Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-10
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.

Guyer presiding.
Our Office received call from Mr.. ChaS.
b. Mack, editor and publisher Of the Roc6
RiUe" Rerie,o, at Sterling.
The Union is happy because 1t hndi Itself
in harmony with the Chicago Times, and
quotes spprovingly from its editorials.
A Union Pacific car passed through this
city this morning, over the c., Il. l. & P.
road, containing sixty FIVE Cashmere goats
en- route TO California, where they are to be
introduced for the purpose of propsgatiug
the breed.
Col. A. c. Babeock, of Canton, Fulton
county, ILL.,, who was four years Chairman
Of the Republican State Central Com mittee,
and who is now for Greeley, is urged to &C
cept the certainty Of an election to Congress
in the Ninth District.
The Upper Mississippi schuszen Bezirk
holds a meeting at Lyons on the 18th Of
August, to select place for the Bezirk
Schutzenfest in 1878 The Bezirk is com
posed of societies in nine different cities in /
Iowa and Illinois, and holds its fest once in
two years.
/ The tub and pail works at Moline have
been in operation nineteen years. Their
daily capacity is 800 pals, 500 tabs, and
500 walhbosrds, and they also manufacture
900 churns per year. This represents in
value about $3.50 900 per year.
y, xnkhal his
bedfellow, John Woodweis, in Davenport
Monday night, Of $50. He was arrested
and refunded the money. At the trial be
plead guilty and was sent to the county jAil
for thirty days, where he will pass the time
in breaking rock.
4 Boston schoolgirl of tender years thus
writes to her bosom friend; Dear Susie
Shan'G attend school Sgsin until l Get
some new cuffs, collars and Jewelry-desr
Mama agrees with me that it is my DoOty
to take the shine out Of tia. Upstsrt Many
Jones, and III do it if never learn moth
ing"
The servant girls Of Pittsburg have caught
the striking fever, and demand tina; in fu-
ture their hours shall be from eight to ten
10 the forenoon, sud from two to six in the
afternoon, Sundays free, free range Of
pantry and cellar, free admission of frerds
; and cousins to the kitchen and vAsh-roomr
I hospital attendance at the expense Of heir
: employers in csse OF sickness, and iucresGe
, Of wages with the growth of the family.
p Oscar Zunitzky. a German boy six years
, Of age. was drowned in the river near the
foot OF Ripley street, Davenport, Tuesday.
he went down to the river to wash his toy
wagon, aud stepping upon raft, dipped his
wagon into the water, and in doing so fell
into the river and sank. His mother is
widow lady and a sister CT Assessor Finger.
The boy had rnot been absent from the
house over Is minutes when she was in
formed Of the accident.
The people have charge Of this campaign.
Never had politicians so little influence or
control. The people, for the first time, have
candidate OF their own and the only busi
ness for Conventions ILis year ia to ratify
the nomination of the Peoples candidate,
Honest Horace Greeley. The revolution is
not confined TO any section, or State, or
parts OF States it is general. II is strong
among the people OF Vermont; is decisive
in all closely balanced States; ia sweeping
in al the opposition States and promises,
before Move u Der, to be overu lining in all
the States.
girl Of nineteen, possessing peculiar
beauty, whose elder sister had been more for
suns,e than herself 10 getting husband
was continually msnifesting her natural
lively spirits il laughing she, he, he, for
which her good mother gently reprimAuded
her, saying that it was no. nice to be forever
uttering that masculine pronoun che
"Pshaw," returned the daughter with be-
witching Rrchness, "dont the 'fellers al
laugh her, her, her ~ Her mamma had
nothing to say.
On Monday afternoon last, IS Mrs. Bru-
dett, wife II. W. BrudeII, of this city, was
walking in her garden, on Pleasant street,
she was struck 90 the forehead by large
jagged piece Of rock. The blow knocked
her down, infictiug a pretty severe wound,
from tue adects Of which she is still unwell.
The stone was thrown by boy in the street
at some pigeons on the roof, and passing
over the house struck Mrs. B. The boys in
that locality have been warned several
times, and they will consult their own best
interests by abstaining from throwing stones
| in future
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Com
psny own or have lease of railroads as fol-
/ lows: Main line from Chicago to Council
Bluffs, 493 miles; branch from Wilton to
Washington, so miles, and from Washing
ton TO Lesvenworth, 296 miles; branch from
Rock Island to Port Byron, III, miles;
branch from Bureau Junction to Peoria, 463
miles; Desmoines, Indianola and Missouri,
- miles; Desmoines and Winterset. 26I
miles Atchison branch Of the Chicago
I Southwestern, % miles; Washington to 81.
Courtney, % miles-a total of 976 miles of
railroad under control of one corporation
RATIFICATION MEETING in Market Square
tonight. See notice. Turn out Big time
! No humbug, May Bros sell at cost.
OrES Arr FETE AND SocIABLE. - The