The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Charles Dickens, Jr., has his father
face
The river closed from Princeton to LIE
Claire on Sunday night.
The County Council, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, was in session in this city to-day.
Charles s. Ackley. who settled in Day.
export in 1855, died on Sunday, aged 62
years
Another sorrow has come to the af-
flicted family of Mr. Ramskill. See death
notice.
Father Jacquemet, the backed on"
priest of Baltimore, is going TO be teach
err That's school.
--Capoul is said to make love better than
ever on the st, Petersburg stage-and this
in spite of the climate!
= The death of one those little twin boys
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. d. Sweeney took place
on Sunday afternoon.
--Scoundrels, thieves and burglars in
the guise of beggars are plenty about these
days. Look out for them all.
Mr.. Gladstone has most fear of the
canons Of the church when there is an
thC guns.
Stephen Pearl Andrews-.dear old
friend Of other days still holds his opinion
that lady with black stockings on has no
business to walk out on windy days,
Report of engineer of water works !:
Total number gallons Of water used by the
city during the month of November-l2,-
676,O3o. Average per day-437, lO43.
The long looked for hook and ladder
s aal rs prepared in TIC Western Engine
House, corner of Court House Square,
Internal Revenue Collector Wiser,
collected ST., 229. O3 in this county, in No,
vember. The collections for Scott county,
Iowa, opposite us, for the same month are
$4,662.57.
Prince Bismarck is compared by some
one to a crop. cared bulldog in appearance.
His bald head and thick form encased in
the ungracful soldiers coat are said to aid
in the illusion.
That solitary fisherman on the ice, al
luded to in last evenings ARGUS, says he
caught three salmon, the largest weighing
10 lbs and the smallest TBS, besides quite
a string of smaller fish. Pretty good
MIR. Geo, w. Plat. artist, has on ex-
hibiton at Champions view in the church
Of St. Mark, at Venice, -painted from OBJ
servatons taken by him while there. Also |
portrait of Miss Laura Platt, his sister.
Criticisms are invited.
Maj. Cole wishes THE ARGUS to say
that Union meetings will be held every
night this week in the methodist chapel, |
and prayer meetings every day, at noon,in |
the board of education rooms, Mitchell q |
Lyndes block. Everybody is invited
The ferry boat came up to her dock
this afternoon. The river has fallen about
3 feet and the much talked of rocks are now
in sight at the dock. 1t is good time for
the ferry company to put couple OF men
in there with heavy sledge hammers and
break them up fine.
MIR. NJ. A. Elliott, of Amherstburg,
Canada, formerly in the ST. Louis r, r.
office, arrived this morning and
IS at his old place again He will probably
DC on day duty. and Ben Powars on night
luty. Mr.. Elliott has many friends here
who will be glad to see him back again.
Mary +. Tilotson thus addresses the
PEOPLE of North America through the New
York Graphic: This world has not yet
her grandest specimens of the
euale form. Petticoats have perverted
Ter, dragged upon her spinal anatomy, dis
arranged her vital organs, and made her
ruly a wretched remnant of past glory.
No earthly salvation for people whose wo- f,
men wear petticoats Instead of pantaloons.
Ichabodr
If constant reader of THE ARGUS
for the last or wears" in Cordova don't
,now when he or she, whichever it may be,
ENDS communication for publication the I
lame of the writer must accompany it as
guaranty to US that we are not humbug-
red, then he or she has read THE ARGUS
cry carelessly How do we know that the
is true statement, or a
lumbug? Who have We to refer to if it 4
,roves to be "a sell?' We should cheer :
ully give the little puff a free insertion if \
Se had any responsible person to refer to
D case it proved a sell. The communica- &
ion has gone into the rag bag where all
uch anonymous articles 60. If such O
Triters cannot trust their names with Us
hey might better save their stationary 2
nd postage
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