The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
Town Talk.

| The trains still have dtfnculty IN get
ting through the snow drifts.
Plenty of snow, but too cold to enjoy
sleighing
The young mems social dance tonight
at Armory Hall. No roller skating.
Go to the opera house tonight and see
Pop" as given by Rice's Surprise Party
The city council meets in regular ses
sion on Monday night
Business was quiet in the city today
Every one spent the time trying to keep
warm.
The coal men chuckle as they see the
orders for more of 1.-The necessary" coming
IN thick and fast.
The principal topic of conversation now
is the weather; in fact it absorbs every
ones attention.
Water pipes are bursting by wholesale.
and the plumber goes around with smile
that is CHASTITY to behold.
The Tri-city Musical Society met al the
residence of Mrs. F. ". Goald, of Moline
yesterday afternoon.
Morgan & McCandless, dentists. Srd ave
and Goth street. Telephone 6S. 81 dwti
"Rice's Surprise Party" arrived from
Ottumwa this morning and are quartered
at the Harper House. There are thirteen
members in the troupe
The Coal Valley Mining company had
eleven teams engaged in delivering coal
to different parts of the city today. and
then it was with difficulty that all the
orders were filed
L. S. Smith, of ST. Louis, has arrived at
Milan for the purpose of filling his large
ice houses at that place The ice will be
taken out from the south side of Rock
River.
You can bet your bottom dollar that
the ice bridge is safe, said Rock Island
urchin to travelling man last night, when
addressed on the subject.
The Iowa and Illinois Central District
Medical association will meet in the Acs
deny of Science, in Davenport, next
Thursday afternoon.
Round trip tickets to Jacksonville. New
Orleans, Galveston. Austin and San
Antonio, for sale by the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy railroad office
When you want reliable fire and life
insurance allow rates, call on W L.
Coyne, corner of Seventeenth street and
Sd avenue, up stairs. Rock Island. III. d3m
The finance committee. consisting of
Aldermen Henry. Larkin and Reimers,
will meet this evening to audit the city
bills to he presented at the meeting of the
city council
Marshal Miller has received Information
of the theft of span of horses from W.
NJ. Nicholson, Of Rosemond, on new
years day. 800 is offered for the capture
of the thief, and the return of the horses.
The children's fancy party will take
place from to Up. m. at the residence
of Maj L. NJ Buford. The committee of
ladies engaged in getting up the costumes
have done creditable work, and a grand
display of dresses is expected The little
ones are greatly elated over the affair
1t was so cold last night that the hogs
killed during the day at Gilmore's slaugh-
ter house, froze so hard that it was impos.
sible to cut the meat with a knife, and
they were taken to the pork packing
establishment to 'thaw out" At the
present stage of weather it will be some
time before they can be handled properly.
Mr.. W. T. Call still lies dangerously
i'll, with very little change for better or
worse. The crisis of his fever is about at
hand, and at this critical stage of his
sickness great anxiety is felt as to his
recovery. We hope for the best
And now the oldest inhabitant sits
around the grocery stove, and tells that
this weather is nowhere" compared to
what he experienced in the early times,
when the river froze solid its entire depth
Aud no one dares to dispute him
john Smith, of Moline, was seated in d
large sleigh yesterday, driving through
the streets. He was so drunk that he
didn't know where he was going. and the
police took him in. Squire Chopper today
fined him 50 and costs
Winifred Mauliff took drop toe
much yesterday, and acted very strangely
on the streets. The police took her TO the
armory, where she raved in a distracted
manner for some time. Today she wa!
fined 81 by Squire Chopper,
| Bane's dyptheria remedy will cure al
cases of dyptheris 1t is a sure preventa
| tive; give it trial. Sold by F. NJ Whea
| ton.
Mr.. John Cox, about sixtythree year
of age, died yesterday from pneumonia
after an illness of few days. The funer,
al occurred at two o'clock this afternoon
at his late residence on third avenue
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
Rockford claims to be the second man
ufacturing city in the stale, and from
statistics carefully compiled by the Gasett
it appears that the amount of capital in
vested is $4.ss7. 99s; the number 0
hands employed 5,ss7; annual pay rol
So. 040, $40, and the annual product 500
029, 100
5. s. Sensible, of Rock Island, is tn
new secretary of the Illinois State Teach
er's association. 1t may be well to sugges
to the editors of state papers that MI
Sensible was not elected for the sole pur
pose of giving them stock pun to rul
through the year on--Chicago Dali,
Meas.
There would lie more sense to the abov