The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-03
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-MoiiIe city council CONSIDERS PROPOSE |
tons for supply their city with gas this
evening.
Seventy FIVE car loads of stocks, from
the west, came last night over the c. Il. L.
& p r. r.
The new State officers of Iowa entered
upon the perquisites of their Office on Mon
day JAN End.
The national banks of New York have
on hand $45,000,000 of specie and legal
tender reserve.
Church people are preparing for the
week of prayer. The Union Office is sug-
gests as one of the topics.
No more prayers for the c. R. |. Il L.
r. 4: The road gives notice of no more
halt fare tickets to clergymen II
Deere 4 Co., of Moline, have received
silver medal on cultivatros, from the Gin
cinnati Industrial Exposition of 1878.
Eight cents instead of fifteen, is to be
the fee for registered letters to any point IN
the United States, after January first.
The Moline Rerieac regrets that the
peccadillos of Gen. Williams were found
out before his conformation as chief JUS
| tice.
"A missing man was lately advertised
for, and described as having Roman
nose He won't be found. Such a nose
as that will never turn up.
Scott county has drawn Grand Jurors
for 1874. Their names are published,
which is bad for the jurors. The boys no
longer associate with them
The coroners jury in the case OF Hen
ry Williams, convict, has exhonorated the
offices of the penitentiary and decided that
the prison discipline is good-and effective
too.
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, gave the
social evils of New Orleans permission to
use the Hall of Representatives for a
masquerade ball. Gen Grant wasn't pre-
sent.
Did any of you ever see an elephants
skin p inquired a teacher of an infant
class Il have, exclaimed one "Where?''
asked the teacher ''On the elephant"
said the boy.
"A dandy asked an old sexton if the
ringing the bell didn't put him in mind of
his latter end. NO" replied the grim
grave digger, but the rope puts me in
mind of yours
Ask Harry Cleveland how he is get
| ting along with his German. In the alb
sence of the regular text books he takes an
| English Almanac and turns it upside down.
Its all the same in Dutch.
| An Alabama postmaster, confessed
defaulter, allows his clerks to swelter in a
Mobile Jail under charge of the crime,
while he attends to business in the legisla-
ture, to which he has just been elected.
The editor of the Moline Reuieao says
he has such high regard for the truth
/ that he cannot say anything compliment
tary of Capt Hayerstick Fact is they
are as near alike as two peas, and still are
not happy.
A sea captain, who was invited to con-
fer with society for eyangelizing Africa
was asked if the subjects of the king of
Dahomy kept the Sabbath YES, was
the reply, and everything else they lay
hands on. -
The City Supt of Schools of Davenport
after many years experience has arrived
at the conclusion that the only way to
keep an infant class perfectly quiet is to
supply each member with unlimited guam
i titles Of molasses candy
1t cost Detroit punster four front
teeth to ask mechanic named Wolf If he
wasn't the animal in sleeps clothing, 50
often referred to- Wolf answered with a
stool, and now his jOvial fellow citizens
know that he doesn't like conundrums.
A coal teamster on the Rockingham
road over the river was stopped by high
waymen on New ears Morning. BY u.s.
ing his whip on his mules and about the
ears of the robbers he made good his es-
cape. Pistol shots skipped over him as
he lay flat in his wagon.
On Monday, JAN 18th, the winter
term of the public schools will open. On
Friday, Jan. 9th, the new buildings will
be appropriately dedicated. The exer-
cises will consist, in part, of an address by
President Richard Edwards, Of the State
: Normal University. So says the Moline
: Repie,o
f Prisoner, Ito learned magistrate) =
Has any one right to commit nui
sance?" Learned Magistrate mo, sir
not even the mayor-no, sir, not even The
governor Prisoner Then you can
commit me for I was arrested as nui
sance, and you've decided that | am one,
"A smart little boy in New Orleans wa
reproved by his mother for telling a fib
He insisted it was only in fun, but his p;
Gus mother told him he must ask Divin,
pardon. So the little boy knelt down ant
said 20, Lord, forgive me- | wouldn'
have done it, only l thought you coult
. take joke.
The anti-monopolists of Iowa are ear
ly in the field The State central commit
tee has called State convention, to NEE
in Des Moines on the 18th Of February, t
be composed of all opponents of the Re
publican party and friends of reform, t
make arrangements for the conduct of tn
campaign OF 1875.
The cry of fire and the screeching o
locomotive whistles in Davenport last even
t ing, was occasioned by fire in the paint
A workman left his jacket hanging to
e vented disastrous confagration, as tn
e building contained large quantities of oil
: benzine and paint
: stephen Girard' will prohibited cler
o gymen from ever entering the doors of Gi
Il rard College. At recent visit of tn
knights Templar of Boston to the institu
/, ton, of the Knights, we'll known physi
/ clan, who wears a white necktie, was pass
V in, when the janitor accosted him, saying
on can't pass in here, the rule forbid
6 it" 1.-The hi | can t, +" replied the ply
1t stefan. "All right, sir, rejoined the JAM
" tor, pass right il"
J. "A wife of nearly ten years, giving he
n servant holiday, was attending to cul
. nary matters herself. and, hearing he
. husband coming into the kitchen, though
It she would surprise him as soon as he OF
h enad tho door bv throwin0 her hands ovp