The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-12-05
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

II Icdedut uhy'
Fine skating on Sylvan Water.
--Ripe strawberries, grown in the open
air, are the luxury in Mobile. II
1T costs S. To swear out loud In the
streets at Springfield, Mass
Considerable stationary ice on the riv-
or shores, The channel is full OF running
ice.
Rafferty, the e-tried and thrice sen
fenced Chicagoan who killed q poileeman
is to be hanged on the Goth.
The soeiable at the residence OF Post
master Jackson, last evening, was a very |
pleasant and successful affair.
Two hundred cars of stock came In
from the west in the twentyfour hours
ending at one o clock this A. NJ
The river was feet inches above
low water mark at 3 clock yesterday alter
noon, a rise of l6 inchesin "A hours,
Gen Grant having kicked the Little
Blonde Sheet ont Of the office Of postmas-
ter, he now calls the post office boys hex
spittles.
I MIR. Robesons orders to the command
ants of the navy.yards Get all avalla-
be vessels ready for sea, and c I b A lit
tie quick about 1t,
The soeiable given by the young ladies
of the Presbyterian church, in the lecture
room, was a very enjoyable affair and paid
|, better than was expected.
Ninety years ago yesterday, 1.-THE 4thl
Washington issued his order for the dis,
bandment of the army that had triumphed
in the Revolutionary War.
4 n h ,,h, in
eseo employs twenty five men IN packing
e chickens, geese and ducks. A ton and q
+ half is shipped daily to Boston.
During a session of Congress, Wash
D. ington uses about |, 900, 900 feet OF gas pei
day. During the summer about 400,oot
n feet. No sarcasm is intended.
On Yesterday Joe Davenport shipped
b 10 New York six thousand pounds of horst
radish. This is the first shipment Of Thu
kind ever made from this vicinity.
A wite-awake Burlington merchan
4. has two and half page advertisement IN
! daily paper there, He don't whisper abou
y his goods, but 'hollers right out in meet
r in.
We understand that the ladies' of th
iU p. Church, in this city have fixed upo
Thursday evening the 18th. at Dart
v Hall, cor a fair and festival in aid of tn
IS, new church building.
ey The DeBeriot Club is now compose
IN of Jacob Strasser, leader; Ii. Braunllei
he violincello: Mr. Friederickson, violin; Hel
ey nv Hoffman, violin; and Prot. Crane
rs, piano. 1t Is musical combination
which any city might be proud.
;er The following announcements of Lo
IN M don booksellers
aN JOAQUIN MILLER, HALF-CALF, E.
~ CHARLES READE's A SINPLEToN,
ion Would appear to herald forthcoming lib
t suits.
A Peoria paper says IF some of o
urs druggists would fill bottle with bed b
al noisnD, place it IN the back room and lai
cts il Old Rye, there would be so many
'on- quests in the next "a hours that all
can papers wosld have TO issue supplement-
"eS The notice of the death of another
General Washington slaves, at an q
considerably over u hundred, will he
nds ceivea WIN Sadness o,a III o we" soot;me
a. cut off one of the sources of bread and b
oro' ter to an itemizer.
,ble The Davenport gas company rende
MIR a bin 10 the city for gas consumed dur
tier November, amounting to 1862. 10.
ases Democrat Is sorry the committee dld
the investigate this exorbitant charge,
lted perhaps save several hundred dollars 10
city
George Hobbs got married at
buuue, five weeks ago and now his '
rlan has had him put in Jail for stealing 5
from her This is not the party that
ocS, locked in a cabOose car in this city Il
'om, his Pa came down from Geneseo and
him home,
at Rev c. f. Cheney has at last d
wee what he ought to have done at the '
Z III commencement of his ecclesiastical con
luct' with Bishop Whitehouse. He has
rcer, claimed his departure from the Eplsc
oul church or, rather as the custom OF
the iticians is who change their political col
he has proclaimed the departure OF
~ Episcopal church from him.
1t is more than probable that the '
- 60 of second Credit MObilier committee
,ol;ce be necessary to overhaul the Northern
P;yer ci6c railway crowd in congress. 1t
hints received from the national ca
-, have any basis at all, an able bodied
the mittee of honest men might find out {
City many things of which the people shouI
'erty, informed. Let the investigation 60 o.
That's aqueer move of Senator NJ
in relation to the repeal of the bank
law. The senatOr wants an eE post
blonde law to prevent disclosures in the cas-
:, ,ras the Cookies Last year was fatal To u
tian craftsmanship this year may
G the equally disastrous to many who are n,
e was that category. The lavish placing OF
IS r. by the ''Frigid zone railway buide
!, and likely to prove u stumbling block /
way of more than one hundred memh
'pun'y the American congress. Let us have
pay facts.
Blonde The Duck Greek K st. Paul raj
uses the bridge Of the Dubuque South
ern over the Maqunketa river three
i mp north of Monticello, and on yesterday
'c...ary 4th) when train of eleven cars b'
the locomotive, was crossing on the b
. IN span one hundred and fifty feet in
Prime gave way. went down with an awful {
taking four cars of grain, one OF hog
,.oson, one of lumber with it. The track
'e'."' some twenty feet above the river, al
'ohhhg course the fallen cars were badly b
ey, for and the wreck presented a scene OF
rest of scribable confusion. Hundreds of b
~ $50. of grain were poured out upon the IL
ia p"' into the water. Over dozen hogs
ulidlhg killed outright Fortunately none G
IRE the employees on the train were injured.
Daven- bridge was the Howe-truss pattern.
rality?
credit GOV. BOOTH.
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