The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-21

New York saloon keepers now set out
buttermilk to drink on Sundays and coax
Il down with sacred" music.
They accuse an Indiana editor who re-
turnes thanks for serenade, OF having
played a banjo under his own window
Laughing photographs are coming
into fashion. One enterprising photo
grapher maintains an amusing young man
whose business ii is to keep sitters on
broad grin.
Senator Conkhng is another congress
man who is unable tohve on $1,000 year
He is now in Washington, engaged by the
New York Central road in its light with
the internal revenue bureau.
A man in Paw Paw, Ill, doesn't believe
Paris green an economical eradicator OF
potato bugs. He has had to bury seven
head of cattle in consequence Of throwing
it around loose
The Utica Herald says men will never
know what effect it would have had on Job
if eleven little girls had called on him, one
after another, and tried to sell him Sunday
school picnic tickets.
Some of the robbing scoundrels who
were here with Lent's circus have been
caught at last They were arrested on
Friday at GAINESVILLE, Wis, for robbing jew
elry store at Racine on Thursday They
give their names as T. L. Wilson, T. Bar
ton, James Carter, Charles O'Brien, Charles
Turner, and William Hoffman.
Kalulu, the playful little cuss brought
back from UjUi by the discoverer of Liv,
ingstone, was lost about the time Of Stan
ley's mysterious disappearance. But one
of the friends of the ebon boy has discov-
cred him. de only went back to the bar
Der shop, from whence he came, at Mil
waukee, where he now polishes boots.
Mrs. Utica Clafin Brooker died Of
Bright's disease of the kidneys, the result
of long continued indulgence in intoxica-
ting liquors Mrs. BROKER was born in
Homer, Ohio in 1912. When sixteen
years of age she became an actress in San
Francisco, but gave up the profession five
wears later In 1866 she married Chica
90 lawyer named Thomas BROKER. He il
at present in that city.
According to the St Louis papers thu
Northern Line is bound to have bi!
thing in upper Missouri treights hereat
ter, not by placing boats on the Nilsson
ri by IA good deal, but by taking good
|, destined for Sioux City, Fort Benton, etc.
TO St. Paul is 40 cents hundred. Thu
steamer Rock Island, which passed up yes
terday. had large ,pnsignment of suga
for Fort Benton.
City fowlers had better be just it'll
careful how they go out among the farm
ers these times to kill prairie chickens an
other game as the farmers are complain
ing loudly about the matter and they hav
the law very decidedly on their side Fine
are in order now for killing game at thi
time of year, and it is also against the lay
to enter a man premises for the purpos
of hunting unless you get the owners con
sent.
The appraisers of the property enterin
into the keokuk Northern Line have con-
pleted their work, with apparent satisfac
ton to all concerned. The result show
that the property is worth over $SO0.0Ot
Il consists of all the steamboats,, towboats
wharboats, warehouses, barges, depots
etc, of the three lines now defunct, viz
Keokuk, Northern and Northwestern
The Clinton is assessed at 800. 600; tn
Andy johnson, $4,000; Rob Roy, $50,
600 Alex. Mitchell, $4,000; Lucy Der
tram, $4,000; Bayard $l3, 900 Phil Sher
idan, $4,000
1t is customary to assert that, if punish
meat for crime could only be made certain
and prompt, criminals would be strucI
with terror, and crime be greatly dimin
ished But one thing seems to militat
against such a conclusion. Society cauno
hope TO infiict upon her knayes any NOR
prompt and certain punishment than ma
ture does upon her fools-and yet the lat
ter keep ON kindling fire with kerosen
oil A daughter of VIM Wall, near Ful
ton Junction is the latest case. She IA
10 the yard where some men threw waite
over her, but despite their efforts the fies
on her arms, body and legs was burned t
crisp. Medical attendance was summon
ed, but it was not thought she could liv
over night
A. Loeb, the clothier of Rock Island