The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-30
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Another township convention this even
ing.
People are still crossing the ice at La
Crosse.
The Forresters play at Moline Friday
and Saturday of this week.
The new landscape by Bierstadt is
called Autumn in the Sierras.
Look for the Unions excuse for San
dersons' S refusal to run on Olsen's ticket.
The liquor dealers of Burlington are
shipping their goods to st. Louis. Too
much Iowa law
Iowa Courts have decided that jilting
doesn't hurt a man. 10 tor 'em girls, they
are nothing but men.
A white elephant, for Adam Fore
paugh's circus, is now on its way from
Siam to this country.
Morris Resented goes to Chicago to-
night. It's expected, etc, Congratulate
him when he returns.
-Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels at
Dart Hall this evening. 1t will improve
all dyspeptics to hear them.
Somebody is short of funds-there is
another earnest call for the public to sub
scribe to the Washington Monument.
Immigrant fare from New York to
Chicago is only 500 and only 1886 to St.
Louis. The Erie sold tickets in European
tickets
The National Sengerfest will be held
in Cleveland sometime in June. 1t is ex-
pected that at least 1890 singers will be
present.
The District of Columbia Investiga-
ton proves the old stanza-'' and things are
not what they seem though they be
sworn to.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Company has declared a semi an
nual dividend of four per cent. payable
April oath.
The merchants of Louisville have pc
tltiOned the Common Council to repeal the
ordinance requiring commercial travellers
to take out licenses.
| The temperance feeling was so strong in
Cincinnati city in 1916 that the Chron-
Gle refused to quote the price of whisky, or
advertise it ill any way.
Street Commissioner Warner proposes
to give the city good Joliet stone crossings
at once, and have all the streets aud alleys
put in good sanitary condition at once
The Clinton folks, as result of their
visit to this city, have decided to have wa
ter works, and have passed an ordinance
to that effect. They will use the Holly
system.
-Lannie McAffee, the young billiard
champion of Davenport, is willing to play
j. ". Croun. the champion amature play
er of Chicago, and Davenport is willing tt
bet on him.
Imitation of the currency has triumph
ed, and both of our Illinois Senators are OF
that side. Spectators can now sing
Were ahoat, We re afioat, on the wild
wild sea-" Breakers ahead
"A Cincinnati court has decided tina
any one purchasing ticket for a theatr,
after the hour announced for the curtain
to rise will be entitled to any seat in thu
house which he finds unoccupied on enter
ing.
Propositions are to be made to Haw
ley looking towards a change in postmas
I tiers. We learn responsible parties pre-
pose to take the Office and give $1,000 t
the school fund, if they can get it. Their
is such thing as carrying joke too fal
The temperance men of this city, i
t view OF the cowardly action of their ''rs
Gently elected moral and upright" propos
to make personal effort to have the s:
loon ordinance and the State law enforce
to the letter 1t is the duty of the Cit
r Marshal to see that all city ordinances al
: enforced
s Republican caucusses were held
e Davenport, last evening. (Sunday.) The
propose to nominate men of moral an
N rIohf har L
d people did over here. Election produce
a wonderful change in our truly moral an
upril htiy elected When the band begir
Is to play they begin to run away.
l. -Benj.F. Buffers speech on the abuse
l. of the Franking Privilege by newspaper
is received by THE ARGUS. Benjamin
70 informed that THE ARGUS is happy :
" paying postage on its exchanges and ez
T. pect some poor wash woman at Washing
J. ton is likewise, at getting the job that Hav
ley used to frank through to this city to b
4 done.
a. The ways of women are past fndin
). out. 1t is said that the ladies of jackson
% vile, Tenn, have fashion of tying u
70 their taper fingers when young gents ar
expected to call, and when they very ma
uralfy ask the cause, they blushingly repl,
Il burned them broiling the steak tn
rs morning. The result as chronicled /
N the local paper, is that several young gel
r tlemen have burned their fingers by b.
lieving the story.
Otto Willie, son of Godfrey Will
OF Hampton township, living on the bluf
to back of that place. accidentally shot hin
TT self with gun yesterday SUNDAY NOR,
ingl the 20. His father and mother WEI
at Rock Island attending the German J.,
. theran Church, when the boy took loa,
d. ed gun and in climbing over fence ii
hammer OF the gun came in contact with
E, rail aud the contents of one barrelwas di
- charged into his right breast, coming o,
~ at the neck. He only lived about fiftee
10 minutes after he was shot He was lively
years of age.
as Peter Hall and family, who were G
the Inflated Crescent City, were not re
al idents OF Davenport, Iowa, but lived {
= their farm in Hampton township, in tn
= county, half mile from Rapids City. L
u, owned the farm that T. Williams is no
'o working the coal out Of Last fall
nc bought an old barge from the Northel
Line Packet Co, and repaired it aud mae
ed it comfortable for bis family to live i
Loaded it with oats and corn and start,
for the lower country He took his emit
bo family with him, and at Memphis his lit
" daughter Grace fell overheard, on the doy
d trip, and barely escaped drowning. II
R. loss is severe, and will be several thousa,
ed dollars. He lived at Davenport sever
= years ago, and had daughter drowned
= the Mississippi at that point. He is OF
on of the oldest pilots on this river, and is W,
known both 10 this and Scott county.