The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
First day of school.

First day of school,
Regular monthly meeting of the city
council tonight.
We learn that one of the younger
daughters of j. j. Johnston, the miller at
Milan, is not expectedito live.
The county Jail has just been white
washed and cleaned up, and the walls and
cells present a neat appearance now.
The condemnation suit of the Rock
Island and Mercer County Z. r. vs.. the
Henderson heirs, the trial OF which was to
have come off on last Thursday had to be
postponed, Judge Peasants not being
here.
THE ARGUS is informed that one ".
Harry Smith, who formerly kept drug
store in Milan and who was one of the Mi
Ian boys held as witness in the gun-boat
prosecution mentioned in another ARTICLES
about to open drug store at some point
on the new Mercer County railroad.
The police force has had a pretty
hard time oft during the past week--watch-
ing the numerous thieves and pick-pockets
which have flooded the city, and the officers
are worthy of commentator when it is
known that not single burglary occurred
here during fair week.
james Hunt, who was fined So and
costs on Saturday, for vagrancy, and al
| lowed to 60 on his promise to leave town,
did not do sc, and he will now have "A
chance to play checkers with his nose for
some time to come. He was picked up
yesterday afternoon by Policeman hletsch
The ordinance ordered publi,hed in
THE ARGUS in regard to sidewalks, was
| fouGd to be illegal. after it was in type,
the city attorney, who drew 1t, having
committed an error In regard to the width
of certain walks 1t will be corrected by
the council this evening and then pub
lished.
! DIR. C. Truesdale. of this city, has APP
piled for membership in Gideon's Band.
This band is Incorporated under the State
laws of Wisconsin, and owns about $l0,-
600 worth of property at Browns Lake
Membership entities one to all the advan
tages and privileges of fashionable
watering place without the fashion anC
the expense the visitor is subjected to a
those resorts.
After learning the character of Col
Elliott, as pictured by the Chronicle an(
two years ago, we are net surprised tha
he has returned to the mire' The re
cord they gave him fixed his proper place
in the radical ranks. and if what they sale
o! him was true, we are glad be Las gone
back on the reform movement - Cam
bridge Chict.
At indianapolis. Thursday night (last
week a great Democratic meeting wa
held. Fifteen hundred members Of tn
: l'ilden club paraded in full uniform an;
with torches, and ten thousand peopl
listened to rousing addresses from Gen
Farnsworth, of Illinois, Gen. Shields, o
Missouri, Hon. Geo. H. Parker, of Iowa
and Hon. S. W. Gooding of Indiana.
Samuel j. Tilden can stand it. The
Democratic party can stand it. Betwce
now and next November the Republican
will learn that their malicious Islander
have done m ore harm than good to the caus
which they advocate Their believing
= will only strengthen the man whom tn
: people trust, and whom they are boun
to elect.--Utica Observer
, Hon. J B. Grinnell was in De
Moines, few days ago, when he state
that the report which was being circulate
with reference TO his declaring tor Haye
= and Wheeler, while east, was all a mis-
: take. He did not, Re averred, doing any
thing of the kind. VIII Republican pa
pers that have been diligently circulatn
: this report be just enough to correct it?-
f Io,oa City Press.
x Ore of our best physicians, in attend
e ance on patient at Milan, has paid w. "
y Channon, the Milan druggist, handsom
:, and deserved compliment by saying to th
Il family he was attending, you may sen
r the prescriptions of other physicians wher
= you please, but | want mine to go to Char
mons drug store, he is a competent an
> careful druggist and [ know they will b
II put up correctly f1r Chaunon is so
a of our old friend and fellow citizen Wn
n Channon, one of the Island foremen, VIII
resides on Broadway.