The daily Argus., 1876-03-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Pleasant day.
Regular meeting of the city council
next Monday evening.
-Belknap and Clymer were college
mates at Princeton, n. j.
"A large number of children, in Milan,
are sick with the scarlet fever.
The change in the postmastership
here occasions considerable talk.
Freight business on the Peoria road
was never better than at present.
1t is said that about so men and boys
will commence work at Rock Island
Arsenal on Monday.
The snow has almost entirely disap-
peared, and the streets, to-day, were in a
very muddy condition.
The butter and egg association, which
has been in session ID Davenport for several
days past, has adjourned.
Rev. VIM. Leiber, the pastor of the
NJ. E. Church at Milan, died very suddenly
at that place on Friday afternoon,
| The ladies centennial society has $6lS..
IS now on hand toward paying the losses
of the society in the late fire in Davenport
There will be mask ball in Lahr
mans Hall, Davenport. this evening. an6
quite number from this side of the rivel
intend going.
Ten more inches of snow In the pine
ries-and the loggers are working at fellin!
and skidding and banking as if the season
was only two weeks old.
The costs in the Corey tar and feathe
suit, taxed up to the Wilton women, amour
to $3.50; this. with $3.50 damages, give
them total bill of $500 to pay.
Mrs. Samuel Greenwell. Oh Thursday
made complaint against her husband, be
fore Justice Pinkley, charging him wit
threatening to kill her. He was discharg
ed, there being no evidence that he ha
ever threatened to injure her. 1t was onl
family row.
2 VIM. Whitton, this morning, mad
} complaint. before Justice Pinkley, charg
ing John L. Thompson, working at Havel
stick pottery, with stealing a coat an
| vest
About 10000 muskets have arrivet
at Rock Island Arsenal during the pas
D week from the west. They will be mad
into breech-loaders before they are agai
. issued to the army.
For the last two days Constable AMI
rum has had charge of the Union offt
e under a chattel mortgage. He threatene
e to close the concern at oclock this afte
noon, but the time has been extended.
-Theo. Holdorf and Henry Butler, I'll
two boys accused OF robbing Jake She
r. er's milk wagon. were taken before Magi
= trate Cropper last evening, and were dI
J. charged, there being no evidence again
them.
el The Haaolt- Eye boasts that Burlingto
: has the meanest street crossings in Amer
ca. That an internal deviation from Il
= truth, Any one street crossing in th
|. city has more real genuine mushy MT
j, over it than any three crossings in Burlin
, ton.-DaU. Gazette.
II Ice is still being taken out of the bs
|, at the foot Of the island, and hauled to Il
= breweries in Davenport dozt
teams are engaged in hauling the gre
5, square blocks of ice which have be'
D. brought down from the Volga in the Da
export Il st. Paul cars.
From posters printed at THE ARGV
office we learn that Squire Jones will Sc
20 at public sale, ,at his place adjoining And
lusia, commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ. I
~ Saturday, March 11th.a lot OF mules, mil,
De cows, steers, hogs, farm tools, and hous
ID hold ank kitchen furniture.
r. The handsome residence of j.
n Kenworthy. ESQ.,, on the bluffs, narrow
! escaped being destroyed by fire last Nigh
'r The fire caught from an open crate in
g bed room in the second story, and b;
haa hv.r hnf,
toll and extinguishsd. The damage done
! covered by insurance.
!. When man suddenly jams his he
y against beam 10 the cellar no one com
y in to sympathize with him. We dol
~ know that he tells the sorrow to outside
tv But when woman's line of clothes col
- down in hemud Ia clothes line never ia
" when there isn't any mud), the VIII
IT neighborhood is shaken to its very cent,
! and every woman within a quarter OF