The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-30

what remained in the kettle, out in the
snow telling them it was dangerous to do
so, but was not obeyed, with the above
result.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon a
fire caught from defective flue in the
wash room of Wixon & Pears livery sta
BILE 1t was extinguished without a gen>
al alarm being sounded. by water from
their own hose. and big eonflagration
prevented. Had the fire occurred at
night great damage would certainly have
been done, as both barns are at present
full of hay and join the new postoflce
building. Had it not been discovered for
another half hour. 80 much inflammable
matter lay near where the fire started, it
would have been next to impossible for
the french to put it out before all the
wooden buildings around the new posts
office were destroyed.
Our street commissioner has not yet
thought proper to clean the sidewalks at
the east side of the city, probably because
no aldermen live the neighborhood who
might remember the omission when
another commissioner is needed in the
spring. His assertion that Twenty first
is not in the city limits does not prove
very satisfactorily that the selection of
Mr.. Long as boss by the council, was
given on any extra knowledge of where
the city lines were located. HIS educa>
ton was neglected in early days, and
since then he has not learned much of
anything, TO judge from the blunders
| perpretrated during his administration,
list of which one may yet publish,
auditing the bills already paid and those
now in litigation to prove how much the
acts of the Dos. He may be acting under
instructions we shall see.
| AN ART GALLERY
There is movement in contemplation
in this city, the object of which is TO es-
tablish an art gallery, and as the ARGUS
has been publishing portraits of notables
lately it might be well to say that
| sketches illustrating important events in
the lives of great men would be presented
to the society free gratis by the ARGUS,
on conditions that the pictures receive a
prominence in the gallery and be adver>
tlsed In the ARGUS afterwards at regular
rates. With this end in view, why not
secure representation entitled Hope
Deferred, or Patient Resignation" OF
the senior editor Of the Union, as he ap-
peared when Jim Parks introduced Jim
Simonson to him as the choice of the
upper end" of the county as candidate
for nomination to the Illinois house of
representatives. A companion portrait,
l''Virtue Unrewarded," sketch in char
coal or oil of the same person, who
possesses such eminent capacity
Tor holding down chairs when the
telegraph announced the nomination
of Jim Beardsley for postmaster at Rock
Island. When shall we three meel
AGAIN." correct delinealion of the fea
lures of the same party which might be
characterized as Where are our spUndu'
lies gone" When Billy johnson inform
ed him he had seen "Slurg" on the Ia,
list question and that he had interviewed
Bob Reid and could accomplish nothing
with that bealificent individual As the
senior has always had the welfare oil
Moline at heart as evidenced by his fire
quent visits to the city to ascertain ii:
needs anG the desires of its citizens
there need be no doubt entertained bu
that the pictures shall have centra
place in Moline's gallery of art, and The
ARGUS will be the means of handing on
more mortal down to immortality. The
custodian of the gallery shall be taught Il
speak pieces" explaining to visitors thu
effect the three James boys of the repub
liean party had on the political fortune
of the chief.