The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-12
NOTES HnRE AND THERE-

The arms for the Rodman rifles have
arrived.
First day of the November term of
county court,
is this ''Injun summer" On, long
may it-last.
Gov. Cullom spent Sunday in the
Joliet state prison visiting.
Fired Hass is putting UP new frame
barn-24 by 4S feet in size
Mr. Davenport's COW pasture was
closed for the season last Saturday,
Barney McQuade got drunk again to-
day, went nome, raised row, drew knife, |
threatened to stab his mother, aud was
jailed by Policeman Metseh.
The managers Of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home, at Bloomington, report that
there are but BOG children in that institu-
ton while they have room for $50.
Somebody set fire to the dry leaves
near the magazine at Rock Island Arsenal
yesterday afternoon aud the soldiers had a
lively time before it was extinguished.
Hale Bowman, John Reticker, Jim
Parks and Elmer Hurst left, this forenoon,
for the lower part of the county. where
they will spend week hunting and fishing.
Mrs. Jane Kennedy, alias Welch. ana
her daughter were sentenced to 20 days
Imprisonment in the Scott county Jail, Oh
Saturday, for the larceny of stockings and
fancy articles from Briggs store, in Day-
EXPORT
The governor has offered a reward of
$500 tor the apprehension of Charles
HUSKY, who shot and killed a farmer
named Albert Angler two miles north of
Towanda, Mclean county. on the Sd inst.
HUSKY is supposed to be tramp,
"A desperate character, known as the
"Deadner," is one of the Orion burglars,
arrested at Coona by Marshal Valen tine
The latter showed considerable grit in
arresting the four desperadoes, single hand
ed, especially as all were armed with re-
volvers and dirk knives
John Brown. Geo. Smith, Chas.
White and Geo Brown, four Orion burg
lars, were captured in Colona Saturday, by
Marshal Valentine, of Orion, and were
brought to this city and locked up in jail
until this afternoon, when they were taken
to Cambridge.
Saturday night Policeman Murray. of
Davenport, after desperate fight with a
rough named VIM. Burke. in which the
latter attempted to strike him On the head
with rock, shot him in the calf of the
the left leg, the ball glancing up and enter
ing the knee joint. The rough will proba-
bly, have stiff leg for the remainder of his
wandering on earth.
"A musical genius on Eleventh street
went to country dance. short time
since, and was so cnthralled with the deli
oious melody of clarionet, that he bought
one and began to practice of evenings.
He has ceased practiclDg, and now devotes
his evenings to removing the odor OF rotten
eggs from the premises, buryiDg dead cats,
and trying to find out why so many of bis
neighbors stand around his back yard with
shot guns 10 their hands.
One of the most disgusting sights thai
ever disgraced the streets of Geneseo was
forced upon the vision of people in the
residence portion of the north side, on
last Saturday. A young boy named Nor
row, he is probably fifteen years of age,
aud Eva Bowers, "a child of fourteen who
| has previously figured in these columns, -
were beastly drunk, and went whoOping
and singing, arm 10 arm, through the
streets, and performing all manner of OBJ
scenities, in broad daylight. -Neans.
Attorney General Edsall has given a
legal opinion on the application for incorpo
ration of the Central Han company, 0
Chicago, and the Euglewood Masonic an(
Public Hall company, Of Englewood, HI
adheres to the decision Of the suprem
court, given 10 67 Ill, SIT, and thinks
the object of these companies is to erect
maintain and manage public halls, etc, o
real estate owned by others, they may b
lawfully Incorporated. But if the real oh
, iect is to acquire and hold the title to rea
estate by purchase or loan, and to erec
halls, stores, ETC.. thereon, and to derive
0 profit therefrom by leasing to tenants,the
1 he is of the opinion that it is not authorize
= by the law of the state regarding corpors
tons,