The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-27
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
Charming dav.

-Charmlng gay.
Train Sunday, tomorrow.
The winter time table for the c.. r.
|. 4 p. railroad will not go into effect till
Monday, the 5th prox.
The public schools, of this city, closed
on Wednesday evening for Thanksgiving,
and will reopen on Monday.
The boys aud girls in this city, did a
good deal of skating on Thanksgiving day,
though the ice was neither good or strong,
Temperance lecture at St. Anthony's
church, Davenport, tomorrow evening at
half-past seven o'clock. Everybody in
yited.
The Boston Post remarks that if
Bristow il nominated for president. the
spirit of IS will he crooked wiskey, which
isn bad-fnr the Post.
Secretary Bristow is preparing to make
war On the New Orleans whiskey ring,
which is said to be the most formidable
organization OF the kind in the country.
The attention of the police is called
to the racing and fast driving of Dayen-
port hacks from the evening Peoria train
n few fines will be necessary, and the
sooner the better.
The Collins Farrell gang, who reside
down by the old distillery, have been quar-
rellng again, and Justice Cooke, fined
John $40. and gave him week to raise
the funds necessary to keep out Of jail
Rev. Father McShane, ofGeneseo, will
deliver an address in ST. Mary's Catholic
church, in Davenport tomorrow evening,
before the ST Mary's Total Abstinence
after vespers.
The case of Alanson Sinnett, charged
with misdemeanor, by Mrs. Gormly, which
was up before Police Magistrate Chopper
on Tuesday, and postponed until Dec. End,
has been compromised, Mrs. Gormly with
drawing the charge.
The notorious gunboat- opposite Bur
lingtoD, Iowa, in which the recent muir
der of the woman, Bette McCarty, was
committed by Bill Lee. was burned by the
Henderson county, CHI. vigilance commit
tee on Wednesday night.
| John Logan says he never, so help
him, had anything to do with distilleries
and is $4,000 or so poorer to-day. THAI
when he entered the senate. Why, John
Such IA good poker player as you used to be
|
..-Draymen who empty water on the
sidewalks Will get fined ''the first thins
know. People who catch a fall on ic
caused by their carelessness don't fee
good nature4 abont it. Owners of build
ings where water barrels are permitted t,
stand are also liable to fine for ice on tn
walks.
Will Cameron, of Davenport, son o
W. s. Cameron, a we'll known merchant
there, died Thanksgiving day, at hi
fathers residence in Jersey Ridge
of brain fever. He was % years old; wa
a member of the Methodist church and it
Sunday school, and greatly respected b
all.
The Central Ulinoisan, we shout
Judge, is not railroad organ. Tt make
the following staten ent with apparent glee
I'VE feel authorized in making the state
ment that if shippers want rates or car
over the Rockford road they can get ther
in reason and promptness. Even an ez
cursiOn train could be had"
John Bardsley and wife, Alb,
Rhodes, and Thomas ellsworth, of Co;
Valley, and Miss Annie Ross, daughter {
of Job Ross, of this city, have started fc
England. Those from Coal Valley go t
visit relations, and Annie to attend schoo
They leave New York on Saturday, No
y, on board the steamship City of Berlin
The Dubuque Herald says: "Funn
) world this Davenport has just subscribe
S3SO,W'p Or some grand railroad schen
oft IN Mexico, that is going to make ever
: mother son OF them richer than Floot
! OBfien or Fair; and the Davenport
st. Paul road has been waiting for thre
years to get into Davenport, but can q
no tErther than the back pasture"
A St. Louis despatch says: ''To
b. Scott is here, and is the moving spirit
/. the convention. There is no dis uisiu
) the tact that the enterprise from first
last is Tom Seott's, At the banqu
!. given to the delegates tonight he mac
5 quite Lengthy speech, in which he e!
:. pressed perfect confidence in the favorab
action OF c ,ngress, If the proceedings al
the convention are harmonious.
Last Sunday evening Cruy's stores
e Brady street, Davenport was robbie
II Thursday morning Officer Miller fou,
the goods on the hill north OF the telegral
road, back of the residence of Jas. NJ
Manus, Esq.-at the side Of log cover
W with leaves-two grain sacks full of shrl
/, gloves, neck ties and muffiers, and she
: box full of scarfs. The jewerly was four
= under some steps at the side of Moore
>, vacant bakery on Front street, where
Ill woman saw them. The guilty parties a
'; all residents of Davenport Jont
IF whose parents live on Front near Ro
! Island street, and John and Eugene Azure
NJ who live near Sixth and Main Streets,
p between Il and 81 years of age, and tn
to are all in Jail in want Of $500 each to pl
cure bail.