Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-11-09
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.
Beautiful weather.

Davenport polled ~ votes less this cleo
,;or ,h.n in 1868, and Rock Island l44
more.
Geo. NJ. DiOksnn has shipped $1,000
bushels of potatoes from Milan the present
season.
A teuder-hearied bus driver says he hates
TO run over a msn, be thinks it hurts the
springs.
The three stages of DArwinism are now
said to be, positive, tail, comparative, tailor;
superlA,ivs, tAilless.
What ian honest Methodist" editor
thinks OF Roman Catholics may be seen BY
an article in this paper.
Prof Frey has moved his Commercial,
College into Mitchell & Lynde's new block
where he finds excellent accommodations.
". j. Burchard, Esq, one Of Daveu ports
young and talented law ers, has gone to
Denver, Colorado, 10 reside. Success 90
with him.
The Boston Globe is guilty of calling
Anna Dickinson pretty" She is not
pretty she is 6ns-loOking. which is better
than pretty.
Of al consultations, work is the most for
tifying and the most healthy, because it SOL
aces = man not by bringing him ease, but
requiring efforts.
The kindes,-heArted man lives in Osh.
kosh. He forbids every body TO disturb
hen Who is taking her comfort sitting on two
porcelain eggs.
" What are you doing there, you rascal ~
" Merely taking cold, SIR" "It looks to me
as If you we're stealing ice" Well-yes
perhaps it will bear that construction"
George NJ. Dickson, of Milan, recently
suffered 3 parslytic stroke 10 HIS right arn
aud since that time the arm baa been of no
use 10 him. lie thinks it lie nov ion proving.
Builders are hurryinR up their contracts
AS fast possible in order TO complete them
before cold weather sets IN. Mechanics and
lAborinE men find plenty TO do at fair wages.
There young lady in Tenby,
v ho wrote to her coaidoHts, an. b.
l don't want 70 wed,
>" such thOug nts IN my head;
But-whsre san the eyes of the msu be -
The Sunday az 10 Chicago brough, out
the following notices from saloon proprietors
last Sabbath No hypocrisy bers-we are
pious CD Sunday 5" and Positively closed
gone the Little church around the cor
uer'"
Speaking of horse-deceAss as being cpl
demio is a figure of rhetoric, persouifying
beasts Epidemic refers only to people
(epi, among, demos, people, aud the cores
p)nding term for beasts is spizoosic iepi and
coon auimal)
Ooly the first nine sections Of the Law in
regard to free libraries, as published in this
paper, apply TO our free library. The bal
ance Of the ct is for in cor porated towns, such
IS Milan, for instance, desiring to establish |
tree Libraries
Last juno . train on the c. r. l. i P |
road ran over little boy in Davenport,
killing h3m Instantly The father of the
boy brOugh, suit against the company set
ting sbs damages at $4,000, and the case is
now on trisl il the District Court sitting in
Davenport
prominent citizen of this city wen,
home u few nights since, and gently tapped
on ths door. Who is it2" Inquired his
better half To which very proper inquiry
the hsartlsss husband replied by asking,
" W HON do you expect at this hour of the
night ~
The L. S. steamers Montana and CAGrey
arrived here Yesterday, (the Sihl preparatory
to going into winter quarters. They have
been engaged on the government improve
rlenss on the Upper Mississippi since the
first of July last, under the charge Of Capt.
Throckmorton.
say, Bill, ant you going to send that
b yours to school? mo, sir. He wen.
one day and coined ONE ssyin it was wrong
to get drunk. D'you think I'll have my
p'rsntRl feslin's outraged, and ell sweet in
fences o ONE AfFectshun broken by Ewells !
a teachin' of i'm such things? Come, al I
you goin' to stand pint ?''
When l take the history of one poor heart
that has slnned and suffered, and represent
to myself the struggles and temptations il
has passed through, the brief pulssiions of
JOY, the feverish inquietude Of hope and
tear, the pressure of want, the desertion of
friends, / would fem leave the erriDg soul
of my fellow man with Him from whom it |
came.-Lonqtetioao
In 1860 Miss Emily Faitbfull organized
the Victoria Press, printing establishment
in which only women are employed as COM
pOsitors. The undertaking met the Appro-
Lasion of Queen Victoria, and ia now the |
means Of finding employment for q large
number of women. Miss FAithfulI is also |
the editess of the Victoria Magazine, and |
is favorabiy known throug b the United King
dom as an agreeable lecturer
William f. Robinson, late a Democratic |
member of Congress. and many years ago
known as the Richslisu" correspondent of
the New York Tribune at Washington, is TO |
start a weekly paper, to be entitled The
Shamrock, devoted, as he expresses it, to
the cause Of Ireland and Democracy Mr.. |
Robinson, with one exception, is the Oldest |
lrish-AmericAn editor now living, and his
countrymen, as well as many others, will |
doubtless be glad to give him hearty sup
port.
COMPLIMENTARY TO DIR. TRUEsDALE.
The Liberal candidate for Congress in this
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