The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-20
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enough snow.
Why cannot a steamboat be short of
eggsP She lays to at every landing,
Charles Burns, whose arm was crushed
in the hay press of Mr.. Slater, at Anna
wan, has been obliged to submit to an am
putation.
The little boy who wanted to go and
see the French Spy, was told to be good
and stay at home, and he could have some
mineespy.
The Postmaster Generals order, that
double postage be charged on matter not
prepaid, is not approved by the House
Committee on Post Offices.
President Gable is getting along splen-
didly with the Rockford, Rock Island 4
st. Louis Railroad, not only in the man
agement of the road itself, but in arranging
terms with its creditors.-Daeenport Ga
zette.
Henry Carse formerly with Geo. La
mont who left this city for Pittsburgh,
few years ago has returned, with his
family, to make Rock Island his future
home
In few days trains viii be running
from Clinton to St. Paul on the west bank
of the Mississippi-and it is probable that
next year at this time trains will be run
ming from Rock Island to St. Paul on the
same line.
Mr.. A. j. Skunk, of Desmoines, who
pretended he was robbed of $500 at the
depot on the other side of the river now
thinks it was on this side 1t is doubted
whether he was robbed at all-and nobody
believes it was here, if at all
Hon. Carl Schurz has accepted an invi-
tat;on from the Regents of Dartmouth
College to give course Of lectures before
/ the students of that institute during the
! holidays
What ought to be said of a chairman of
a committee on resolutions passed for pub
LEGATION, who falsely tells the representa-
tive of one paper that no resolutions were
passed, in order that that paper may not
ne Ine uTst u pupllSH lilSiH
Small pox prevails in Chicago, Joliet,
St Louis, and other places in the west
1t will be well for our people to give atten-
ton to vaccination, without delay. The
loathsome disease is likely to appear here
any day.
Now that the thing is over the Louis
vile Commercial confesses that the lottery
was "a most disreputable and damaging
affair, and that the press of the city did
not do its duty in the matter, or it would
have opposed and denounced it
G. B. Pillsbury, of Lynn, lost a very val
liable mule last Saturday, with the horse
disease Mr.. P. had two spans of mules,
probably the best in the county, beside
many horses, all of which have been more
or less affected by the disease.
The retracti5ns of the Union and of the
Democrat, for their injustice to Mr. Ne
I Atfee are grudgincly and stingily made
don't cover the ground or do justice to the
man or the outrage perpetrated upon him
That If the Gpzstfe was frank, and full
and manly
According to the Classification of til,
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railr a,
is in \. where passenger rates are Gmite,
To q cents per mile and the Peoria 4
Rock Island and the Rockford Rock Is
land 4 St Louis in class C--four cents
But do they charge at that rate
DR.. HAYES. the Arctic explorer, says
The heating of houses by steam is no ne'
thing The monks who lived in the mon
astry of St. Thomas which was destroye
in the middle of the fourteenth century,
had the water from boiling spring nea
by conveyed in pipes through the house
thus giving it a pleasant and uniforr
warmth throughout the year
The Chicago journal states that tn
distillery owned by the Messrs. C0nkln
at Rock Island, was seized by the revenu
officer for non payment of taxes, last weeh
and will be sold on the 3Oth inst unless tn
claim is met before that time This mus
be mistake No enc has heard the new
here, and the distillery is running as usua
a shipment Of highwines being made frol
it today (which don't look much like
seizure
The Geneseo Stock Yards seem to /
doing u good business, under the manag,
ment Of Col, John Gallagher One hui
bred and twenty ear loads, the Repu5l
says. were uushipped there on Wenesda,
We learn that Col Gallagher and h
associates are contemplating a stock mark
there-perhaps they are already doir
something in the way of sales to farmer
for tattening.
There were rumors that the late corner
in Northwestern was for the purpose
producing u change in the management
The election occurs next July, but it is |
no means certain that Mr. Tracy will 8
out of the Presidency of the road II
Railroad Gazette says that aside from Il
fact that only one third of the directors
out at the next election, is the further fa
that nothing is known TO prevent NJ
Tracy belonging to the Clark party hin
SELF and it is reported that it was by h
joining that party with his friends tn
this party was enabled to succeed so con
pletely in forcing up stocks in the la
corner
= The North West Coal Company locate
at Briar Bluff, two miles from Colona,
which Col. Alf W. Perry is presiden
, and Charles Perry, secretary, the Republ
says does a good deal towards keepir
people warm this cold weather. Its roll
workmen numbers about seventy nam
f who, in ordinary times mine I75 tons
coal daily, but at present, on account
| the indisposition of the mule force, is r
duced to about 100 day. About 80 to-
f of this is taken and consumed by Il
/ Northwestern railroad company and Il