The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-13
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Seven members of Congress have
lied in less than year.
Passenger rates to Denver from st.
Louis have been reduced from $43.50 to
$3.50.
Jacob Brus, of Blue Grass, Iowa, has
marketed 90 head of hogs whose average
weight was 400 pounds.
The Baltimore Gazette has discovered
that ''Greenback platforms are now used as
lining for last years birds nests"
George W. Childs would rather be
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger than
have the Berlin mission or any other Office.
NO ones darling but mice, is the
latest song. Words and music dedicated
to Simon Cameron by the Widow Oliver.
Why not let cold air into your houses
every day as preventive of scarlet fever
and kindred diseases? The cold, sharp
air is sure disinfectsnt, in many cases.
Tits little curious as we'll as instruct
i've to note the rapid decline of the Grang-
err movement. In Missouri. for instance
the membership has fallen off from $4,000
in 1875, to 10000 in 1878.
The Clinton saw mills, which comprise
SIS upright, and 100 circular saws, have
made $4,000, 900 feet Of lumber, 80,000,-
900 lath, 6O,OOO,00O shingles, and planed
81, 900, 900 feet during the past season, so
says the Age,
The Muscatine Building and Loan as
ISOLATION, organized in 1877, has now four
hundred and seventy shares in force,
equaIing $4,000. The average premium
on the loans already effected is II per cent
The shares are now quoted as worth $l23
D. Swigerts (Kentucky) has sold his
chestnut colt "Spendthrift," 3 years ole,
for $4,000, and fourth of Spend =
Thrills winning money during the present
year. 1t has an unbroken winning record.
The above is the highest price ever paid
for 2-year old in this country.
The friends of J. Frank Robinson,
cashier in the Rock Island National Bank,
who has just returned from Europe, gave
him genuine surprise reception at the
residence of Capt. T, j. Robinson on Sat
urday evening Miss Ella Taylor made a
very happily worded reception speech to
which Frank replied, after which refresh
ments were served.
On Saturday night w. II. Gest ran
his sleigh against some timbers placed
across 23d street on 4th avenue, to prevent
travel where the city is excavating rock
and was thrown out and dragged some dis
lance He sustained no serious injury
There was no light 20 mark the obstruo-
tioD, which reflects upon some city otficel
or employee. Who is he?
There are large numb Ger of cases O
bowel complaint in the city, similar Il
those of the epidemic time Of winter be
fore last. Will Prof MansiII tell US VIVA
planets are in conjunction, or is it the con
junction of the ice with the bar that ex
tends from the Island down to 18th street
which keeps the current of the river iron
mingling with the drainage of the city az
that of Moline and all its millsP
"A Boston church has declined to ad
NIT To membership a journalist who work
on Sunday to get out Monday mornin
paper. EGchGRge-Suppose the trul
good Christians. of Davenport should folIol
the example of the puritans what would be
come Of that spotless saint, the truly goo
and loyal Ed Russell, postmaster that is
and editor Of the Gazette? Ye god:
think of it! What loss it would be, VIVA
q terrible blow at church interests, in tina
christian city. Poor thing; we shudde
when we think of it.
Let us see, is the selection of Prof. \
P. Hill of Blackhawk Colo, for .. S, Sens
tor, by the republican caucus of the Colorad
legislature, reward for the check of S25
600 which he placed in the hands of the r,
publican state committee last fall for Il
purpose of buying Mexican votes in tt
southern counties of that state2 Suppos
the Blaine committee investigate th
; rumor; we believe the chairman of tn;
committee said on the floor of the sena
that the republicans Of Colorado courte
the fullest investigation.
The Milan DistiIery Co., took judd
ment in the circuit, court on Saturda
against the U. S. for 1921, 600 the defeu
ant defaulting The plaintiffs conten
that the claims for alleged irregularitit
practiced by Geo. p Freysinger, wi
leased and operated the property fro
1869 to S73, which has been settled ,shou
fall upon him and not upon the proper
after the expiration of his lease I'll
seizure of the distillery was made in Jam
airy 1876 and the claim of S121 900 is mac
for the value of the property, $4,000, al
the profits which might have been mac
since that time, of about $4,000 per mont
The L. S. courts yet to hear from.
Peace in the Family" You can eDio