar of Dan Cupid. Indeed, it is
grAvely limited that the aforesaid Birchard Is
so sAnguine of favorable verdict to his
case that he has already purchased return
tickets for two. zone by one, &c"
There are two sides to every question.
Letters from lumbermen on the Wisconsin
river, received yesterday, state that lumber
prospects are not so awfully dismal as
they have been painted this season, that if
bat half of the logs cut reach the Mississippi
and there is good prospect of this-the
Valley will have all the lumber its people
can use.
The rates of ferrisge have been reduced
considerably since +hs days Of "Auld Lang
Syne." Thiry-6ve years ago, yesterday
MAY lssl the first ferry license at this point
in the Mississippi, was granted 10 Antoine
lie Claire. The rates fixed were, for 4
horses and wagon, So 81; man an horse, IS
cents; fooimau, 81 cents; sheep and hogs, 10
cents per head, and 10 oenrs per hundred
for merchandise.