The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


Davenport, commences operation for the
season, April Is.
Several of our citizens are preparing
big fish stories, to be told as soon as they can
get away for day.
1t is even limited that no manRever
felt the absolute necessity of having bis
life insured until he married.
If any COW enters your garden, shoot
her on the shot. Union.-And then go
and pay the owners for you foolishness.
Miss Mary Davenport, principal of the
End ward school, has resigned her place on
account of i'll health. Miss Rapine takes
her place,
1t is sometimes pretty hard. for some
people to decide which gives them more
pleasure, to hear themselves praised or to
hear their neighbors run down.
Secretary Sherman will issue, this
week, circular prescribing terms for re-
funding the ten-forty bonds and the sale
of four per cents for that purpose.
That was very gallant answer to the
question of the lovely girl. IF you were
not yourself whom would you like to beT'
she asked. He looked straight into her
eyes and quietly replied, Yours truly. "
The Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy
is building, at its Aurora shops, one han
dred new stock cars with full length
sliding door at each end for convenience
in loading lumber, railroad iron, and the
like.
MIR. W. L. Sweeney, guardian of the
Rosenfield children, has received from
Mayor Reynolds $46667, the amount OF
the subscription fund apportioned to them.
He Immediately loaned the money to the
city at per cent payable semi annually
for one year. He will fud home for the
children.
"A correspondent of an inquiring turn
of mind asks if the reason the Union has
so much to say about the COW ordinance
is because the two editors (both Engiish
are afraid the cows will make a mistake
and eat them for cabbage heads Pr
Hardly, the average Rock Island COW is toe
intelligent to eat anything so empty.
The Moline Dispatch, in commenting
upon the resolution of Gen. Bragg to dc
away with the Southern claim commission
calls him "a rebel" Now where was
the husband, and brothers and fathers of
the gentle Louisa, when Gen. Bragg was
leading the Union forces fighting for the
Union. No wonder the people of Moline
want daily to::educate the Dispatch in
war history.
There will be considerable work OF
the Island this season. The plans O.
the commandment contemplate the building
of shop Cup to the first floor, and it will be
covered, shop |. will be finished to thu
second story, and shop Fl will have i'll
first story put in. In the leather. Woo
and iron shops, there will be manufac
ture of equipments for infantry, ar
tillery and cavalry, to a large amount
There are now $50 men employe,
on the Island and 10 the shops. 4
present there is portion of the previou
appropriation unexpended with which t
commence these works, and $4,000
more will become available on the 1st @
July next, through the appropriation c
the last session of Congress. The Who'll
Improvements include ten workshops, t
cost, about $2,O0O,0OO. At the close {
the present year it is expected that a
but one of these shops will either be com
pleted or under way. 1t is not general
known, but it is fact, that two thirds {
all the stores required by the Unite
States army are manufactured at Roc
Island Arsenal. The manufacture of an
munition and horse equipments durin
!. the past twelve months amounted to sec
900.