Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-21
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.

filled.
Ksator & Wilson's saw-mill has suspend
ed operations for The present, iu consequences
Of low water.
The Japs show al Darts Hall this even
ing. Their performances are very wonder
full and interesting.
The Northern Line steamer Hock Island
leave. for St. Louis in the morning and the
Dubuque for St. Paul.
! Chss. amberlsin, the pioneer milkman,
los. a horse BY getting it mired in the read
near Rock River, in Moline township, yes
terdsy afternoon.
Mr.. J. s. Drake, one of the propriesOrs of
The Argus, who has been absent, in the
eastern cities for sone weeks, on businsss,
is home again.
An itinerAnt German band Of eight per-
formers, six months from the FAderland, has
been pArAdisg the streets aud discoursing
very fac music during the day.
! Conductor John Bramhall, who was Sc
verely injured on the Western UuIon rail-
road, q few days since, is reported much
better and i, is thought be will eventually
recover.
RDbsrICnAnosr aud G. Aixssr assarted
up the river on duck hant Friday Iuight.
This morning they returned with seventy
ducks hanging at their sides. Pretty good
shooting.
\ Dsckhand, Oh the boats plying between
ST. Louis and st. Paul receive sixiy-fve
dollars per month, with board. They are
scarce even at these figures and usually
desert the boats on arriving at the end Of
the trip.
Forney is working for GRAFT as chserfllly
as could be expected of man With the bal
ter round bis neck, uncertain at what mo-
mvus the platform may drop from under
him.
Ia every Senatorial district 10 this State,
one more than oHeJoarth OF oil the ia~ful
votera can elect Representative, BY cuml-
laiiOg their votes upon the person Of their
choice.
| The Grant organs raised howl because
= ma ori,y Of the popular vote ia North
. Csrolin., on their side, elected ouly three o.
l eight Cougressmeu. But. il IndiABs, {
I majority of the popular vo,e elects ou'l
. three zoos bly FOUR of thirteen Congress
, men, and all the Grant organs call it ,
glorious victory.
Z The Light House Board nov expect Il
;. recommend to Congress E survey Of the
o Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers, with
the view of determining whether a system o.
' bsacous and light houses cannot De estsb
r lshed, which will greatly aid in the nsviga
lion of these streams.
0 One huadred and twsotJ two loads oil
farmers produce we're weighed Gu the city
scales last Saturday. Eighty nine Of them
we're potatoes, which found ready sale al
% and 80 cents per bushel. The weigh
master has also been very busy to-day The
major par: OF ths produce coming 10 ia
, potatoes.
There seems 10 be a change of tactics IL
the post o.ice organ. The large number o
respectable Republican gentlemen IN this
county Who decline to feast on Grant Buz
card hawai- been abused and lied abou, fol
two or three days! What's the matter
=. Has the post Office found out that it don
pay 10 sisng-vAug aud SANDER these msn
The energy aud good management o
e President L. r. Gable, of the Rockford
II Rock Island & st. Louis r. r. begin, II
> tell on the increasing business of the road
2 Formerly, nearly all the freight from DAv
export went by river to 81. Louis. Nov To,
5 Gazette says hundred cars a week OF grain
q potatoes and onions, are shipped from Dav
}. export to ST. Louis over this road.
The friends of Greeley and Brown il
Ohio are by no means disposed to surrende
: the contest for the Electoral vote of tina
State. We have already published Genera
= Brinkerhof's ringing address, aud Mr.. Has
saurek's, ia bis paper, the Cincinnati Foiks
g Jldtt o. SATURDAY., Says: "lf the Grant par
~ Of Ohio carried the State by IL, 900 ma
|, joriiy, only 1900 voies are necessary t,
' nsutrAlizs this majority. Hamilton couat,
n alone will furnish 5000 toward it. aud il
/ the other paris of the State there will car
r taiuly be as II uch done, if not more
Two yonng men we're lettering around
d boarding houss on Orleans street Frida
o evening, waiting, as it afterwards iurne,
a out, 10 see q servant girl engaged at tn
J. houSs. Unfortunalely for them her name j
. similar to that of young lady stopping
- there as a boArder. A young gentlemen
who is friend to the latter, hearing, as h
thought, her name mentioned, went up t,
them, and on their repeating the nam
u knocked frat one and then the other down
Aftsr he had ehastiaed them pretty severely
they explained, no apologised and the pArlie
, separated.
Tia Presbyterian Synod adjourned Sun
departed for their homes, on the morning
trains. On Saturday afternoon, train u
, cars, consisting of two coaches, furnishe,
by the r., r l. & St. L., and Locomotive
, furnished by the c., r. /. & P, took tn,
, clergymeu and several OF our citizens, som
n hundred and ffty in all, to the Island. The
we're invited by Col. Flagler, and he me
them at the bridge and accompanied them
A showing them the water power, the officers
4 quarters, and the arsenal and armOry b1ild
!. iugs. After a thorough inspection o
J. Workshop No. l meeting was organizes
) and a vote of thanks rendered to Col. Flag
Ter for his courteous invitation to Presi
dent K. r. Cable, of the Rockford, Rocl
e Island q St. Louis railroad, for furnishing
cars, aud to Superintendent KimbAll, of thu
$ Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, for the 10
Il connective.
: JEWIsH SoCIABLE.-The members Of III