The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-13
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

| The Dirty Creature wants somebody
to send him dictionary, lie needs u
spelling book also.
Persons who were out at o'clock Sat
urday morning, speak Of an immense baz-
ing meteor which lighted up the whole
heavens and exploded with loud report
Thomas 7, Fenner, manager of the
| Hampton Singers, aud Helen W. Ludlow,
arrived on the Saturday evening train from
St, Louis and stpoped at the Harper
House.
A scamp tried the rheumatism and
cripple dodge on the overseer of the poor
over the river in order to get railroad
ticket to Des Moines. He was exposed and
then he could walk as nimble as boy.
The Rock Island Stove Works has Just
issued Il beautifully Illuminated catalogue of
its wares and prices it was printed at
The ARGUS office, where all the finest job
work is done Leave orders with Mr..
Jones, at the business office, opposite the
post office.
b. f. Allen, Of St. Louis, was robbed
OF S23j gold watch, $50 in money, and a
thousand mile railroad ticket on the str
Dubuque, on Thursday night, on her trip
up from st. Louis, by fellow who occu-
pied the same state room with him. The
fellow got off at Muscatne and escaped.
Jas Dayton, boy of fourteen, at
Washington, Iowa. hung himself--acci
deutal!y-on the Bird while trying to iui-
tate the trapezst he had seen at circus.
His mother found him dead with leather
strap round his neck hanging to large
nail on the kitchen wall.
a man who drove through camp Of
grasshoppers near Fort Dodge, Iowa, re
Gently, declares that they covered square
mile OF ground, and formed a living,
squirming wiggiing mass, over three inches
thick on the average. Wherever they.
camp vegetation is totally destroyed.
About 20 couples of lads and lassies
drove out to John Schindler's farm on
Sunday and had jolly pic mic, under the
broad. shady trees. \ committee attend
ed to the commissary department, and ar
ranged for a nice dinner, There was mu-
sic and little dance, and fine time
A severe storm of wind and rain swept
over the vicinity of Cedar Rapids W ednes.
day evening of last week. Reports from
the country state that all kinds of grain
wa leveled to the ground, but it is hoped
with good weather that the damage will
not be serious. The steeple Of the Bap-
list church at Marion was blown down and
the Episcopal church struck by lightning,
but the injury was slight.
A company of wiid boys with discord-
ant tin horns going around the streets ere
ting horrible nGiS, all day would be heay-
enly music compared with that little hand
organ which Kept up its caterwauing at
W alker X Dodge corner to-day. \ band
Of drunken singers would have been some
relet Has the police no pity on the
nerves Of people who are compelled t.
NJtA with that sc.eething in their ears
The most terrific hail storm ever
known swept over Clayton county, Iowa, !
July Sth. An eye witness says that in a
strip mile wide aud several miles long.
the destruction to crops is absolutely total |
J. j. Carpenter, Chas. Robbins, and Mr.
Peck. Postmaster ut the Cox Creek office, /
all large farmers, are the principal suiier .
ers. 30 far as known at this writing. They /
will literally have nothing to haryest.every /
crop being beaten into the ground. Our /
informant says it was simply a terrific /
shower of balls of ice a. large as hens |
eggs.
Great bargains in dry goods at Nads-
worth 4 Parsons for the next sixty days /
10 make room for their fall stock. Dress
goods at cost, shawls and cloaks at cost.
good grenadines at l2l cts Der yard. They /
Claim 10 have the only good stock Of car
pets to be found in Rock Island, and that /
their nriees are as low as any where In the I