The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-19
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


Renfro, is able to be around the house.
The town board will meet in Hillier's
Hall, on Saturday at 2 P. NJ, to audit what
bills may be presented.
See excursion rates of the Peoria road
for the Democratic state convention. This
is much the pleasantest route.
The official, ex-oficial and otherwise |
Newsboy party returned from Muscatine
last evening duly sober and we'll pleased |
with the trip.
--Cassius NJ Clay, of Kentucky, the
veteran Republican-Lincolns minister to
Russia-has already made speech for
Tilden and Hendricks.
In the Saratoga boat race to-day, Cor
nell was again victorious, the others not
being able to cope with their peculiar
chopping and effective stroke and admira-
BILE drill.
Reform! Tilden and hard money;
Hendricks and soft money. Whoop-la!-I
iSsour City Journal. Hayes and Wheeler
and no money at all. Hoop-lal-Mo.
Valley Times.
We should have stated in our notice
of the election of officers of the glass works
that Mr.. Mitchell positively declined the
presidency any longer on account of other
pressing business duties.
No city in the Union is so cool as Chi
cago, and no summer retreat is more de-
lighttul than the Sherman House, with the
double sized rooms and baths attached.
For solid comfort, commend us to the Sher-
man.
Somebody has been figuring up the
| amount of mud washed down the Missis
sippi and says the quantity annually dis
charged is sufficient to cover a township
five miles square with a layer forty feet
thick.
John Collins was tried this morning
before jury of six men, in the county
court, and found guilty of assault and bat
terry, end fined $25 and costs and commit
ted to the county Jail until fine and costs
are paid
is it because our city council have
passes on the horse railroad that they
dare not enforce the contract in relation to
keeping the track macadamized? No public
officer should ever accept pass from any
railroad.
The following letters were found in
Tue ARGUS letter box, near Bengston' S,
to-day, and placed in the post office: Miss
Emma Smith, care L. NJ Haverstick,
Rock Island Mrs Kate II. Bowen
Piedmont, Wayne Co, Mo.
The Ottawa I'LL Free Trader takes oc
casion to say that though the cornhelds
are in desperate want of attention, and har.
yesting has commenced, the veteran band
of able bodied men on the court house
fence in want of job seems undiminished.
The supervisors and assessors anG
town clerks Of Moline and Rock Island
will hold meeting in Killers Hall
Thursday morning at o'clock for the pur
pose of settling accounts in regard to the
ship from Moline.
AS Officer Hull was passing the Thir(
J ward engine house yesterday afternoon
about ) O'Clock, he found Tom Langdel
? lying on the sidewalk dead drunk. Hui
pronounced it an epi!eptic fit, and an ex
/ press wagon was called ard he was con
] veyed to his house.
Frank carlton laborer for Pete
. Farrell. brick layer, was taken with al
attack Of sun stroke last evening. FL
went to the St. Louis house opposite the
St Louis depot, where he boards, and DR.
S Plummer was called, Supervisor Aste
s was notified and sent DR.. Craig to attent
1 him. He was some better to-day.
/ Chris Menninghouser was take
J sick yesterday at the Franklin house, keI
u by +. ID. Scheible, on Front street. Su
Z pervisor Aster was notified, and DR.. Graf
summoned, who pronounced it an attac
Of ague, and recommended that he be ser
% to the poor house. He is laborer, abou
80 years of age, no family, and has been
Is long time a resident Of this city.
10 The Union still insults the jury in ii
Ie late Dimick case by saying: that ma
le who couldn't manage his temper eouldn
&c manage a case. and to his Dimick 81 tai
! ure in this respect is due the verdict
u the jury" This is not true. Dimit
ID failed because he had 40 case-couldn
t. make out case, with no witnesses
ze gainst HIM.
70 Hope Hose Co., No. 3, held meetil
last evening, and elected the followil
e officers Foreman-Menas Exner: A
ct sstant Foreman-James Thompson; Sc
e. retary-Thos. CorcOran; Assistant Seer
b try-Thos O'Brien; Treasurer-Alir
SC Coyne After the election the boys had
% good time generally, singing, dancing, ct
xt also an address from P T. McElherne.
L. No attempt seems to have be
OF made to meet the carefully presented ca
be of Mrs. Robinson" says the Union. Nj
n Robinson presented no case-she W
~ called into court by o. j. 1t was n
DIS her desire to have any law suit. She
Id stituted no case-presented no case, ''cal
in fully" or otherwise. Otc summoned h
mr. to appear, claiming damages of her, a
+ when he got to court he could not ma
~ out his case. even with no witnesses agar
'rt him.