The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-31
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ne mercury ma hSN w NSe" WV" -~-N
at Hartford, Conn, yesterday.
The moderate weather has again filed
the town with teams and business. i
The Burns Club give supper anu
dance at Gilbertown on SATURDAY eNeiiii,s
Three slayers we're captured ON the
coast of Africa last week py "iaSgoW
boats ;.
Chicago is hayipg Il big row in her police
donartmsrt md will probably have it
wholly reorgInized. @
CANT II. F. Dimic' has become part
ou,per with his father-in. law, Morrison
Francis, ESQ, in the AndJver Mills.
Lydia Thompson and troupe with Opera
Bouffe, commence an engagement at the
Burtis Opera House on the 10th prox
1t is rumored that the great reyivalist,
Rev. Mr.. Hammond, has been engaged for
a weeks services in this city in March.
The New York Herdd has a heavy and
particularly Herald ish joke on Coliax. II
prints him thus NICE-Presideut Colfax,
The people Of Arkansas will vote,
Monday, March 8, on repeal OF all pc
litical disabilities in the State constitution,
Workmen are again digging up the ser
vice pipes, Of the water works to thaw
them out They should all be laid foot
and half deeper.
The street ears had a decided increase
Of patronage yesterday, in consequence OF
the withdrawal Of the Rock Island accom-
modation train
( John SCHNEIDER bought four live hogs OF
Mr.. Edgar Hilton, to-day, which weighed
on the public scales 2l20 lbs. One OF them
p months old weighed 10
The Chicago Times asserts, On the au-
thority Of McComb, that Mr.. Harlan had
sau.ooo ont Of the Union Pacific, instead
of 10000, in the Senatorial campaign OF
1866.
The Iowa State Grange of the order OF
the Patrons of Husbandry, in the name OF
40. o00 farmers, has asked the President to
veto Mr.. Hawley's Rock Island railroad
land grant bill.
r. T. says Byrnes, the clerk and tele-
graph operator Of the Peoria l. Rock Isl
and road at Coal Valley. absconded the
other day, with some of the company 5
funds and divers bills unsettled.
Martin Schoonmaker, who has bought
out Rufus Walker Mt Edgingt1n, has alsC
been appointed Postmaster at that place
vice 4. Walker, resigned The office viii
! be continued in the store as heretofore.
/ \ monument has just been placed il
/ Greenwood Cemetery To the memory O
the gifted Cary sisters. The idea Of tbs
monument originated with the late Horace
Greeley, who started a subscription paper
An editor and his wife, from the othe
side of the river, driving along up Illinoi
street yesterday, their horse was takel
with the blind stagcerS. fell and broke
sleigh shaft. Babcock 4 Bready fixed it
, The able and popular Baptist clergyman
in Moline, the Rev. Thomas F. Borchers
will deliver his lecture entitled Fort.
Days Refugee, in the Congregations
church next Tuesday evening, in aid Of tn
/ library fund
= 1t is said that the splendid new MethC
+, dist church ediice over the river Is to b
dedicated February 9th. one week frol
c next Sunday 1t is expected that Bisho
& Andrews will be present on that occasion
r and preach the dedicatory sermon.
e Rumor says there are twenty five case
e of small pox at Windsor, Mercer county
e The stone from the draw piers Of the Oh
c brirde are being hauled to the open spac
It southeast Of the arsenal, to be used on tn
!, sides of the government railroad embanl
Y ment and for other purposes.
The Democrat says Rock Island tolb
are good on getting up coal companie
- They get them up year after year an
N Gable scoops them. They open up bi
e mines, and Gable under-mines them
4 Why don't the great money kings ov,
:, the river buy some lands over here, al
form company which Cable can scoop
%. Prof Wolf has found four hundred spe
i linens Of coral in Fulton county The
f corals, it is claimed, are not native, b,
" belong to the drift the same as the nu
5 gets Of copper frequently picked up
Il this section. Still. there Is evidence goil
e to show the whole Mississippi Valley vi
r.. once the bed Of an ocean.
. Only $32.5O3, 767 are asked for by NJ
= Postmaster-General Creswell to run h
- Department for the next fiscal year, al
the sum by which he estimates he will (;
short is the trife of s6,slO,GO2 Gil,
n him the telegraphing TO do, and how MAJ
he times seven millions would mark his ann
le al deficiency in money? As to his de
is cheney in worth of work, that is beyor
it computation now He is blunderer.
lie No sooner is the franking privilege abe
is ished than the Judiciary Committee
l. the House agrees to report a bill increa
b. ing the salaries of Congressman from f.
If to eight thousand dollars per annum al
y of the Judges of the Supreme Court, Il
II Vice President and the Speaker of Il
c House in proportion 1t is proposed
IT double the President salary, naming
d $4,000 That committee evidently pu
L a high value on the privilege of sendil
r and receiving mail matter free of charg
70 Taxes are high in Rock Island, high
~ than they ought to be MoreOvt
the burden under which our people a
groaning is not the growth of a year.
re runs back to the good old Democratic day
IN 1t is fortunate that the city
Q. a Mayor who caH run such a council
- Union.
! That Murdoch does have everything
1 own way is not denied That our tax
- have been enormously increased by hi
when he might have prevented an
~ crease, is true That taxes are high
il than they ought to be" is true; but it
III not true that ''the burden under viii
10 our people are groaning runs back to t
= good old Democratic davs " We ha