The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-18
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Hot weather has come down upon us
again, all at once.
The new bell on the ferry boat is an
Improvement on the old cracked one, but
it is too light,
Circus business don't pay, this year,
Queens has failed and broken up, in Min
nesota, and others will follow:
The first copy of CROSS Statutes of
Illinois, Vol. Ill, received in Rock Island,
was received at The ARGUS sanctum.
Mr.. S. F. Cooke, City Clerk, gives no.
tice that an election will be held at the
Court House on Tuesday. the Both for two
members of the Board of Education. The
retiring members are Mylo Lee and Z.
Burial, Jr.
There was slight frost, on Tuesday
morning, the effects of which are visible in
Peoria and Henry counties, and in Scott
county, over the river. We hear no report
Of it in this county. The damage was
slight, if any.
"A yerdant youth from Muscatine was
recently swindled in this city by travel
ling sharper. A telegram from here to
Port Byron saved portion of his loss.
! lie went home a wiser man-his expert
ence in lightning calculators having cost
him $3.50
There is marriage notice in this pa
per which will attract attention. Society
in this city and vicinity will regret to part
with the estimable young lady, and all will
extend kindest wishes to the young
couple. They were married at ? P. NJ
and left Immediately for Saint Paul.
The strawberry and ice cream and Gro
quet sociable at Judge Lynde's late resi-
dence on Front street, by the young ladies
of Trinity church, takes place this evening
1t is expected to be one of the pleasantes
affairs Of the season. The young ladies
will welcome all at any tune after six O
clock.
MIR. A. K. Philleo, our excellent ant
industrious assessor needs an assistant, anC
the law contemplates that, in large town
one shall be appointed The town boar(
accordingly appointed j. Ross Mills assis
tant assessor, to list personal property il
the central part Of the city-the odd town
and Spencer 4 Cases Addition.
john Deere's pillow works reports tina
there has not been a time for many year,
when their customers, over great spac,
Of territory, in many States, paid their in
? debtedness so promptly as this year, o
: when 50 many of them were anxious to pa.
before their obligations were due, If the.
could get the customary discount. Thi
don look like SCARCITY Of money.
7 In the Republican State Convention
Judge Lynde, Of this city, represented thi
Congressional district on the Committee o
Resolutions n. B. Ryan, Of Lee, wa
? made member of the State Committee
o in place of j. NJ. Beardsley; B. F. Barge
of Henry, was on the Committee on Gre
dentials and joel Hopkins, of Putnam, wa
D on the Committee on Permanent Organ
5 cation.
5 Tuesday evening, as Mr. Geo. L. Day
+ export was seated upon a railing which sui
\ rounds an area on the Main street side {
Ryan Bros. hat store, over the river,
c gave way, and Mr.. d. fell backward int
= the area, distance of eight or nine fee
# receiving severe bruises and having h
6 scalp badly cut on the crown. lie W.
taken to his room up stairs and properl
/ cared for. He was improving last evening
e The Blonde Little Sheet, having el
n hibited his natural incivifty toward
J. railroad conductors by imputing di
= honesty to those on the Western Union
r. seeks to escape from his unpleasant
I lemma by a weak effort to be funny /
imagining somebody to be a Head Cent
e Of conductors If the Blonde Little Shet
possessed a head of any sort it would be
relief to those who are afflicted with b
paper.