The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-05
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Thanks to Mr.. Durham for Legislative
documents.
The Chicago Journal says: Major Blu
ford, of Rock Island, has been converted
to domestic life by wealthy young Cincin-
matt heiress.
The petition from the cities of Rock Isl
aud and Moline in regard to additional
supervisors have been presented IN po'h
houses of our legislature.
A Burlington man lost wager lor oe-
ing rash enough to think he could throw
stone down Main street without hitting
candidate for alderman
Among the committee of % appointed
by Speaker Cullom, to attend the funeral
If Judge Bushnell, we notice the names of
NIessrs. Durham and Warner of this
district
Ten freight ears passed west over the G..
r. |. & p, railroad, this morning, con
signed to VIM. Jennings, Esq, Salt Lake
City, for the w. & J. V. Narrow Gauge
r. II. of Utah.
The beauties of high protective tariff
are well illustrated by the Iowa man who
wore ont pair of boots last summer while
cultivating his potato patch and then sold
the potatoes in the fall for a new pair OF
boots
The train dispatcher of the Rockford
Rock Island & St Louis railroad says they
never were so crowded with orders To-
r freight ears as now; that the freight bust
ness is largely increasing and is create
n than the road has facilities for doing.
" Hon. James Thorington, United State
Consul for Aspinwall, intends leaving Day
enport for New York on the 10th inst.
: setting sail from the latter city on the 2Oti
His daughters, Misses Naomi and Ella
A. and his nephew. Jack Thorington,
/, Montgomery, Ala, will accompany him.
IL The Chicago Journal says The Haw
r. lev bill To create national railway con
s. mission was virtually defeated in Congre>
py Yesterday, by Il vote of - To %. 1t
or not ut all probable that we shall ever hay
as an anti-monopoly Congress until that lSs u
ed Is made distinctive and supreme, l
which we say, jess
Judge Lane, of the Montgomery Count
MS Court rules that in order to obtain We
T. dict for damages against liquor dealer
under the new Temperance law of lllinol
Is for selling Intoxicating liquors to mino
rs and habitual drumkards, it must appear
he evidence that the liquor dealers knew II
ne purchasers to be minors or habitual drum
GU ards.
>o The Davenport Water Works Compai
n' intend profting by the experience Of dive
'' places this winter and to lay their pip
It. so that the top of them shall be at lie;
20 four feet from the surface Of the grour
mt That's the way ours should have be
g a laid, and the way they will yet have to
,ht laid. 1t will cost four or Eve times m,
he than twould To have laid them deer ennu
an in the beginning.
in The Moline editor Of the Gazette "a.
Ms. There is a difficulty brewing between
.ho. postmaster and certain bummers Y
ons think themselves gentlemen, and who I
he sist in smoking in the new roStotiiee. @
Mr. trary to the rules, The postmaster ;
he the city authorities have a right to prev
in smoking in the postoffioe if the public q
venience demands it, and if there is no
, dinance to that effect the Council sho
the pass one at its next meeting,
real Washington seems to he infested v
the an army Of Matchmaking letter-wriy
.hIld who offer duplicate letters to the com
aded newspapers for a nominal price, in wi
need they Use the country press to praise or
ten nounce anything that pays. We have
liar ceived several of these remarkable
1 up ductions. some Of which we have sent
dren the people who We're traduced IN tn
here AMI others We have consigned % the W
the paper basket. THE ARGUS has a reg
the correspondent in Washington whose
un- tiers are eagerly welcomed by our read
tins but we have uo use FIR the duplj
Matchmaking kind.