The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

this forenoon was very largely attended.
Dick Colmer says he wears the belt
for the lower end of town--its 122 pound
girl.
The Turner Society will give mask
ball in Turner Hall on Saturday evening.
February 10th.
Fifteen prisoners in the county jail
and only eleven in the Jail in the village
over the brook.
Mr. VIM. s. Bailey, steward at the
poor house. says there are now about l07
paupers in that institution.
BY the tipping over of sleigh at the
foot OF 18th street this forenoon, lady
and gentleman were thrown out.
Supervisor Aster took John Smith
and Michael Hayes to the poor house few
days ago. Smith had been there before.
The subject this evening in the Cen
trail Presby terian church will be How the
inidel may be saved" Services at 1880.
All are invited.
The war-like threats, the march of
troops, the transfer of war material all
these things are the work of the Republi-
can party. Mark thatl
john Long an old citizen of Long
Grove, Scott county, had two fingers of his
right hand taken off on Monday while
working around steam feed cutter.
Mr.. V, Cannon, Esq. OF Davenport,
threatens to sue that city for damages
caused by falling upon .,dilapidated side
walk and breaking one of his arms short
time ago.
democrats are making no reasonable
appeals to their friends or the country
They demand an honest settlement of the
embrogllo, and with nothing less will they
be satisfied.
-Ex-GoY. A. H. Garland, Democrat
was, on Tuesday, elected U. s. senator
from Arkansas, in place of Powell Clay
ton, Republican carpet-bagger from
Pennsylvania
II don't think" says old Mrs. lPrawp
that bookkeeping is a very sedate employ
ment. They must get" she AIDED, thought
fully, so much exercise running up thu
columns
The prisoners in Jail are suffering will
dlarrlea, and great numbers of people
are about town, Also Is it the water
Our physicians ought to be able to ex
plain the matter.
What did the Puritans come to tbi
country for?" asked 4 Massachusetts
teacher Of his class. To worship in thei
own way, and make other people do tn
same, was the reply.
The last public debt statement show
the debt to be 50, 229, 922, 520.35. In De
cember it was increased $685., l42, 80
: The Republican party has the manage
ment of the public debt.
Builders ought to remember that w
have an ordinance regulating the size etc.
Of gas pipes, and that no gas pipe /
allowed to be placed in buildings withou
being tested by the gas company.
Those big French plate mirrors ar,
room. Each is packed in a case b.
itself One of the cases taken in to da
, weighed over thousand pounds.
VIM. Young, while attending th,
funeral of Mrs. Hannah Matzeubach, thi
afternoon, had a lively runaway, wa
thrown from his cutter and severely bruls
ed about the head. The sleigh wa
slightly damaged.
-In-dew- bitably so. Sentimental youth
-"Ah, Anna Maria, you look to me lik
5 daisy kissed with dew" Guilty party
"Oh, John! indeed, it wasn't Jew; it wa
that Tom Stubs, and | told the idiot a
the time every one would find it out! !
Charles" said a young wife to he
husband, as they sat at the windo,
watching the fashionsbles on their way t
church. when you die, and get hold G
the insurance money, I intend to have
fur cape and muff just ike that lady ha
E on over there.
. "A lawyer and parson were talkin
about which way the wind was Tn
. former said I'VE go by the courthous
vane And we," replied the parsor
''go by the church vane." well, sal
5 the lawyer. in the matter of wind that
tie best authority" And the parson wet
home to cogitate
i G-OWing to broken plank along side Q
rail of the street car track at the cu!vei
: on the corner of Second avenue and At
b street, John Shehan smashed up one
Cops carriages. while attending Nj.
> Buffers funeral to-day, and he no
: threatens to sue the city for the amount
= damage DONE
o., Wa Works Sup't Cramer says thu
f many private hydrants and 6ervice pipe
q | throughout the city are frozen, but not
water main has been stopped up this viii
ter, The mains are in charge of the SUI
erintendent-the service pipes are pl
y down by their owners, and if they do nt
properly protect them it is their own faul
When the gas 10 stores, shops, house
saloons, halls, churches, etc., burns diml
, th0ughtless people are apt to censure tt
gas company, They forget that the ga
! company has nothing whatever to do wit
|. the matter. 1t is the business Of gas col
i sumers to see that their service pipe
after they leave the mains, are protecte
., from frost. II they do this they will hay
Ii notrouble.
; -Sup'r Aster says he has two vel
L. bright children-one girl, IL years
S, age, named Annie King, and the other
boy, years old, named George Wait,
which he is anxious for some kiud heartt
person to adopt, or they will have to
taken to the poor house. Besides these
I: has half dozen other children, now
of the poor house, which he would like
,e find homes for.
D. VIM. Assay, of Andalusia. is sti
% in Jail under 5000 bonds to keep Il
\ peace toward his father in particular an
IL everybody in general. for the term of nil
is months, from Dec. Goth. In giving Il
t. account of this case THE ARGUS stat
o that liquor had been the cause Of the re
y between Assay and his father-that the t,
d. had fight on Christmas night while und
J. the influence of liquor The other d.
er Elwell Assay, the father, called at this {
a, fee and said that the difficulty occurr,
Re On the night of the Odd we think-hut II
III time is OF no mportance-and that he hs