The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-06
NOTES HREE AND THERE.

puDncan party 1Or sinners who wish to re-
turn. Chicago Journal.
The circulation of THE ARGUS has
been steadily increasing for some time.
Advertisers should make note of this.
-Heagy & Stoddard have leased, for
three years, the mines of the Davenport
Coal Company, situated in Hampton town
ships are now working the same. They
now produce IS cars of coal, daily, and
employ 250 men,
The principal business in Davenport,
at this season OF the year. is shipping on
ions aud cabbages. The cabbage shippers
have quit buying by the head-the heads
are too dubious and not very solid. The
price yesterday was &c per ten pounds.
No clue yet, to the thief who, on
Wednesday night, broke light of glass
in Turner show window. on Illinois street,
aud stole two pairs of custom made boots
lone with cork soles-value $27: two
pairs of Alexis shoes, value $l4; and two
pairs slippers, value 81.
From alas Cruces paper we learn
that Hon. Singleton NJ, Ashenfelter, swho
was here when his house was destroyed by
waterspout, 10 September last, had ar
rived home and commenced to rebuild on
a larger and better plan than that of the
lost house. His loss was about $4,000
In ancient Rome all candidates for
| office we're accustomed to dress in white
robes, as emblematic of the purity of their
past lives and future aspirations; hence
| their name from candidus, white candi-
dates, whitened. Many of the modern
gentry are truly "whitened '-sepulchres.
Mafb III
Plucked for her only Kin.
She then and there did institute
precedent for sln
She knew the apple tasted sweet,
But thought not of It's price,
| And said TO Adam, LET US cut
It's naughty, but it's nice.
Did it ever occur to our readers to OBJ
serve for moment the history of those
business men who advertise exclusively on
| fences? If not, the next time you take a
drive out on any Of our country roads Just
read these fence advertisements and you
will find that nine out of every ten of The
firms are either bankrupt or out of the
trade.
Cook county, Illinois, in which is
Chicago, cast IS, l7S votes at the recent
election. In the Ohio election, lastmonth,
| Hamilton county, In which is Cincinnati,
cast Il total of 48.537 votes, At the Bal
tlmOre municipal election, last week, the
total vote OF that city was SO, 500 The
total vote of Boston at the recent election
was about &C. 900.
The largest Golfer dam ever built on
the Mississippi, perhaps. is the one on the
rapids improvements at Keokuk, under
charge OF Major Stickney, acting by Col.
MacOmbs Instructions. 1t contains an
area of SO acres, and 700 men are employ
ed in taking out rock. The work is ex-
pected to be completed by about the mid
die of December.
1t is mystery to some people where
all the Christmas trees come from. They
are brought from away up the river on
steamboats,, for the toy dealers, who keep
them in dark cellar, and water them &C.
casionally, till the Christmas trade sets IN,
when, fresh in appearance as ever, they
will be sold for Christmas trees. The
steamer Victory went down recently with
some 5000 to 5000 on board. About
500 were sold over the river,
Here is warning for men too mean
to advertise: One of this description
wanted to sell some land, and so he put Il
written notice in one of the hotels, the
other day. A man who was inquiriug for
small farm was referred to the written
notice when he replied Il can't buy land
, at far price of any man who does his
advertising in this way. He'd steal the
fence, the pump handle, and barn doors
before he d give up possession.
"A Nicksburg wife informed her hus
band the other morning that she was
working herself into the grave for the
want of hired girl, and as she went Out
: she leaned back and fell to weeping, The
! children were making noise in the hall as
she passed out, and he called out: You
wan to stop this racket! Your mother
j went live week, and when you get {
+ stcpnotier here, next spring, she Won
( put W. with such fooli>hness!' When he
= cau.a hotne to dinner, his wife met hin
with Il smile and said; Isn't ours COSY
: home, Richard, with only our own LITTLE
r family to lock after,
J. Joseph L. Reed. prominent bushes
It man and worthy citizen of Wilton, Iowa
" He started for his farm in a buggy, an'
! horse got scared at the whistle of locomo
a tive, reared up and turned suddenly, over
& turning the buggy and throwing him on
- Will SuCIl lOiCC tLdl AC "oS i'lShCN ny III
- conscious, and remained so up to the tim
e OF his death. MIR. Reed was driving
|. spirited horse, and when the buggy wa
turned over and he was thrown out, h
struck square on his head, breaking in til
D. skull and otherwise injuripg him,
llSe Not long since Mr.. Seymour, one c
the stockholders in the Clinton Furnitur
IL Factory, made proposition to the Watc
Company in this city for the purchase
= their building and site near Milan. TIL
ID proposition was accepted by the Waite
to Company, and, yesterday, 1.-THE l5th) Nj
,e Seymour arrived here to close the bargain
The sale, however, will not be complete
- for day or two The price paid for tn
in building and land and dam is $4,000.
Ut is the intention of Mr. S. to start furn
Q. ture factory in the building. He has tn
machinery all ready to put in and expect
to get everything in running order in les
es than a month. He will bring his famil
D. here from Clinton with the intention
"a making this his future home. The factor
-. will be run on an extensive scale and wi
. be valuable and important addition
K the great manufacturing interests of tn
O. community,
Gov. Tilden wrote letter to tt
Massachusetts, Democrats last week
which he said the universal want of OF
times is administrative reform in all go
u ernments, national, state, and municipal.
'E Upon this the Boston Herald comments
ct follows Administrative reform will /
m found in the same party with honest none
for initiation has been the chief promot,
u of extravagance-with proper distrib
ht ton of the powers of government betwee