The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE

Very clear bright day and bracing air. '
The pleasant month of September has
gone. .t.-..s
Plenty of ducks at Swan lake, SO saysI J
John Warner
Bad time of year for the mumps, So
is any other time, |,
The Aledo Banner was published dali
ly during the Mercer county fair.
Three hundred and thirty season tick
cts to the Sterling lecture course have thus
far been sold. .-s-- --v.'
Peoria passenger train was three
hours late last evening. "Blowed out
plug at CISCO"
w. Ell. Atwood has hung out his legal
shingle on the outer wall of Mitchell &
Lynde's block.
-Pullback pants have only one leg. |
They are worn by ladies and are called the |
clingiug.. skirts.
For to-day's Chicago. Milwaukee, ST. |
Louis and New York markets, see first
page of THE ARGUS.
At Wataga, ILL.,, Tuesday night, the
store OF j. Dobson was entered by thieves
and robbed Of $500 worth of goods.
Charles Diamond was crushed under
a vast mass of roofing in the mine of the
Fairbury GILL; Coal Company on Tuesday.
1t is amusing to see one of our city
officials standing Oh Bengston's corner.
trying to persuade somebody to pitch pen
MES with him.
Joseph Schollmeier has bought out
the saloon of Jacob Ihrig, near the glass
factory. Mayor Davenport approved his
bond this morning.
Frank Brady's funeral at 10 o'clock
tomorrow forenoon, from his late residence
on Rock River street. between Eagle and
Washington streets
No woman, except such as desire to
deceive men in regard to their forms, has
yet been known to decry the new cling
ing style OF overskirt."
"A pious citizen of Dubuque had IF
teen yellow-legged chickens stolen last
week, The Methodist Conference was in
session there at the time.
The Little Sneak" as he passes
along the street, distributes the odor he
acquired IN his late experience in the
drunk room" at the police Office.
Farmers in this county buy good
many steers In Iowa for fattening. Every
day, droves of them come oyer By the ferry
: and are driven into the country near here.
MY son put away that ball. Do you
know where the wicked boys go who play
base ball on Sunday?' "Yes N; they &C
down by the fair. grounds. "-~VicksbuS
Herald -.
a EFF county fairs is goin' to do agri
i cultur' cnny good" says a bard-headec
r granger, keep out the wimmiD. Then
;. air pull backs get mans eyes SO sot tina
r he can't see nuthin' else.
e Miss Clara Newbury, who has beer
g copying book IA" of deeds, in the record
It er's office, for the last two month s, has nov
only half completed the job, although
t working every day. It's big job-to
e 800.
q AT the end of a bridge on the Chicag
e & Paducah road,a little north of Monticel
s 10, Piatt county, ILL.,, a train ran into fin
l. herd Of sheep, owned by W. e. and B. f
Loge, of Monticello, Ind, and cut to pie
i ces over fifty of them,
}: The police made 81 arrests during tn
d month Of September, viz: Disturbing tn
al peace 9; drunk and disorderly, 10; vagrar
le cy, s.; larceny, I; burglary. /; dementeC
re /; assault with a deadly weapon, /. I
IS August there were II arrests
70 County Treasurer Porter refunde
S993.37, of the illegal tax OF 1873, durin
, the month of September. People VIII
have not received their money back fc
u. the illegal taxes paid that year should ca
- and get it, bringing their tax receipts fc
% that year. ~
~ "A row occurred between two brother.
ca in-law named David Lindsay and Jane
Nv Powers, at:Atalissa, Iowa, about 35 mile
ne west of this city, few days ago, in whic
20 Lindsay stabbed Powers with pockt
10 knife near the groin, inficting dangerou
wound. Lindsay is still at large.
"A man was knocked down and robbed
in daylight, in Davenport, yesterda.
After smart chase the robber was caugh
and the money found on his person. r
gave his name as VIM. Connors. He an
his victim were both locked up to ava
=. legal proceedings.
d. "A lamp-post on the corner of We:
0A Eagle and Illinois street, was broken G
W, this morning, by man named Strahl
de employed in the new Rock Island Hous
o. by his team backing against it. Marsh
Halves required him to give security fl
~ the amount of damage done.
sr- The incorrigable punster of the Poor
he railroad office in this city, never misses
h chance to twist word to an appropria
Ter use. Yesterday, some one said to hin
ill Il hear that Osterberg has telegraphe
I'D for Cap, Robinson to come to New York
tut Yes" says 10. G. hes the ferry m:
&c. Osterberg wants. .-.
nd THE ancient editor" that so worri
ed the Little Sneak (Henly) is about :
IN, years of age, and printer by trade. I
hopes to take the swelling out of Il
Little Sneak's" head before many wee
have passed, The printer boy can
found around town, most any day.
~ Speaking of Matilda Fletcher, Il
editor of the Omaha Herald SAYS: 6
adj some phianthropist would present this I
be male humbug with washboard and a S
ers of fiat-irons, and force her to put them
be practical use or starve, he would conf
yer practical benefit on this part of t
as northwest"
va "A little while ago the treasury officis
7as c announced that silver change was to
"a substituted for the ten cent scrip NJ
ioS they announce that if the premium on 60
does not fallit will be impossible to subs
ler tute silver change in place of the fractio
of al currency this fall, as intended by 81
the rotary Bristow,
ion Professor H. Henrichs, of the 10,
va State University, is organizing a wealth
AZ signal corps throughout Iowa, who are
OF report weekly to him the rainfall a
other meteorological facts within thi
locality, which the professor is to col