The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

They had sleighing at lswa City last
week
Dark, cloudy day. Air feels like snow,
Little or no Aoting ice. Ferry runs as usual.
Hundreds of boys were skating on
Sylvan Water and on the Rockingham
slough, on Sunday.
1t was Michael Rourke, instead of
Lynch, who died at the house of John
Stretch on Wednesday of last week.
-Hampton new billiard rooms were
crowded Saturday evening to witness the
ine playing of McAfee-a very skillful
player.
Henry Darts Sons have just put in
large safe weighing some 1900 pounds |
Al claims to have lifted it-with crow
bar as lever
M Y. Cannon, Esq, has been seleo- |
ted az one of the Board of Examiners at
The annual examination Of st. Agatha
Academy, Iowa City.
Hart, the sculptor, has finished his
statue entitled "The Triumph Of Chas-
titv The statue is not subject OF the
nrcsent age,-S. Louis Rep.
Fire from passing locomotive fell
,ron the Sylvan Water r. r. bridge on
Saturday, and was famed into blaze, but
was soon extinguished by buckets OF wa
| ter.
-Blanford has been disappointed in not
receiving that elegant mirror for his sa,
loon, but will nevertheless have the grand
opening promised this evening. krell Will
serve the supper
An effort is being made in the western
part of Scott county, Iowa, to build mar
row gauge railroad from Davenport through
Rockingham, and Buffalo to Blue Grass,
and the coal mines,
The impression was gaining ground 10
New York on Saturday that the burglars,
Mosher and Douglas, either never had any
thing to do with Charlie Ross, or. had put
him to death to avoid detection.
The govorner of Ark, has issued pro-
clamation declaring the result of the Con
eressional election in November. l.. q.
Cause, w. T. Slemons, W. w. Wiltshire,
and L. NJ. Gunter, all Democrats, are
declared elected,
The announcement that Henry Clay
Dean will lecture on the old senate IN Bur
tbs Opera House, Wednesday evening has
created considerable interest, as Mr.. DEAN
was chaplin of the old senate, and is one OF
the able men Of the country.
i -Corpulent old lady" / should like a
ticket for the train" Booking clerk lwho
thinks he will make jokel-"Ies; will
YOU 90 in the passenger train or cattle
train ? " Lady-"Well, if you are speci-
men of what shall experience i'll the pas
senger train, give me ticket for the cattle
train by ali means. Punch.
That speakership question is not set
tied by any means even in anticipa
tion. Witness, for instance, the epig
rammatic remark of Texan Democratic
NJ C; well Banks may sing with us bu
he can't lead the choir" Still, though
Texas is becoming an important state II
is not the only one to hear from.
One night in the first week in October
a team and good wagon were stolen iron
the barn Of George Ellis. at Aliens Grove
Scott county. Iowa. The property wa
: tracked to Bushnell, this state, where on
Jefferson Brock, who was suspected OF hay
ing stolen it, was arrested and brough
i to Davenport, arriving last Saturday morn
ing.
q The Georgia Changers are reported!
= be at last engaged in raising cotton witt
i out RELYING upon other labor than thel
h own. Had this course been adopted lon
ago there would be more prosperity to-da
, in Georgia. There is an excellent OF
proycrb of a religious turn, to the effet
that "God helps those who help then
/ selves
In this magnificent republic every
/ body has views and even In the saloons
opinions upon grave topics are expresse
n forcibly. A gentleman slightly under IL
II influence of the intoxicating bowl furnlsi
e. ed proof of this fact night or two az
1, 'Wbiskey, zur," said he; hic brighter
k. the intellect. 1t ought, by thunder, to
introduced into the public schools, eur
es The Pacific Mail investigation has 4
, ready wrought one great good. IL h
- shown how subsidies are carried, Whet
: er the individual congressman are
caught or not, the system Is doomed.
le the face of the revelations about Pacl
g. Mail, this congress will not dare to OBJ
-, the powerful lobby now demanding su
- sidy for Tom Scots Pacific Railroad.
Of one thing we feel assured, Il
at Transportation question can never be solv
by the locomotive. There is too much e
nense involved in the allral movemer
Tie highways for our surplus products
of the seaboard, must be waterways. 1
in recent successful introduction of steam
80 the Erie canal has put new face on I
'', matter. and men who talked OF railw
OF carriage few years ago now admit that \
IS. must finally fall back on water carriage.
Die Peoria Transcript
ire 1t is bad enough to have small arm
!. of men whom you have hired with Go
: eminent money to vote for you turn abo
III deliberately and vote for the other ma
OF but it is a good deal worse to have 20
ID private woes held up to the gaze of a
sas riding public. Nothing but the most u
., ter heartlessness could have persuad,
M the Springfield Mass Republican to pu
asst lisn this paragraph: " \ good story com
from the Capital we dare say it ism t tru
r. The dramatis PERSONA are Mr.. Robes
u and Mr.. Gooch the scene, the floor OF t
- House. Mr.. Robson log. hear tn
or all those men we put in the yard voted I
Banks. Mr.. Gooch gazed sadly into !
friends face, and turned silently away"
Many years ago there was lit
house of entertainment on the corner
Third and Brady streets, Davenport, call
ire the Judd House" 1t was whisper,
L that Judd and his wife did not live plea
pr. antlv together. Judd died. mysterious