The daily Argus., 1874-02-11
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Keep off the ice.

Keep off the ice.
Clear, pleasant day.
-Sleighing pretty much used up.
Water running down the streets in
brooks.
Steamboats, are running as high up as
Keokuk
Some fun may be expected at the
theatre tonight,
Peoria claims to have packed more
ice this season than last.
| Michael Flanagan, who lost an arm
coupling cars on the l. b. u w. has re-
covered $4,000 damages.
| -DeBeriot club concert at Moore's Hall
Davenport next Tuesday evening assisted
by the Arion Quartette club, Of this city,
The Chicago Times itemizer is an ass.
/ He devotes the space which should be CIV
en- to facts to falsehoods and abuse OF Rock
Island.
| The Illinois river is open nearly all the
way from Peoria to Havana. Several
barges were towed down by the steamer
Novelty the other day.
j, The Grand Jury, in session at this
city, to-day, found another Indictment
against David A. Gage, the ex-City Treas
, urer. Chicago Journal, 10th.
Isn't it time for the governor to send
out Adjt.- Gen. Grafton with box OF salt al
to sprinkle On the coat-tails OF the Gad s
Hill boys?-,S Louis Republican.
,, While Mr.. John NJ Eldridge, OF Jer-
sey Ridge, Scott county, was serving on the
grand jury in Davenport, burglars were
, robbing his house for the fifth time in four
years. ~
. The dissolution of Babcock & Bready
> is published Dr. Bready is now sole pro-
prietor of the machine shop and foundry.
I'VE hope he will receive an encouraging
patronage.
/ A son of Michael Dodd, who lives on
i tie west side of Illinois river in Marshall
v county, while out hunting, on Saturday
e last. was killed by an accidental discharge
of his fowling piece.
-Leavenworth Arsenal is to be aban-
!, doned as an arsenal, and all ordnance stores
u sent to Rock Island Arsenal. The build
!. ings will be turned over to the Quarter
= = master General for army use.
A list of Oranges of Patrons of Hus.
: bandry in this county, together with the
!. names of Masters and Secretaries will be
e found in this paper. The number of Rose
/ Hill Grange cannot be given until the char
!. ter is received.
III The Little Rock Gazette of Sunday
is says that Gov. Baxter of Arkansas has
It written letter to Gov. Woodson, of Mo.
y saying he will cooperate in any effort t
,e arrest and bring to justice the Gad's Hill
IS robbers.
" Ed. Kohn, Rock Island Commercial
le traveller, got his cheek damaged in a rail
p road accident over in Iowa, ,and had to qui
s. work. No commercial traveller can do bus
IN mess while his cheek is out of order.-Ch
p cago Journal, 10th.
ri -RoUelPs american Newspaper Re
~ porter says: THE proprietors of the sew
~ eral printing offices of Bloomington have
y owing to the hard times, reduced the pric
- of composition from thirty-fve cents t
~ " thirty cents on morning papers, and fror
- = thirty cents to twenty-five cents on the eve
70 70 ming papers.
h. Burglars are busy in nearly ever
J. place, and policemen should be vigilant an
do all they can to catch the scoundrel
of The house of poor woman, in Northwe!
o. Davenport, was entered by thieves yestel
IS Qay morning, White the oWueF was ava.
,ir and every room was ransacked, and man
ot small articles of value taken. The a.
es was done in broad daylight, but yet notl
IS ing of the perpetrators Of the deed WI
seen by the neighbors
The Republican newspapers are
he good deal exercised about the free discu
:. sion in the opposition caucus at Sprin
81 field. The difference between the actiC
H. of that caucus and the Republican caucr
ito is that the Opposition caucus deliberate
rst on the questions before it, whereas Il
r resolutions adopted by the Republican Ca
'fS Gus were shipped on in bulk by John
ng Logan, with an order that they should
om adopted.
Der Prices have been cut down in Peori
,ed The scale issued by the Typographical Z
,er ion last summer was forty cents for mig
an work and thirty-fve for day work, al
1ld weekly wages seventeen dollars. The pr
fell prietors of the Democrat and Trdascril
lad on January lst, notified the Union tn
rse they should, on the following week, C
ur down FIVE cents on composition and weel
i'm wages to fifteen dollars The boys did L
Ger strike, but, like sensible men, kept right
uc- work RosoeHs An,erican Neaospaper 1
in porter.