The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-20
NOTES HERE AND THERE

Our public schools will open SIX weeks
from next Monday.
Fred Hass has added another story to
his work shop, back Of his store.
The revival meetings at the Exchange
street Mission are we'll attended.
-Bricklaying has commenced on
Streckfus's new building, opposite the
Taylor House.
Letters found in THE ARGUS letter
box day, and placed in the post office:
Mrs Fannie Moore, Brimfe!d, Peoria Co.,
ILL.,
Tho cornices. steeple, etc, of the
German Lutheran church corner of High
land and Madison streets, are receiving a
coat of paint
Chris. Menninghouser, the man re-
ported to be at F. D. Schedules boarding
house, sick, yesterday. was taken to the
poor farm to-day.
Miss Mary Gale has been selected, by
the committee to fill vacancies among the
teachers in our public schools. to teach the
4th grade at the lst ward.
The transparency at the Reform Club
room narrowly escaped being reduced to
ashes last evening, owing to the careless
management of kerosene lamp which
had been placed in it to illuminate it.
Miss Jennie NJ Garfield, who has been
teaching at Waukegan, His, has been
selected to fill the vacancy in the 5th
grade at the High school building. There
is one vacancy at the Fourth ward, to fill
yet.
Geo. Wagner. Gus Stengel, A. Lam
bert, and Ernst Strate were seen in a ont
horse buggy this morning, with keg O.
beer and two umbrellas. making for tht
bluffs. 1t is suspected that they have
struck for the tall timber, to "see man.
Not sympathetic word has gone
from Grant to the widow and family o.
Custer. The only official recognition O
his gallant venture and heroic sacrifice Ii
by the Democratic house. Grant foun(
time to send his son Fred. in to the senat,
for promotion over 81 better men tina
were ahead in the list.
This forenoon as frankie Churchill,
little son Of Cyrus Churchill, of the firm
Of Churchill 4 Sweeney, wagon makers
! was playing by himself in the blacksmith
shop, he struck himself with a hammer
! over the left eye, inflicting a cut about al
inch in length and causing the eye to swell
until it closed. 1t is thought the ey
: bali is not injured.
Work at Weyerhauser 4 Denkman'
saw mill cane to u sudden stop this fore
noon owing TO the blowing out of cylinde
head of their large engine, caused by tn
=. breaking of a crosshead strap. Nobod
. was hurt. Tie cylinder was broken an
work will be stopped until a new cylirde
can be cast, which will probably take froI
o one to two weeks,
It The driver of car No. is entitled I
credit for properly filling out the blank O
l. the envelope containing dispatches for Tia
IS ARGUS from Moline this morning. Ye
terday driver dropped our dispatche
:. into the Union box and we did not receiy
2 them until long after noon, when the
should have reached us in the morning
k 1t confuses and delays work in our ofiC
e and causes the issue of our paper to
n late. when we fail to receive our cor
prompt and early.
e Last evening about 10 o'clock, q
r Chas. Fabian, of Moline, was returnin
from Davenport, with his wife and child
a a buggy, on Arsenal street, near Mollr
le avenue, they were run into by anoth'
l. buggy, occupant unknown, and thrown oil
l. on the ground, hurting Mr.. and Mrs. Fa
ian, how badly is not known, as they toe
S. u street car and went home before the
lie injuries were dressed. The horse ran c
D, with the buggy, but it is reported W;
III stopped at Wagner's brewery.