The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-02
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Sunday train tomorrow.
Hogs $3.50 in Henry county.
The new elevator at Orion is nearly
completed.
The Milan Paper Co. pay their en-
ployes in silver.
The Clement Bros and Forester trio
ppear in few days.
Get your right shoulder around
towards the new moon, girls'
The Galesburg Register will issue a
daily during the Rande trial.
-Rande's trial is set for the first Mon
day in February, at Gaesburg.
Prof. Tice is entitled to receipt in
fnll for the weather. It is correct,
Weir & Co., pillow makers of Mon
mouth, pay their employees in silver.
The Hampton Congregational church
folks will hold a festival on the l4th.
Wild geese are destroying the wheat
crop in Pottawatomie county, Kansas.
-Pattee Bros, manufacturers OF culti-
vators at Monmouth, pay their workmen IN
gold.
Secretary Evarts publishes one of
his sentences in book form for the holiday
trade.
The streets were lively to-day and
merchants faces wore smile at the pros
pect of business.
The Monmouth college has been pre-
scented with portrait of DR.. w allace, the
retiring president.
Moline has Newfoundland dog for a
policeman. He is expected to take lex
Marshal Wells place.
The nearer a man is to being a fool
the more absolutely certain is he that he
is nothing Of the kind.
The grand jurias of Iowa cost $ll0,'
1868 inlS67-an expensive machine for the
qualification of personal spites.
200 arrivals at the Taylor House from
Monday until last evening. This number
is principally farmers, 10 attendance al
, court.
The silver bill is bound to pass. Hav,
} your pockets ready to catch the dollars o
your daddies.-State Register. Thos
who haven't the wealth to catch them witt
won't pocket many of them.
: -Geneseo shipped over 1l9 hogs per da
} during the month of January, or $40
head; 500 head of cattle; 1900 bbls. -four
go tons Of mill stuff; 9, 200 bus. corn; II, 20
bus. oats and 1000 bus. Of rye.
-Leavitt Burnham has been appointe
r land commissioner of the Union Pacif
railroad in place of Mr.. Davis, resigned
: Mr.. Davis has occupied the Office eve
? since the organization of the departmer
: with credit to himself and profit to tn
e company.
Geo. Parsons says that his mare
? only l6 years old, just the age when CIR
y usually run away and that is the reaso
s why the ''old gall started last night.
t now transpires that the heavy wagon tn;
+ demolished Parsons rig, also spoiled Cut
ter's handsome pickets.
What is this the Union says abol
:. ''repudiationists and demagogues
! Which of the two wrote that article in tt
IT Union of Wednesday morning, signe
" orkingman, vast - years" experient
or elegant umbrella" 1t looked lii
i demagoguery, especially as the workin
men have an organ of their own.
1t is gratifying to know that at la
- the - years experience umbrella" di
tators Of republican politics in this count
J. read THE ARGUS. We sincerely hope OF
to English cousins won't get angry over Tt
20 ARGUS editorials any more. Such exhit
NJ tons of temper lily become gentlemt
with so much experience and such mimi
&c able elegance in manipulating an umbrell
Sc Friends of the family are requested
In keep The ARGUS out of their sight for
few days-"Too much erudition max
them mad.