The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-22
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Jack frost is fast cutting off the sap
supply from cornfelds.
-Overcoats an furs are being taken
repaired for daily use, even now.
Quincy is up to her knees in the social
filth which has escaped from the doors Of
the M. E. Church at that place. Sad, but
true.
Michael Kelley, of Eliza, Wis.,. showed
his boy how to feed threshing machine.
He is now learning to write with his left
hand,
-Johnstown, Rock county, Wis, has
the boss boy. He is six feet three inches
and half high, is Is years old, weighs III
pounds, and wears No. IL boot
"A remarkable eclipse of the sun oc.
ours on the morning of Tuesday next
Not much of it will be visible here, for it
happens just at sunrise. 1t will be nearly
total at that time in Central New York.
Wabash county levies tax this year Of
seventy-fye cents on the hundred dollars
for county purposes, and twenty cents for
road purposes fifty cents for the first dog,
and dollar for each additional dog, and
two dollars for female CANNES.
| Reports respecting the cranberry crop
come in slowly. At Norway Ridge. on the
Wisconsin Valley Railway, Terrell Thorn
as has 500 barrels in warehouse, for which
he has already received handsome offers.
1t is believed the yield will be very light
The Burlington Haaok Eye says
out of employment by the recent higt
ho MiSc;oc,D,1i 81 Mopfroco
Z number of them who have been sick have
6 been sent to the county poor house"
The twentieth 81 ssion of the U pper low,
= Conference of the NJ, E. church will opel
in Dubuque September 22j, Bishop Merrill
s presiding, and continue in session five o
9 six days. This body is composed Of abou
!. IT'S members, most of whom will b.
. present.
D A colored man named Burns, in tn
;. employ of Balch 4 Frazer, is entitled t
= credit for arresting Henry Pardee, th
rufian who assaulted Mr.. Schneider. {
& the Cape Horn House, on Monday II
= afterward turned the prisoner over to Pr
!. liceman Brennan, who took him to Jail,
g Last Monday three-ca monte ma
fieeced preacher, a passenger on tt
Il steamer Red Wing, out of $50. The Re
gentleman Kicked" and the captain
* the boat detained the swindler at Muse
re tine and had him locked up in Jail,
no railroad conductors would do the san
ce thing whenever one of these men a
- caught plying his vocation on a train,
~ would soon stop the business.
- "A blind man named Mike Riley,
Davenport, seventy years OF age and sal
X to be wealthy, was married Tuesday.
nd his nice, Miss Kittie Sheridan, sag
oo twenty7three, by justice Kaufman, and
81 baby was born to the happy couple in lie
OF than hour after the cefemon
NJ There's, no accounting for the stran
nd things which happen in this world. M
tiff the happy couple live long and prosp'
no Strong hopes are entertained til
Charley Ross is alive, and that West,
welt will put the authorities on the track
his recovery for the sake of purchase
ich pardon. His conviction as an accompl
% of Mosher and Douglas, the chief kidna
2. pers, Is accepted as harbinger of rel
OF from lifelong agony and terrible suspense
ars that abduction. But there have been ma
are dissapointments, and hope defer
maketh the heart sick. "
Tuesday welldressed man enter
U.s. William Fineield's boarding house,
n.y. 42O East Fourth street, Davenport, .
to engaged board. He said he wished
to write letter, and sat at table in the
Al ting-room to do 50. To fifteen minu
,AS after be was gone, and Mrs. +. went
OF Der room, and found thatthe new boarl
ny, was thief. He had rummaged draw
ner and opened books, and stolen seven {
out lars thae sne hau piaoeu ~ prascl " ~
N.Y. coat belonging to boarder. He wa
stl- short man round shouldered, had sal
'ase whiskers, and wore dark clothes and Ii
for hat.