Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-05-17
SCRAPS.

IMMIGRANT trains can be seen every daY
upon our streets.
The largest stock of hats and caps you
can find at Livingston's.
Rememb Der the Circus and MenSgerie here
on the DIST. The largest travelling
John Bengston, our popular druggist con
templates q new front Of plate glass.
Active preparations are being made for
Decoration Day" throughout the State.
! GNo matter what the attitude Of the .
Body; the Soul is sometimes on its knees ~
The recent dsmpness has been quite de-
trim entail to the railroad tracks throughout
the country.
| Doctors Peck and Haern, of Davenport, |
have returned from the meeting of the Med
ioAl Association in Philadelphia.
This inscription il on the hsadstOne of
dead wife at Duxbury, Mass. " Chisel can't
help her any, and tears is Of no use
/ Arrangements for the reception and en-
/ tertsinment Of the State Medical Association
upon the 2lst are going on swiningly.
! no uehItEs III uhho AhA DChtSA eNNAAO
large stock OF white ones-they' II be wanted
soon. "White Hat Clubs" will be the style
this year.
Who is that foreign lady with the low.
cut dress ?' asked bys,ander at a party.
% Tha. is Miss Chemisoif, q Russian lady
was the reply.
The proprietor of the Union propose to
erect a brick building on Washington
street, near Orleans street, for the
accom- modatlon of his Printing Office.
kate" writes to say that many Of the
young men who ride in street cars and
omnibuses are perfect savsges. She probs,
q bly, means that they belong to the PAwnee
tribe.
Several Wholesale dry goods merchants,
. of Davenport, have been feeced out of large
}, sums Of money by schemer from Grinuell,
n Iowa. The villain now occupies quarters
in the peuitenary al Joliet.
:. We charge that General Grant has in
three years appointed to office more persons
7. related to himself and his family than al
10 our former Presidents did in heir eighty
years Of Enthusiastically. y Tribune
At March %.
At The steamer Champion, Knapp, Stout &
D Co. owners, was taken off the Rock Island
n docks On Tuesday last, where she had {
n. general repairing. She has gone on hel
IN way 10 Reeds Landing; where large raj
n. Is waiting.
Or During the storm Of yesterday afternoon
Il. a pupil of the North Davenport sehoo
Lilly Webb, daughter of M. Webb of tht
Gazeffe job rooms, was so frightened by th'
ct thunder, that she fell down stairs and VA
ID severely injured.
% The German Free School Band, sxteer
u instruments, which headed the Fireman
= procession, yesterday, was composed of lad
from fifteen to eighteen years Of age. The,
have been under the instruction Of Mr.
10 Hshns for about a year.
10 That ball given under the auspices of tn
y ST. Patrck's Benevolent Society, comes OF
20 tonight at Turner Hall No trouble an
Oh expense has been spared BY the manager
" to make it 3 success, and everything look
sr propisious for right pleasant time.
A citizen of Davenport states sha. a vot
taken upon the Western Express train fror
New York, Monday night last, resulted i
. 100 for Greeley, 90 for Grant and 20 fo
Victoria Woodruff large number
&c delegates to the Rochester Convention wer
as on board.
of large meeting of the Trades Unions wa
IN held in Chicago on Wednesday, but the r,
er suit proved that a strike was imprao.ica biz
st There are too many new men in the cit
st snxions 10 earn something, ard who canuC
ID be relied upon 10 stand by the unions 10
ID general strike.
a. Attn Lord Dundveavy would thay. ID
r. pol,ica game ith Tweed, that it'll, up a tive
I'll you know. Bot then, if the Democ wath v
~ w-wout have anything more to do with hin
se W-v-why the deuth don't he wuu for the pw
in shedenthy on the wepublicsn ticke
of That'th one Of shoshe thing,h no feller ca
m uudsr.h,aud.
lc- The Importance o! the railroad system
to Illinois IS daily growing, owing to the pos
,ss ton which it occupies geographically al
a commercially. Her central position, gre
agricultural and mineral recources, togeth
n. with the active commercial spirit Of h
citizens, promise to keep her among Il
foremost of the States.-N +. World.
VIA About l o'clock yesterday afternoon a ID
id named Richard Brady, aged thirteen year
~. standing upon the corner of Iowa az
"a Eighth streets. Davenport, was struck
II lightning and instantly killed The Gazet
- says thstthe boy was favorite in the fami
90 aud neighborhood, being unusually man
oe for one of his age, aud his death create
sorrow in other hearts than those allied
him by nature.
al The Geneseo Republic is very muC
:. pleased that Mr. Hawley is to be the Ora
: candidate for Congress, and says tn
"a Rock Island has made the best selectc
oe for Representative in Congress that she po
"A siby could have made, and that the 9TH
A. counties in the district would not have bee
.. so well satisfied with any other man
~ with Mr.. Hawley." This is no. very cor
,s plimentary toward other prominent Rspu
:, lioans and their friends.
b. "RASsE' CABLE, the young man who pr
sides over the Rockford, Rock Island
90 St. Louis Road has clear head and plen
Of sand on his drivers. The Chicago
he Alton road undertook to bring him
= grief on passenger fares between QoinC