Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-19
NOTES, here AND THERE.

"OA9 10 GIVVViVVV kAIiOns per mInute'
The steamer Clinton leaves for st. Louis
in the morning, and the Minneapolis for ST.
Paul.
The aRock Island Choral Union" has
leased a room over smyth's clothing store
and will hold a rehearsal there this evening
The annual cost of maintenance OF rue
o.,v.p;o batteries used BY the Western
Union Telegraph Company is over Sl2S'
900.
VIM. Rhodes, Secretary of the n. W. L.
Packet Company, has abandoned the trip to
Europe, and will spend two months in
Maine.
About what time will HaWley, Robinson
l. Co. come out in favor Of opening the
wagon bridge, over the Mississippi, to the
pablic2
Col. John Dickson, Of Milan, our delegate
to Baltimore, has returned. He gives q
glowing account of the enthusiasm for Gree
ley every where he has been.
The campaign 10 Minnesota promises well
for the Liberal Reform movement In Min
neApolis over 500 Republicans have signed
g call for 3 Greeley club.
According to reports from above, low wa
ter ia coming At ST. Paul the decline is
faster than the rise was, and at points below
q similar condition of affairs is noticed.
The Trustees Of Grisvold College, Dsv-
export, have decided that Young ladies may
be admitted to the classes Of the Collegiate
department the same as young gentle men
The C. B, & O. folks are prohibited from
crossing on the Northwestern's bridge at
Clinton, and they will have to build one OF
their own before they can effect a crossing
Not break or flaw was discovered in
any of the water pipes during the test sp-
: piled to them, although pressure Of 200
pounds to the square inch Was pot upon
them.
The Executive Committee Of the Labor
3 Reforners of California, have declared for
Greeley and Brown. Every Democratic
. Journal on that coast has accepted the Bal.
3 Iimore ticket.
5 The True Republican is the name of q
fine looking, eight column paper just started
D at Cambridge, Henry county, by Capt Eric
r johnson. It's printed in English and sup.
4 ports Greeley aud Brown.
The Rock Island Temple of Honor, No
H. and the Rock Island Light ARTILLERY
!. passed resolutions of respect TO the memory
c of Wallie Wright, aud confidence with bis
= relatives aud friends at his death.
f Gen. SiokleS, of Moline, starts in a day
+ or two for the Rocky Mountains, in company
!, with party Of gentlemen from the East
: He will return in time to do good work fol
' Greeley and Brown 10 the presidential cam
!. pSgn.
!. Hon. r. II. Knapp, of Jersey county, (tht
. Quincy district was nominated for Congress
on Wednesday. We expect to carry thA
9 district BY from 5000 to 5000 majority
Col. Thompson, of Quincy, and Scott Wike
Of Pike, were candidates for the nomina
ton.
/. The engines at the Water Works engiu,
y house are being enclosed by an ornementa
and useful bAlustrade. When this is com
pleted, it will well repay any one WAC hs
the leisure to visit the engine house sd,
view the works there.
The iron famine" nov prevailing in ,h
world, especially in sur country, has brough
o out the fact tina. to keep our railroad track
d in repair aud iron for the new roads, re
+ quires fully one-hslf Of al the iron prod &c
: ton. The United States has now 500
miles Of completed railroads.
In THE ARGOS report of the water work
e Eess Yesterday, the name of Mr.. Jacob Norris
. as one Of the after dinner speakers, was in
1 sdvertsn,ly omitted. MIR. Norris was Their
= and, in a good speech, said "that he hA
' been an original opponent of the works, bu
IS was so no longer
Alderman Gus. Steugel returned from sh,
Ess! last evening. He says that the Gree
key madness is universal where be bA
ing, one day, vote was taken There wer
50 people 10 the car. The vote was 80 fol-
. Greeley and . for Grant.
The Grant paper, in Moline, puts dowr
Maj. BsSrdsey as one of the speakers at til
meeting held here TO form the Grant
= Ferry Club. This is a mistake. No on
= spoke but Hswley-snd We reckon that
Q will be long time before be and Jim wi
speak from the same stand.
Yesterday afternoon a teamster engaged
in hauling brick, beat and abused his tear
, in a shameful manner, 10 the Alley back O
May Bros. store. This morning, the sam
thing was enacted again. Complaint wa
made against him, but the complainant no
desiring to carry the case farther, he va
dismissed, after a severe reprimand from III
Justice.
? Neither of the Grant organs have denied
1 that the Grant men in Moline asse N bled il
= front of Morey's drug store and about th
! end of the horse railroad track and in
! rufhAn-like manner bOoted at and insulte
. Greeley men who wished to come down il
., the street cars to the Greeley ratification
- meeting. Our information was probabl
!, correct.
In view Of the great unhAppiness whic
t exists among the GRANTEES because MI
q Greeley'S paper once said harsh thing
g about Democrats, the Kewannee Indepen
3 dent says: 'If Greeley has abused Dem
}, ocrats have not Democrats abused Greeley
That account is balanced, and we cant se
, what business these Grant papers have t.
NEEDLE in the matter"
Some of the newspapers make horri
work with the names of the Liberal candj
dates. Gov. Kern er's name 10 not Gustavu
q A. K9rner-please leave out that "a" Mr.
t LsnPbisr's name is not Lampbeere. Judg,
4 EuStaee's name is not John B. Eustace-
D change that "B" to "V." Several error,
are hlRo notica hla in ANNA ..na =. n