Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-04
SCRAPS.

The street car hands were paid of yes f
ierdsy.
The Black Hawk distillery is again in
operation. ;
An Iowa quill driver has Inherited q
graveyard. /.
Lovers, like armies, get along well enough
until engaged.
Continued fatalities at Davenport from
scarlet fever.
Second story of tres,le work on span No.
3 is finished.
We defy any man to present US with
fifty dollar note.
Latitude, like a clothes line, stretches
from pole to pole.
Sixteen couples appeal to the Circuit
Court for divorces.
II won't do to let tomorrow take care Of
itself Gen. Sherman.
The Southwestern Road is an immense
feeder to the C., R. l. P.
Don't look like dead beat; buy new
suit Of clothes of l. Bamberger.
A farmer who is 100 poor to feed his
calves can always Craze his shins.
a. NJ. Allen has been appointed agent of
the c. R. l. l. P. at Lesvenworsh.
Peoria has had coal famine, something
Rock Island is never conversant with.
The Sabbath School children of Orion
had an unu.ually pleasant time on Christ
mas.
Henry county makes a better agricultural
showing for the past year than the state of
Nevada.
One thousand letters sent to the Dead
, Letter Once from Rock Island, in three
) months.
The Aledo Record speaks in high terms
Of the lecture delivered there BY the Hermit
of lows
Local business of the c., R. & P. was
never before so good as now, at this time Of
: the year.
Iron work commenced on span No. ;,
this morning, aud will be completed 10
o twelve days.
n elOOu w bEhuL Nhcu NC was nhO
g he stood BY me when WAS crazy William
lie Tecumseh Sherman.
ID The reason the mail was late yesterday
morning Was The getting off the track Of
several stock trains.
;. L. Wolf. the merchant, has just received
l. q new stock Of goods. which will be sold of
ID at the cheapest rates.
No weight that can be placed upon III,
" new railroad bridge can defect this spar
chords below level
ty Mr.. Ford, the gentleman who is TO furnish
~ pipes for our city water works, will srriv'
H. here sometime this week.
TT Fine jewelry. diamonds, silver plate
n canoes, bracelets, aud elegant chains siil
for sale By Epstein Bros.
Several car loads Of bridge iron pssse,
- over the C., R. /. & P. r. R. yesterday, 70
u the Union Pacific bridge a. Omaha.
81 The Aledoi,es dedicated their new Pres
y byterisn church last Sunday, and sui
~ scrioed 81, 4O4 towards paying FORT
Judge Holmes, Of Pt, Byron, expire
l., Yesterday. He had been i'll two week
ke Mrs. S. S. Guyer is a daughter of his.
IN Mr.. 0. T. Wharton, of the Union Office
he has concluded TO run q machine OF his owl
70 aud has taken an interest in the Sterlin
m Gazette.
':Oh, mother may go out to swim"
or "0h, yes, you may, my daughter
Hang your clothes on u hickory limb,
en- But don't go near the water"
no A youthful writer wants to know VIII
&c magazine would give him the highest pos
'ss ton the quickest. We think a powd'
ou magazine would do his business for him.
IN The new Northern Line steamer beir
built at St. Louis, is to be called the Tho
=, Fl. Griffith" in honor of the noble veters
W. Of that name, who presides over the destir
In. Of the company so acceptAbly.
IL. Here is what fellow sent bis lady To-
A. for q New Years present, accompanying I
80 elegant pair of monogram earters:
IN when night with morning fingers,
Awake and stirring be,
And with your pretty fingers
Clasp this about your knee.
ann "wheu dsy with eve rePoses,
'''' And stars begin to see,
rise Unclasp this band of rosss,
,ck And dearest, think Of me-"