The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Very charming day

The resumption of silver payment was
dime novelty.
Omaha calls her saloon keepers
Presidents of sample rooms"
Dick Collins, switchman at Keokuk,
on the ID. V. r. r., was run over by the
cars and Instantly killed, on Friday night.
The Union of Sunday morning takes
up good deal of room in trying to prove
that $l6,606 is not sixteen thousand six
hundred and six dollars-and fails.
"A young married man in Brattleboro,
| Vt, poured twelve gallons of brandy into
the river, at the request of his young wife
Young couples are always extravaganza.
The Canada Southern Railroad is now
open, and saortens up the distance be-
tween Detroit and Buffalo full fitty-hve
compared with any other through
route.
-Swindling peddlers of dry goods vic
timized Allen and Bloomfield townships,
Iowa, last week to the amount OF $4,000,
taking farmers paper payable at Aliens
bank.
Il The editor of the Vicksburg Herald
spent $500 on church fair, hoping to get
the prize of $4,000 in gold, and he drew a
: brass chain and photograph OF George
, Washington.
AT Dubuque on the 18th the jury in
the case of j. NJ. Way VS.. The Illinois
Central Railway, a suit for damages for
the killing of W. III. Palmer, last summer,
. returned verdict of $4,000 damages for
3 the plaintiff,
The Jackson County, Iowa, Sentinel
states upon good authority, that Rev.
Schuellar, of unfragrant memory in connec-
< ton with the Andrew Orphan Asylum,
o committed suicide by drowning after his
Y return to Germany.
The printers of Pittsburgh who were sc
y unsuccessful in their late strike have unan
!, imously dissolved their union, There is q
! sickly union of the same sort somewhere
d in this city or Davenport, of which there
n isn't enough to dissolve.
s Lives there man whose nose so rec
= who never to himself hath said: III pay
before | go to bed, the debt | owe the
printer ?"-Brandon Republican. Sever
d al of him live in this county as know We
t well, but they we fear will go to-Molint
O and be elected to the council,
. The Chicago Times must have known
something about sickly Republican papel
in this section when it said 1.-THE jour
s nalist who seeks political preferment BELT
! tie his office. and incurs a serious danger
n of sacrificing that independence which i
the essential condition of his influence.
: The Mobilierites and back salary tax
10 ers seem to have had pretty much thei
a own way in organizing the two houses o
5, congress. Big jobs may be expected. Tn
< eorruptionists know that the people ar,
u resolved upon retiring them, and the las
IL opportunity they are ever likely to have b
rs get their hands into the public purse mus
t, be improved to the utmost extent. Nov
IS or never, is the watchword
r The annual meeting of the Northern
Illinois Horticultural Society, will be he'll
III in Farwell Hall, in the city of Sterling
he Whiteside Co, January %, IS, 90 and 81
N 1874 The Wallace House and Boynto
ID House will reduce their prices to 81 90 pc
80 day to members attending the meeting, an
~ the citizens of Sterling will extend col
ne extended to all interested in Horticultur,
nj pursuits to attend this meeting.
n The Rome IN. " Sentinel perp,
\ trates the following: Father, was Gree
I'D ley elected ? asked an unsophisticate
nr twelve-year-Old of his Republican sir,
IS. Starting up with astonishment the latte
at answered. No, why do you ask such
foolish question ?" because" said tn
~ boy, you said last fall if Greeley W,
C. elected there would be panic, and ever,
d. body says there is a panic now, so
nv thought Greeley must have been elected
ba That boy will make his mark.
The Chicago Tater. Ocean, noting TIL
potatoes are very scarce and high, think
ut the tariff should be taken off so they CT
ng be brought free from Canada, The i'd
lie, is as good as all propositions in favor
p. free trade. hut it is to be noted that Il
Inter Ocean, like all other sound repub
or can papers, favors free trade only on SUE
ng articles as the farmers sell. You new
I'm heard one of them speak in favor of fire.
N, trade in any articles which the farme
e b,y On the contrary they want to dive
VI sify American industry by taxing farme
he out of existence.
ZEN The Lincoln, Neb. gas works explod
ro- on the morning of the 9Th inst, burni
no out the inside of the building, and MAXI
=, unsafe two sides of the brick walls.
on lack of care was the reason OF the accider
The fire was not entirely extinguished
the furnace, by which the gas is generate
before taking up one of the mains, ne
zen the works, for repairs. The gas was ma
ao- ufactured from crude petroleum, and VIII
the fire reached the oil the flames seem
u to ascend almost to the heavens. 1t bel
lgs still day and the surrounding buildin
covered with snow they were not at all e
Mn dangered. Some of the workmen were
jured, but none dangerously
The members of the Union Choral Soc
ty, of Davenport, are preparing to repe
their Oratorio of Esther this month sol
time 1t was said by those who heard
to have been one of the best enterta
ments ever given in the West, They q
improving greatly on their former conc'
by new and more appropriate costume
Nd and also in instrumental music, as Mr.. !,
cob Strasser has been at work weeks in
ranging music for full Orchestral
COMPARTMENTS of 5 Instruments. We wou
; be very glad if they would give our cit
visit and would speak for them full hot
should they see fit to do SO.
: Death Of Rev. A. B. Hitchcock.
A large number of people in this col