The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-08
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Gage has been indicted as a default


-Pirckinze, of the Cincinnati Times, says I
that love in cottage often leads to war
in Ashantee."
On Monday the RI. & P.Company
reduced their freight rates from Chicago
to San Francisco.
-Thos. Scott, of Davenport, has sold
his Third Street Horse Railway stock, So
600 at par. The road is paying.
Obey your mothers, go to Sunday
School and look out for air holes, is the
advice of the st. Louis Republican.
-Esq'r Chopper says the sleighing is
fine now and if you can get good company
you should improve it before it is all gone.
"A political economist of the new school
claims that post-ofice clerk who doesn
wear diamond pin has neglect his busl-
ness.
"A man out west who was married
and buried three sisters, now comes up
smiling at the altar, having begun on new
family,
The Old Settlers of Scott county,
Iowa, have their annual party at Judge
Grants residence this year. Judge kov-
er, of Burlington, will deliver the Grafton.
1t is as yet an open question whether
it will be necessary to close the pubic
schools since the town of Elgin, I'll. offered
the boys cents each for all the rats they
would kill
The Rock Island Athletic Club is
prospecting finely AS evidence OF this
fact the club has ordered a new billiard ia
BILE which will soon be set up for the use
, of its members, The rooms are pleasant
and comfortable.
, The Cincinnati Commercial says that
, IF Lieutenant Woodrow could have
brought the Virginius along so as to have
taken the place of the coal barge it would
, have been neat.
On Tuesday Nh. Henry Williams. city
missionary, over the river, was riding out
with his wife, in sleigh They were cap
j sized and Mrs Williams so badly injured
that she is insane.
: AT prayer meeting in Maine few
L nights ago one Of the members prayed,
. Lord, thou knowest that Charles Tomkins
= has sold poor boots to some OF us. Make
. him do the fair thing.
r Major Buford entertained few of his
S gentlemen friends at his residence on Hi
n nois street last evening with quail supper,
q some of those confirmed old bachelors al
n most envy him such nice, happy home
10 Concord, n. H., recently witnessed {
IS matrimonial contretemp. A man was tax
ing quiet walk on the street with anoth-
n er mans wife, when her husband scattered
h that nice little party by the vigorous appli
- cation of cowhide.
~ Says the Springfield Republican
I''Let us give the Senate its due; it is a
is least logical. Having indicated Carpen
ID ter confirms Bingham. The better elias:
IN of party newspapers have our sympathy IL
I'd this fresh humiliation.
~ 1t is said that the chaplain who oficiate'
t. in the case of Captain Jack read this pas
ne sage from the Scriptures, ''Lo, | am witt
or you always" But he failed to explain
why General Grant is the most virtuou
ge man in the United States.
d. The Democrats of Texas having elect
a. ed their State ticket, the Republicans ar
on appealing to Grant to send in sufficier
force to depose the newly elected officers
u There's nothing new in this; its that sam
I'D old item come round again.
to Us to p. NJ. the ilast defalcation W
ut have heard of is Hon. VIM. NJ. Graham
no Republican senator of the State of Ne
=. York, who stole $4,000 from the Walk
IN National bank, of Middletown, n Y. ,whi
Tas he was president of the concern.
ice Now that Treasurer Spinner is bour
for recuperative trip to Florida, son
r;o one says he is going to meander by the r
y; mantle crocodile bayous that he may di
or or cover if the footprints of these creatur
r ros really do resemble his autograph.
ole The river is open from point o.
in mile above LesClaire to this city. Pedest
ans cross on ice, and freight is haul
e across in sleighs by hand, at Princeto
VI Here the river is full of ice, and, owing
last gorges, is ten feet above low water mar
OF The Princeton Ill) Tribune blows
ON blast about dry goods merchant of til
-er. town who in fit of somnambullsm arc
oh from his couch, neatly cut the bedquilt
W two with his pocket scissors, and then as
lay. ed his terrified wife if he could not sh
her something else.
Lewis Howard, one of the oldest S
res tiers of Drury township. Rock 1sla
she county, ILL.,, died on Monday night, of 0
any age. He was over 80 years old. He S
ana tied in 1886 on the farm where he di
got His funeral on Tuesday at Illinois City '
ana largely attended.
. nc. Dallas, Texas, has given 100 acres
IVY omo land to the State Male University which
elni to be located there" If that male univ
TI sity is for the moral instruction of Rep
! =, lican postmasrers nearly every State co
Ia we'll afford liberal endowments and S
III III port for the establishment of similar in
go, buttons.
d q "A Washington dispatch to the Oh
low 90 Journal says Iowa Representa-
ock are endeavoring to secure the designa
the of the Mercy Hospital, at Davenport, q
nee Government Marine Hospital The d
and Guilty is that Davenport is not post,
f the there is no Government surgeon there.
and The G. r. l. & P. Company has
the miles of main track, lac miles of sec
jail. track and sidings, 1877 locomotives, 4,
d us cars. Including leased lines and branc
osts, the Company operates 600 miles of tr'
ana The gross receipts for the last fiscal /,
Jene- were $6,675,050; the net receipts over
Grating expenses, $4,000, 267.
VS. 1t is rumored from Washington
pub Congress will decline to suspend work
fined the public buildings which are already
nown gun, and that appropriations will be u
of as usual. If this proves true, it will
!, and good thing for this locality, as the
amount of the estimates for Rock Is
Arsenal will be made, and all the work
indie be continued during this year
tate), "A young gent in this city who h
ling, laundering after eggs for breakfast ext
lestly ed promise from his Ma, a few W
r, nor ago. that as soon as their hens CONNIE
usual laying his taste should be gratifed.
ser then secretly improyised nest in the