The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-02
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Look out for them, and "shoot EN- on the
spot
The residence of Mrs. C. w. Deland,
in Clifton, Ohio, was damaged $4,000 by
fire on Monday.
"A fire in Alton, on Tuesday, destroyed
the grocery store of Leo Mitchell. Loss
,0O0-partly insured.
The crow is not so bad bird after all
1t never shows the white feather and never
complains without caws.
Henry Gambs, public administrator,
in st. Louis, is belieied to be defaulter in
the sum of s45, 1000. He has absconded.
= Iu Jonesville, Michigan. on Sunday
morning, a fire broke out in Parmley's sa-
loon destroying the saloon and tho Wayer-
ly hotel
The American cheap transportation
convention met 10 Richmond on Tuesday,
organized appointed the usual committees
and adjourned for the day.
The champion silver cup, valued at
5000, which was won by Albert GARNER at
the billiard match year ago. was stolen
from his saloon in New York on Monday
night,
VIM. II. Gest, Esq has been retained
as attorney for Receiver Ferry, of the
Rockford road. Messrs Osborn IL Curtis
are attorneys for Mr.. Cable and the stock
holders,
When Moline youth goes to spark a
girl he finds the old lady in one corner OF
the room and the old man in another, and
a dog under the mclodeon, and he is re.
quired to speak up like an orator.
Under our odious and outrageous state
liquor law if West sells liquor to person
who gets high and then turns around and
smashes everything in the saloon, West,
and not the drunken man, is liable for the
damage done.
A Helena (Montana) divine who has
spent the best part of the summer in chris
tanizing a chinaman, thought he was get
ting along nicely, until John made pro
position to him, the other day to put in
with him and start faro bank.
The river is clear of floating ice. Il
| is closed over at Port Byron and no ice
makes below. The ferry boat is running
as in the summer The wind is south ant
warm; streets muddy, and crossings neet
cleaning off. Has the Street Com'r any
ideas on the subject?
| The new roof is singled on the Pres
byterian church, and the basement will b.
done, all but plasteriug, within two weeks
The society will probably prefer to occup.
it without plastering, until the church il
done, as good job of plastering cannot b.
done in freezing weather.
R. T. McNeal, Esq, having received
notice Of the postponement of the suit h.
was to argue in the U. S. Court, at Mem
phis, has postponed his trip for the presen
He will probably 60 sometime in January
when, if any of our people have bushes
they wish transacted in the South, he wi
! attend to it.
E The Republicans promised to reduc
the public debt at the rate of ten million
month. They have had money euoug
E to do it, but have squandered it in usele:
. WAYS, or stolen it, and have made very litt
reduction in the debt, They report onl
about one hundred thousand reduction
November. This Is not ten millions redu
ton.
The Gazette says 'The ferry steame
reappeared yesterday noon, and mad
t three or four trips. 1t took hernearly ,tw
hours to pull the ferry dock on this ltf
Davenport side off the bank on which tn
receding water had left it" But the TT
G zette is lawfully puckered up because
v required half an hour to pull the dock in
y place on this side,
An aged backwoodsman was reprovt
II, by the clergyman for allowing his sons
d 90 hunting on the Sabbath. you ougl
:, to bring up your children in the fear
the Lord" said the minister. Fear
the Lord?" said the old man. 5 il
i what I've done Don't one othem DO.
! dar G won't doors Sunday 'thout doub
/ barrel gun"
r. This ees ard" Our Pennsylvania G
changes say: Col. Curtis, the defeat.
Republican candidate for Congress in Il
q Erie District, has been beaten by eler
d votes. Since his defeat he has been o"H'
On By many Republicans who express
=, gret for having voted against him, who a
, sure him they would have voted tor him
o they had dreamed Of his defeat.
IL "A man in Wilksbarre, Pa, recent
> left home one night, assuring his wife pos
e lively that he was going to New York to
4 absent two days. Then he went dow
3D." town and remained two hours, at the exp
Y ration of which he furtively returned hon
&c and found hiend of the family on b
way out of one of the windows withol
many clothes on. Any husband wlo woul
thus wilfully and premeditatedly decei1
C conhding wife is undoubtedly a bas
= wretch whom it were tulsomc adultation
=, call beast