The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07
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taga is al bad as the thief"
Mr.. Hawley speaks in Darts Hall, this
evening, Let 'em fight. The people will
bring out a man who will beat Hawley, or
Lynde, or whoever gets the Republican
nomination.
Smart Woman-''Doctor, whatdo you
think of m for doctors 2 Doctor
They are invaluable, madam, to u
profession. We derive two-shirds OF our
income from them"
VIVA small boy does not envy the
nerve of the portly man who enters chuIch,
takes out a big handkerchief and i
ately blows his nose three times like a ORA
goon's trumpet, before sitting down.
my son, now the boys have won at
Saratoga, and thereby shown the mental
superiority of the college faculty, | would
like to send you to Columbia College but
it's too near Brooklyn, too near Brooklyn"
Capt. David White, one of the best
known steamboatmen in the West, In tor
mer days, and we'll known to many citl-
zens of Rock Island, where he was recent
ly a resident, died in Keokuk last Sunday.
-When they tried to force Miss Gay, of
Independence, Mo. into a marriage against
her will, she kicked the ministers hat of,
knocked the young man down, and rode OFT
on a mule, with one foot on either side OF
him.
William Ingersoll, a yardman at the
Texas depot in Fort Scott, Kansas, got his
foot fastened in the frog on the track and
not being able to extricatc it passing
train ran over him, cutting him entirely in
two.
A wicked little boy in a Moline Sun
day,school was asked by his teacher if he
had learned anything, during the past
week. ''Oh, yes" said he. "What is it
you have learned? ?" Never to lead a
deuce when you've got an ace back of it, 4"
was the reply.
Moline beats all the towns for clip
ping off boys fingers. Find a boy or man
with one or two fingers clipped off and ask
Moline. Most of it is done in the tub and
pail factory the latest case being a boy
named Young.
"A little child named Dittman, in East
Davenport, aged Is months, fell into a
post hole head first and remained in that
condition an hour and a quarter before it
was found. 1t was about as near dead as
it could be and live-but there is hope
that it will survive.
A man named Maddox was hung by a
mob in Cherokee county, Kansas, about
six miles southeast of Jacksonville, lately.
Maddox Jumped a claim belonging to an
old settler on the Joy lands, and the men
in the vicinity thought the quickest and
surest way to settle the dispute was to
hang the 'jumpist."
The people who raise vegetables for
the Rock Island market are all getting
rich. Think of tomatoes, to-day. in Rock
Island, $l,5 a bushel, and in New York
City so cents. The vegetable gardeners
around Rock Island are coming money, and
there is room for as many more to go into
the business at a better profit than any
other kind of farming.
Complaint is made that colored gen.
tlemen who sport white aprons at the
summer-resorts conduct themselves as
though Senator Summers last Civil Rights
bill was already a law. One at Long
Branch charged 25 cents for bringing a
lady a glass OF ice-water, and, when re-
monstrated with, said You wouldn't
bring it ia me for dat"
MIR. Archie Shaw and his wife are
having a pleasant visit among their friends
in this city and Moline. Some twenty
years age Mr.. Shaw commenced business
in Moline, and after a few years moved to
this city. From that time until he re-
moved to Chicago, a few years ago., he
was one of the best known and most high
ly respected business men IN our county.
tI,nl,nIn .pot.ona him an his yiSif and
all wish he would again make Rock Is
land his home. Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw are
stopping at the hospitable residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. james s. Gilmore, on Hi
nois street, but will soon return to their
home in Chicago.
The fine houses in Davenport, built
by Ebenezer Cook and John p. Cook, now
| the property of Mr.. Dixwell, of Boston, to
whom they were m~ortgaged, have been
tenantless for some time. They were built
with great zinc lined water tanks in the at
tic, bath tubs, lead pipe and brass cocks
for water. ETC., and it has just been discov-
cred that sneak thieves have cut out and
carried away, in both houses, all the lin
ings to these tanks and bath tubs and all
the lead pipe and brass cocks they could
get - in some places boards were
torn up from the floors in order
to get the pipe. 1t is believed that the
stolen articles have found their way, per
haps through second and third hands, to
junk shops and partnerships 1t was ru.
mored yesterday, that seven hundred
pounds of it had been found in the posses
sion of a plumber who had bought it, but
this report has not been confirmed.
The work on the government job re-
Gently taken by Mr.. Geo. Williams, of
keokuk, to cut a channel through the low
er chain of the Rock Island Rapids, is near
Shields's wooden mill, opposite East Daven
port, where the rocks have always been a
dangerous obstruction to large steamboats,
in times of high water. As it is now the
pilots are obliged to make a short, sharp
turn from the channel towards the Island
shore, steer northward for the Davenport
shore. then turn sharp again, round the
point of the chain, and turn again for the
middle of the river. The rocks are known
Island chain" from lying in front of the
quire the building of a Golfer dam. In
stead of the whole chain being leveled, the
channel at the north point of the chain will
simply be widened a few hundred feet,
making avoidance of the chain less difficult
to pilots by giving steamers a wider swing
in rounding the chain. 1t is the intention
Of Colonel Macomb to do all he can this
year to remove the difficulties pilots en-
counter at this chain, but he cannot do the
work as thoroughly as the interests of nav-
igstion require. on account of the small
appropriation by Congress for work on the
upper rapids. The appropriation is but
$4,000.
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