The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

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Mr. J.. s. Gilmore has packed 5,445 il
logs since the 9th of November, "
How to make good puffs-Send the C
publisher fifty cents line for them. q
The glass cutters, at the Rock Island !;
1lass Works, have to work nights and +
Sundays to keep up with the blowers-and !
are still behind. s-.. as4s a..
The Gardiner, Maine, Journal says I
that there is store in that place in which {
a skull is kept, marked: This man was
a drummer. Beware p
3 The inventor Of the Hamilton Prairie
Stove. now being made at the Rock Island
Stove Works, is farmer named W. l..
Hamilton, of Creseo, Iowa, -.a e.. A. /
-s-Silas Card was married the other day,
and on his wedding notices were the
words: mo cards" But he dosen't
know what might happen. . ..s ..la..eez]
do you ever expect to get to
heaven when you neglect to sprinkle ashes
on your slippery door steps, and on the
glare ice on your front sidewalks ri --
The letter of lie Nard, in this paper, |
exposes new swindle by the women, in
ashington,-a swindle that somebody
must explain, or hear more about.
As the freight train coming west on
the Peoria road, last evening. was cross
ing the C. B. T. @. r, r. at Galva, seven
cars jumped the track, delaying trains
about three hours. Nobody hurt.
Mr. A. G. Tucker, the popular station
agent for the c., r. l. & P. r. &. in this
city is a practical printer and was
formerly one of the owners and publishers
of the Iowa State Press, at Iowa City.
The funeral of Mrs. Tobias Schumac-
ker. Ia sister of Mr. George Wagner,of this
city, will take place at her late residence
in Geneseo tomorrow friday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.
lJ-There is no man in the country more
talked about in the newspapers to-day
than Andrew johnson, and it is note
worthy that an overwhelming majority of
the press has only pleasant words to say of
him. '-' "5 ~ 80. III
i The N. Y. Tribune, some time ago,
gave notice that contributions OF 81 could
be sent to that paper for the relief OF the
grasshoppered people. All subscriptions
are acknowledged in the paper, and the
amount already exceeds 81 900 which has
been forwarded in sums of three and five
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received by the Tribune every day.
Tits expected that good dealof lum
= Der will be brought down the Mississippi on
barges the coming season, and it is believed
that the experiment will prove successful
If successful it will materially affect the
D lumber trade. It will haye many advan
Y tages over the present way of running lum
|. Der in the water. which always does it more
: or less injury, and will make the handling
of the stock much pleasanter and easier.
BY the change of management in thu
J Rock Island Stove works the new super
r intindent, MIR. A. H. Hammand, will hav'
e charge of the stove store. in the building
4 adjoining the Rock Island National Bank
Mr. Fred Heath, who has been in the stor
for the past year, owns property in Ripon
e Wis, where his family resides. He vii
e return there, for the present. We hop
le he may yet become permanent citizen o
Rock Island.
Since the discussion Of the PROPOSE
ton by MIR. Mitchell for city hall buildin
and lot. many people will doubtless re
IN member Hon. Bailey Davenport's offe
Or made year or so ago to glve to the cit
ID lot S0xl50 feet in size fronting on tn
: east side of Elk street between lllinoi
III and Orleans streets. This lot is just aroun
is the corner from Mr.. Mitchelrs and. if tn
eff city is really DESTROYS of erecting a cit
" hall, now, it might be good idea to loo
70 in that direction. Davenport Gazette
sc Thomas Newcomb and. Alroy Reaug
- called at Magistrate Cooper O
ut fee this morning and identified four ston
cutters hammers and two chisels, belong
in ing to Mr.. NJ Doyle, which were stolen b
IL Wilson, the sneak-thief, last Septembe
=, The office still looks like pawn shop, an
a. people who have lost anything are reques
ed ed to CALL A j. Small, of Davenport
also called at Magistrate Choppers ofit
or this morning and identified blankets,
~ sheets. bed spreads and one dress, whic
Gu were stolen about six weeks ago from h
he residence, then On the Camden road.
Ill "A good many people were injured |
The falling on the icy streets in Davenport, {
bo Wednesday. Fritz Bergfeld was take
w up senseless and carried home Mr.
lat Herman Jacker had wrist broken.
railroad conductor dislocated shoulde
ese A stranger, named John Steine fell at
no seriously injured his spine. A man W
:. hit by wagon swinging around al
ra- knocked senseless-and many people b;
nts a fall, breaking no bones. A driver a
of tempted to drive over a hundred Gait
,on from the Duck Greek depot to the c. r.
Il 2 depot, many of them fell on the il
JIG streets and refusing to get up had to
IN loaded on sleds and hauled to the depC