The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-12
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
The water sprinkler was needed
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The water sprinkler was needed on
,ur streets this afternoon.
Market Square has been crowded
With wagons loaded with hay every day
during the last week.
In Putnam county two Independents
ran for county treasurer. W. Ell, Zenor
was elected, over Geo. c. Read.
Merritt Starr. son of J. G. Starr, of
Moline, is studying law in the law Office of
Sweeney 4 Jackson, in this city.
Mr., NJ. A. Bumphry, Of Anawan, by
the accidental discharge of gun while |
hunting lost one hand. 1t was amputated |
by DR.. Newell.
-JohG Bonn, from Durant, Iowa, has |
bought cat the saloon of A. Page on Wash |
ington street. Mr.. Page will occupylthe |
SALOON iu the new Rock Island House |
the first Of next month.
An attempt was made this morning to
secure the release of VIM. Swami. in Jail
under $2,0U0 fer horse stealing, but his
friends had all ''gone back" on him, and
he viii! probably remain in Jail until his
trial.
"A suit has been brought in Dayen,
port, by Mr., Bahrenfuss. against Fred
Dederick, for $1,000, the value of the ser
vices till he should be 81. of his son, who
was killed by an unlocked tumbling rod
on the Dederick's threshing machine.
A barn belonging to Mr.. H. Hoos,
three miles east of the Cambridge. Henry
county, fair ground, caught fire on Wednes-
day, the 9th. ult., by spark from the
house, and burned. together with some
5000 worth of grain, hay, hogs. etc.
First cousins were married in Ottawa
county, Kansas, recently. When the re-
lationship was discovered, the Judge and
minister waited on the parties, read the
law to them, and informed them that
they must consider themselves unmarried.
"A man named Charles Benton has
been lodged in jail on charge of stealing
a watch, the property of Mrs VIM. Hat
ton, of Edgington. He was at work for
MIR. Hatton, the father-in-law of Mr.. j.
2. Taylor, Of the Taylor House, this city
F A. Truman IA good name anyhow
was the independent candidate for county
treasurer ID Lee county, and beat j. b.
Williams, the Republican candidate by
1lS majority. The Dixon SIN (Indepen-
dent paper comes to us with an amusing
display Of cuts rejoicing over the result.
Hon. Geo. R, Vending, a prominent
lecturer, will, by invitation Of the Odd
Fellows Of this city. lecture on Wednesday
evening, the 18th. His subject will be
''TLe Stone Eel" He comes highly
recommended by the press, and by the
Grand Masters of this state and of the
| United States,
Mrs. Agnes Gibson, of Princeton,
Iowa, has renewed her petition for divorce
| from her husband Albert, on the ground
of insanity. Her husband is hopeessly
idiotic and insane, and is in Mercy Hospit
al, where he has been since 1871, and the
wife prays for the undoing of the ties
matrimonial which bind her to him.
The Christian church at LIE Claire was
entered last night by some sacreligiou-
parties who broke into the desk in which
the communion service was kept and drank
the wine in the vessels. Two hard boys
named James jackson and William New
by were arrested for it, and are now in tht
Davenport Jail in default of $500 bail
Officers Field, Niles, Mcguire and Mar
tens went to Muscatine, yesterday, on sub
pena, to testify in the divorce case o
Joseph Wier VS. Mary ". Wier. The de
PENDANT kept notorious house on the cor
ner Of Iowa and Second streets about
year ago, aud Is now living oyer the river
Deere Of divorce was granted. -Ddven
port GG=otte. i2h.
AS general thing judges are NOR
competent to make judicial decisions thai
editors. But there are exception
to ail5gules. and there is a current feeling
confirmed by the opinion of the lawyers a.,
the state, that any editor not absolutely
jackass, may safely assume that he know
more law than the majority OF the presen
supreme court of lowa.-ke0h;1h Cat
CN
~, NJ. Smith, general passenger agen
: OF tie Chicago, Rock Island Il Paciti
: Ra.raa III the eXuberance of his Centen
NAL i.:ri 'lism, has issued a very ueat Gil
cuiar advertising that road and its merits
D in ftIied page forn--each being backe
/ by splendid photograph of the Center
NAL buildings. The circular gives muc
desired information regarding the roa
:, west of the Mississippi.
We are informed by Mr.. Richar
Deming that John Swanson. who reside
e about six miles northeast of this city, los
q fourteen head of cattle last week, valued {
:, $500, by taking them from dry feed an
u turning them into his cornstalks. Nj
Swanson has also several other head {
It cattle which are sick from the same canst
y The loss is aseyere one. Geneseo Repul
. JIG.
The third week of the Moody an
l. Sanky meetings closed on Saturday evel
g ing in New York. and the result is fail
IS ure. Only two weeks of their engagemeI
. are left, and no revival will be melted Ill
e less there is sudden awakening, as no
d seems improbable The rink is daily file
" although Of late the attendance has falle
a off somewhat, but almost wholly by impa
- slve people. The enthusiasm is confne
to Christians. The sinners are curiou
u but unimpressed, and conversions are e
y ceedingly few, and there is no excitemen
=. Charley Farwen and Charley Reed Vi
~ 20 der a Cloud.
Il From the Chicago Times, 18th.
r Some further developments in the ope
atoms of the whisky-riGg are printed th
!. morning Some of the discreet dOings
|, the grand jury have leaked out, and it
~ ascertained that evidence was adduced
lie cast suspicion upon the integrity of son
y. prominent local and federal officers in co
nectiou with the crooked-whisky operation
s The conversation of a reporter with
q nameess individual. who knows where
% he afirms, gives some interesting facts
oil to the connection of Charley Farwell ar
N State Attorney Reed with the bushes
As more especially as to their efforts to indu