The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-14

The Frysingers are going to packing pork
at Milan.
Frank Zips has opened butchers shop
in Milan.
High winds, clouds, lots of dust, and
appearances of storm.
Sharpers, pretending to be canvassing
for a magazine, have been after the Mo
liners.
p. L. Gable left for Ann Arbor, last
evening. He will return sometime next
week-probably Wednesday
1t is not probable that the new passen-
ger house of the c., r. l. & P. r. r. will
be occupied before February.
Change of timetable on the Western
Uuion. Takes effect tomorrow. See
Railroads, first column, this page.
Coal was down to seventeen cents a
bushel over the river yesterday-free use
of the bridge is mainly instrumental in
producing the decline
| Amos Altimus, of Moline, was very
severely cut about the head by falling
down while he was running to catch train
Of cars in that city, yesterday
There is a good deal of crowding and
waiting at the east door of the postofhce.
1t would be better TO have another set of
doors hung, and signs painted on all the
windows of the doors used
, A young man from the other side of the
river, coming over to Sylvan Water
to skate, broke through the ice, on his way
over and was barely saved from drowning.
The need of rain is greatly felt all over
| the West-especially throughout Illinois.
5 Cisterns are giving out, wells becoming
e exhausted, and streams drying up. 1t is
: becoming very serious matter in many
r localities TO man and beast
The following named steamers are on
the ways of Vansant 4 Zebley, at LIE
Claire; James Means, Moonstone, Hiram
r Price, VIM. White, Muscatine, and Tida
+ Wave They have also commenced tbs
b hull of new boat The same firm is nov
{ running the mill adjoining their boat yard
d thus adding to their already extensive
# business.
}. The Davenport Fire Insurance Compa
l. ny will hold a meeting on the second Mon
e day in January to dissolve the institution
e 1t was organized in 1866, and has scarcel.
II paid expenses, The proprietors are nov
5, afraid of Boston fire, and propose t
( wind up its affairs Should this compan,
IS 90 out of bushes it will end the efforts q
E. our ambitious neighhor in that line.
IN We don't know that Mr. Hiram Cabl
will thank us for the remark-but We vii
: say that people are very foolish for payin!
p cents bushel for coal on the levee
when the price is but 10 cents at the Goa
If Valley yard This for the benefit of PEG
|, pie who haven't surplus of money L
If throw away, and not for the benefit Of tn
a monopoly l'-DareHport Gazette.
r An absent-minded gent, who takes hi
p hot Scotch night cap at West ;, was retir
,e ing, the other night, without the usua
little ceremony which follows that opera
n ton when Ed. Fahey the polite dispense
If of good things there, says; " Recolect,
v you please, sir that IT you lose your pocket
T. book you didn't pull it out here. II
m took the hint.
or Only few weeks ago we had account
= of Il terrific gale which swept the Bait
ne coast of Germany, and did incaleulabl
damage Everywhere the gale seemed I
as have glutted itself with human life; an
te was followed by foods which devastate
= the fair homes and farms of the resident
r. along that coast in the States of Schle
he wig Holstein, Mecklenburg and Prussi
- Large tracts of country were rendere
40 desoate, and in many localities crol
cannot be raised for years to come
,ir view of these facts, the German-Ameriea
re citizens, in various parts of the COUNT
NJ are raising funds for the relief of the
a cOuntrymen.