The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-25
NOTES. HERE AND THERE

The Clinton -1ge advocates the c,ntin-
uance Of the Liberal party in the coming
election
Lent commences, this year, February
%, and Easter Sunday. this year. will be
on April ID.
Public sale of cattle, horses, lumber
wood, and farm utensils at A y. Phil
leos in Coe, Thursday the 9th
The Muscatine Liberals are ralying for
the city election-the organization of last
fall is to be maintained Soin Rock Island,
also
Railroad conductors who dishonesty ap-
propriate a percentage Of the moneys
collected for fare are spoken of as only
watering their salaries
There will be services tomorrow at
1890, A. NJ and : p. NJ. in Trinity church
that being Ash Wednesday, or the first
day of the Lenten Fast
Mrs. Mary A. LivermOre of Boston lee
lures in the Burtis Opera House, Daven-
port, on Thursday evening-being the last
lecture in the Star Course.
Mr. Isaac Hannah, of Davenport, and
Mr.. Cornwall, of this city, have formed a
partnership for the purpose of opening a
wagon and smith shop at Hillsdale
A Silver City miner remarked after at
tending a prayer meeting few weeks ago,
that it was the first time he had heern
the word Of God handled, for close onto
forty year.
Ole Bull and his entire troupe passed
the Sabbath at the Harper House in this
city Mr. Bull desired his agent to so
arrange his tour as to enable him to be at
the Harper House on Sunday
An Essex street boy made very hand
some snow man about seven feet high
Saturday, and rObed it with his mother 5
sixty dollar FALSELY shawl He is saddest
when he sits.-Ddnbury Neacs.
John Artz sued the c., R. l. & P. Rail
road Company for damages for personal
injuries and the jury returned verdict
for plaintiff in the sum of $500. This
in the Circuit Court at Muscatine.
A young widow down in Kennebec,
Me-, remarked at the funeral, Il hope
you II excuse my not crying, but the fact
is, crying always makes my nose bleed -
She will make an excellent mother in-law.
A tolerably difficulty conundrum is pro
posed by the Boston Globe IF the Post
Office Department can afford to transport
the postal cards, even furnishing the card
itself, for a cent, why can it not transport
letter weighing the same and without the
expense of furnishing any material at
all?"
The Nation New York. says of the
governmental must get out of the pro-
'tective business and the subsidy business
and the improvement and development
business. 1t must let trade and COM
''merce and manufactures and steamboats,
land railroads and telegraphs alone -
Farmers should make note of this
Shrove Tuesday-the close of the ante
lenten season. In good old Dutch times
it was customary to eat pancakes on this
day, and hence it is sometimes called Pan
cake Tuesday. In New Orleans and
among the French everywhere, it is Mar
ID Gras fiat Tuesday, Wherever OBJ
served it is day of mad jOllity. With
the Germans, masquerades and fantastic
professions are customary.
1t seems that Miss Deliah S. Irish, re-
Gently admitted to the Scott County Medi-
cal Society was not the first female doctor
in Iowa to receive recognition from men of
medicine. AT the meeting of the State
Homeopathic Association, held at Keokuk
two years ago, Mrs. NJ. A, Porter, Of
Davenport, was admitted as a member of
that Society without discussion