The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
God skating on Sylvan Water.

Large quantities OF noating ice IN the
flyer,
The ferry boat has gone to the boat
Yard.
Lieut.. Wright, Ordnance Corps, Rock
Island Arsenal has gone east on VISIT TO
mis- friends.
-Paymaster Bridgman, u. 5. A., is
stamps to the boys at Rock Isl
and Arsenal
The banks, post Office, and many, OF
the other business places will be closed to-
The churches and the saloons
will be open.
Hiram Price and Waldo NJ. Potter
have been chosen delegates from Daven-
port to the Richmond cheap transportation
The fountain on Market Square has
been closed for the season. There ought to
be an arrangement whereby farmer could
draw a bucket of water for his horses.
--Would.b be Gov. Smith, of Arkansas,
is = son of Delazon Smith, formerly OF
Van Ruren county, Iowa, and one OF the
greatest orators of Iowa. early days.
The editor of the Gazette says that
the idea was entertained for briet perlod
THAT he wanted to be appointed collector
fGr the second district but he has changed
his mind.
Mr.. F. II. Griggs, of Davenport, has
collected 1922 for the benefit OF the victims
of the grasshopper plague in northern
Iowa. Some so worth of clothing has
been sent to the rooms of the Citizens AS
ISOLATION, for the sufferers.
Mr.. James A. Cotton, we'll known to
our citizens here is now ticket and freight
agent for the Rockford road at st. Louis,
with his office in the Southern Hotel: VIII
Truesdale is now acting as secretary tor lie
ceiyer Ferry. with his Office at this place,
There's to be a nice club dance at the
Bellows House, this evening. Theodore
Robinson, AL Wilson and Geo. A. Elem
ing are committee Of arrangements. VI
course the supper will be nice. The floor
managers are Julius kessler, Theo, Rob
inson aud j. }. Parks.
Mrs. Everett lady principal Of the
High School room, has retired on account
of her health. Her position has been ia
ken by Miss Valentine, her present assis.
tant Miss Valentine place being filled
by Miss Loomis, of Iowa, who comes well
recommended.
"A festival for the benefit Of the Col
ored Young Mems Literary Association,
Of Davenport, was given at tn, African
Methodist Church, last evening, by the la
dy friends of the members. 1t was a very
happy affair, and a successful one hnan-
Gladly. The young ladies deserve credit
for their management OF it.
Parties asserting claims of indebted
ness against Westerdahl are picking up the
personal property which he left in his
wife possession. One man took horse
and another got sewing machine. A few
short days ago this man had an honorable
name in the community. lie ruined it IN
one night and is now a fugitive scoundrel
Judge Thayer, of the Clinton Age,
who has watched the weather with vigor-
Gus scrutiny for nearly hundred years,
has come to the conclusion that we are on
the front steps Of a turiously severe and
unusually vindictive winter. His reasons
are cogent reasonable and substantial. lie
has noticed that the household "brooms
have more seeds on them than heretofore !;
that horse blankets are thicker; the hair
brushes have longer bristles; that the
dealers in ready. made clothing are more
smiling; the moss On the ragged edge of
despair is thicker than it was wont to be ,
that there are more hairs in the butter
than this time last year, that spare ribs
are all ribs and no spare and uumerots
other forerunners of cold weather are ev,
erywhere visible to the discerning eye
From all of which we deduce the c0nclu.
sion that winter is near at hand.
"A law of this state requires that ev
cry railroad corporation shall furnish eacl
ear used for the transportation OF passcn
gers with one woodman's ak, one hand
saw, one sledge hammer and two leathe
buckets, said articles to be kept in good re
pair, ready for instant use, in some con
venient place in each car, and easy OF &C
cess in case of collision or ether accident,
and all the railroads have been notified by
the Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ers to comply with the law Immediately
| The responses to the circular which the,
issued, requiring these articles to be fur
nished, have all been favorable, saying tina
they had complied with the law or intend
ed doing so at once, and expressing a de
sire to conform to the laws Of the state
The tone and text Of the letters may b
taken as an evidence that the railroads 10
tend to do everything to satisfy a reaSona
bic demand. MIR. McMulen, superinten
dent of the Chicago & Alton, writes tina
he does not comply literally with the law
but acts IN a more effective way. He ful
nishes each coach with a sledge hamme
weighing 9 pounds, chisel to cut off tn
heads of iron bolts,a hand saw, fireman
instead of a woodlands AK, and two rubbe
: buckets. When his outfit is completed, a
| it will be in a short time, he hopes to salts
fly the commissioners and the people tina
he has the best equipped road in tn
state.
Advantage Of the Narrow Gauge Railway
Whatever railroad men may think abor
the comparative advantages Of the ordlI