The daily Argus., 1874-02-06
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

y our taxes are now due.
Marriage licenses are dull.
Dwelling houses are in demand.
Your business should be advertised.
The lenten season commences on the
l8thinst
VIC. Wadsworth has gone tothe Ar
kansas Hot Springs.
Thunder has been likened to an onion
because it's peal on peal.
Smith Bros. of Oakley, have removed
to Hampton, and opened fine Meat Mar
ket
The Young Settlers Association over
the river hold their festival on the l2tn
inst. at the Newcomb House.
| When the waiter passed Spicer some
very old cheese at the hotel table the ether
day, he responded, Not mite"
We learn that the present post-ofhce
address of Harry Devere, late book keeper
for the Union, is-Lowell, Mass.
/ Tickets for social party, at Youngs
| Hall, Milan, on Monday evening, Feb. 10th
have been printed at THE ARGUS ONCE.
Preserve us from the man who takes
up an hour of valuable time telling an
item, and concludes by asking us not 10
publish it,
Dance at Darts Hall tonight. The
3 st, Marv's Society. The hall has been
t washed clean and everything will be In
! good order.
The lumber business is prosperlng-
y the shipments from this city by the various
: railroads centering here are on the IN
n crease.
II A sign in BARRIERS shop window an
r nounces. Boots BACKED inside. 1t Is
3 suggested that this must be very bad for
!, the stockings. -s
Mrs. jenkins complained in the eve
y ming that the turkey she had eaten dldn :
l. set well. Probably" said jenkins, 1T
K was not hen turkey.
I'll Clint Parhhurst's Poems will be is
sued by The Western News Company,
Chicago, on the 18th inst and can be ord
, cred through any book dealer in any city.
-Eighty-six families in Davenport are
receiving aid from the county. Poor Su-
perintendent Meyer states that great
:. deal of sickness prevails among these fam
y ilies
10 "A nice little fall of snow this morning
L Sleighing never better. Plenty Of sleighs
to crossing the river at the foot OF Eagle
eff street. Quick ride.
m IS. E. Scott, physician residing a
ofl Wilton, Iowa, has been pronounced insane
"a by the county commissioners, and will b'
t, sent to the asylum He is between fort,
a and fifty years of age.
he Pool tickets are now being printed a
en- THE ARGUS office for the shooting mattel
l,o which comes off at Davenport on the 17tl
and 18th instants. Pools will be sold a
OF Tilebeine's formerly Billy Goes in Dav
no enport.
all "A New Haven editor spent last Sun
en- lday in Slawson, and attended church
IN he was in doze, but on being nudged, ha:
IL - tily exclaimed, Il have pass"
Those of our tax paying citizens VIII
eo- have not time to call at Collector Cleav'
ers lands Office during the day, will doubtie:
ty. be pleased to learn that it is now kel
on open until balfpast eight o'clock IN IL
~ evening for their especial beneht.
A tenement house over the river,
wv Gaines street, north of 4th. occupied
Tor three families named Conrad Hoffma
ith Fritz Beltzer and VIM. Schmidt, VI
burglarized between and o'clock yeste
day afternoon, while the families were a
sent
cry 1t was not ex-Rey, Copeland that
ur- Canada detective tracked from Canada
70 Maquoketa, as published in the Iowa Ci
ing ad adfI' Word HINT Dt, Who ram awav from Chat
:. am, C. W., with the wife and boy of one
his parishioners.
'a,9, aeen The Chronic Mudhead says ISL
af TuE ARG
sn's' blunders on the names of old residents
this county" The ARGUS has made
as.l- blunders in that direction, as anybody /
ntly a mudhead would know. 1t copied sta
iov. ment from another paper and credited
me to that paper.
rort The advertisement of THE Rock Ii
AND ARGUS appears in this paper. he
thoi it, and if a paper from that city is want
afu-- send for THE ARGUS by all means. Il
rea- well priated newsy newspaper, and
nose lending its powerful influence in favor
- an honest administration of public affai
on1 Henry County Neacs.
not +? vevor ;s sinking a shaft for coal on
su- Hutr estate, within the city limits of
The line. Tt is understood that he discove
fling a VEN Ioath L. has ~I,n i,a,,. o secrat Fl
bpItuSs bub A1o ASPb ~ = SSSAS~ -
nary succeeds in finding coal in paying qua
ristie ties, it will be an important discovery
hing Moline, as the bluffs will all be likely tc
GOV underlaid with the same vein. We b
it may prove as expected.
The ''Filhbusters'' of the upper
for of the county have been busy during
sleighing, Last week Monday night t
visited Mr.. Ira Crawford of Pleasant
rs. ley and most excellent time was the
LII. suit. On the evening of the 4th Mr.. s
Crompton was notified about six oc
tor that he was the victim and over sixty
9p.m sons we're present on the occasion.
is is The sprightly and generally reli
u Springfield correspondent of the st. L
" Republican claims that Hon. Charles
10 ham, ofthis city, is one of the very best
baters in the house. Other correspond
have recorded similar opinions in the ,
in in and md GUS journals which they represent at
capital, and we take the same view of
m N d dis ss case that they do In point of ability
could, tegrity and influence Mr.. Durham has
sing it, few peers in the legislature. Geneseo
O'O public.
Use it..-Use what2 Why Durno' s
Ames, tarrh Snuff 1t never fails, and that
~, in reason it should be used.
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