The Rock Island Argus., 1877-12-03
NoTEs HERE AND THRRR.
Council meeting this evening,

Council meeting this evening.
Bag-purses are very much worn By |
ladies for carrying silver.
Cards proclaiming the birth of son |
or daughter are fashionable.
just ask the secretary and Mr.. Dana
whether they are sure aboutit
The workingmen expect to start their
new paper by the first of January.
Thomas Thomas, the injured man at
Hampton, is no better and not expected to
live.
-Rumor has it that Capt. Haverstick |
has received an appointment Ask John |
Reticker.
Has the street commissioner ever re-
ported the actual cost of that nice little
road" up by the High School building2
How doth the little busy wife improve
each shining hour, and CAD around the
shops all day; at night done out and sour,
He that touches pitch shall be defled
Herewith; and poker, seven up aud other
games of that class are just as bad as
pitch.
Beware of the man with one book, it
he be an agent for it and stops at the Rock
Island house, and goes away without pay
ing bis bill.
The fullness of merchants $ store is
not indicated by the beggarly account OF
empty boxes which he permits to block
the sidewalk.
/ One lady 10 Maine boasts of hair
she has refused an offer of $4,000 .or it.
Let your hair grow girls.
"A cat with two legs is the latest nov
city 10 that line. We prefer that kind of
cat You don't have TO throw so many
articles at 1t to break all its legs.
-Conkling says of Morrissey: Il never
saw him but learned something.
That's the experience of good many per.
sons; but it costs like the deuce to see
him.
The United States Express and
, Western Union Telegraph companies now
have their Offices in Star Block handsome.
ly fitted up, and all business will be
transacted there after to-day.
The boy stood oD the burning deck
that he had hauled from the FIRE, where
his father had thrown it. but the old mar
yanked him off and completed the crema-
|
: "A young man in Dallas, Texas, found
, that his widowed mother of sixty wa
about to run off with an old widower
F whereupon he locked her up and notified
the old man to keep out of pistol shot.
Will the city council tell at its meeting
this evening how much commission tn,
city clerk makes on the printing for tn
Y city, or is the council close corporation
consisting of the mayor and city clerk?
"A young lady of Clinton, Iowa, sen
twenty five cents and postage stamp i
. reply to an advertisement of How t
:, make an impression" and received for a
answer, Sit down on pan of dough"
Women cigar makers earn from 81
II to $l5 week. They are largely employ
L ed both in New York and Pbiladelphi;
|, They are cheaper than the men, becaus
:, the men claim three cigars day each q
, perquisites-
The weather has helped the efficier
street commissioner with his duties in dry
ing up the mud on the crossings Whe
John arner was com missioner e Deve
allowed the crossings to be covered wit
mud ankle deep for three weeks on til
stretch
The sale of tickets for the lecture
Wendell Phillips in the Burtis Op. I
House, Davenport, commenced on Satur
= day morning at Days book store. Specs
pains will be taken in selecting good seat
for all sending their orders to Mr.. E.
IS Day, from this city and Moline.
Did it ever occur to you hew quic
b your w:fe's wardrobe will be lnyoiced in
n crowd of ladies?-if not-fll a car an
wait an hour, as the jam of concert, goel
Z did waiting for the traia-to attend Il
1T Abbott Opera Melange the other gh
IF Notice the effect
While politicians are discussing the pt
! Iitical position, prospects and infuenc
- the blacks, there is at least a strong pro-
L ability that physical agencies are at wol
h among this class of citizens in the Sou
Mt more particularly-which must slowly y
surely take them not only out of polite
J. but out of the world. According to Il
le official statistics of the District of Columbi
,e the average annual death rate among Il
colored people there is Al in each 100
70 while ofthe whites only g die in each 90
= In Memphis, for the six months endi,
Ut June 80, 1877, the record stands thus:
E. Whltes-Deaths per 1000 Is A.
,e Colored-Deaths per 1000. .37 A.