The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-31
q NOTES HERE AID THERE.
-Good-by old 1873,

-Good-by old 1878.
Very windy day and the dust flies fur
iously.
Welcome the New Year Happiness
to all
No paper will be issued from this of
flee tomorrow.
Some twenty or thirty of our young
people attended wooden wedding In DAY.
export last evening,
VERY STYLISH address cards, for New
Y ear calls are being printed at IHE
ARGUS job rooms.
"A carload of silk worms passed
through Clinton the other day from Cali-
fornia to France.
The Changers of Scott county, Iowa,
have selected Mr.. Hurd, as their nipple
ment agent, with an office in Davenport.
According to the St Louis Times the
Iowa State Grange has $4,000 IN ITS
Treasury, and an honest sentinel at the
door.
The new paper at Geneseo will not IN
dorse John B. Hawley's Iowa land grao'
but will want to know Just how much he
was paid for the job.
The Champaign Gazette flaunts the
following proud motto to the breeze NO
pay no paper Greenbacks, and not glory,
is what we are seeking.
The adjourned session of the Illinois
Legislature commences at Springfield next
Tuesday 6, Congress Will re-
assemble on the same day.
-Lemuel Parkhurst Clint" father a
we'll known and popular steamboat clerk,
has been appointed Deputy County Treas
urer OF Scott county, Iowa.
The National Gas Company, of Chica-
go, are putting up hydro carbon gas works
at Des Moines, to make gas by new pro-
cess from carbon oil and water.
1t is reported that owing to the recent
death of Mrs. Lieut.. Wright, there will be
no New Years receptions held at the resi-
dences at Rock Island Arsenal.
Graham, formerly Of Graham Il Kerr
of this city, is running hack between the
two cities. His son drives the team. Al
messages and elranGs will he promptly at
} tended to ii intrusted to him.
/ The filling of the mains Of the Daven
? port water works goes on well, day by day
few leaks being found By Saturday wa
< ter takers will be supplied So far, tht
works have cost $4,000
-GALEsBURG, Dec. 29.-Hon Clark
{ Carr postmaster at this place, left to-day
3 for Mt. Carroll, Ill. where he is to be mar
ried ON Wednesday, the 3lst, to Mis-
Grace Mills, daughter Of II. A. Mills, Esq
,, Waiter T. Andrews, formerly of this of
! fee, is the Anti Monopoly candidate 70
/ Assistant Clerk of the Iowa House of Rep
D resentatives. The Anti Monopolists wi
/ probably control the organization of TIL
house when it assemblies.
Fay Dimick has commenced suit. i
: Whiteside county, against the Northwest
y ern r. r. Co, for $4,000 damages for tn
h killing of his father by the cars last fal
. Hon. Charles j. johnson. of Rock lslant
has the case in charge. Judge Johnso
i was formerly resident Of Whiteside.
-Rumor has it that certain youn
It Davenport lawyer is no hanger found in h
e accustomed places, and that various ban
o checks are floating around bearing his 81.
nature. on which the banks say no funds.
Being Il very circumspect young man, TOT
t, ing neither in or out, and member of I'll
l. \. NJ. {. a. the story seems improbable
:, Under the law of Congress it is erin
o to Obstruct trains carrying the Unite
States mail, punishable with lmprlsonmel
in the Penitentiary. Under the laws
F the State of Illinois, the crime of obstruc
), ing, or cOaspirtRg to obstruct, railws
Y trains is punishable with from five to tt
years imprisonment III the Penltentiar
"A word to the wise, etc.
p? The public debt is increasing at ii
rate of about ten millions a month II
strongest argument used for Grant ele
ton was that he was paving off the de
at the rate of ten milli1ns a month. TIL
> now proves to be talsehood--the de
5, is increasing every Month, and extray
ID CANT expenses aud salaries still go on u
in checked
m The assertion is row freel Y made TIL
: Attorney General Williams, when
: purchased 81 900 laadualette for his pl
G vate use and paid for it with Governme
lie money. only followed the example set
nj Messrs. Evarts and Eloar while filling Il
If same office.
ed The strike against the reduction of W
of ges by the locomotive engineers of the Sc
re eral railway lines in Ohio and Indian
as which are under the control of the Penns,
at vania Railway Company, which was ina
nd gurated on last Fridly, still continues, a
tn is to day apparently rs far from satiti
re tory settlement as tie day it began.
IS, the meantime the freight and passeng
Id trains of the variousroads included in t
nd strike, between Chicago, lndianopol
I'M Louisville. Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cle7
'er land, etc, are few b number and preca
en Gus in their movements. The questi
'or for the railway managers is, Does it pa
he to insist upon a reduction of the wages
nt this hard working, danger -incurring cl;
n of their employees The loss to the r;
Il roads by stoppage OF business, dela
an and damages must already far exceed
ing aggregate savings they would gain by
RS. reduced wages There is such thing
rt- Saving at the spisgot and losing at t
zen bung.