The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-12
NoTEs HERE AND THERE.

City Council meets tonight. :
The weather has brought that shock
ng bad hand organ out again.
The public library rooms are under .
going the usual spring house cleaning.
A three days reunion of soldiers OF q
the late war commences in Chicago to-day.
"A sudden change of weather Tuesday ,
evening gave us cold shower and some
hail.
-About two miles of track have been
relaid with new ties and rails, from this
city, on the Peoria road.
Only four country teams weighed at
the city scales Monday and Tuesday-the
farmers are busy planting corn.
Mark Twain could have married six
ty-five different girls for love: but ne wal
ted till he could love one with coal mine
in her own name.
Between five and six hundred cattle
are now being fed at Frysinger's distiliery
at Milan. They belong to Peter Fries and
Jacob Frysinger. e-s-
Several horses and carriages belong
ing to John Brown arrived in Milan from
Chicago last night He will probably not
want to use them for some time.
Does Prohibition Prohibit an
xiously injuries the Omaha Bee Well, it
is hard to say. Massachusetts, is just build
ling another large inebriate asylum.
A correspondent thinks the funds be,
longing to what were once the First anu
Second Presbyterian churches ought to
be shared by the Broadway organization.
1t is stated that the Lyon Battery"
of Burlington, is to visit Rock Island,
Davenport and Moline, on one Of the Keo-
lkrk-Northern Line Packet boats, about May
10th. .a-
i David Little, of Mercer county, who
was in town yesterday, says the recent cold
weather has not injured anything except
1.-THE fruit and that but slightly. Small
grain is doing very well.
MIR, A. T. Stewart has rendered the
t Attorney General, Judge Pierrepont,
dinner. If he was poor, hungry and un,
known, instead of as he is,would the great
merchant give him one?
There was CLEAN of very bright sun:
shine two of them for the insurance of
0 fee at 4.3O yesterday afternoon but il
wasted it's sweetness on the vacant air be
cause he was not in the office.
Davenport is expecting to have a biz
y firemen's meeting and parade on THURSDAY
June 18th. Invitations sent to various
r cities in Iowa and Illinois have been &C
d tcerted and big time is expected.
ri Push your business through the news
:, papers. It is just as legitimate as put
= ting a sign over your door, and far NOR
e modest than sending out drummers t
t, worry people into trading with vou
W Charley Pettifer says he has resigne
. his position at the city clerks Office. II
has been very useful there, and retire
= with the best wishes of the city clerk
Charley talks of going to Canada, wher
Id he has brother living.
t. The residents of that part of Molin
IN township added to our city now want tn
township line changed SO as to conform
the city line. This is sensible. 1t wi
nt simplify public business in many respect
90 especially in the matter of paying take
nd If they could make 500 day, an
be were over 100 days 10 the Black Hill
why is it that the returned miners had
- figure for free ride home, and are no
!" living around Sioux City on nothing
ng Where have they put that $4,000 apiece
ne Peter Paulsen, German, aged abol
he IS years, committed suicide yesterday (tt
,at tthl in Davenport by hanging himsel
- His parents live in Traer, Tama county
"a Iowa, and he had only been in Davenpoi
lty about two weeks-working in stone quar-
m, with his brother.
Chicago has nothing to have a center
NAL about, but she has acustom house
mo pail down this year. The pet polite
NV bummers of Charley Farwell, architect
contractors, ETC., we're incompetent al
dishonest, and - that's the way Il
r., peoples money goes.
u, Charley Sing, Chinaman, has be.
md in the city for the last week with the i
ad- tention of starting a laundry. He h
per rented the property recently purchased
: &c DR.. Tegeler, 1.-THE Philip Zahn place., &C
9oi ner of Orleans and Washington stree
trl and he is now fitting it up for laundl
Old Blifkins was about ready to go
mt his Office after dinner the other day, VIII
he the pastor called, but Blif. sat in the p'
nc lor with his wife for two hours till the go
e man went away, and then he walked do
III ua town slowly muttering: ''Ye didn't COZ
90 it, did you parson ?-ye didn't come it.
had "A Joliet Penitentiary prisoner, who
ave suffering the penalty of having once app
art priated something not his own, day
ing two since sent to Chicago paper fervt
ate, poetical effusion. 1t was published.
ser. stirred mems hearts, 1t talked of
er ''wretched prisoner" 1t referred to
, a ''lonely CELL 1t was melting. n
itch comes the Rochester Union and Democ
f as and says the poem is theirs. 1t was p,
ion lished long ago. Habit is strong.
2on- formatory institutions are not able to c.
art with it. The pathetic verses were stol
dv's and now it is the 7'ibune's turn to t
as about the lonely sell.