The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-06
NOTES HERE AND rHERE.

The ice in the river is about 20 inches
thick.
Theatre at Turner Hall tomorrow
evening.
Iron door-steps are being put in the
Buford block stores.
The glorious red sunset last evening
was beauty to behold,
The trees were covered with thick
frost this morning, presenting a very
beautiful appearance.
The American Express Company :
Office will soon be moved into THE ARGUS
block, 10 the store lately vacated by
Aleck Steel, Ia good place for the express
Office. s
Moody has found girl in Chicago. 16
years old, and ordinarily intelligent, who
has never heard the name of Christ ex-
cept IN profanity, and who had no idea Of
| who he was.
There is no longer any doubt that
Zach Chandler is to be credited with the
authorship of the famous saying: Give
me the returning boards of country, and
L care not who casts its votes"
liver 5000 hogs have been butchered at
Gllmore's slaughter house, in the lower
part of the city, SO far this season. MIR.
Gilmore says he will continue to kill and
pack until about the first of next month.
DIR: Plummer has given up his Office
IN Mitchell Il Lynde's block, and hereafter
he can be found either at Bengston's drug
store or at his residence. His practice is
very extensive and he has no tine to stay
in an Office.
Elmo Murdoch, Peeaunn Point. Miss
Isslppl county, Arkansas" and Said
Doxle, Moline, = will suffer little delay in
the receipt of their letters because their
correspondents thought The ARGUS letter
box was the post office.
If Senator Morton's bill for counting
the electoral vote was right when the SEN
ate passed 1t, it is right now. If the SEN
ate should refuse to accept it now, the re-
tusal would be conclusive evidence of az
intent to cheat the people
1t is moderate estimate that the at
tempt to count in Hayes has already cost
the country, in the stoppage of business,
| IN the enforced pauperism Of laboring peo-
pie, and the general decline in values, at
least one thousand millions of dollars.
nv, "A tohstOuo ConuIcC is IN progress I'D
Ihompsonville, Conn. Mrs. Greenbalch,
Methodist battered her Unitarian sons
nose because he would not acknowledge
the truth of the doctrine of qualification.
He had her arrested and the end is not
yet.
The party of Reform is compelled to
tight the phalanx of fraud and force over
every inch of the field, but it is gaining
ground every day. A governor and a
congressman in Florida are within the
last lines of intrenchment that have been
unquestionably carried.
Fifteen cows have been confined in
city pound since the LIST, and all have been
released upon the owners paying 81 each,
The law forblds them running at large,
night or day. People who keep cows have
no right to let them loose to annoy their
neighbors, or farmers who come to town
with hay. straw, corn or produce to sell.
II warn the senate" said Senator
Carpenter (Rep.) in 1874, that if it
should happen that presidential election
should turn on the vote of Louisiana, stu
ated as that state is, and an attempt were
made to use that corrupt return, it would
be followed by civil war, for no free people
would submit to the insolence Of such an
outrage. "
Some dozen or fifteen persons have
united with the Ninth street NJ. E. church
during the three weeks of protracted
meetings held to date. The meetings
continue, short sermon being preached
each evening. Revs Hart. Glendening,
Haney of Moline, and Mr.. Withers, a
local preacher, Of this city, oficiate alter
nately.
According to the scientific editor of the
Union, Mr.. McIlvain, the hospital steward at
Rock Island Arsenal, when he reports
one-ffth of an inch of snow does not mean
snow,-he does not measure the snow; he
melts it and tells US how much water it
makes. Hereafter, when he reports snow
on several days in week, and says mo
measurement" he means that the snow
which fell did not make any water: and
when 3 or inches of snow fell and he
says total for the week one fifth of an
inch. he means one fifth of an inch, not
of snow but of water By bearing in mind
that when says snow he means water, the
report will then be clearly understood.