The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-12-01
NOTES HERE AND raERr.
River rising slowly.
Cloudy, sloppy day.

River rising slowly.
Cloudy, sloppy day. M
Snow pretty much gone.
-Dimick, Gould K Co. have reduced
their force of men in the tub and pail
works.
Everybody get a Flag ready for Christ
mas, and fling it to the breeze for the Span
ish salute.
- The use of opprobrious epithets
towards one of the editors OF this paper by
the Moline Repie,o is without provocation.
The river was only foot 4 inches
above low water mark Saturday after
noon. 1t commenced rising towards even
ing.
Frank l. Taintor, the defaulting cash
Ter of the Atlantic Bank, was sentenced to
seven years confinement in the Albany
Penitentiary.
There's 90 pounds of Joy, of the male
persuasion, in house down Illinois street,
which Mai. Buford thinks good deal of
and so does Mrs. Buford.
Robert Porter, the juror of the Stokes,
murder case who violated the orders of
the court, was sentenced to two month im-
prisonment and to pay fine of $l0O
The value of the kilograms published
by our cotemporary is illustrated by one he
published the other day, showing that the
Mississippi river was frozen over at Mil
waukee
The brick smoke stack of the Daven-
port water works were completed Saturday
evening The Gazette says it is one hun
bred and thirty feet high-the loftiest in
the State.
THE ARGUS generally beats the Union
in giving important public news. On the
Cuban difficulties we have beaten that pap.
err so decidedly that the Little Blonde Sheet
shows bad temper in regard to the matter
-Thos. Plummer, has sold his residence
down town to Jno V. Cook, Esq, our new
lCounty Clerk. MIR. Plummer will occupy
the Sailor property, corner Broadway anc
Highland streets, which he purchased somt
time ago.
Another Republican defaulter ha.
turned up in the person of Arson j. Crane
of Burlington, the Assistant Collector O
Internal Revenue for the Third District O
Vermont, TO the amount of $l7 900 Sen
ator Edmunds is one of his bondsmen
The kind of vessels this Administra
ton builds is shown by the fact that a Lew
is del dispatch says: stress of wealth
er compelled the monitor Manhattan t.
J put back She labored so heavily that
r leak was made under her turret, through
which the water pour in immense quaint
ties. Her commander thought she mus
go down, and he had her boats cleared an
life-preservers distributed to the men
A Chicago widow who has an incom
: of 100000 10 live on, was found drunk i
q a Chicago gutter the other night, and take
!. to the police station, where she slept on tn
down. side of plank until morning. Sh
5 was elegantly dressed, and two splendi
diamond rings blazed upon her finger
when she was fshed out of the mud.
two hundred thousand buffalo wer
slaughtered for their hides alone, last yea
in Colorado. At the Cheyenne agency tn
trade in buffalo robes is peculiar. TIL
price of the robes ranges from six to te
half pint tin cups full of sugar for inferior
and twenty-four cups for choice. There
money in this buffalo robe business
Cheyenne, but not for the Cheyennes.
&c The Administration party has NJ
<. seen the end Of its troubles yet There
1 likely to be a terrible embarrassment ne,
r week at Washington when the family cou
re ell is called together to decide whether Il
E. Back Pay and Credit Mobilier offende
at shall be retained in the place of honor,
ID the party shall turn over new leaf al
IS look to new set of leaders.