The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-29
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Reaches worry the editor OF the Union.
THE DAILY ARGUS is for sale at vii
mans's news stand, in the Post Office
A deposit of $4,000 was made at the
Moline National Bank, Friday morning.
1t will cost more to fix the lamp than
was saved by pulling down the staging with
rope.
The editor of the Union is in trouble
and wants vigilance committee organized
to protect him from reaches.
A burglar, in Moline, removed light
of glass from Frank Schroeders's restaur-
ant and stole quantity Of wine and cigars
TIE number of deaths from cholera in
this city, from first last, this season, was
exactly seventy-nlne. Davenport GAZETTE,
10Th.
Shipments of live stock and grain to the
East have entirely ceased, and but little
produce of any kind has been offering up
on the street to-day.
I George Goodwin, a painter, while at
work on the congregational church in Day
export, was badly cut in the head by
piece of falling timber,
. We commend the following, from King
Lear, to our neighbor Of the Union:
Get thee glass eyes
And like seurvy politician, seem
/ To see the thin-s thou COST not
Several river pilots are in the city now,
having left their boa;s when the strike was
inaugurated They nearly all make from
from $40 to $50 per day by taking raft
boats over the rapids
+ Henry Welker and John Wieman were
at work on staging IN the Congregational
church in Davenport Saturday, and the
staging gave way precipitating them to
the ground, distance of 80 feet. No
bones were broken but they were fearfully
though not dangerously bruised.
+ THE WEEKLY ARGUS can be had at
Wilmans's news stand, in the Post Office.
1t contains IS columns, and is the best
paper in the West to send to your friends.
1t can be had at Wilmans's or at THE AR
Gus COUNTING RooM for cents and for
6 cents in postpaid wrapper
VIM Braithwaite, Republican, was
elected an Alderman in Davenport, Sat
urday, to fill vacancy caused by the res
ignation Of Aid Edward Grace. This makes
the council tie, politically, -not counting
the Mayor, who is Democrat or Liberia
or a Peoples Party man or whatever the
opposition TO Grant may be called.
At the last meeting of the Board of Di
rectors Of the Rock Island County Agri
cultural Society it was voted to hold anoth
or fair at the same grounds next year
Having just held one of the best count!
fairs in the State. and the best ever helC
in the county, the directors may feel Ell
couraged to greater efforts.
, Mr. Warner is raising the horse railroad
track few feet il length, near jeff
street. 1t ought to be raised from Madi
son to Eagle and between the rails file
fully even with the top Of the rail wit
finely pounded rock, and good crossings a
= every corner Mr. Warner says he expect
some Joliet stone very soon for crossings
: Frank Zips, of Milan, who was so badl
e gored by bullock not long since, died o
I Saturday of lock-jaw and was buried Sur
day. He leaves wife and four children
Mrs. lips son Edward Pffer)by her fir:
d husband, who was reported as badly hui
+ by falling from a wagon is now quite wei
e He was not much hurt
: The Cambridge CAiet, speaking of tn
d Henry county fair, says: "A. A. CramI
= ton, of Sunny Hill Nursery, had on exh
:, bition ten varieties Of grapes, fifty of az
!, pies, ten of pears three of crab apples, il
It Guiding one that is 'transceBdent, and 1
+ mistake. He carried off many premium
i and he deserved more than he got.
Ed Payne, Davenport restaurm
it keeper, went to Chicago leaving his plaC
g in charge of one c. D. Meyers. When
: returned he found that the place had bee
cleaned of everything valuable, that ii
e private apartments of himself and wi
: had been broken into and relieved of SIC
; worth of clothing $40 worth of jewelry, an
i valuable quantity of preserves and canl
ed fruits. The police want to see Meyer
). The Father Matthew Benevolent Societ
was organized in this city on the 9th
last November by Thomas F. Care
4 Thomas Plunkett, NJ. H. Linehan, J.
Nevins and John DAILY. They now nun
is Der some thirty members and are aecor
y plishing good work in the cause of ten
perance They meet every Thursday ev
/ ming in the Catholic school building {
'e Broadway street. The initiation fee is s
L with % cents per month as fees. Charl
re Plunkett is President and VIM. KeatiI
lie Secretary.