The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-04
NOTES, HERE AND THERE.

charming day.
Jolly sleighing.
Schools open Monday.
City Council meets Monday
Library Directors meet tonight
!. Everybody is having good time.
No movement yet to clear the snow from
sidewalks.
L. IT. Reavis is at it again, eapitai-moy-
ing. Go to, L. T. Reavis,
The contractors for finishing the Baptist
church edifce have commenced work.
Sailed is what they call woman in
Colorado who wears unlimited diamonds.
Free Trader, in the Union, complains
that the coal monopoly" keeps the price
of coal too low
Buford & Reed have dissolved. Mr..
Buford continues the business. See adj
vertising columns.
The question of yeracity between Alder
men Lobdell and keator, Of Moline, has
not yet been settled
A dress makers shop which has fifteen
telegraph wires running into il must ex
perience some very peculiar sensations.
| 1t is rumored that s. P. Hodges and
DIR. Plummcr have both gone to Washing
ton. each anxious TO secure the Rock Isl
and post Office
The Moline Rscie,o is pleased with the
Hawley Robinson horse railroad bill.
This is the first expression in favor OF Its
passage we have heard from any quarter.
Carl Pretzel says: Der young man yot
did said der vorldt owed him some him
vas ladely turned der door out on account
he's landlady vas unwilling to dock on her
shoulder plade der indebtedness of der
vorldt.
Among other things that Wells 4 Far
COS firm is not responsible for as carriers,
is couched the following language IN their
regulations: Nor for any loss or damage
by fire, the acts of God, or of Indians, or
any other public enemies Of the Govern
ment '-.Sdlt Lake Tribune.
The Union did not make its appearance
in Moline on Tuesday. 1t affords Us pleas
ure to notice that business went on as
usual Moline ReUiese,
No effort will be spared to supply the
want so urgently felt Of an outspoken, able
and thoroughly honest Republican PAPER IN
Rock Island county.--NoliHe Rerte,.
Gossip has it that that spicy, readable
sheet over the river, the Davenport Ga
zette has engaged cur legal friend Eugene
Lewis for its Moline correspondent Also
, that l.. s. Rasmussen has thrown up his
land agency preparatory to putting on the
editorial harness in this city. In this IN
stance birth will be given t. Swede
/ weekly.-.NoliRe Reciesr.
Yesterday forenoon while a gentleman
was crossing the railroad track near Sylvan
, Water bridge with a double team, the
horses became frightened by a locomotive
and ran away, throwing him to the GROUND
and iniuring him severely. Ifmore atten
ton would be paid to the signals, less acci
| dents would happen
t The New York World has a novel plar
D for diminishing railroad accidents. i
proposes to require of each road a bono
e to pay for all lives lost by accidents upoI
: its line 1t estimates every life destroyed
in this way to be worth to the State 81, 500
/ and this sum it proposes shall be covered
9 as a penalty. The sums so recovered
e should be invested for the benefit Of tn
e helpless survivors Tt ventures to pre-
a die" that the practical operation Of sucI
e a system, by making ii cheaper to protec
. life than to destroy it, would be to proven
), the occurrence of any such casualties il
Is the FI+r,ra