The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

"A towboat will naturally burn quicker 7
than any other kind of water craft, t
Florida boys throw straw men to the
alligators and then laugh and laugh. !
And now they say it was Fletcher |
HUT who was pulled out of Madame Arm.
olds Saturday night.
1t is reasonably to be supposed, when
gentleman moves the ''quevious PRESTON,
Misser Preserzent." that he has made
some progress in investigating the whiskey
ring.
NO." said Mrs. Podgers very post
lively, IF I go into the country, Mr.. Pod
gers goes with me- This city amt no safe
place to leave man alone in,
Softly now the tender hearted wife i'm
parts to her searching husband the intelli-
gence that she sent his linen clothes to the
Kansas sufferers last winter.
Railroad trains now cross the Missis- |
sippi on the new bridge at st. Louis and
run to the grand central depot at st. Louis. |
This is great comfort to travellers.
"A barn in Richland Grove, the proper
tv of Geo. Moring, was struck by lightning
Sunday night and burned. One horse was
burned in the barn.
Persons from the country say that
considerable damage was done on some
farms, by the beating down of growing
corn, and the flooding of fields that had
enough water previously.
Next to getting a verdict in a SANDER
suit or drawing prize in lottery the
election of an Episcopal bishop seems one
Of the most difficult things to accomplish
| Illinois and Iowa are still dissatisfied and
grumbling.
y wasn't so very late-only quarter
of twelve How dare you sit there and
tell me that lie?" Il was awake when
you came in and looked at my watch-it
was three O'clock" well, isn't three
quarter of twelve?"
-"Children should be seen: and not
heard, quoted Mrs. Jones to Johnny
the other night, when he was too noisy
after being put to bed Johnny. who can
see point, Immediately kicked the
clothes Oft. but wonidn't say his prayers.
The fire at Moline, at o'clock Mon
day morning, illuminated fhe eastern por-
ton OF this city so that one could read fine
print in the streets From residences on
the hills the flames could be seen, rising
and surging, almost as plainly as from the
bluffs in Moline.-Dau Gaz.
During Sunday nights terrific storm
lightning followed the wires into the tele-
graph office at Mineral, Bureau county,
and stunned the operator. He was car
ried to his home in an insensible condition.
but revived soon afterwaId and was not
considered seriously injured. The same
bolt, before reaching the telegraph Office,
shattered fifteen telegraph poles.
"A freight train coming west on the Pc
oria road jumped the track Monday about
mile this side Of Cambridge and eight
cars run off. Perry Doxie, a brakeman on
the train, was standing in the caboose and
/ was thrown head first against the stove,
cutting and bruising his face severely. His
shoulders and sides were also injured.
BOSS. who dis Beecher dey talkin Sc
g much bout up in de Nort?' HE is an
, eloquent pastor of fourishing church in
BROOKLYN" Dunno bout dc elfant, but
a a pears like somehow dey talk mighty ran.
cid facs on him. Eyes. Sam. he is in a
: slight difficulty at present, and would be
! glad ifyou could help him by" Ay golly
n Use seen wussern him fall from de Lord
;, grace, sab, and dis chile amt nebber done
= muffin fur TO sabe 'em; dey had to sabe
:. themselves sah!'
q "A mothers heart naturally swels with
Il pride at the evidence of budding ambition
n in her boy as he returns from the circus
r and tells her enthusiastically that he's
n changed his mind and guesses he won't bt
n a minister. But when he comes to say
e his prayers that night and begins in thi!
p style:
o[ Now lay me down to sleep
~ Ipray to have horse To keep.
- she quietly curls him over her knee anC
Is takes some Of the ambition out of him
1T s. A. Douglas Volk, rising young
lie artist, son of Leonard W. Volk, presiden
IN of the Chicago Academy af Design, arrvec
y home last evening, and is at the Dougla
House. Mr.. Volk has been studying ar
abroad during the last three years il
ID Rome, Venice and Paris, latterly unde
IS the instruction of Gerome, in the Ecol De
Beaux Arts. He was recently com plimen
ted by the admission of one of his painting
b, into the Salon of Paris. Chicago Journal
At lIh.
\ The Railroad Gazette tells its read
- ers that Mr.. Gardner, of the Lake Shor
te road, who has been making an examina
s. ton Of the Davenport 4 St. Paul road, ha
ID finished his work and made his report
~ He recommends that the road be CON
: pleted from its present terminus, outsid
le of Davenport, into that city, and that it b
es extended from Fayette. Ia, northward a
~ far as Cresco. The cost of these exter
is sions he estimates at about $500, 600 Ii
al advises the bondholders to advance thi
C sum rather than to foreclose the mortgag
" and sell the road"
e. In the case of Green VS.. School Dis
be No. 8, in Hampton, alluded to in Monday
e. ARGUS, Justice Pinkley found for plainti
Of in the sum of 800 1t appeared that Gree
~ taught school in the district last winter
u; and in April the directors hired him fC
b. another term. And it turned out that th
w profane and indecent language was used b
nd fore the last contract was made, which, {
"a course, could not affect the contract An
gel the matter about the record proved to /
k; only book used by teachers in which
ed note attendance, department, ETC., and NJ
he the official records Of the directors
nc Every old settler in this county wi
y remember Father Pelamorgues who W;
ne about the first Catholic priest in this Sc
r. ton of country. He left for his natl,
ny home-Erance, in 1868. A letter was r
lls ceived on Saturday by Mr.. Dittoe, of tn
~. city, from the old patriarch, dated St Ge
ne evieve, France, saying that he was vel
sick with asthma and dropsy. The ia
being made known to Father Cosgrove,
St. Marguerite's church, he Yesterday r
p, quested the members of the congregatit
to offer prayers to the throne of grace
behalf of the reverend father, who, for
ely many years, ministered to the spiritu
af- wants of the faithful in this part of Il
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