The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

6uoiA vi tue lSld0O.
Two of the old street cars were sent to
the paint shop to-day.
james L. Camp, son of the post
master at Dixon, this state, was one OF the
victorious Cornell college rowers.
B. Butler, VIM. D. Kelly, and other
counterfeit money frauds are going to hold
national grcenback convention in Detroit.
August 25th,
People in this vicinity are harvesting
their barley aud oats. Next week they
will begin on the wheat. Everything looks
well in this region.
A Cape May belle says the sea-baths
there are 'exhilaratiug as the clasp of a
lover" One of these days that girl will be
getting into trouble, and then she will lay
1t to the ocean of course.
Two girls, aged respectively l6 and 9
years, daughters of a market gardener
named Wieseged, at St, Paul, Mimi, were
thrown from their fathers wagon, by a
collision, and the Oldest girl was killed.
Governor Carpenter, of Iowa, issued
proclamation offering $500 reward for
the arrest of the murderer F. LassauX, at
Creton, j. L. Burnett, escaped from Jail at
Glenwood, held for the murder of j. L.
Brister.
1t is announced that Senator Morton
will make 10 or II speeches in Ohio, be-
ginning about the lst of August.
There will be good deal of curiosity to see
if, like his organ, he has changed from the
soft to the hard side Of the financial fence.
Elk Speaker Blaine is said to have re-
ceived a slight rebuff recently in his aspir-
atoms for Senator Morrill's seat. His
candidate for state senator in Oxford was
defeated in the nominating converting,
receiving only q votes, while Senator
Morrill, man received 81.
Crop reports from all parts of Illinois
show that there is reason to expect fully
an average crop of all kinds of cereals.
The harvest has commenced in the cen
trail and southern part Of the state, and
unless excessively wet weather should
prevail there need be no fears of failure
of a wheat crop,
The college boys have created quite q
sensation at their rowing matches at Sara
toga. The Cornell University boys won
the race of the Freshmen collegiate crews
on Tuesday. And on Wednesday they
won their second and greatest victory Oyer
all, Columbia college was second, Har-
ward was third, and Dartmouth fourth.
The driver of an express wagon load
ed with crockery belonging to May Broth
ers, of Rock Island, left his team unhitch
ed while he went into Frahms brewery, OF
Harrison street, this morning, when they
became scared, and making short turn
r overturned the wagon, spilling. out and
! breaking a lot of the crockery.-DdU. Dem
r 14M.
] Miss Lena Hehb, aged 10, and Mis-
3 Cecia Reibert, aged II years, were killet
? by lightning on Wednesday of last week il
S St. Mary's county, Md. The young ladie
0 were seated near the door Of the residence
f of Walter Hebb, when tree about tel
e feet distant was struck and they were in
, stantIy killed. Miss Reibert was from thi
; county on visit to Miss Hebb.
The clothes found upon the rive
bank at Davenport were identified as be
longing to DIR. Emilius Godfrey. FIT
9 men dragged the river for two days with
. out saccess. The body was not recovere
2 until Thursday evening, when it was foun
u in an advanced stage Of decompositio
d near Council Bluffs, sitting in Pullma
e palace car alongside of Mrs. Aurora Bealt
! the blonde milliner, who was supposed
:, have gone east to buy goods.
Adams county is boiling like eau
dron over the question of building ne
% court house and its location. The city
5 Quincy has offered Jefferson square
i that city as gift to the comfy, if it woul
ID ID locate the edifce thereon. The board
supervisors took a vote on the questio
yesterday, and defeated the proposition I
locate it on that square. This, it is SUI
IL posed, means a determination to remoY
lie the county seat from Quincy to some oth'
part of the county,
Crop reports from all parts of MINI
sofa show that the prospect is good and f
al above the average yield of all small grain
es especially wheat and barley. Potato
he also. promise unusually we'll, there beir
No very little trouble with the bugs this Sc
son. Corn is backward, but strong al
D, healthy, and the weather at present
IS. very favorable for its growth. Grassho
d; pers are reported in the southern part
the state, but thus far have not done mu
Ok damage.
IS; 1t is estimated that the barley area
lei Scott county, Iowa, this season. will vie
Is too million of bushels of the grain-larg
yield, by at least 100000 bushels, TIL
M that of any previous year. The area d
m voted to barely is considerably larger TIL
nu ever before. The samples that have be,
= sent in show that the Quality will be S
u perior indeed-berry large and full-al
u of course it will go into market comman
7r' ing the best prices, something Scott ecu
-. ty barely has not done before in five year
.ts Mayor Tewksburg, of Lawrence, Mas
= publishes card claiming that the respC
,S- sibility of the late riot rests with the flo;
" ing population who were drawn hither
the building of the water works. T
ire shanty used as boarding house by t
al water works hands was burned, Wedne
at day morning, and two of the seventy ocC
bn pants were burned to death. Marsl
Currier has resigned. The mayor infor
ed him that his failure to make vigt
,or Gus apd manly effort to quell the 18th
- July riot has made his resignation nect
sary.
"A geuine wild cat was captured
Mrs. Thos. Welcher, yesterday afternoC
T and Gagged by her. The cat made her &
M pearance during the afternoon sometime
jill the vicinity, and was attacked by sever
Int dogs in the neighorhood, most of who
S. have reason to be sorry that they ey
,at met her. Thoroughly exhausted by t
- struggle at last the cat bounded throu
ie an open door and into the parlor of NJ
OF Welcher, who closed the door on her, whe
at she was afterward captured and put int
ole cage, to which she passively submitte
g. being too weak 10 offer further resistant
A'' The feline is now on exhibition at Harris
& Holman's store, and is one OF the geuui
lip wild cat species. -DGU. Dem, 14th
d.
United Workmen.