The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-08
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

john AouHgeT, vi TOrl byron, was
'obbed Of 5000 on Wednesday morning.
No clue to the robbers.
Some fine property belonging to Aug.
3rantz is offered for sale in Moline. See
notice Of assignee, in this paper.
John Case, of Port Byron. took some
thing which was near putting an end to his
existence. DR.. Rogers saved him.
The body of Homer Elkin was hooked
up by man named Bryan, some two or three
hours after he was drowned. 1t was
about hundred feet from the boat where |
he fell into the water.
Thursday evening, the Western Union |
railroad ticket Office at Port Byron was
broken into, and few dollars in change
which had been left in the drawer were
stolen. No clue to the burglars.
AID, Carse's motion, which was adopt
ed by the council, to change our Fairbanks
scales for the Victor don't seem to meet
with much favor. It is regarded as an
unnecessary expense, and no improvement.
The Peoples National Bank, of Rock
Island, publishes its statement in this issue
of The ARGUS, which was called for from
all banks, The Peoples National seems
to be steadily but surely increasing in pub
lie favor and prosperity.
Clinton G.. Spicer, St. Cloud, Mimi,
school boy instead of studying his books,
as he should have been doing, was fooling
in the school room with an old pistol. Now
he will have to turn over the leaves of his
books with the other hand.
"A girl working at the Barton House,
Ypsilanti, Mich, has died from poison
taken a few days ago. The cause is re-
ported as being the result of modification
| at being charged by the proprietor's wife
| with improper intimacy with the proprie-
tor,
The Father Mathew Temperance So
cieties of Northern Illinois will hold a
grand celebration at Amboy, on Monday
next, October IL. Large delegations will
be present from LaSalle Mendoza, Polo,
Forreston, Freeport and Sterling The
Rev. Father Hodnott is to deliver the ora
ton at p. m.
The miners at the coal branch near
Alton, ILL.,, are out, having struck on Mon
day last for higher wages. They have been
getting four cents bushel during the
summer season, and have struck for five
cents bushel, but the mine operators
have declined to make the concession
John" Goodman is charged, in the
Uuion, with wearing "a we'll got up white
Shirt" and he wants us to say that he
never did such thing in his life. He
thinks the inventor of the idea is the man
who tried to eat the skip,jacks that John
Stevens gave him and complained that "he
got his mouth stuck NIT the pones full.
Chicago now has three direct railway
connections with Peoria-the Rock Island
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and
the Illinois Central. The latter company
by recent arrangement, now takes pas
sengers to Peoria and keokuk without
change of cars. making close connections a
Gilman with the trains on the Toledo
Peoria and Warsaw railroad.
DIR. Truesdale and Mr.. Andrew
Conant, with fishing and hunting tackle
are at Spirit Lake. In Dickinson county
Iowa, wild portion Of the state on thu
Minnesota border, and nearly in the north
west corner of the state. Deer and al
sorts of game and fish abound in that re
gion, and they expect to be absent a couple
of weeks or more, and lay in good stool
of health for the winter.
| The Methodist Conference, recently
; in session at Springfield, has surprised
everybody by appointing the Rev. II. .
Hoffman, the hero of the Quincy scandal
to the Quincy church for another year, a
though nothing had happened. 1t takes
good deal to make the church of the periot
spew out an eIring brother nowadays, ant
little brains covers multitude of sim
prudences.
The Pekin city council refuses licens,
to saloon-keepers unless they will put ava,
their screens and take the blinds dowI
from their windows, and keep the glas
lcleaned, so that an inventory can be takel
of everything inside without going int
the saloon. Aud further, they mus
agree to keep their back doors closed. ant
allow no person to enter or pass out at thu
rear.
The Erie railroad has obtained an en-
; trance to the city on the Baltimore & OhiC
track. The city council committee on the
matter has been notified that a demand
will soon be made ON them to fix the pric'
which the city will demand for the lax
front landing When they do this tn
willing to pay for the same, build a grant
.
Eight of Chicago's bummers wer
; taken out of Jail Thursday and transferre,
to the state penitentiary at Joliet, havins
been convicted of various crimes ant
sentenced to various terms in that safe
deposit concern. Among the number j
: the rascal Blannerhassett, the bunko chap
Rock Island has few of the same sort
and if we could find jury that appreciat
ed the situation we could be rid of some o
; them.
The jury acquitted Jim Buckly. TX
, Haley, Dick Forsteng, Menas Exene-
| Walter Boyle. Ed. Richards, and vii
, Quinlin, of the charge of burglary, at Both
saloon, for which they may thank tn
shilly-shally, slip-shod evidence of Boil
1t is to be hoped that their experience i
ton of them have been in Jail four months
!, Unless they reform their lives, it will pre-
q baby go hard with them next time the
e violate the law.
The following is the value of oficis
e stamps and stamped envelopes issued b
; the postofice department to general de
partments for the first quarter of the fiscs
year ending September 80: "Executiv
: department. $201 treasury department
J. S62,00O; war department, $l5.SO7; nav
j, department, $3.50; postofice, $l39, 43l
| interior, 22,S3O, justice, $40; agricu
ture, $1,000. Total, $246, 1851" Accord
ing to this, Uncle Sans postage for tn
e departments at Washington amounts to
: million of dollars year. All the uncles
. aunts and cousins of the Republican office
:, holders probably use these stamps.
The event of the season in Bowling
occurred on Thursday-the marriage {