The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
The first day of March.

The first day of March.
The biggest snow storm of the season
occurred to-day.
The water board ticket means more
taxes and more debt.
There will probably be a good many
people at the court house this evening.
Hard times for the street cars to-day.
Only two or three trips were made.
The water board organ is doing good
service for the Democratic party by sland-
ering and blaek guarding Maj. L. M Bu-
ford and Mr.. j. Z. Warner
Good time for sleigh rides now-the
only time this winter Some sleighs were
out this afternoon.
Our Moline copy has been travelling 10
the pocket OF some street car driver to-day.
and our Moline editor is trying to find it
Everybody who don't like the Mitch
ell Butler Eggleston water board manage
nent should vote against the Mitchell
-Eggleston ticket.
john Boyle. an old and respected
farmer of Iowa county, Iowa, was stabbed
in the side and murdered in cold blood on
last Thursday, near his place, by a man
named Patrick Shannon. The murderer
was arrested. There is great excitement
in the neighborhood.
| There never was time when such
ananimity and good feeling existed towards
any candidates for aldermen as exists now
towards Messrs. Buford, Lundy, Huber,
Warner and Bladel, and it only requires
attention aud effort on the part of them
selves and their friends to carry every
ward.
What would be said of man who
could not reduce his expenses within the
sum of his revenue? That he ought to
have guardian. Ought not city affairs
to be as we'll managed? Has the Mitchell
Butler ring so managed? Not by long
chalk. Then put that set out of power
and put in man who will so manage
An old lady named Mrs Van SAINT,
living in Richmond. Ind, but on a visit to
her neice. Mrs. COL Elliott, at West
Liberty, Iowa, 40 miles west of this city,
on Monday last cut her throat almost from
ear to ear with a razor, and did it in few
minutes. She had shown signs of insanity,
at Intervals, for several weeks before,
Her remains we're taken to Richmond 70,
burial.
A dispatch from Eau Claire, Wiscon
sin, says sleighing still holds good In the
Chippewa valley. Although. he season
for logging operations opened .a.e. gocc
/ work has been DONE and the amount oil
logs put in will not vary much from othe,
r years Nearly 200, ZOO, 600 are now banked
: If the cold weather holds on two week,
longer, another 100000, 900 will be added
7 almost tuil stock.
: AT Bloomington, ILL.,, yesterday, Hen
D ry Dukgeisel, prominent butcher. VI I
/ arrested, charged with killing and expo,
e ing for sale the carcass Of steer that wa,
2 put off from train about week ago a
t Normal Stock Yards as too rick to take on
r This steer, after lying in this condition 8
whole week, was purchased, slaughtered
and exposed for sale. There was mccl
excitement among the consumers of beef
: as quite humber had the beef cooked fo
s their breakfast that morning.
+ Two or three weeks ago Mr.. Dsni
): Hains, of Cnatown, showed us quite col
r lection of Indian relics in the shape o
g large and snail hammers, made frou
). stone. They were found in mound o.
1t bis lace On his way from Moline t
CoaltowD, he lost those relics and the mea
bag in which he was carrying them. TIL
finder will confer favor by letting hir
j know where he can get them. Some on
must have picked up the bag and its COZ
tents in the road.
st "A good many people IN this city rs
Is member lawyer named George Z. Ford
s, who was it Galesburgh, and at other point
he 10 Knox county,-alse at Kcithsburgh, i
le Mercer county, and often visited this cit,
ut He was an untructworthy and dishone,
~ scamp. and for the last ten years he hs
s, been drunken loafer On Monday nigf
s. he was arrested in Peoria charged wit
IS robbing a man named Burns, from Wi
d. consin, of $4OO The case is said to be
ly clear one against him. and he will doub
o. less 60 to Joliet where he ought to hay
n gene years ago.