Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-29
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~ - DuANAo SIM HuBorS IN tue Ihr w ests
For white aud fancy shirts go and see
Livingston.
A wite's kiss for money is well termed
legal tenderness.
Said Conceised young lady-You men
are covetus set.
Andrew Fribsrg, of Moline, has taken
out patent for new cutivator.
The warfage collected at this point for the
month Of June amounts to $4,000.
b. D. Buford & Co.'s pillow works have
suspended operations for few weeks.
Gypsy maidens have fallen to s. a head
in Persia on account Of the hard times
St. Peters day June 29th,l also the Dist
anniversary Of the death of Henry Clay.
The ferry boat Two Macs will run be
twsen Moline aud Gilberttown on Sunday.
When persons are ses sick, what do they
most desire To feel sea-cure, of course.
A statue Of Miles StaEdish is to be erected
on tower 100 feet high at Duxbury, Mass.
The c. R. l. 4 P. is filing the trestle
work across the slough south of the Island.
Mue. Dudevsnt George SANDY is said to
have realized over 100000 by her literary
works
There will be ball given by Nike Daley,
at the Shamrock House. on Tuesday evening
July ID.
Tho graduating exercises OF the High
School in Davenport took place last evening
at the Opera House.
[ |. Bsmberger has first class assortment
of clothing, hats, caps, furnishing goods,
&C., for sale cheap.
I The Baptist Sunday school of Moline, is
receiving a new and valuable library of
nearly three hundred volumes.
Water from the hydrans, corner of TINS
ARGUS Office, was flowing into the gutter to-
day, from the new water works.
The tide ofimmiErs,iOn is setting towards
the United States from Germany, Ireland
aud elsewhere, as never before.
The Moline pillow factories, after al I'M
usually prosperous season, are taking rest.
They will reopen in three or four weeks.
a Cincinnati man is searching through
the West for runaway wife and $50, 600 in
bonds which she took-especiAlly the bonds
Work upon thirteen new buildings in
+ Moline has been commenced within three
weeks. All of them are located west Of the
Mal!esbe Iron Works.
The c. r. /. & p. road has locomotive
s for every three miles, aad nearly seven cars
for each mile. Il has twenty-five miles OF
cars and mile and half Of engines.
Charley Plata graduate from THE ARGUS
> establishment is IN town on svisit. lie is
= now q resident of Chicago, End he ssys
. Greeley stock is way up in that market.
b Miss Stevens, q beautiful blonde preacher
is creating profound religious sensation in
F. Georgia. She is said to make all the mas
culiues feel like embracing her-doctrines.
E Vermont paper says that there is 8
woman in that State who prints ''psten
iusides for ten country journals on condition
that ell OF them shall hoist the Greeley tag
Young lawyers Of Davenport thirs,ing for
fame and bursting with eloquence relieve
themselves a. the rural towns on the 4,h
The glorious old bird of freedom will suffer
A switch engine in the Rockford, Rock
Island & ST. Louis yard, caught IRE last
night, and the cab was burned and chsrred
considerably. Il ia on duty to-day, how.
ever.
, IN view Of the provsrbial difficulty of re
placing husbands in New Englauda MAsse
chusetts widow has introduced the su;se'
fashion BY attempting to stsrve herself tt
death.
Mr.. Jonas Bear, the clothisr, hiss recently
returned from the East with large stock q
gents summer goods he requests al who
D are in need Of new summer suits or any
thing in the line of furnishing goods to cal
and examine his stock before purchasing
} elsewhere.
: Congress has appropriated SIS, 900 for a
4 new magazine for Rock Island arsenal
Col. FlsgleT has selected site for tbs
3 structures secluded spot on the south shore
3 Of the Island, and the laboratories will be a
, short distance further up, on the same
shore.
; During q severe storm early on Thursday
morning the Lightning struck the post Office
! in Auuawan, Henry county, H., setting it or
FIRE, and before the flames we're eEtingush
ed they consumed the post Office, the tele
, graph Office and two drug stores. Loss
=. $4,000.
an accident happened in Union Square
yesterday, which was provocative of con
siderable mirth amongst the by-standers
although but little damage was done.
loaded wagon driven too near the edge o
the hole, overturned and fell into the water
drawing the horses with it. They we're go
out with some difficulty.
The appropriation bill for this years worI
on the Island ,devoteS $50 900 for machinery
avenues, sewers and engine house, 500, 900
for the completion of work shop D, $780,
600 for completion of work shop E-botl
commenced last yesr-SI5,0O0 for maya
zine, 800 900 for barracks, Slll,O0O fo
water power, and 100000 for Moline
! bridge.
; The Grant papers are so very fond o
J quoting Horace Greeley as saying of Grant
! He has never yet been defeated and neve
will be-" that the New York Tribune hal
J explicitly denied his ever making such al
assertion. The Tribune further remark
what everybody ough. to know-.hGt he hd
been defeated and probably will he again
The water works engines have all beer
painted and striped in the most artistic AND