The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-06-28
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

j. Nj, Carr, farmer of Clay county,
Iowa, was killed by lightning on the 2lst
Willie Wilson, a lad of eight years, was
drowned at Clinton, Iowa, on the oath,
while bathing.
Daniel Allhands, of Paxton, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat He is not
expected TO live
Arthur Baier, aged l / years, was struck
on the head by passing train of cars in
Peoria and killed
A young man named Willard Cochayue
was drowned at Burlington, Iowa, on the
25th, while bathing.
A man named Smith was sunstruck at
Keokuk, on the oath, and died from the eff
fects few hours afterwards.
After tomorrow there will be no Sunday
night train for St. Louis on the Rockford
road A train will leave Saturday night
instead.
The Moline Reoie,o speaking of the new
hotel project ip that city says we are
very much afraid the whole thing will end
in talk only this and nothing more
Senator Mitchell or Nipple, OF Oregon,
is to be pitied, inasmuch as he will go into
the Senate with two bad names, while his
Republican colleagues will have but one.
We notice, by Peoria paper, that a
grand concert was to be given in st. Paul ;
chapel, in that city, last evening, the
9th, in which Mrs Holcombe, of this city,
was to take prominent part.
A severe tornado is reported to have
passed over Loudon, Iowa, station on the
Chicago 4 Northwestern Railway, on the
25th, tearing down houses and barns, up
roofing trees, and doing great damage gen
orally.
Six young bufaloes tyearlingsl caught
in Kansas, are uxuriating in pasture in
Davenport They have all the looks and
characteristics of the buffalo, with sharp
horns, large heads. heavy names, and the
natural wildness.
Wendell Phillips wants the governor of
Massachusetts to pardon man who killed
his wife and then tried TO commit suicide.
| Phillips pleads that the convict was goaded
to the crime by an unusually severe dose
of mother.in-law
! On the 18th inst, at Bloomington, lit
tie boy, the adopted son of Henry s
Graves, Of Normal, attempted to get on 4
/ freight train of cars, was run over and in.
/ jured 50 that he died Boys, and meu
too, jump on trains of ears on our levet
every day, at the risk Of their lives.
The cholera has made its appearance ii
Louisiana, Mo, fifty miles south of Quincy
/ Iii. One white man died on the 25th, anC
one white man and four negroes died the
next day Of the disease Quite anumber O
citizens of this city are employed there by
Reynolds, Saulpaugh X Co. on a bridu,
they are building across the Mississippi.
\ New York Central railroad conductor
seized uobby dressed young fellow VIII,
had dropped an insulting note in a lady
lap on his train, the other day, dragged
him from his seat and led him by the ca
through the train to the smoking car, wher,
he babe him remain. The passengers en-
joyed the young reprobate discontinue
( have great hope of wicked man, slen
der hope Of a mean one. \ wicked mal
may be converted and become prominen
saint. \ mean man ought to be converted
six or seven times, one right after the 9th
er, to give him fair start and put him OF
an equality with bold, wicked man
Bescher.
A Chinese servant was brought home b!
the gentleman of the house, and his mis-
tress inquired his name. "Yung Ho
/ VIM oh, said she, Il cannot cal
you that; | will call you Charley,
"Whatee your nance he asked inreturn
My name is Mrs John Browning.
"Welie, I Gale you John :" exclaimed tn
Celestial.
While the Western farmer pays a dut
Of more than one hundred per cent on tn
salt which he uses in his pork, beet an
and butter, the New England fisherman
who puts it into fish, is allowed it free q
duty. This discrimination against the Wes
has been made for years, and yet Wester
Congressman have submitted to it withou
remonstrance
1t is announced that a new way has bee
discovered to bother the postal clerks. |
is to the effect that the postal cards vi
not copy in the ordinary way, but will re
oeive an impression as well as need b,
One has only to reverse the ordinary prC
cess write his message ON the letter pa
per, copy it by aid Of the press on the po,
t tai card and send the copy instead of til
original The writing is reversed and ueef
mirror to set it straight Clerks an
; carriers will be terribly bothered if tn
cruel discovery Of somebody be largely uti
lied
Summer hats of all styles and at ii
I lowest prices at T. Zeis
4 marble statue of Ethan Allan is to |