The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-18
RREvITIES.

Joliet this morning.
Straw rides constitute the correct thing
for the lovely moonlight nights.
Bottom prices at Carse Sc Retickers.
If
O., is expected to return from the West to-
morrow.
Gents lotest style shoes at Carse & Ret
icker's. If
Everybody is preparing to see the Tom
Thumb midgets on Friday and Saturday at
Harpers Theatre.
The ice bridge holds out well and hacks
do good business transporting passen-
gers hither and thither
The regular annual ball of st. Patrick s
Benevolent Society, will occur in the even
ing of March II, 'Patrick's day"
After sunset last evening the weather
suddenly became several degrees colder
and this morning the temperature was be-
low zero. with very little wind. however.
Remember the mass meeting tonight
in Turner Hall, to devise measures for
the relief of sufferers by food in Ger
many.
Quite number of loads of hay and
wood were on the market to-day but
prices were unchanged from yesterdays
quotations.
Judge Smith is one of the earliest risers
in town and takes his Constitutions"
morning walk at an hour when most law
yers. weary of lying on one side. turn over
and lie on the other.
A gentleman who arrived in town this
morning from up the river says that the
thermometer recorded temperature of
fourteen degrees at Fulton at o'clock this
morning. In Rock Island it was five below
at Z o'clock
Mr.. Ed. E. Martin, lately associated
with Mr. w c. Clark in the Nalad Queen
representations is likely to go out of the
show business while Mr.. Clark may rejoin
his former associate Prof. Mcknight.
About the close of school hours yester-
day afternoon some unknown person or
persons stole gray overcoat from the
hallway of the High school building. 1t
belonged TO a son of Mr.. r.. Il. McNeal.
There isn't city of equal size in the
northwest which enjoys the exemption
from fires that Rock Island does, therefore
insurance rates should be SO low as to be
within the reach of everybody.
Marriage licenses issued at the county
clerks Office since last report: Emil E.
Ziegler and Miss Ada M. Ellis, Rock ISL
and; Louis Peterson, Moline, and Miss
Minnie Berg, South Moline; Frank l.
Pearce and Miss Huldah H. Liedtke, of
Gable.
A new man, Mr.. Eugene Clark. late of |
the Naiad Queen company, Is being init |
ated to-day into electric tower climbing |
preparatory, perhaps, to taking care OF the |
carbon adjustments, etc. Mr.. Clark is |
very trustworthy and careful young man
and will do well wherever placed.
1t has got so now that "its dangerous 20 |
be safe" in the court room while such ways
as Parks Ankrum and Harson are about.
Only this morning poor fellow was try
ing to find his character which Capt Parks
had Instructed and hid behind Harson's
desk. A bad nest.
Mr. W. e. Sage, general freight agent
of the Rock Island road, has issued cirs
cular to agents and conductors " hich says
"As there appears to be general impress
sion that the st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba railway requires prepayment of
freight charges on household goods re-
leased, we are requested by that company
to give notice that they do not require pre-
payment on such property, either in the
car loads or less, which is destined to sta
tions on their line at which they have
agents.
Some teamsters are as oblivious to the
rights of pedestrians as if they lived on
another planet Only yesterday afternoon
a person, in appearance gentleman,
lroye onto the cross walk between Beng
,ton's corner and the city scales and there
talked with an acquaintance several sec
Onds compelling ladies and others to
wade around his ar in the deep snow |
Every person doing that sort of thing
should be arrested and fined. Touch the
pocket of a careless or Indifferent man and
his impulses are quickened, SO to speak |
The Burlington road has issued the fol-
owing notice to agents and conductors: |
From date all tickets to Lincoln, Neb.,
and points west reached through Lincoln,