The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-17
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Harper House buckwheat cakes Ii
ire praised by all who try them. IL
-Mollie does everything well-but that t
,oon, o my, wasn't it delicious.
The roads are excellent-in conse- {
luence Of the long continued dry weather,
The brick layers made the morter fly
IN the Davenport water works smoke stack
If we don't have good deal Of fall
rain the wells and streams will be very low
the coming winter. l.
Mrs. Partington says she gets up every
morning at the shrill carrion Of the chan
delier.
An English publisher who advertised
Joaquin Miller, half calf, " is threatened
with libel snit -..
They are building cheap board shan
ty over at Duck Creek to shelter the loco
motives the coming winter.
Chester Davidson, father of Lawyer
Abner Davidson, of Davenport, died at
East Davenport, Saturday morning, aged
81 years,
Joseph prainard who is building a
house near the Orphans Home, back ofl
Davenport, was seriously injured by fall
from u staging on Saturday.
About how many years is it necessary
to wait before suing George Vinton, John
Could ct al for that pamphlet? Some
body, sometime, will have to pay for that
job.
Montgomery Roach shot and killed
| his cousin, james Roach, twelve miles
from Frankfort, KY, on account OF an old
quarrel about dog, and then surrendered
himself.
Strange beggers are numerous with
their printed documents, setting forth their
pedigree aud woes. 1t is safe to say that
every one of them are swindlers and per
haps thieves also,
1t cannot be too often repeated that
the Republican party Is responsible for al
the financial distress of the present time,
and the personal suffering which seems
certain to be felt this winter.
1t was an Irish Coroner who, when
asked how he accounted for an extraordin-
airy mortality in Limerick, replied sadly,
L cannot tell There are people dying
this year that never died before
George Wagner is getting up magni6-
Gent property at the Atlantic Brewery. Ii
he would remove the front Of the old build
ing and extend that brick wall over it, the
, front would be greatly improved.
Little Mary Powers, aged seven years,
= and living out back of Davenport thought
1 she would have some fun burning the dry
t grass. Her clothes caught fire and she
q was so terribly burned that she is not ex-
. pected to live.
The cost to the people of Scott county
Opposite u.s. for prosecuting criminals dur
ing the past year was So, SAILS. Found
guilty, As; discharged on payment of costs
80; dismissed by the State, IA; found MOI
g guilty, on trial, IL.
4 -Gustave johnson left Pomery, Iowa
r. for his home near Fort Dodge FIVE week
n ago, and has never been heard from. II,
Q had 500 in money and notes for severa
: hundred more about him. He is though
e to have been murdered.
It They want the Mendlesshon Quintet,
e in Davenport, but can get no encourage
b ment unless a sufficient number Of ticket
a shall first be subscribed for to insure
!. against loss. No such requirement wa
necessary in Rock Island.
-Hoyt Sprague & Co, of Providence
Y, r. l., have made statement to their hom
n creditors, from which it seems that the
F; owe So, S37 ,342 and show assets over thi
: amount, OF only 81, 32l ,252 The chance
p are that they can't pay their debts.
D. One of the results of the recent cleo
lie ton it is reported, is that the Administra
n ton Senators at Washington will propos
-, terms of peace to the Liberal Repubhea
:; Senators, and invite them back into thu
ii party after denouncing them as sore head
I'd for nearly two wears.
ID Our old Vermont friend, f. D. Ma
III son, of Richmond, President of the Vel
mont Dairymens Association, is happ
over the fact that two cheeses ne sent t
the Vienna Exposition received the highes
prize over competitors from the celebrate
y dairy regions Of England and Holland
- There were special elections, Nov :
o. to fill vacancies in the Illinois Legislator
he wiz: one Senator and four Representa-
al tives, vice Republicans resigned, and NJ
" single Republican was elected Thi
nc perhaps, don count for much, but it hal
y, pened to be all there was To do, this yea
nd John Fisher and his wife, in Davel
IT port, separated, and John went to TiptC
no to live, leaving their only child-a lit
i girl two years old-with its mother {
~ Tuesday night, of last week, John sto
or the child The mother is in great desires
cd and declares she will recover it in sou
way,
is it not about time that good maj
he gentlemen began TO think seriously of 9
IT, ing to work and doing something? +,
''' we can't all be merchants. and bankers al
IFS brokers, and dealers in real estate. There
a good deal Of square work to be doI
,ed about the country, land some ones got to {
ar, it.-John Paul
- L. W. Hallock, w HaIlock and Arm
F" Nall, young men of Detroit, Mich, we
or tn the St Clair flats to shoot and ifs
iz- Their boat was picked up empty by pas
:. ing propeller on Thursday One of t
ih Hallocks was found alone, but altogeth
snt too exhausted to speak 1t is feared tn
ed the other Hallock and Nall are lost
is -George f. Dunning, who while SupC
ID. intendent of the United States Sub Tree
ury in this city. obtained money from t
United States Treasury by means of fal
an. vouchers, and was convicted and last we
sentenced for that crime, has been pardo
cn cd by President Grant, the pardon bel
nd granted at the request of the Director
AN the Mint at Philadelphia and other frien
tic Of Dunning ~ T. World.
he 1t will be seen that neither of the G
me parties have any hold upon the honest Sc
n timent of the people There can be
ln' doubt that next year the Anti Monopolis
of Illinois will be able to carry 20 out
ed, the l02 counties in this State, and, outsi
, sat of Chicago, carry nearly every Congrt
sional and Legislative District in the Stat
nd as well as such State officers as are to
ev elected. Keep the ball rolling-hones
Wv and capacity will follow in its wake-Ct
rs tralid III. Democrat.
Springfield is troubled with rowdyis
in public entertainments, and the papt
the there ask that people who give entertai
ments also secure a noliee force In no CT