The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-18
uorvs FIRE AND THERE.

Il ne lHtUH HAS HctlAiu- ~ NNS
wful ''blunder" in regard to Craig oa'h
Henry Reddig has opened lamoer
ard near the Milan road, on Vandruh
Stand
The Chicago, Rock Island x Paenc mas
/ large force of men and teams enpl'you
n constructing a second track Oe'"ee"
Morris and Seneca.
The wife and child Of John N'h' ,or-
merly citizen of Geneseo, died OF ;holera
a few days since in St Louis, with 'hree
hours of each other. /
The Davenport City Council auaorlzeu
the Finance Committee to borrow ior lhe
city $l2, 900, for the purpose OF ps''iis 'ile
interest on the city Indebtedness. /
Last spring horse and buggy US hired
from Copp's stable, in this city, al amour
er, the same day, from BOpes's soie' IN
Milan. Neither have been heard since.
Josh Billings says that the loh ana
the lamb may possibly sumtime Il down
in this world together for a tu mites out
when the lion comes to get up te iamD
will be missing.
A son of Mr. James Bradley, I Gene
SEQ, aged about seven years, died'n Mon
day last after lingering illness. inns Is
the second child Mr.. Bradley HI lost IN
little more than year.
Three members of a gang II horse
thieves who have been operatin, in Polk
and Warren counties, Iowa, for number
of months pas. have been captred, and
are now in the Desmoines jail
! Mrs. Robert Jackson, of Cmbridge,
was thrown from her buggy front OF
her house Sunday evening, by IL sudden
starting of the team, and her let forearm
broken by the wheel running Owe it.
John Blackburn, a prominent and we'll
known citizen of Kewanee, did on Mon
day. and was buried Tuesday The de-
ceased represented his town in he Board
of Supervisors during 1871 and SI2.
Services was, as used by te late la
mentcd library director in his dticism of
a word in the Mayors note remying him,
is excellent. Critics ought to accurate
you know,-and services was ) splendid.
The late p. NJ S organ, unde the head
of "A Timely Letter, contain the letter
of the Railroad and WarehoustCom rs of
the 9th ten days after its isse. This is
enterprise. THE ARGUS publhed it last
week.
The Utica O5sercer mention the follow
ing as the Representative Bpublicans
of the day Simon Camero of Penn
sylvania; Ben Butler, of Maachusetts
. Samual C. Pomeroy, of Kansa John j.
Patterson, of South Carolina.
. During a thunder storm a .Hege pro
fessor insulated stool by fitting glass
under the legs, sat down uponlt and po-
litely invited a young lady pul to sit upon
, his knee His popularity mabe inferred
, from her reply I'D rather struck by
Z lightning.
' Mr.. David Walker, living othe line be
tween Cambridge and Muson, while
! reaching pail of swill over nee to hi,
hogs. on Sunday evening, as thrown
e upon his side on the top of lie fence by
the board under his feet giyinway. Two
D ribs were broken, and it is cared tina
+ more serious internal injuries sustained
Everybody has fast horses now-it Il
, the fashion. Among the gol stopper
4 Mr.. j. S. Gilmore always has few, a
# we have had a chance to obsere. An &C
a easional ride through fields grain an'
the sweet perfume of new mon hay is
: great luxury to a man who wols daily i
a tread mill.
The counterfeit fifty cent otes whic
k are in circulation can be deteCed by hold
i ing the notes up To the light when on
can see there is no silk fibers u the paper
but it is simulated by irregulr scratche
it on the plate, which gives the urface in
+ preston. The red treasury aal is als
d printed in ink which will ru and blu
4; over the paper if person damien his fl
e ger and pass it Oyerit
!. A farmer and his wife called at q d
i troit photograph gallery last week, to ord
!. some photographs of her, and while Il
operator was getting ready TIE husbaI
- ,-a,.o A. IL n E.tIo oJ,,;oo ,r -, lor- II
J. must act "Fasten your mind on som
= thing, he said, or else you will laul
d and Spite the job Think about ear
e days, how your father got in jail, and 20
V mother was an old scolder, andwhat you
= have been if | hadn't pittied you! Je
t fasten your mind on to that = She did,
e have any photographs taken. Meth
;. will he for some time.
! The professional washers of white ski
# and light pantaloons, in Fort Scott, Ka
is sas, are in the depths of despair. Mai
\ dens will no longer sit upon the gra
# The innocent cause of all the trouble is
\. young naturalist who brought up from II
d as a handsome collection of tarantul
|, scorpions, eentipedes, horned frogs, a
e all that ilk, and which accidentally escaE
2 from him. The anxiety and terror Il
e brood over that neighborho0d are pitt
Al to contemplate Alicawber's occupatio
@ gone. No one will sit idly down for f
; that something will turn up too quickly
! 1t does take the romance out of ma
. sometimes in tracing the name to the ro
: For instance, Kearsarge is the beauti
name for one of the White Hills of n
Hampshire, and hotels have been cal
by that name, and a man-of- war called
g that supposed Indian name, and Ke
d sarge has been immortalized in prose a
s verse, for is it not beautiful Indian nan
e No there is no Indian about it. Ke
sarge mountain was named after the Fl
, white man who lived at its base, and
q name was Kiah Sargent, and for short
|. was Kiar Sarge, and so came Kearsal
i mountain. How that fact does Loacer Il
i mountain 1t is not half as high as it W