Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-26
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Buy your hats, caps, trunks and VAi''s'
at Livingstons.
Calico ,oc;.blas are tie order OF the day
Tor night in Davenport. -,
Wan,ed-A boarding house fsA viii
furnish Dolly Warden hash.
The glue factory in Davenport Ho'H- /
menced operations yesterday.
The Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific rail
road company are now running l96 lOcomO-
tves.
Three new coaches now IN Peoria labeled
Cincinnati, Peoria & Rock Island" com
mence running through the LIST Of May.
Museatiue, iowa, wants the State Reform
School located there. A good choice. 1t
would receive plenty of home patronage.
Rev. J. S. Anderson, formerly CT Daven'
port. nov in Dewitt, is now oouvslescing
from a severe attack of the spotted fever.
Mr.. D. n. Richardson, Of the Davenport
Democrat, is not sick with scsrle! fever as
reported BY the Union but is suffering from
q severe attack OF quinsy.
EThe first raft that came dowa tho river
this spring was the property of Mr.. W. }.
Skinner, Of Davenport. Mr.. S. has another
large one on the way.
A meeting was held this afternoon IN
Davenport at Dr. Bakers office, to discuss
the propriety of inviting the American
Medical Association TO visit that place next
ear.
Abe May Is expected home tomorrow
with bran new sife. His good looking
brother thinks of doing likewise before
Christmas. The girls viii therefore get
ready.
A German named Jeurgen Claussen,
while carelessly handling shot gun in Dav-
port yesterday, shot himself in the head,
inhic.ing a wound from which be died in a
fey hours.
BAily Davenport has sold thirty lots this
year. First payment at the end Of the year,
balance in four years at six per cent. inter
est. This gives poor men he very best
chance for homes.
/ The Sycamore chain impTovers, Aessrs.
/ Drill d Williams, are operating id the river
opposite Le Claire wisa two chisel and one
dredge boats. Another cuisel boat will be
added next Monday.
Prominent Democrats 81 s.. Louis are ez-
tending an invitation to the DemocssnC
! National Executive Committee 10 hold the
regular National Convention q. that city.
Probably on July 4th.
The cost OF the new bridge to the govern
meut has been $500 900, which is $500, 900
less than the appropriation by Congress.
How much the c., R. Ia P. railroad has ex-
pended is no. exactly known.
0thello keeps hotel and invites the
public to frat class meals st all hours.
They had little jolliGcstion last night,
and went iu-S.rong, for merry time.
Who wouldn's run away with another's wife.
Quincy is agitating the question of Water
this month it was estimeted that the prob
able coat of suitable water works would be
$3.50 ,000 to start on a subscription list OF
$4,000.
An incipient FIRE was discovered last eve
ming in the rear of G W. Smith l. Coz
furnishing store, in Davenport. Twenty
minutes work by the steamer sufioed to
extinguish it. the loss on buildings was
about $500, on goods $500. Well insured
A call has been published for the mem
bers OF the 7th judicial district of Iowa to
meet at the court house in Davenport on
Monday next, April 29th, to recommed q
suitable person to succeed Judge Richmsn
as Judge of that distrios.
Fifteen houses have been built this yaaE
at the lower end of the city, on Dsvenport's
addition. Sucn improvements are . great
credit to the city, and should cali the a,ten-
ton of the council to the streets in that
vlcinity. Their condition is not at all in
keeping with the spirit of enterprise that
pervAdes the residents of that vicinity.
The total amount of money which passed
through the money order department of the
Davenport post Office last year, was some
thing over $500, 900. This year the receipts
from Jan. lh to April 20sh have been
$l6l, 09535 At this rate of increase dur
the present year the receipts will figure over
half million dollars.
The term 'low water mark" as used BY
the government officers at this point, and
which Is noted in our reports of the Stage of
the Mississippi, refers to the lowest point to
which the river fell in 1864, when the water
was lower than before or since. Then there
we're twelve feet of water in what is now
the north passage of the draw Of the new
bridge. Yesterday the water was feet 81
inches above low water mark that is, there
we're IL feet 80 inches of water in the new
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