The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-04
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The bells Of all catholic churches were
tolled on Monday morning, it being All
Saints day.
Turkey will be "gobbled" this wear
Thursday, November 9th, as has already
been announced.
-Devere's fresh clans and oysters. in
the shell are the speciality of his establish
ment All kinds Of game, too.
We are sorry to hear of the disaster
GUS fire in Cambridge, Geographic ac.
count of which will be found in this paper
The banks in foreign countries have
raised the rates of interest in order to pre-
vent gold from being shipped to this
country
Three burglaries in Davenport SIM
day morning. People should be on their
guard everywhere-hard times makes men
desperate
-Babbage, the Dubuque scoundrel who
stole $267 900 of the peoples money from
the bank Of which he was cashier was an
Englishman, and it is believed he has gone
back to his native land.
"A prisoner in Muscatine jail.after dig-
ging nine feet under ground in order 70
escape under the walls of the iail. was
caught in the act of getting out, and TINS
lost all his hard work.
Will the weather prophet" be con-
graduated on his prophecy? The Indian
summer he told US was sure to come On
after the cold snap, is right here He
says it will be two weeks long.
1t seems pleasant to have the changes
rung on those potatoes again. But WIN
omit Fickenger? He has been so officions-
ly meddlesome about the business that he
ought to be mentioned every time, if only
to keep his name before the people,
The Nightingale shipped her trans m
Omaha, yesterday, and then purchased a
ticket for Chicago and lett on the night
train. Il is supposed that the parties who
stole her carpet have compromised with
her IN some way so that she will not an
pear against them.
The annual hunt of the Davenport
Shooting Club occurred on Thursday, Fri.
day and Saturday of last week, and the
supper came off at Music Hall, in the Ger
man Theatre, last evening. Mayor Murphy
presided, and the shootists and their
friends had jolly time.
The Union, in an article headed Re
suit of Hard Times. makes a very coarse
and indecent attack upon most deserving
and useful class of people. If the eirIs
are not fortunate enough to be mistress of
houses OF their own, large numbers of
them are superior in every respect to
many who detame and revile them.
One ot'our citizens, on visiting his
safe this morning, discovered ticket he,M
Democratic Ticket and thinking he had
unearthed something that smelled of fraud
on the election to-day, he rushed into the
street to proclaim it, when he found it was
an old ticket, used here some ten years ago.
But 1t showed that he was vipilant in
watching for tricks Of the enemy
A lying exchange calls our attention
to the fact that man out West has an ex-
traordInary hen that ate saw dust, suppo-
sing 1t 70 be corn meal, then went and laid
a nest tulI OF bureau knobs v hen eoun
try newspaper editors lie that way there is
no hope for them. The gates to an excee-
dinghy warm region are entered by turning
Just such doorknobs
A Hartford bricklayer let fall brick
upon the shoulder Of Il man passing be-
meath. The man paused for a moment.
aud then with a voice trembling with emo
ton, shouted Hi! you dropped a brick. "
The brlck-layer, who was looking over the
edge of the seaffJld to see if the brick was
damaged, eheerfuly answered; An right,
You needn mind bringing it up.
-CuTid 5 right bower is the Justice. of
Guthrie county Iowa, who decided in the
ease Of citizen who brought suit against
his daughter S lover for ejecting him from
his own parlor one Sunday night that
counting is necessity, and must not be in
terrupted. therefore the laws OF Iowa will
hold that parent has M legal right in
room where courtin is foot, and so the
defendant is discharged and the plaintiff
must pay the cost.