Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-11-13
NOTES. HERE AND THERE.


The Island span of the old Fs''foso
bridge is no more.
The 6rs, case of the horse disease in PEG,
ria, appeared on Tuesday.
NJ W. B. Grenelle started for Chicago
mi. morning, accom- panied by Mrs. G.
Col. Richardson, of Iowa, was in the city
today.
Capt. j. Throckmorton, of St. Louis, is
registered at the Harper House.
The Scott County Teachers Institute is
nov in session at Davenport.
Col. Wm. NJ. Grosvenor is nov editor o,
the St. Louis Ereniny Dispatch
Meetings are being held in all the large
cities for the relief Of Boston.
; Carl Sehurz lectures at the Burtis Opera
House, Davenport, on the 18th inst. The
house will be pack j su med FULL
The insurance in London Companies
upon property 10 the burnt district of Boa
Ion is $4,000 900. A commission is to be
sept to Boston by London Companies to
investigate ths original cause of the coDAa-
grafton.
Boston suffered from great IRE in 1915,
again in 1876, aud 1879. 1t had what il,
emphstically called it's big FIRE iu 1860.
which burnt $40 buildings, at a loss OF
&l00,000. The frat Boston insurance com.
pany was established in I724
1t vas bright little urehin who puzzled
bis father with this conGndrum; why is
a swallow like an old chimney" Esther
gave it up, of cuurae. because it has a
crooked tlue." answered hopeful.
who Was the meekest man. asked a
Sunday school teacher ofhia c'a3s "Moses'
said one of the boys. Il k0o~ = meeker,
said q young rogue. Name him, said the
teacher. Hes Abe dseker, the grocer,
man The face OF the teacher MAS ext press.
i've OF anything bot me-kuess.
The new post Office is prosressinE rapidly
aud the mails will probably he distributed
there Monday morning. Ii will be q very
convenient aud tasty oihcs, furnished with
ali moderG IMPROVEMENTS aud 50 arranged
as 20 fully accommodate the public A
- present there will be DO Ia OF entrances thar
i to the otd office, bat NJ. Mitchell says h,
. shkil open the other entrances if the pqbht
wants require it 20 be done.
An Old bachelor, picking up book, ex-
= claimed, upon seeing q uood-clt rspresenI
Is ing man kDestng at the fee, of woman
Before | would kneel TO a woman | wsulC
p, eucIrcie my neck wish a rope, spd s.retel
4, IT. And then turning to a young woman
be inquired 'Don's you ;hink it wonid b,
i, the bsst thiag | could p "Is would un-
=, doubtedly be ths best thing for the woman,
4 was the sarcastic reply.
/. "Wnere's my wife?' inquired our friend
J, Nil, on returning home early one evening
:, and missing his better half "Shs has gou,
-, to bed with she toOsh-aChe, vas The repl,
# Of some member OF the family. "Wen,
+, said the indignant Nil, III she had rather .,
s 70 bed with the tooth ache than with me, lie
3 her CO. aud he forthwith settled himself Il
the perusal OF the latest news
8 Migrants, druukaris at id oBsRe genus
!, are required to work OUT their fines on tn
= stree,a, il this city, il p.Ain vie~ Of the pub
4 lie, who can see them, cleaning the cutters
.. Yesterday the CUTTERS on Illinois street be
. tween Washington and Jefferson were clean
"A ed. The City Marshal wants all the h-l
n he can get, OF uais SORT, and proposes t
a have ali the cutters put in frat rate order,
.. enough drunk cases offer. Walk up, drums
At ards and wife heaters, AID get 6aed and g
al TO work in chsrgs OF the police.
I" TIE CASE OF ENGINEER s. q. WATSON
We have received call from Enginee
5. 81. Watson, with whom some trouble OF
Cured at Coal Valley, recently, in rsla,io
y 20 side-trscking hii train. he Was then
u the employ of the Rockford, Rock Islsn
!" Il s.. Louis road. Mr. Watson SAYS b
= fnds no fault with the ne wspapsrs in regsr
= to the notice of his cass-the proprietor
=. probably did the best they could to get til
% fscts,and had no intention Of stating Anythiu
butiacts; but they did not understand the COS
~ nor his motives. He says be was neithe
drunk nor crazy is not q drinking ma
and never WAS crszf; and hi
appearance certainly indicate that be Is co
y rect on tbese points. He says be va
b placed 10 charge Of the engine by the props
authorities of the road and be was actin
strictly up TO the letter of bis instructions a
R. the time that be was ready to give up III
/ engine or obey new instructions at any tim,
10 but the orders must be 10 writing or frol
y the mouth of the proper officer, and that n
~ sheriff or governor had a right to take biz
- from his engine. De says be had two littI
- sussels with Sheriff Payne and pot him i
chaneery aud made him call for help bot
Il times, AUd did not give up his engine ii
j directed to do so BY Mr.. LoosIey, tb
- proper officer OF the road-then b
~Hs wiling to accompany ID
,h.riff and did so. From the conversatio
D. Nth Mr. Watson we judge that he was sim
ply doing what he supposed to be his tect
IL nicaI du'y, but was willing to take an
'e course desired BY the proper officer of tb
!" rosd- bat he stood upon his rights as a
engineer and wOuld yield to no Autborit
but the proper officer of the road. He say
> he vas right, technically and legally.
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