The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-roggy, squaily, misty, rainy weather.
THAT new opera house enterprise
fizzled out, is the heading of an article in
a Davenport paper.
The Changers of Iowa have purchased
the entire patent of the Werner Harvest
er, said to be a superior machine.
Thanks to Hon. VIM. A. Steel, of
Joliet, for framed photographic view OF his
extensive stone quarries, at Joliet
finest quarries in the West
The husband of that New Jersey wo-
man who dreamt of being surrounded by
snakes says he wishes she would rehearse
on the head-board and give his head rest.
The reason boy gave for being late
at school was, that the boy In the next
house was going to have dressing down
with bed cord, and he wanted to hear
him howl
Mr. James Haight, who has been con-
ductor on the c., r. |. 4 Z. road, between
this city and Chicago, for many years, left
the service of the company last week.
Davenport Gazette.
Dubuque policemen have a soft"
thing. A man there hired one of them at
81 per night to watch his wife, she was
at the same paying the same man 81 per
night to watch her husband,
In the Supreme Court. at Spring field,
ILL.,, yesterday, the Attorney-General filed
a petition for peremptory writ of manda-
mus to compel the Illinois Central Rail
road Company to sell its lands in accord
ance with the provisions of the act of 1873
The platform of the people for the
Congressional elections of 1874 and the
Presidential election of 1876 will have no
more indispensable plank than that the
President shall be paid twenty-five thous-
and dollars year and no more.
Lives there man with soul so dead,
who never to himself has said I'll pay be-
fore | go to bed, the debt | owe the print
err? Yes, there are some we know full
well, who never such tale could tell, but
they, fear, will go lowell, the place
where there's no winter.
The Desmoines Register says that
years ago, before the Rock Island road
was completed farther than the Mississippi
river, a sharp, active boy filled the position
of Peanuts on one of the Passenger trains
subsequently the boy developed into DR..
Harvey alias Blood, the husband of Mrs,
Woodruff.
Catholic priests everywhere. are doing
all they can to encourage temperance.
Father Boylan, in Davenport, has been de-
| Gvering temperance lectures, with great
success. Father Powers, of Joliet, also is
working in the same good cause. Two
hundred persons signed the pledge one
evening at the close of one of his lectures.
-Ipooty well remember dot it vas in der pleak oc-
tember
Der icy Winds creepin droo efery crefce by der
Der plastered walls vas ribbn der laths vas all a
shpittiu.
While der shnow vas shendly shkippin, yoost out
side by der door,
| vas shuoozin, shweetly shnoozno on der inside by
| Not oney dot, but something more.
Vic Woodruff and Col. BLOOD, aIiasDr
>. II. Harvey, about eight years ago lived
at Desmoines, When they left there Vic 8
| dressmaker's bill was unpaid. AT this Wis
it the bill was presented and Vic cashedit.
People OF far greater pretenslon to good
ness might after all find something in the
Woodruff to emulate.
There is a delegation of citizens Of
Iowa in Washington, to support the bill to
secure the right of way for the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy Railroad across the
| Drldge OF the Chicago Northwestern
Road at Clinton, Iowa The attorneys OF
the Northwestern road are there to oppose
such legislation. The Iowa people repre-
sent that if Congress is impotent to break
down so miniature monopoly, it is incom-
petent to overthrow greater monopolies.
Master Coville, of Danbury, once re
ceiyed prize Friday afternoon for a COM
position on reverence, and further distin-
guished himself in the evening, on the oc-
casion of his pastors visit, by shutting the
tails Of the dominie's coat in the parlor
door and impelling him to leave them there
by introducing "a pin in his chair. The
pastor returned home with cloud on his
brow and one of Coville's coats on his back,
leaving Master Coville executing a horn
pipe in the woodshed under the auspices Of
his father.