The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-11
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Central Presbyterian church Is
handsomely decorated for this evening.
Andrew Langenbaugh, of Edgington,
gets a premium of So from the county on
a wolf scalp.
The June term of the Henry county |
circuit court Judge PleasaDts) commences
next Monday.
The ball of the Father Mathew Total
Abstinence Society will take place at
Darts Hall this evening. General invita-
| ton.
The Methodists are going to have an
excursion to Cordova some day next week,
the proceeds to be devoted to seating their
Exchange street place of worship,
"A new trial having been denied in the
case of Mrs. Vanlandschoot vs. The City:
the case will be appealed. The general
opinion is that the case has no real merit,
but is merely speculative affair,
| The Rock Island High School Alumni
Reunion and graduates reception takes
place at the residence of Judge Spencer
from eight to ten o'clock, this evening.
) None are expected except such as have
!, received cards of invitation.
The ladies of the Central Presbyteri,,
an church hold their strawberry festival
and promenade concert in the auditorium
I: of the church this evening, the space be-
e ing clear, no pews yet put in. They ex-
i pect and will doubtless have large at
p tendance.
! "A nuisance and humbug in the shape
of drunken coot who pretends to be
i sword swalloWer, is around town witt
. crowds of boys for audience. He shoult
r. be made to leave town or be locked up
i The police are not strict enough with sucl
strolling vagabonds.
We learn from Mr.. Joseph Asquith
u of Edgington township, that hetarmers il
al that section of the county have not had S
'. fair prospect for all kinds Of grain as nov
N for years. Very little corn had to be re
planted. Grass is rather short, but i'll
'e proving since the warm rains. Potatoe
Re are good, and no bugs have been seer
j, No grasshoppers.
,e The fair damsels of society will 500
o all be transformed into mattresses ;
- church festivals--a and how careless and no
1t free will the young men walk up aud CON
IN down with their dollars! And how the go
ernor will growl and say it is all humbuE
y And how mama will take sides with Il
u young folks and call the governor bea
III And above all, how gloriously will the Go
N. pei of Peace be built up and spre;
j. abroad!
nd On Wednesday night, the 9th, ii
a county fire poof building in Cambridge W
80 entered and the sum of $50 taken fro
as the drawer of the county clerk, which co
res tanned $500 more in an envelope that Il
nd thieves did not detect. Some two or thr
he weeks ago, Mr. Beverage, county tres
=. urer, lost his key to that apartment, al
ID the person or persons who were engaged
this were undoubtedly the ones that foul
rt, it, and in all probability live in or ne
Sc Cambridge.
The MIR. Chas III. FELTON,, agent of t
100 Empire Line, was Frustrated on his arrl7
see mere on Tuesday morning with an acute
VII tack of the rheumatism, of similar CHI
ind acter to that which laid out Mr.. Ben HI
he per for period of three weeks, some til
49,, since, during which his life was despair
GU Of But what, with the assiduous attenti
of the Harper House people, and the CT
pc, of DR.. Rodman, we congratulate Char
ON. that he was enabled to assume the perp
oh dicular and go on his way westward
0' evening.