The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-18
rorrg HrRE AVID rHERE.

The river is frozen.
Hotel arrivals are light.
st. Mary's Fair tonight,
Nov is the time to advertise.
All quiet 10 police circles to-day.
The sleighing' continues excellent.
No change 10 the price of produce to-
day.
Have you taken your girl sleigh riding
YETI
Lots of hogs are being shipped to Chi
cago.
The river closed at Hampton this
morning.
Billy Emerson at the Opera House.
Dec. goth.
@-There were large number of farmers
in town to-day.
-Sleighs to Davenport in place of
ferry boat trip.
business was lively with some of our
merchants to-day.
The ferry boat has discontinued it's
trips and will go into winter quarters.
j. N. Hunto9n, Esq, candidate for
sheriff, has gone to Kansas City to locate.
The funeral of Mrs. Prick, took place
this morning at 10 o'clock and was largely
attended.
Temperance meeting tomorrow eve
ming under the auspices of the reform club.
Singing by the Abt Quartette.
This morning early, the air made
ones nose feel as if the end was trying to
see how the forehead was fourishing.
Two large box sleighs with party of
masqueraders aboard. passed through the
city last night. 1t was a merry crowd,
Friendship professed and friendship
expressed for efect-are entirely distinct
from each other. Now, which is which,
| Two hundred and thirty miles of rail-
road have been built in Iowa since the re-
peal of the railroad tariff law last Winter
The Old Folks festival at Hampton,
on last Thursday, was complete success,
netting the snug amount OF ninety dollars
to the society; good enough.
| The days are approaching when it is
cheaper for the young man to pick quar-
rel with his girl than buy her Christmas
present. philadelphia Chronicle Herald
"A man named Charles Badger. at
Muscatine, Monday night, while drunk, drove
over steep bank near the river, and fall
ling to the bottom, was instantly killed
| "A farm laborer 10 Eastern Russia
receives in harvest time $l.25 day, with
FIVE pounds OF rye bread, little salt, a
half pound of meat and half pound of fat.
1t is with sincere regret that we an
nounce the serious illness of Mrs. Charles
Buford, than whom there is no more truly
christian woman in our city. Her many
friends will hope for her speedy recovery
"A clothing merchant and one Henri y
Zimmerman land agent had dog fight
in Justice Fingers court in Davenport
yesterday. Both were cut and pounded tt
their satisfaction and then appeased The
dignity, of the court with cash.
Col. Delos G. Sacket, Inspector Gen
eral. has been ordered to proceed to Rocl
Island Arsenal, fo- the purpose of inspect
, ing the accounts of disbursement. Thu
is routine duty and he will also take il
Keokuk and other points in bis round.
Secretary Sherman can DO longe
cover up that discrepancy of an increase o
more than two hundred million dollars il
the public debt as shown in the report
OF 1870, compared with 1869 AS A
!. Ward would say them was good old re
publican dazs."
Visible supply of grain in sight il
the States and Canada on the 7th ir
slant: Wheat, 19,045,O00 bushels; corr
= 1924, 900 bushels; oats 2,424 600 bushels
!, rye, 1,2O1 900 bushels; barley, 5,2O5, 90
! bushels
The q. s. Marshalis to offer the Miss
!, ley distillery at Camanche for sale o
q Thursday of this week. This property Wa
! seized by the government for fraud perpt
q trated by its proprietor, and has been O
>, fered several times for sale, but there ws
n no call for it. 1t cost about $4,000, b.
a the government would take probably So
:, 500 for it.
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