Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-26
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.

-husCehAo OHods %l-V' ~ 'he SsS'o
reform school.
Seven Young men graduate from Girls
void college skis year.
The filing for the site of the new c., r.
|. 4 P. depot will be completed in about a
week
Work was commenced yesterday on DR..
Burtis' new eating house and hotel IN DAv-
export.
The commencement exercises of Grisvod
College, take place this evening at the Bar
lis Opera House, Davenport.
Mr.. n. Let,ig requests all worsmeu to
whom be is indebted for work on the water
works. to pressn. their bills for payment i'm
mediately.
On the ls. day of July the women of Hi
nois will be eligible TO hold sppointive
Offices, under the &C. passed By the Lsglsls-
sure last winter.
All persons having accounts against the
irn Of B. b. Buford & Co, are requested
to present them at their Office for payment
before Saturday, the 2gsh, inst. 3t
Mr.. Hugh Riddle, superintendent Of the
c., r !. & P road, is 10 the city on bust.
uess relating to the proposed new depot and
other matter connected with the road.
Conductor Reynolds, formerly we'll known
in this vicinity as q conductor on the c., h.
| 4 P road, is now occupying a similar po-
SitOu on the Grand Trunk railroad of Can
ada.
An establishment for the Manufacture o
cement pipe has been started in Davenport
By Mr. McWhinnis who has purchased the
right to manufacture and sell in Davenport,
Rock Island aud Moline.
A Missouri legislator clinched az argu-
ment against dogs the other day, by swear
ing that the money expended in supporting
II 600 600 dogs in the United States would
buy l,344 900, 900 whisky cocktails every
year.
The teachers Of the Muscstine High
School, with some twenty-five pupils, we're
on board the steamer Clinton yesterday
morning. They were en- route for Dubuque,
intending to visit the lead mines and spar
caves near that city.
large number Of strangers will doubt I
leas be in the city on the Fourth. Would it
not be well to make some provision for
supply Of drinking water that day? A bar
rel Of ice water placed on Market Square or
some other central point, would be q good
thing.
II al icicle forty-fvs miles in diameter
were thrust toward the sun with the velocity
Of light, say twelve million miles g minute
it could never touch the sun, but it would
melt as fast as it came. IF this be true the
experiment might as well be abandoned hIs,
rs LAST.
A dispatch from La Crosse states that
nearly zoe, 100000 feet of logs were put
into the Black river last winter. About
half OF these have been run into the boom
at La Crosse, whence, up to the 10Th inst,
o., 100000 had been RATED and consigned
to various mills, Clinton, Hanni bal and St.
Louis buying heavily.
Another iron works in Moline, is q fixed
iaci. Msssrs Head and Mitchell of Moline,
and Z. Stewart, Ellis, of Davenport have
ormed a company, and with an adequate |
lash capital, they will push the enterprise
through Immediately. The, have purchased
ground of the WAtsr Power Company, Jus.
vest of the wagon factory.
The following is the way they call the fg
Ire of "rsel" over in East DAven port
Dance to the gal with the ysllAr shawl,
'ow down the outside and up the middle
urn 'er to your partner, Ike Smack and now
10 that entire stranger; ra do tan, du du de;
low to Pete swhitchawll's daughter; turn
% your partner, every one of you set to
he gal with flaring frill; balance one and
Ipin about the girl with the holes in the
heels Of her stockings"