The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-24

/ Inc Atnietlc cluD Has 6lecteu OmcerS as
follows: DIR. g. G. Craig. president; 8. 8.
Kemble. vice president; w. e. Sweeney,
secretary and treasurer, Adair Peasants,
L. S. McCabe and E. W. Hurst, executive
committee
The weather has been 50 extremely cold
lately that it was unsafe, in more ways
than one, for a man to get drunk. there
fore the police magistrate has had ample
opportunity to post up in current litera-
| ture. -.
A representative of the J. w. Butler
paper company. in town this forenoon, re-
ports that he was showed in at Omaha and
had great time getting away from there.
/ DR.. Plummer's new goat skin robe,
black as to color, takes the cake for both
beauty and fragrance over all other robes
| of that kind in Rock Island.
Mr.. T. J. Potter. &c neral manager of
the c.. B. & Q. road, contradicts the report
that the Wabash and the Burlington were
to enter into the joint management of the
7 Hannibal & st. 10. 1t was probably a
/ ruse of stock spectators to influence the
| stock.
| Last evening Squire Chopper went to the
Commercial hotel and united in wedlock Mr..
and Miss Charlotte a. jackson, of Port
Byron. The couple had been since Mon
day in getting here.
Ever since the setting in of the recent
severe weather local items of news were
almost as hard to find as gold dollars on
the sidewalks. How true it is that the av-
erage newspaper, in order to be interesting
must seem to thrive upon the misfortunes
mise1ies sr shortcomings of poor humanity.
the ARGUS excepted. of course.
The demand upon the regular ceal haul
ers has been so great of late that several
customers in order to get enough coal to
tide over, were compelled to hire teams
elsewhere and send after their coal. 1t
was fortunate circumstance all around
that there was not tedious snow blockade
in addition to the cold weather: if there
had been at least one community would
have been swearing like the Army in Elan
ders
The cold snap did net serve to diminish
their manufacture, received by Buford &
Co. Every day, when but few other
teams could be seen on our streets, those |
of the Buford pillow works were seen on |
their way up Second avenue to one or the |
other of the freight houses with leads of |
plows or cultivators going to all quarters |
of the globe. Rock Island is proud Of so |
1ourishing an establishment and we'll it |
ought to be.
A few weeks ago Mr.. George W. Dahms,
5ookkeeper for May Brothers of this city, |
started out on trip for the firm. This, |
his arst trip, proved to be q rather unfor-
tunate one as he happened to get caught |
in an accident on the Chicago and North |
western railroad which bruised his head |
and face to such an extent as to lay him |
off at Clinton, Iowa and necessitate the
constant wearing of skull cap, as pro-
lection. We understand that he is rapidly |
and will soon again be with his
anxious friends in Davenport and Moline
1t is reported that the passenger depart
ments of the Alton and Rock Island roads,
whose attitudes toward each other have re-
men with swords in hand on
either side of an iceberg, have sworn to
owe each other in the future, and pool
their issues on Kansas City business. So as
TO freeze out the Burlington road. The
officers of the latter company are waiting
for the attack. and promise to make mat
tiers warm for their warlike Damon and
Pythias opponents.
In dispensing charity it is just as neces-
saTy nowadays to beware of impostors as
1t any period heretofore in the history of
The city The ARGUS is informed to-day by
one of our leading Aldermen, of case
which would seem to require thorough ven
ilation. There is a family in his immedi
ate .neighborhood, the legal head OF which
s a lazy and shiftless good for naught,
who hasn't done stroke of work in long
lime, although well able to do SO and i'm
,ortuned so to do by persons anxious to
Employ him. Instead of this he sends his
children out to beg while he stays by the
ire and INDUCES in day dreaming,or some
hing else. Because of this shameful in
attention to the command TO be up and
ioing his family is really suffering and his