The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-06
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

The Scott county, Iowa, board of SUI
pervlsors ask proposals for building eight
bridges,
The Board of Supervisors of Stephen
son county, in this State, has voted 70 grant
no liquor licenses.
The alarm of fire this morning was
caused by fault in the whistle when it
was blown for clock. 1t is being re-
paired.
"A boy aged years, son of Mr.. Viii
liam Greer, Of Danville, ILL.,, was instantly
killed by a bale OF hay falling from a wagon
upon him.
Steamers arrived at Memphis from be-
low report among the inundated much suf
fering not hitherto published. The river
is slowly falling.
The Superintendent of the Illinois
Central Railroad gives notice that all arti-
Giles for the relief of sufferers in Louisiana
will be taken to their place of destination
rec of charge.
The ferry boat runs now till O'Clock
in the evening leaving this side for its last
trip to Davenport about fifteen minutes be-
fore eight. The boat always remains on
this side over night.
-Advices from Southern Illinois
state that there will be a larger crop of
peaches, pears, apples and fruits of all
produced in that region.
The Captain at one of the police sta
tons in Boston where over l2,OO0 persons
are locked up, every year, says that during
the past six years not clergyman has
been there to do missionary work. and not
cent of money has been given to be used
for the benefit Of the prisoners.
AT Kankakee, ILL.,, young lady en-
ployed at the button factory, named Teau-
rougo (French) while stopping to pick up
buttons which had fallen to the floor dur.
ing her mornings work, her flowing hair
was caught by revolving shaft, and in an
instant the entire left hemisphere of the
seal p was torn from the skull She now
| lies in critical condition.
"A diagram of the fooled country in
! the states of Arkansas, Mississippi and
| Louisiana shows an extent of fo1rteea
thousand four hundred square miles, or q
bit Of land four hundred and eighty mile:
long and thirty wide An overflow so ex.
tensive and destructive is without a pre.
cedent in the history of the Mississippi val
ley. The damages to growing crops and
property In general are variously estimat
ed at from fifteen to twenty million dollars
"A Rutland, VT, farmer has sold hi.
colt and himself Two nicely dressed young
men came along and wanted to sample
the colt by driving him little ways, witt
the intention of purchasing, if his style
suited. The farmer consented, and the
nice young men started of, leaving an ele
CANT gold watch and 500 in money. Just a,
a matter of form for security. They did
MT seem to come back, however, and OIL
examination their collateral proved to b,
oroide as to the watch, and queer as t,
the money.
Dick Colmer is rough who at on,
time was employed in the Buford Plov
Works but was discharged Then he go
employment in the Buffalo, Iowa, Glas
Works, but was discharged from there
lie returned to this city where his wife wa
living. She was obliged to separate from
hun some time ago on account of abus,
from him. Monday evening he went t,
the house of Mr.. Griffin, ia the western
part of the city, where she was at work
and assaulted and beat her, and escaped
The police want him.