The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-27
New moon yesterday.

The California mail-trains on the c.,
R. |. & P. next Sunday.
The city clerk requests those who have
not paid their water rents to call and do
SO without delay.
The sun rose at TIC this morning,
and sets at 10 this evening length of day
9 hours and SO minutes.
There has been a pile of money ex
pended on tributes" to the dead Henry
Wilson, but we haven't heard of anything
being given to his living family.
.-Chicagos dog and hen show is in full
blast They are having rather hard scratch
ing to puliet through, but it wags along
with extraordinary persistency.-C GIN
caanati Gazette.
james e. Breckenridge, formerly road
master on the Rockford road, has accepted
the position of roadmaster on the Iowa
division of the c., r. |. &P.R. r. His
home is in this city.
1t isn't sent to the Penitentiary" any
| longer-lts gone to writing books. %
Joyce. of Missouri, is composing drama
an Illinois convict at Joliet is issuing a
novel, and New York zebra at Auburn is
evolving work on education.
Are people who throw ashes in the
street aware that they are liable TO be fined
tor it? The litter and sweepings of shops
and stores, or any other matter, thrown
in the streets, subjects the offender to a
fine and sand it is the duty of the
Police to see that the law is enforced.
-Zeb Crummet says old Deacon Ran
som went to circus and took his grand
Lob vi. 20 40, hx
met that the boy wanted to see the sacred
to refuse him. Arriving at the tent, he
cried to 60 home, and the deacon spanked
him to make him 60 in.
Hon. Anthony Thornton, of Shelby
vile, ex-member of congress and ex
judge of supreme court. it is stated, will il
the spring remove to Kentucky, where hi
will settle upon his farm in Bourbon
county. Illinois will lose one Of it's creates,
men if Judge Thornton goes hack to Ken
lucky,
-Denris o Brien, son of Cornelius o.
Brien, formerly a drayman in this city
employed on the Rockford road, had tht
third and fourth finger of This right hant
mashed, Wednesday morning. at Por
Byron Junction, while coupling cars. The
fingers were dressed at Bengston's drug
store by Dir. Truesaale.
james Peterson and Frank Thomp
son were arrested last evening, by Chic
Martens and officers Mcguire and Henri.
Martens. for being inmates of a house 0
ill fame, and fined SO aud costs thi
. morning. They paid, departing sadder
. but we fear not wiser men. One OF then
p is from Iowa City, and the other fron
:. Rock Island.-Dau. Dem.. Goth.
S "A movement is on foot among tn
Catholics in Davenport and vicinity for tn
establishing of an orphan asylum in tina
city. The erection of building for tn
purpose on the Mercy Hospital tract
contemplated. Parties are taking hold c
; the project in earnest, and it is intended t
It have tie building ready for occupancy b
e the first Of July.
1t School Superintendent Sturgeon say
the amounts proportioned to the differer
!. schools, for the Illinois centennial scho'
N fund, have been guaranteed in this Cit
= and Milan, but he has not heard FROM til
! other towns. The amounts are very sma
q and no trouble is anticipated in raisin
= the money. He would like to hear frol
the county schools.
"A new enterprise has been started
y this and Mercer counties. in the vicinity
to Hamlet, hy the organization of a corpor
lie ton known as The Hamlet Mutual Eli
n and Lightning Insurance Co., OF Perrytol
a. H." Ii takes 10 as Its territory, six tow
- ships, VIZ: Duncan, Perryton and Pr
Emption, Of Mercer county, and Buffa
Prairie, Edgington, and Bowling, adjoi
iprr town biT,S in this county Opa doll
ot is charged as membership fee. upon Il
ID payment OF which ATTY property holder +
siding in the territory above named mi
De become a member. The cost Of taking o
paIi,y is $l.5O. This charge is made
3. secure ;naney to pay incidental expense
8, In case of Il loss, the money is raised
- indemnify the losing party, by mutu
asscsSa4ons upon the members for
ok amcunt sutiaient TO make up the sum t
j, which he was insured G. Lee is pre-
a dent and |, tTirt0D secretary