The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


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Want to buy house,
Want to rent house,
I Want to offer bargains,
Want to attract customers,
Want to make known your
Wants, advertise in the
-DAuY and WEEKLY Rock ISLAND
ARGUS.
dressed hogs were selling,in Dubuque
on Thursday for y to s cents per pound.
Matt. Merrihew, noted burglar and
store thief. who escaped from Jail in Des-
moines months ago, was recently discov-
cred in Wisconsin and returned to Jail,
In the suit of Myron Wright in Black
hawk county, Iowa, against Mrs, Stickley
and her daughter, who tried to kill him be-
! cause he wouldn't marry the girl, the plain
tiff got a verdict of 81. 100. He sued tor
| $4,000.
"A man named Branklin and his wife
we're driving home from Sterling, Ills. on
Tuesday evening, when the horses ran
away and the woman was thrown out, strik-
ing upon the back of her head. She died
in few minutes.
"A social party is to be given in the
new hall at Coal Valley, by Valley Lodge
No CAT, A. +. & A. NJ, on christmas eve.
The object of giving the ball is to raise
funds to get regalia and jewels for the
lodge There will by an oyster supper and
every arrangement for good time.
The telegraph notices that M. b;
Lloyd, of Orion,a delegate in the Richmond
convention, presented his plan of pater-
nalistic railroad and that Mr.. Potter, OF
Davenport, wanted the convention to in
dorse specially and separately, request
for Papa Government to dig canal from
Rock Island to Hennepin. Both were re-
ferred.
The Bank of Manchester, in Delaware
county, Iowa, a few miles west of Dubuque,
known as David Ieroy's bank, has bust
ed, owing to the extravaganza OF the pro-
prietor. 1t holds deposit funds to the
amount of 100000, and depositors are con
vinced of its rottenness and clamor tor
their money. A little Lynch law is the
best remedy for this sort of thing.
"A letter from Buffalo Prairie says the
accident to Mrs. Hartman occurred near
the house of Mr.. kuneman, some three
or four miles northeast OF the Hartman
farm, and not near the house of MIR,
koontz as first stated in THE DAILY
ARGUS. 1t was probably an error in names
by our informant 1t is stated that the
funeral of Mrs. Hartman will take place on
Saturday.
A seedy- looking chap, having on a
straw hat and very thin coat, was meand-
sring the streets yesterday, and, whenever
he saw benevolent looking face, he APP
preached the owner and remarked in a
smooth tone: MY dear sir, circumstan,
ces over which | have no control compel
me to request the loan of 10 cents for
about a half an hour" The loans he eff
fected would not buy hair. pin.--Detroit
Free Press
"A special to the Courier Journal, from
Mt, Sterling, KY, says it is reported there
that John ID. White, Republican congress
man elect from the Ninth Kentucky Dis.
trict, shot and killed Harrison Cockerell,
his Democratic competitor in the late cleo
ton in Estll county, yesterday. The can
and personal, and few days since Cocker
ell published card making very severe
structures on White. 1t is probable that
this card precipitated the difficulty.
Yesterday mornings Inter- Ocedxsa ys ::
Dan Mozart, formerly Superintendent
Of the Mozart Watch Company of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, which was bought out by the
Rock Island Watch Company at Rock Isl
and, ILL.,, was on Wednesday, taken to the
asylum at Kalamazoo. His arrangement
was the result of three years excessive
mental taxation on watch he was ready
to have patented, and which was to mark
quarter seconds, half seconds, seconds,
minutes, hours, days of the week, days of
the month, and months of the year