The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-14
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

A little boy % years old, in Galva, sou
of Elijah Boggs, fell into a cistern and was
drowned.
Freddy Converse, of Cambridge, aged
Ia, son of James A. Converse, lost a leg
in a threshing machine, on Monday after
noon.
Tennessee, with its 5000 majority for
Greeley in 1872, and its $4,000 anti Repub-
lican majority in 1874, is not an isolated
case. Kentucky gave Greeley 1900 ma
jnrity, and has just been. carried by the
Opposition with 10000 votes to spare.
MIR. John Fl. Reed, formerly editor of
the Aledo Record, afterwards editor of the
Monmouth Atlas. and lately connected with
the u. S, revenue department, died on
Wednesday last. He had been in poor
health Tor some years.
Charles Else, of Cambridge, a boy II
years old, on horseback, was racing his
horse out of town and ran on a buggy
throwing himself upon the ground, crush
ing one shoulder and inficting Internal in
juries perhaps fatal. The buggy wheels
were entirely ruined, 50 great was the con-
c~ussion.
The meeting of the "anti-call Demo
Gratis at Quincy on Saturday night was a
complete failure. The He,uM says that
not an hundred persons were present at
the meeting, and that at least half Of these
were local Republican politicians, who at
tended for the purpose of encouraging the
designating movement.
Letters from our former townsmau,
y. Is Henney, now in western Iowa, re-
port much destruction by gr%asshoppers in
that section. A good many of the critters
have been seen passing over this vicinity
towards the southeast, during the past two
weeks, flying very high in the air. The
native variety here is pretty abundant
Crmbridge Chronicle, 1871,
-Lynde Loucks was running a thresh-
ing machine about three miles northeast
OF Cambridge, threshing for Mr.. Disch,
with an uncovered tumbling rod. when he
was caught and whirled several times
around it breaking several ribs so that
some Of them protruded through the skin.
and otherwise severely i~njuring him. 1t is
thought that he will recover. He has
paid a severe penalty for not observing the
law requiring tumblmg rods to be covered.
Some sneaking scoundrel entered the
of the editor of the Cambridge
Chronicle last Saturday and smeared the
paint work and granting with a solution of
potash aud I've. The halls and rooms had
just been newly painted, grained and var
1lshed, the fine granting on fourteen
IOors. the castings and other work was
as also the kalsomining. We
nope the scoundrel will be discovered and
severely punished.
A little daughter of William r. era
nam, of Mercer county. 10 running across
lot, frightened some little pigs. Some
hirty head of hogs pursued her, and after
short struggle took her down. The moth
- of the child ran to the rescue of her lit
lie girl. but forgot to take a club. They
ook her down also. MIR. Graham, who i
'as same distance off, heard the screams
nd went TO their assiStance-tnding his q,
and child badly mutilated. They will
recover. +.
Martin Connolly, a laborer at the Ar.
email, and a resident OF this city, was bad
hurt in one leg by a derrick yesterday
lternOon. Z
The Market Square drinking fountain !
finishes too much water, and workmen :
ave been employed 10 regulate it so that
lere will be 10 overflow.
Our G~alesburg visitors we're treated
a display of the power and efficiency of n
II water works. The display of mud d
ON the pipes was something wonderful.
he fltering arrangement would proba =
by keep out dead dog, dead cattle, aud
lch trash, but as for keeping out sand it
,es nothing of the sort. Better filters r.
iouli be put in at once, and the supply c.
pes extended out into deep water. Ii is P
ID that the water Is not over a foot deep y,
w, at the top of the filters. Something =
iould be done at once to give US purer N
alter.