The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

DIR. Plummer is grandfather.
There's joy at the house Of the Rev.
Mr.. Mabie.
The Union says lit was left to Rock
Island, shame on her. ;"
The Peoples National Bank is having
water put into its building, but waggish |
gentleman says we have no right to infer |
that the stock is to be ''watered."
The Central Presbyterian So
ciabIe and spelling school last evening was
a pleasant affair. j. NJ. Buford's side
beat DIR. Truesdale's side. Was it an tim
maculate" affair, though, when a prize
could be won on SO easy word as that.
According to the Union Rock Island
erected the soldiers monument in court
square. This is mistake. Rock Island
is entitled to no more credit for it than
Moline, or Canoe Greek, or Drury. Each
paid their proportion of tax for it.
Secretary Delano's example of pater-
nal devotion in making his son scape-goat
for the sins of the interior department has
not apparently increased the number of
his friends. The press seems to abuse"
him if anything little more mercllessly
than ever.
Eyes, sir" yelled preacher in Da-
kota church one Sunday morning, there s
more lying and swearing and stealing and
general deviltry to the square inch in this
here town than in all the rest ofthe Amer
lean country" and then the congregation
got up and dumped the preacher out OF
the window.
According to the New York CONNER
cial advertiser Brother Hammond has
met out in California at least one father
who doesn't like to have his little daugh-
ter scared into spasms by pictures of hell
fire, You're an ecclesiastical idiot" said
the irate parent, and the preacher didn't
deny it.
Thursday morning, Henry Crossen,
engineer on the raft steamer st. COX, was
badly scalded while removing the cap Of
the man-hole Of one of the boilers. He sup
posed the steam was all out, but as he dis
plced the cap, the steam came forth witt
force that drove him back several feet
His hands and face were badly blistered
causing exterme suffering.
Some two weeks ago, Mr.. Moses Kel
ly and family left their residence, corner O
: Iowa and Fourteenth streets, Davenport
ty miles west of this city. 1t is now dis
t from top to bottom, closets, bureaus, trunks
etc. broken open and many valuable thing
. stolen. Information of the burglary wa
sent Mr.. Kelly, last evening, and he vii
: come to the city to day, without doubt, AM
extent of his loss.
3 AT Dewitt, Iowa Tuesday night,
e stranger who had been employed for tw
: days on Northwestern gravel train, wa
found leaning over a boarding car coup
ling in a drunken stupor. He was con
veyed to house and received medical al
n tention but did not recover, and die
Wednesday afternoon, evidently of inter
nal injuries. He was found badly bruise
J, about the side and abdomen, and betor
he died had strength enough to state tina
e he got his liquor at Cooks saloon and tina
= was the last he remembered. A rumor pre-
) walls that the man had been badly kicked i
: drunken brawl the night before. Th
n matter is being Investigated.
d 1t is now said that the man who wa
IS drowned yesterday was Jabez Manuel {
- Mangley, coal miner, in the employ {
Taylor Williams, at Rapids City; that f
:, was native of Durham, England, an
d came to this country when lad that
;, was married-but he and his wife separa
- ed four years ago, at Colchester, McDol
" ough county. ILL.,, where she now reside
e 1t seems that he had gotten on the boa
a but went ashore for his dog and while gor
d the boat started and he undertook to jun
. aboard, but fell in the water. The boz
was stopped and every effort made to say
Ill him, but without success. His body b;
e not been recovered.
& On Friday of last week Mr.. Dav
ID Headley, of CISCO township, Henry count
" made mistake which came near endir
his life. He had been in the habit of ia
~ ing tonic before his meals whenev
a. he thought it necessary, and on that d;
E. instead of taking the right bottle he to-
III from the shelf bottle containing Flu
Extract of Belladona," and did not mott
rs his mistake until some minutes afte
r. As soon as his unfortunate mistake W
ed discovered, he was hurried with all pos
in BILE speed to DIR. Long, at Orion. He b
came unconscious soon after leaving hon
ne and remained so until the next mornin
II, By the careful treatment of DIR. Long
", was able to be taken home on Monday, al
n. will undoubtedly soon fully recover. I
took from a half to an ounce of the flu
W when a dose is from two to five drops, a
to his escape from death seems almost incre
1t, ible. He desires to express his warmt
Ia thanks to those neighbors who assisted
- getting him to Orion, as we'll as to numero
ne friends at that place who were eager
lend helping hand.