The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-03
NOTES HERE AND THREE.

The Cambridge police force mas got d |
new suit of uniform, Bully for him.
The old board of directors for the G.,
Il. |. & P. R. r. has been reelected.
Orion people rather like Paris green,
for regular diet A little child OF Pete
Diyiuney's has been eating some, but Or.
Long and emetics saved 1t.
j. W. Scott, residing two miles east
of Cambridge, was at Orion to get some
milling done, and he tried to grind his
hand in corn shelter. He only lost one
| finger.
she will go up for 5 years. John 6roWn
withdraw his motion ior new trial ana
goes up for one year. Mrs. Weir Is dis
charged.
j. D. Taylor gets the contract Tor
building the Robinson block, corner w ash,
ington and Illinois streets, on the site ot
the old City Hotel. Work will be com
menced at once.
The pompous potato bug and the
) crafty cucumber bug have made their ap'
pearance in our garden, aud poured out
their gore and things on the thirsty soil. -
Cambridge Chronicle, 3d.
In Cam bridge, according to the Chroa
icle, school children steal from one another
such things as that ribbons, pencils
sponges, books, etc., - and their parents
I and guardians are called upon to reform
: the little thieves.
0 A postal card from S. c. Lewis, datet
s Edgington the ID, says; There will be
Sabbath School convention held at Antioch
Baptist church, seven miles southwest Q
Edgington village, on "Wednesday Jun
a 9th. All are invited.
g When Paul Boynton is at sea, b
o lookslike miniature steamship tull-rlgget
His body and the floating apparatus rel
resent the hull, his head the prov, his toe
1t turned up The lies on his back the sterl
Is end, the sail he carries the rigging, and h
L cigar the smoke stack.
~ The rain of Monday night and Tue
- day was a double blessing 1t gave vege
~ alton a much needed soaking, and tho'
pests, the grasshoppers and chlnch-bug
we're drowned out by the myrlads. A
other such an out-pourlng,. and the
he stroyers would be DESTROYED.
ed Lightning struck the kitchen wing
err the house of Alderman Dow, on the blu
35 in Davenport, on Tuesday. 1t went doV
the ightpiug-rod, went under the roof, II
lowed gas pipe, shocked the girl in t
ac- kitchen. darted through the floor, a
Ter spent its fury in the earth. The CHI
m damage was to plastering, yards OF Will
D found the floor.
When Isaac Conner of Watertov
vi was absent in the pineries, last April,
ock brother Simeon NJ. got out license a
married Ruth Conner, his neice, a
nor daughter of Isaac. 1t is now said Il
~. Isaac will institute proceedings agai
iei Sim. for incest, also for perjury In swe
ing that the girl was IS when she is Of
at Is years of age.
to A succession of violent thunder stor
,rt visited this region on Tuesday, giving
~ copious quantities of rain, which W
IL gratefully received, The lightning,
", some Misunderstanding the barn OF
al n Nord, two miles southeast of town, witt
w considerable quantity of grain, hay,
10Y implements, and killing horse. An {
IIeyS' building in town was also struck and 81
n n tered Cambridge Chronicle, Sd.
SalI. Isn't it about time for the loyal ed
lin to stop turning pale every time Mr.; Jei
asst son Davis happens to receive little
w lie attention in the south? Is it necess
les for the safety of the Union to pronou
the applause which greets the speeche
the ex-president of the Confederacy
der 'old rebel yell?" To the bipartisan
hing Mr.. Davis appears very harmless sol
person.-M y Tribune.