The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-16
NorEs HERE AND THERE

Charles Francis Adams did not go to
Louisiana.
Snow fell inches deep in Hannibal,
Mo-, on Monday.
The Diamond 10 has gone to Dubuque
for winter quarters.
Old newspapers, for wrapping paper.
for sale at The ARGUS Office.
Considerable repairing and several
new houses can be seen in the lower part
of the city this fall.
The sentence of Eddie Stemple to the
reform school has been reduced one year.
provided he remains good boy.
H. NJ. Teller, and ]. B. Chaffee have
been elected by the Republicans to the
United States senate from Colorado.
The funeral of young Wheeler, killed
in the row with Latham on Saturday night
last, took place at Dewitt on Wednesday.
The foundation for the new pump at
the water works has been completed and
the pump is expected to arrive IN a few
days.
(which falls most frequently from
hickory nut trees, boys or nuts1" is the
question which now agitates Kentucky de-
batting societies.
A sinful New York sheet imagines
that Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony must
be direct descendants of the people who
settled by the rivers of babble on.
1t is getting to be pretty generally I'M
derstood that when farmer pays $3.50
for an agricultural machine, he is putting
inst 1920 clear into somebody's pocket.
The frame of Hull & Barkers ice
house, on the site of the one burned short
time ago, is now up and the work is being
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
The Davenport & Northwestern rail
road has it's track completed into town ano
trains made their appearance on thell
leyee to, day-much to the joy of the peo
pie.
Jacob Kramer was deputized to take
| Eddie Stemple and Frank c'Twink
Smith to the reform school at Pontiac
and he left with them last evening for tina
place.
1t wouldn't be bad idea to pin tn
little boys comparison OF cold to you
memory nowadays: Positive cold; com
parative, cough; superlative, coffin. -
Cheyenne { W ~ Leader
A new method of circulating handful
in cities is by throwing them from the up
per stories of high buildings, by whicl
means an undereurrent of air carries then
a great distance before they fall to tn
ground.
"A house belonging to man name
Wallace, next door to ?. Jacob Heverling
barber shop, in Milan, caught fire yestel
day forenoon from defective fue, but tn
flames were extinguished before muc
damage was done.
I The editor of the New York Telegram
was once boy, and he remarks; "Whel
three good little boys get together of al
afternoon, the chances are that there vii
be either quarrel, window broken, @
some stray dog will have pan tied to hi
tail.
| In Kendall county, the home of Les
Steward, our candidate for governor
Cullom ran loo behind Hayes, and Stewar,
800 ahead of Til6en-which looks a
though all the severe things said 0
, Steward, by Republican papers, wer
| false.
| -Supr Aster las pair of male twi
babies, the children of Coal Valley Mary,
} which he is anxious for some kindhearte
) person to adopt. The babies are abou
two weeks old, are healthy children. an
5 any reliable person can have one or bot
Of them by calling on Mr.. Aster,
The boys at the Buford pillow work
are having considerable sport with an ad
,, vocate Of Peter Cooper working there. A
an instance, this morning on coming t
work he found the followir telegram ?
on his bench: The very latest-l5 par
ishes in Lower Canada give Cooper $500
majority, enough to elect him.
: The foundry at the Buford plog
+ works was completed to-day. 1t is a goo
> strong structure, of brick two stories hig
. and is 40 by 81 feet. Every precautio
has been taken to prevent its destructio
! by fire again-every window having goo
iron shutter and sound brick fire walls bt
r. tween it and the other buildings connected
2 "A lady of our acquaintance wishe
: some one to tell her the meaning of ''col
s per that on the ace; put that between tb
S eight aud nine; gimme stack Of checks,
: etc. Her husband uses these expression
: ID his sleep, and she fears the poor dea
4 fellow is just wearing himself out dealin
in mining Stocks Cheyenne w. T.
Leader.
Neal Cara, the young man mel
o toned IN this paper last evening as havin
e wandered OF while insane and BEGAN
s. lost, was found late yesterday afternoon
= corn field on the Rock river bottoms
:, about three miles below the Moline bridg
II Ills mind still wanders, and it is though
1t best to see whether anything can be dor
to help him before steps are taken to sen
him to the insane asylum.
The Buford pillow works this mornir
shipped six Car loads of plows and cult
vators to their agent at San Francisco. al
d also two car loads to Texas. The ager
II in San Francisco writes that he has orde
n for plows from Australia and China whiC
is must be filled Immediately. The popularil
o of the Bufordsplows is fast extending ov,
the entire world
"A. o. Smith, horse thief, and Wn
Smiley, forger, confined in the Merct
e county jail at Aledo, effected their escaI
/ on last Tuesday night by saving off I'll
). bars az a window and jumping GU
They had been visited by friends on tt
" day previous, and it is supposed that OF
; of these visitors struggled them the too
!; with which the work was done. The
have not been captured yet.
James S. Gilmores slaughter hous,
below the water works, has just been ftte
y up in first class. condition, new engin
y two large lard tanks and many other in
Is provements having been added. Yeste
day commenced the seasons work
slaughtering hogs, and before night Il
were ready for the packing house. With
It. full force of men the slaughter house b;
a capacity of butcheriug 300 hogs pr