The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-13

NOTES. HERE AND THERE.
Business brisk.
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Business brisk
Wo.tber moderate and pleasant
Lament of the stablemen-''The epizoO,
hence these steers
Coal is selling at Is and Is cents per |
bushel on Market Square to-day.
julie Burwell has the Ku-Klux Kap for
sale-something new for the cold weather |
Emmy, 'ow's yer 'oss? Grace, hif is
feet vud run like his nose, hid have my
forum!
The street cars will resume their regular
twenty minute trips between here and Mo
line tomorrow.
Willie Byrne, for some five years with
Devoe X Champion, is now clerking it at
Woodward's book store.
Season tickets for the Turner fair on the
18th, 10th and 18th, cost only one dollar
including the final dance.
Four hundred and ten teams crossed the
government bridge yesterday The num-
Der on Wednesday was three hundred and
sixty.
The pork packing season is at its height.
j. S. Gilmore keeps twenty men constantly
employed in his establishment, and packs
one hundred hogs daily.
LOTIONS omnibus line makes regular
hourly trips between Market Square and
the other side of the river by the way Of
the government bridges.
The Cambridge Chronicle printing es-
adjustment is offered for sale, poor health
in the editor family making it necessary
to seek a change of climate
/ The Mississippi, from the Rock Island
bridge down below the track crossing the
river, overfowed the ice yesterday, in some
places several inches in depth
4 warm ear to ride in, andwarm station
houses to wait in at each end Of the route,
are among the attractions Of the Moline
steam cars on the r., R. l. 4 St L. road
Out at Cambridge, in Henry county
= they have commenced to raise funds for {
/ public library by course of public lee
I lures The first lecture Melted one dollar
: and ten cents
. 1t isn't very important-still it woulC
: have been graceful act in the Davenpor
= gazette to have acknowledged its free us'
{ of lie Nard's letter, in its article on bridg,
! appropriations.
! The ladies of the Presbyterian churcl
! give social entertainment this evening a
: the residence of Mr. j n Conger, Of
{ Washington street, for the benefit of tn
? poor. All are cordially invited.
a Mr.. Swanson, the Swede saloon keeper
), has been imposed upon by somebody, if b,
4 thinks THE ARGUS has charged him viii
y any improperly Nothing has been sal,
: derogatory TO him or his place Of business
) Edwin Forrest, the veteran tragedian
died in Philadelphia, his native city, on tn
! morning of the 18th, in the 9th year @
J, his age. He was the Oldest, as he was on
r of the most distinguished, Of American
: actors.
J Poor odd Shady Frank Lumbard) ha
>tlttl the vi ant ObAliItbAEE. VI tHitttGh- ~
d $600-balance due him for singing a
i Oglesby meetings, during the late can
& paign. He sang here, once, during tn
N campaign Hadn't Mr.. Hawleys friend
= better pass the hat and help their con
5 mittee raise funds for 'Old Shady
1t is reported to us, from Port Byron
that SQUARE" Johnston, representativ,
{ elect to the General Assembly, from tn
Fl county, has prepared bills on the followir
o, subjects. which he will introduce as 500
IS, as he gets to Springfield, namely; I
~, au regulate the average yield of corn p,
iieg acre, and another provides that the ms
on who commits suicide shall either be il
r. prisoned or compelled To marry the gil
Sam Allen and Bill Wiltshire will furnl
- the outlines