The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-02
NOTES ERE AND rHERE

The city council will meet in regular
monthly session alta o'clock this evening.
The supply Of hay and corn does not
equal the demand at present. The latter
is now selling at Is cents per bushel.
The farmers are still busy working in
the harvest fields. and do not come to
town. Only two teams on Market Square
Saturday, and only one-a load of corn-up
to noon to-day.
DIR. G. Tegeler began to-day the exca-
walton for the foundation of his handsome
brick building which he proposes to erect
this fall on the corner of Washington and
Orleans streets.
Three women were baptized in the
river at the foot of Otter street by the
Swede Baptist minister of this city yester-
day afternoon in the presence of large
number OF people.
The huge irons for the vault of the
pew Rock Island National Bank building,
were removed from the railroad track at
the foot of Madison street to the new build
ing to-day. 1t was heavy job. ~
Deputy Sheriff Siiyis, who was in the
upper end of the county last week, says
that the recent heavy rains have injured
the small grain so badly in some places
that they will not be worth harvesting.
The rain has also damaged the corn con-
siderably.
Nearly every fair day there is pic
mic from this city, Moline or Davenport to
Vandruff' s Island. A band wagon drawn
by four horses and filled with young folks
from Davenport passed over the bridge
this morning on its way to the pleasant
groves in that vicinity.
Since the river has fallen so low Kea-
tor Il Go. have had considerable trouble
getting their logs to the saw mill on &C
count of sand bar directly across the
mouth of the log-way, Yesterday they had
a gang Of men removing the bar with scra-
pers.
The White Stockings, of Morris, ILL.,.
! and the Centennials, of Davenport, intend
. playing match game Of base ball in the
fair grounds, Davenport, o-morrow after
noon. An admission fee of 25 cents viii
be charged. Several Of our base bal
players from this side of the river intend
going over to witness the game.
The bad condition of some of our
streets in consequence of the soft filing il
the water trenches was a good deal dis
cussed at the council meeting Saturda,
evening, after which it was unanimously
but informally, agreed that Aid. Yates
= chairman of the Street aud Alley Commit
: tee, should give Street Com'r Ziegler sucl
directions in regard to the matter as h,
thought best.
"A few days ago Alexander Cherr.
E was buried at Geneseo and the Methods
parson of the town was called on to preacl
t the sermon. After the burial Robt
I Cherry, brother of the deceased, asked tn
parson whether he had any bill to present
: to which the divine replied: well no no
Y exactly-but then it is sometimes custom
f airy to give five dollars to the Lord" 7
! is not definitely known whether the contri
j. button reached its destination or not.
!, The Burlington, Iowa, Gazette, say
l. that .. S. Engineer Durham, with
is party of surveyors, is now engaged in sound
II ing the various chutes in the river, jus
& north of Burlington, and will be engage
n in the business OF locating those annoyin
sand bars between O'Connel's slough an
IS the Illinois shore during the next ten day
,e MIR. Durham, under Colonel Macomb, ha
beenengagedin these river soundings man
le mouths, and has got far down on his wa
from ST. Paul to St. Louis,
n .-Atthe council meeting Saturday ever
"a ing Aid. Atkinson called attention to tt
ut fact that the water pipes were not sunk 81
he feet at certain point on Washington S
n Aid. Bailey explained that they had to {
e. over or under the gas pipe apd conclude
!: to go over, which, for short distance lie
the trench little less than six feet. That
of the very place where it will probab
By freeze. We Go not see any benefit to
e. derived from low ing the pipes if spo
70; are to be left exposed to frost.
of City Marshal HAYES, taking the advi
me of The ARGUS, started out this mornil
with men and teams cleaning alleys. Pc
at. who have not yet cleaned their alleys C;
es have the work done by the marshal
ge paying for it. but if they prefer doing
themselves, it must be done within
til hours after being notified or he will ha
he them arrested and fined. This is GO
ok move on the part of the marshal and O
in which he ought to be sustained by
le- our citizens.
re- In the Des Moines district court
Thursday of last week, notorious cou
'or ezan, named Madame Hale, was sentenc
OF to one year in the county Jail for keeping
house of bad repute. Just before t
ing sentence she addressed the court in an G
cited speech rejecting severely upon O
of the attorneys and causing consideral
excitement in the court room. She to
lr. an appeal, her bond being fixed at 81 OF
lad A young man named Charles Steve
the went her surety, and while he was I
worth a cent, swore that he owned prom
m ty worth $1,000. The Madame and Ste
rp. ems sloped the next day. Stevens has
yed history. He is the son of pious a
lds talented Massachusetts, clergyman, "
.s given college education, was subseque
OSs ly employed in a Boston clothing hou
'es. later entered Chicago wholesale hor
it'll as commercial traveller, robbed his e
The ployers and spent ten months in the st;
"a penitentiary at Joliet. Getting out of t
,nu institution his former employers took h
lay back, but he soon got to drinking, goi
zen with fast women, and was discharged.
np is now about as low as he can get.