The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-27

The city council will meet in special
session at 1880 o'clock this evening.
The 7th Illinois Calvary will hold its
on the 10th and 18th Of September.
H Osterberg has gone to Germany to
persuade the bondholders to lose some
more money in the Rockford railroad swim
die.
Five hundred men are being hired at
lower river towns to work on the Golfer
dam at Montrose. The wages paid are
$3.50.
-Thos. Smith, the fellow who was ar
rested at Geneseo, Monday,as the murder
er Of Grothuyson, seems to have taken a
liking to Davenport, and, as the officers OF
the law did not bring him, he came volun.
tarily--and got very drunk, was arrested,
and was sent to Jail for ten days.
| The Democrat publishes as dead
beat and swindier, a fellow who registered
at the Scott House as ''Dr f. T. Wisner,
of Washington, d. Ca specially
doctor and swindler. The Scott House
mourneth for $40 board bill for Wisnel
and wife.
The compositors In the Muscatine
Tribune Office struck for higher wages OF
last Saturday afternoon and caused con
siderable trouble to get the paper out il
time, The strike lasted only one day, /:
new set of compositors having been EN-
ployed. In the last issue were some very
amusing blunders, owing to the devil
having made up the forms"
The Wedding of Daniel G. Porter
brother of the county treasurer, and Mis-
Almira L. Warner, daughter of Jacol
Warner, of Pleasant Valley. took place a
the residence Of the brides father, OF
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. W. NJ. Col
Inns. cf Moline, officiated. The newl!
welded pair left on the evening train fo
Chicago.
Since the issue of last evenings paper
a note was found in the house of Mr. De
foy, in Davenport. behind looking glass
to which was attached piece of Grape
a note reading: IF you want to fine
Casa look in the cistern." 1t is thu
learned that her drowning was not acciden
tai. What was the secret that drove on
so young-only l5-to suicides grave?
Thursday night, burglars broke int
the hardware store Of Sickles 4 Preston
vi OCCOuU otiOO', OdtCupOiti duu SuCCttu
ed in carrying off IL fine revolvers, 80 o
40 pocket knives, and several other things
They effected an entrance through tn
cellar and forced trap door in the floor
No clue to the parties who committed th
burglary.
-Budd Doble explains the defeat @
Goldsmith Maid by Lulu follows: On
cannot expect horse to last always. TIL
old mare is now in her nineteenth year, AN
it is not to be expected that she could bea
horse of nearly equal speed and in tn
3 prime of life. 1t is the fastest race tina
she ever trotted, but she has seen the da
when she could have trotted a faster ont
: She probably has as much speed in he
3 now as she ever had. but she cannot kee
it up so long; she cannot finish her heat
as she once could.
Q The wife of Mr.. Coe, residing on tn
! old Nourse farm, about mile south {
3 Geneseo, has been partially insane ft
4 some time and on Tuesday forenoon sh
3 attempted to drown herself in we'll, du
Q ing the absence of her husband. Her col
dition was accidentally discovered by
man going to the we'll for water and hea
ing her cries for help She was rescued
uninjured. The Republic thinks. Ii
shock of cold water restored her sense
a She stood in four feet of water in 45 fet
: deep we'll for nearly two hours.