The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-14

Council meeting tonight

Festival and dance 10 Turner han
Saturday evening next.
The river is very low and is still fall
ing. and river and lumber men are growl-
ing.
About SO stone-cutters resumed work
at Rock Island Arsenal yesterday after
noon and to day.
George Crawford, of Pleasant Valley,
says the watermelon crop this year will
not be very large.
"A Georgia negro Complains to just
ice of the peace in Savannah that certain
men don't use him white.
Seven wagon loads of watermelons
crossed the bridge, going to Davenport,
before o'clock this morning.
Fishing parties are all the rage now
Ten or fifteen go out 10 boat and stay all
day and catch everything imaginable except
fish.
The Harper House provided dinner
for 200 excursionists to-day. This speaks
well for the popularity of this excellent
hotel.
A man named johnson, while fishing
near the mouth of the Rock river, on Sun
day, killed rattlesnake FIVE feet long. and
having seven rattles.
-Keator & Co.'S saw mill started up
yesterday. They have logs enough to last
them for six weeks, the Tiber having
brought down another raft yesterday.
The Turkish soldiers are taller than
the Russians. That must be the reason
for their overlooking all the important
movements of their northern enemies.
Some fellow has written an essay en-
titled How to get married without a
master. But man, nine cases out of
ten. gets master as soon as he gets mar
ried.
There was fat mems dance in Boston
the other evening. One feature of the af-
fair was that none but gentlemen of Jig
antic proportions were allowed to par;ici-
pate.
AT Springfield, the other day, coffin
fell off the benches during the funeral ser
vice, and the undertaken felt called upon to
remark: mo levity. if you please, -aeci-
dents will happen"
The man who invents some way by
which fellow can take his liver out in the
Spring and hang it up 10 the back yard
and whip it as they do carpets, will confer
a boon on his fellows,
j. w. BIanford, formerly in the sal
Don business IN this city, but late of Viola,
has returned and bought out and taken
possession of A. NJ. Pages saloon, in the
Rock Island House block.
That settles it. "Iskeuder Khan,
nephew of the Amer of Afghanistan," has
offered his services to the Sultan. This
ls-kender Khantrary to the former advices,
bat it may be Amer mistake.
1t is said that at the meeting of the
new military company, last evening, the
secretary, before calling the roll. said
: When your names are called you say
, here; and he who is not here say 'ab.
sent!
The horse bride and sack, found in
the possession of Richard Smith, when be
was arrested by policeman Metseh, has
been claimed by Judge Guyer, who says
it ives stolen from his barn on Saturday
night.
Boston is to have a dog begin
ming September Sd, and lasting through
the whole week. 1t il Lot announced
whether DR.. o. W. Holmes or Henry "
Longfellow is to read an original poem OF
S the occasion.
D AT OonstaDtinople it is related tina
the Sultan has not nerve enough to hav,
tooth extracted, that eight negroes hav,
submitted to an operation before him, jus
!. to show him how it is done, but his tootl
T still aches.
"A distinguished japanese traveller il
8 this country writes home: The chic
branch of education Of young men here i
" rowing. The people have large boa
= houses called colleges, and the principa
!, Of these are Yale and Harvard.
), THE Dead March in Saul" excaim
ed startled old lady upon seeing the It'll
of an old piece Of music in her paper
We'll, now, | don't believe the dead Cal
march in Saul any more than | believ
t. that they can march 10 New Jersey.
s. The members of Wide Awake Hos
! & Hook & Ladder Co, No. 2, with thel
!. hose cart, and also delegations from tk
: other companies, will leave this evenin
: for Dixon, the former to take part in tn
s. tournament there to morrow, and the latte
as spectators.
:. On Sunday last a negro named Viii
!" liam Thompson committed brutal assau
l. on little white girl at Mitchell Station
ii Culpepper, w. Va. He was arrested an
, lodged in jail the next day Tuesday nigh
70 be was forcibly taken from Jail by abou
- sixty masked men and hung.
= When the average woman is engage
Il. 10 the manufacture of wooden undershil
W for the heather of the torrid zone sh
rs pities his blind ignorance: but when SD
.a finds that the cake she intended for th
' charity festival is burned at the bottom sh
e. respects, yea envies the HiDdoo who ca
ze swear bv 100000 gods.
While Dan Rice was here with b
at circus he offered an old acquaintance
a complimentary ticket, but the resides
= business man declined the invitation an
10 generous offer, remarkinG that among tt
or crowd of people he should see a gre;
e. many who owed him, and he could not el
W joy the performance.
II The catalogue for the Illinois sta
. fair, which will be held at Freeport, on I'll
70 18th, 18th, 18th, Goth. 2lst, and 22d
or Sept, has been received. Persons wisl
az ing copy Of the catalogue can procul
one from the secretary OF the county agr
cultural societies, but in counties whei
they have no societies, then from the coul
~ ty clerk, or by addressing Mr. s. d. FisI
er the secretary, at Springfield.
= MIR. Mark NJ Pomeroy, proprietor
ey Pomeroy's Democrat, has obtained
he yorce from his second wife, Louise
Mt Pomeroy, and has married again. I'll
n separation was decreed in the proba
court of Brigham city, Utah, under pee
OF liar circumstances. This is Mr.. Pome
nd oy's second divorce. Mr.. Pomeroy BIZ
CHI married for the third time, His prese