The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-07
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Interesting telegraphic news, on q


first page-to-day's dispatches.
Fishes are plenty at the point of the
Goodman Is on the petit
jury.
Owing to the low water the trouble
some sand-bar at the point of the island is
again reappearing.
Hon. ?. L. Cable has had his fine res
idence, on Moline avenue, neatly repainted, |
besides making other improvements.
1t is holiday in St. Louis, today,
which accounts for the absence of the St. |
Louis market report of to-day, in our tele |
graphic dispatches.
-Tennyson has 200 sheep, and is,there- |
fore, 1919 ahead of Mary Com Jour.
What's the ewes now of such remark as
that, wether it's true or not
The leading color preacher of South
Carolina has been convicted of fraudulent
Transactions. The modern iuryman is
inaugurating crusade uponl the pulpit,
which is dreadful.
You appear in new role, don't you,
old fellowr was what the impertinent
young mani remarked as he dug cock
roach out of his fr sh bread at the break
fast table, A roseate flush permeated the
landlady's pallid cheek,
The Rev. Mr., Revels, ronce United
States senator. is now engaged in plucking
mortal brands from the burning in
Mississippi. His Washington experience
is said to make him especially acute on the
spoor of sinner.
People are beginning to lay in their
winter supply of coal, and it is amusing to
see the rush of teams for the cars on the
arrival of the Coal Valley trains, each
driver bent on having the best place"
to get his coal and go.
Jim Ross, of Andalusia, who was ar
rested aud sentenced to two months in the
county Jail for stealing four pairs of shoes
from Coss's shoe store. was released this
morning, he having served out his time.
1t is hoped thatse will now try to reform
1 and become good citizen.
! Cary 4 Jurgens were the lowest bid
ders for the work of painting
the court house, and have already
commenced the work. The painting and
sanding of the iron jet on Bengston's Block
was done by them, and is very close imi
tation of the marble IN the building.
1T is believed that no less than one fifth
of the crop of hops in England has failed
the hops being left on the poles, as they art
not worth picking. The growth this year
cannot supply the home trade, and goot
samples of English hops have accordingl!
advanced 10 price.
Geo. Wagner, of the Atlantic Brew
cry, has been making some very exten
!, sive improvements at his brewery thi
summer, both inside and out. The out
side work is completed, and he is now put
ting in new machinery throughout, whicI
will double the capacity for making beer
: The Father Mathew Total Abstinenc
5 and Benevolent Society, as will be seen b.
a notice in this paper, will honor the mem
DRY of the Great Temperance Apostle O
Sunday the 10th, the date of his BIRTH b
parade. On Friday evening of mex
D week, 1.-THE 15th) the society will give ba
}. at Darts Hail.
The fine old Arkansas gentleman
being deprived of his nearest and deares
rights. Because he landed load of she
in the person of a sheriff recently, VIII
s was making some seizures, thereby CON
e pelling that official to take his meals o
g the mantel-piece until he gets well, old Co
. Thompson was fined $50 by an insensat
e and heartless judge.
: City Marshal Halves is getting blan
:. notices printed to serve on people in RI
n gard to sidewalks and will commence ser
ing them tomorrow. There is now SON
hopes that we may get some decent sid
Is walks around town. A few fines, and I
!. favors, will soon convince people that som
.e thing must be done.
"A Mrs. Rush, of Woodruff. last wee
" Friday, returning from a visit to Iowa, lie
the cars at Alpha, and procured son
Is morphine, at Norgren's drug store, goir
It from there to Epperson's store. She hs
r. phial of strychnine IN her pocket and 81
10 took q dose of that, by mistake, thinking
e to be the morphine she had just purchase
10 and died very shortly,
le County Treasurer s. r. Porter has
I'd date refunded 81, 979 66 of the illegal tax
le according to law passed by the legisl
ture last winter. There is yet subject
have been collected closer this year tn;
O. for many years previous. There is not
of exceed $4,000 personal taxes outstandin
o. Davenport Gazette,
II An Alton, ILL.,, dispatch says: j, 'T
n effect of the heavy rains and rank veget
ia ton of this season are now seen in wild
ed spread disease along the bottom lands al
ed on the prairies. Nearly every family
he now suffering from fever or chills. but ge
a orally the disease is of mild type, O
"a drug house of this city alone has sold abo
o. 100000 grains of quinine, and the
ct mand still continues"
y, The supreme court Of Illinois in
H. appealed quo 10dITdaatO case in connect
:, with the Chicago Incorporation election, b
reversed the decision of the circuit col
no and remanded the case back to the latt
by court. This, in effect, establishes the
10 corporation act oflS72 as the law of t
.,l city. 1t would seem, then, that there "
be no occasion or authority for city ele
D" ion this fall, and that Mayor Colyin will h
M over until April 1977.-Chicaqo Jol
IN nal.
Ids Charles Herman shot and kill
be James Russell, on the porch of the G
House, in LIE Claire, Tuesday evening.
W grew out of drunken quarrel about VIII
nd was the best cook. Russell had been e
Sc ployed as cook on the raft steamer ]
r.s Claire Belle, was we'll known on the riv
!, % and had resided for sixteen years in
ne Claire, and Is spoken of as quiet, peac
are BILE man. Herman was a cook on the r
,od steamer, Van SAINT, and made his no
of for the past season or two in LeClai
Herman is in Jail, in Davenport. J
Jul coroners jury said he had "felonious
to shot him.
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tt Another Graveyard Quarrel,
ur- Philadelphia is determined that Montr
nor shall not monopolize the business of gu