The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-25

room for line that is not worth reading,
We believe there are more pretty |
girls, from IA to 20 years of age, in this |
city than in any other of its size,-and it |
is a sure cure for sore eyes to see how hap |
ply they are with this beautiful snow |
Sleigh bells, furs and gallant beaux are in |
demand now.
The Union makes very bungling lob |
IN trying to cover up the fact that war |
material has been ordered east from Rock |
Island Arsenal. A portion of the mater
ial was ordered to Watervliet Arsenal |
near Troy n. Y. and two car loads have al |
ready been shipped.
= Wilkes Spirit is right when it says
that THE worst foe Of italian opera in this
country Is the rapacious prima donna, who
exacts 5000 night, and then acts like
spoiled child If prima donna cannot
afford to sing for 500 night, let her sell
out TO one who can.
AT o'clock yesterday afternoon the
stage OF water was but inches above low
water mark, a fall of 5 inches in twenty
four hours. Such low water in the great
riverin November was never heard of before
in this portion of the valley The Union
ought to blow up Bailey Davenport for
causing such a state of things
The sight-or the thought of VIM. NJ,
Tweed IN convict dress will do more to
enhghten the men who most need the en-
lightenment upon the essential nature of
political corruption than all the speeches
that could be made and all the newspaper
articles that could be written from now till
doomsday.-N IVorld
The Charleston Is. c. Netes says
1t is rumored that, in the event Of Presi-
dent Grant declaring war against Spain,
| the first regiment of National Guards Of
this city, will at once volunteer and en-
bark for Cuba, The Charleston Ne1rS is
an Ass-no President can declare war
that belongs to Congress.
The trade in Davenport is being diverted
to other points. From two hundred to five
| hundred hogs are purchased at lie Claire
daily anu brought over the river to Port
/ Byron for shipment by the Western Union
road TO Milwaukee and Chicago. On Sat
urday last 236 were brought over the river
in Hat, boat, through not a little peril from
running ice.
/ How long before President Grant will
recall the unhung scoundrel who disgraces
/ his country as United States Minister at
/ Madrid whose ignorance, incompetence,
and defects Of temper and character may
any day tend to embroil two nations in war.
Is Secretary Fish willing to make use of
that instrument now in the delicate deal
iugs OF the firm demands of his diplomacy
that instrument of such proved worth
lessness IN T. World
The smallpox is making such fearful
ravages in Cleveland, O. that the Board of
Health has been compelled to adopt special
precautions to prevent Its spread. One of
these precautionary measures is the ap-
polntment OF physician for each ward in
the city whose duty 1t is to vaccinate the
people in his ward A resolution has been
adopted that each district physician shall
display upon the door Of his office a card
bearing the incriptiOn Free accination. -
and that the office shall be kept open two
hours each day for that purpose.
The ground wherein to build the Chi
cagO custom house cost 81, 100000 and an
Appropriation to the extent of Sl.75O. 900
is now where it can be used, and 81 ,0OO,-
900 more viii make up the sum totalof the
expenditure. Work was commenced Sept.
II, 1872; estimated foundation strain %
tons to the square foot, but later tests show
that it will stand 80 tons to the square foot.
The SIX derricks cost $4,000. The stone
comes from the Buena Vista quarry, near
Cincinnati. Two hundred men are now
employed on the stone, iron and building
work, which will not be suspended.
An exchange has wondered, when motto
ing ladies daintily grabbing up their fine
dresses and carrying them along the streets
in their hands, why they put them on al
all Why not fold them up nicely and hire
, some cheap boy to carry them along and
, promenade in a balmoral skirt 1t saves
deal Of bother and looks equally well. y
The man who writes such outrageous sian
ders as this should Immediately go wes
and shoot himself. The ladies have per
: feet right to wear their own dresses, which
they buy with their own husband s money
! any way they please.
, The Republican press of the country
insists on stigmatizing every form Of oppo
! sltlon as Democratic. We have but tt
say for ourselves that we never we're ;
I Democrat, and demur to the charge. W.
stand to-day high above either of the ole
+ rotten parties. Wehave despaired of eve
securing at their hands that which the PEG
, pie want and must have-hOnesty, econo
my, and efficiency in all official stations
New men, unlearned in the tricks of tn,
o politician, men who will execute the will o
the people, must be brought forward from
n among themselves; and, if such cours
be Democratic, then we cheerfully submit
( to the appellation. - Iroqltois County IN.
! Times.
: People who prefer wetting the winter
: store of coal to lay the dust on putting
t into their cellars, do not generally know
that they are laying up for themselves
] store Of sore Threats and other evils conse
quent upon the practice Even the fire
7, damp, says an exchange which escape
+ from the coal mines, arises from the slo,
" decomposition of coal at temperature
/ of but little above that of the atmosphere
# but under augmented pressure By wet
IS ting mass of freshly broken coal and put
ting it into a cellar, the mass is heated t
e such degree that carburretted and SUI
+ pherretted hydrogen are given off for Ion
W periods of time, and pervade the Who'll
e house. The liability of wet coal to mis-
d chievous results under such such circun
stances may be appreciated from the fac
e that there are several instances on recor
of spontaneous combustion of coal whe
q slowed into the bunkers,or holds of vessel:
g REMovAL.-Livingston has removed /
McDonalds old stand, opposite Kiesow'.
il All the latest styles of Hats and Caps, an
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