The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-18
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The travel to California is very large
nova good many eastern people are going
there to reside,
If any OF our readers know Peter Col
seth will they please ask him TO call at
THE ARGUS sanctum.
The Clinton, Mass, wire cloth mills !
have discharged part of their help and re- |
duced wages 10 per cent.
MIR. John Hoffman, of Bcynton
Tazewell county, committed suicide last
Wednesday by killing himselfwith razor. |
The Savannah (Ga. Ne,os is severe
in the denunciation Of the scheme TO in
duce congress to assume the debts of the
Southern states.
"A Desmoines man says that it is really
wonderful how handful of beans fred
from shot gun will interrupt the song OF
serenading party.
Sweeney X Jackson law card appears
in this paper. Their firm is well known
and any business entrusted to them is sure
to be well attended to-
Snow covered the ground in the up
per part of the county, on Monday. Tues
day morning the sidewalks here showed a
little snow, and more ice.
A heather Chinee at Bloomington is
getting used to the ways of the Mclean
man. He has been fined for running bill
lard table without license.
On Wednesday last, on the T. W and
W. railroad, near Bloomington, quarrel
between two brakemen terminated in the
fatal stabbing of one of them.
Steiner, the man stabbed at Alton by
rowdy named Dorsey, is still in a eriti-
cal condition, and his recovery is not GER
tain Dorsey is in Jail at Edwardsville.
/ In one car recently on the Rock Island
road near Des Moines, were sixteen run
ners for different safe manufacturers, who
were devastating the towns along the line.
The Ottawa Republican says: Every
ear on the Rock Island railway contains a
Bible rack and copy of the Scriptures,
placed there by some Good Samaritan.
1t is announced that j I'D .ge McAllister
has resigned his seat ON the Supreme
Bench of Illinois, to accept the position
OF Corporation Counsel OF the city OF Chi
cago.
AT Bloomington, on Wednesday 3
young man named Shultz, accepted matri
mony as lesser evil than Imprisonment
, His spouse had loved not wisely but too
q much.
, "A gas-holder of the Terre Haute ga
works, containing 10000 feet of gas, wa
lifted so high on Friday night that
h jumped the WALL allowing all the gas t.
i escape.
A little child in Bloomington wa
: killed the other day by taking dqta ammo
, ma instead of aqua ciRnan,Omum Tn
+ laundering druggist still lives to poiso
5 other people.
q Some Galena school boys touched
match to the rear end of a passing load o
hay, and the man on the top came near be
ing roasted. The hay and the wagon wer
d totally consumed.
; -Esty Il Co., of the BrattIeboro, Vt
:. Organ Works, have discharged some fit
. hands, and reduced the working time {
!, the remainder to eight hours day, an
l. wages accordingly
1t is announced, says the New Yor
e Tribune, that the grand result of Secretar
b. Richardson's silver edged resumption
the distribution of $4,000 i'll halves an
quarters. Big thing.
/, The Hamilton corporation, of Lowell
y has reduced the wages of its operative!
!, The rate OF reduction is not decided up0
. as yet. Other corporations will doubles
follow their example.
Il There are, Just now, scattered all owe
It the West, hundreds Of played-o out polit
! clans Of more or less ability and prom
> uence, who have been laid up. high and dr.
> he, tho Farmers Mnypmpnt
Ie Albert Swain, of Jerseyville, Ill. BILE
d into the barrel OF gun to see II 1T wi
loaded. The gun was loaded, and bic
back with such effect as to scatter Swain
brains about the adjacent real estate.
to New York properly belongs in ii
Anti Monopoly pyramid. Neither ii
=, Democrats or the Republicans have elec
. ed State officer without the aid of Il
~ Independent Anti Monopoly Party
n Said Mrs. jerks, on her return fro
re church, when | see the shawls Of tho
h. Johnsons, and then think Of what | ha'
to to wear, if it was not for the consolation
ofreligion, | don't know what | would do
I'd "A wife in Union county, Iowa, h
D brough suit against the man that sold b
- husband liquor, laying the damages
$1,000. The grounds taken are based
the rulings in the case of Priestly '
q Herb.
~ The trains on the st. Louis and ]
dianapofs and Rock Island roads were {
layed by the smash-up Of freight ira
&C on the Rock Island road at Venice Ia
ut Saturday night-.S Louis Republica
on Monday
IS, An elegantly dressed woman, who
Of corded her name as Mrs. A. Hamary ,aba
:. dined six-weeks- old infant at the b
III State House, in Monmouth, a few days a.
a 1t has been provided for by the county a
i'm thorities
The annual meeting of the Illinois |
irons Of Husbandry will be held at Bloc
ed ington, commencing Dec. g. There F,
all now T20 organizations in this State, and
lat the convention each grange will be eutitl
em to one delegate
ne The State liquor agent Of the State
], d Maine, who has failed. owes $7l, 593 90 +;
10 tins amount, $I9, g3S "a are family deb
and the balance, SOL, $50. 81, is for liquo
re- Near $l2 900 is tor rum alone. And Ma
lev is prohibitory State.
my They have to look sharp for their rol
be over the river. A day or two ago Rob
M, Porter had bear robe, worth $40 sto
' from one of his hacks, and on Stature
zen some one stole fine wolf robe worth
ing from Mr. r. Benton
1t is reported that during the {
weeks of the panic, commencing Sept. {
no less than thirty six thousand shares
're par. representing $500, 1000 of Rock
md and Railroad Stock was purchased for y
sir manent investment, probably never to vi
lot Wall Street again.
The Republican papers are now ow
d, up that the defeat of their party is ow
the to the corruption of the leaders and
de- bad legislation Of Congress. The ba
pay grab is stigmatized as the great
ola curse. These admissions come too late
'iI : Albany IN ~ argus.
'"u Since the adoption of the rule