Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-11-22
THE TWO BRIDGES
what ThOse in Charge Of Them claim

What Those in Charge Of Them Claim.
The Sylvan Water Bridgs-or in palmer
terms, the carriage bridge and roadway
which connect this city with the Island. is
under the charge Of Cot Flagler. of the
Ordnance Department, who is also com
msudAnt a, Rock Island Arsenal.
The Main Bridgs-or, in other words, the
bridge and OsrriAge-wAy from the Island to
the Iowa shore, is under charge of Col. Ma
comb, Of the Engineer Department, who is
also 10 charge of the Rapids Improvement,
or rather, Of the i'm provement of Western
Waters.
Col Flsgler claims that neither be or the
Secretary Of War or the President of the
United States has any right, under the pecul-
iaT wording OF the act Of Congress making
the appropriation to build Sylvan Water
Bridge, to permit its use for any but govern
meut purposes. IL this be true, then the
late order OF Col. Flsger is clear violation
Of lRw.
there IS another point corrected with The
management of Sylvan Water Bridge which
we think is not quite what il ought to be.
IL looks a little Bit like trying to favor the
ferry company at the expense Of the PEG
ple's poeksls-GBd it is not Just or bsue6
eent government that does that No one is
permitted to take along IN q buggy lutte
box, bag, parcel or trunk, # the ferry i.
running A wagon was turned back the
other day because il mad a trunk in it. A
gentleman passing oB loot the other dav.
heard As he was Iassiug the guard hcuse)
81 officer giving direction 10 the guard to let
no box trunk, taRgSge, or parcel, or auy
thing o! that sort, pass icheH tie ttr7g tras
running; telling the guard to keep watch
when the ferry boat wss ruuoiug sud Al
such times to turn all such things bach. The
sooner that direction shall be revoked the
better. This goysrDm ent ought uot to be
used to aid 'oonupoly in draining its own
peoples pockets. There is such a thing as
overriding thil business List US have less
red tape, and let the interests of ,le people
be considered before the Interests Of a cor.
Perauon-SU odious monopoly at iha, Tie
people demand she opel,ns Of the bridge
~ al hours OF day aud night. tres With
out passes, and for anything they wish to.
haul across il.
Col. Aacomb, we understand, is ready to
open the bridge in bis charge to thu genera.
Use OF the people
Buy an Orient, sbsoIutey non explosive. /
Safety Lsup, a, NAY Bso's
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.
Clear and pleasant,
4 light fall of snov last evening.
Letter from lie Nsrd, on third page.
Horse disease abo so, sO-not alarm
ug.
THE Argus published the first news Of
he GAlvA fire.
Coal selling at 25 cents a buuhel on
Market Square.
The hcrse disease has appeared in Milan !
several horses are affected.
TIE ARGUS is kept for sale at Wilmaa's
e~s stand 10 the post Office room. ,
Major Bsnyuard, of the engineer corps, ;
,stioned at Minneapolis, is in the ejty,-A, ,
be Harper House.
. On Wednesday night the river rose one 6
BOT A. this point-And on yesterday it fell :
welve inches in two hours.
The old post office room is being fitted up
or occupancy by the United States Express
o. and Western Union Telegraph Co ,
Ms. Hiram Cables horses are nearly all d
ihng with the epizoolo, consequently he T
an not deliver much coAl.-Dacenport Ga
cite, 2lSt.
1t will please farmers to realize that iust
ow they can buy q pounds Of nails with a
ushel of corn, and pound aud a half of
"a with thirty bushel load of oats. =
Mr.. W. F. Kldder, . well known business r
ian OF Davenport, has been adiudged 10 II
lne and Was taken the hospital for the in
'ne, At Mount Pleasant Iowa, to-day. =
On the first Of December the tax collector 2
III make MS appearance. The new law p
rOvides that he shall close his booAs on the
ret day of February. Sixty days only. Z
Mr.. Isaac e. Lessen, the good looking :
I'd accomplished representative of tae \
holesale dry goods and notion house of 5 fs
LeSem Il 90. of Quincy, is stopping q, y
e Harper House. We bespeak for him 7
srty welcome from our merchants. =
The st. Louis Republican says that the D,
, ia running by that place, and an early ri
ose OF navigation there may be auticipat- OF
. The only boats that now pretend to 20
Il are light draft ones. From st. Louis to -
afro there is little more than four feet of s,
tier in the channel. -
The Cutlery Manufacturing Co., of OF
va, Illinois, are endeAvoring to make
me arrangements 10 move their factory 10 s.
'ck Island The building of the Mozsr, an
atch Co., on Rock river, is well adapted If
their use and they are endsavorinp to ne
'urs II. OF
The post office department at Washington -
'es notice that large quantity of ooun. no
felt postage stamps are in circulation. ur
ey are eKcelently engraved, nearly nj
ISl to the genuine, and are being sent ~
BY operators near large northern vo
y. m
Gossip is rife in Princeton. just now, over of
era cases of marital infdellty, bat as dis
lSip is exceedingly unreliable, it NAV be ID
/ there is no truth 20 the tales afodt
even if true, It would be Of no benefit
he public, to this paper, or the parties tn
sctly interested, to be more specific or
3 outlines of general identity Princeton p,
buHe. ~
diohAel Morrow and Patrick German CO. tor
led the same room in the Blaokhauk her
riding house, on tho levee, Wednesday va
hi, Thprsdav morpipo Gormar .-aLo ny