Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-03-22
SCRAPS.

Snow.
JudiciOus advertising always pays
Butchers look pleasant; Lent i, almost
over.
Tbs buekwaea. cake season draws 90
close.
Call in at l. BAN berger's aud take look
around.
All the latest styles OF hats aad caps, at
Liviuguon's.
/ j. H. Yolk returned to Chicago this
morning.
More water aud coal traffic than any other
kind jus, now.
A new express wagon is going to run
between here and Andalusia.
4 man that bAsh tongue is no msu, if
with his tongue he csrnot win q woman.
Fifteen boys and one gun is the usual
Sunday morning hunting party at Peoria.
Milk men are praying for rain. Some of
them have to carry water quite distance,
According to the papers, over one huud,
red ladies are studying Law in the country.
There are symptoms, above the bridge,
that the ice is getting tired of remaining
With Us.
+ The only psne: 10 which our government
has su interest is Saturn becaase it has SO
many rings
A train went out TO Monticello yesterday
/ the Grst fer some time past, and also the
last for week or two.
/ Dick Richardson came 10 out ofths snow
to-day and passed favorable comments upon
Al Darts smoking tobacco.
( Steam ooatmen advanced rates yesterday
to 81 90 per barrel -four, 81 20 on pork
and 80 cents per hundred pounds freight,
Here he dies again. Uncle Joe Leet Of
! Kentucky, age l07, aud carried provisions
to Gen. Washington in camp when he was
boy.
A temporary bridge, on 9 small scale, has
been laid across the broken ice on the
other side to enable the transfer wagons to
get oser safely
The Democrat says that morality has
settled over Davenport like dense cloud"
/ We admit that we see no evidence of n
Eight shining" ovsr there.
There wont be potato left soon, at ths
rate they are going to St. Louis on the
Rockford road The prices Of those shipped
range from SOC to Sl00.
The Western Rural, of this week reports
the weight OF john Whitsitts COW at 8 SAC
pounds. That COW mus! grow very fast, or
else there's mistake somewhere.
Walter Plat, who has been with John
Beugston for four years, went to Muscstine
this morning, to FIJI berth as chief clerk in
a drug store there lie has our good wishss
for his prosperity.
If X. H., who lett her home in DAven'
port, on Thursday, Feb. 20.h, will write to
her mother, telling where she Is, she will moi
be asked TO come home, but her trunk sent
to her Gazette.
One Of our constabulary force sat down
very suddenly on the back Of his head thi;
morning on the side walk. He was after
wards heard TO pass remarks upon the
weather, end say he was SHOOK
Messrs. Swiler & Fleming, of this city
have been awarded the plum bling contract
for the new subaltsrn officers quarters Al
the Arsenal. The job is a large one, and
two months are given for its omplelion.
s Croasley, superintendent at Buford'
pillow factory, has just received patent OF
a new style Of cultivator. s. RockAfellow
at the Barnard d Lsss Manufacturing CO.,
works, Moline, has ditto on q horse rake
Mr.. c. G. Furnsy, Chief Engineer of the
Canada Southern Railroad, was in DaveD
port day before yesterday, for the purpose o
examining the new bridge. lie pronounced
it one Of the best bridges on the continent
equal if not superior, in many of its prin.
} cipIes, TO any he hal ever seen.
The river is rising slowly. The L. s.
mark showed feet 81 inches above low
water mark last evening. The ice parted
just below the new bridge Wednesday
night, and the lower body moved down
the stream six inches. A breakup is
threatened at last.