The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-31
NOTES HERE ANp THERE.
School commences Monday.
eourt rneets Monday

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Circuit court meets Monday.
Base ball yesterday afternoon-Ac-
tives %, Acmes s.
You can shoot prairie chickens and
woodcoek after to-day.
VIM. Rinck is putting in new front
to his grocery store, corner 7th avenue and
l42 street.
j. 4. and j. w. Gordon, of Coal
Valley, have been granted patent on a
new washing machine.
"A nine from the Bcford pillow works
| will play nine from Deere 4 20. S works
on Sylvan island tomorrow afternoon.
The seats for the court room were be-
| ing put In, and the finishing touches by
the painters were being put on, to-day.
The Blue Stockings. of Galesburg.
scooped the Actives, of Clinton, in the
former city, the other day, by score of
| Is to 10.
BY the bursting Of jug containing
hot water, yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Mar
tin Reedy was severely scalded about the
face and hands.
The many friends sof Mr.. David Don
aud his wife will be panied to learn that
their infant son was taken from them by
death, this morning.
"A young lady, daughter of A. J. John
son.living four miles west of Ononwa, near
Muscatine. was instantly killed by light
ming at o'clock Tuesday evening.
We learn from our exchanges that
hog cholera is raging in all parts Of the
country In this vicinity-but it appears to
have given Rock Island county the goby.
Trains over the c., R. /. & P. now
enter pes MONIES over the Keokuk & Des
Moines track. I'll trains are in running
order to day, and all on time. The inter.
ruption to travel lasted only about twelve
hours.
Brigham Young, the head of the Nor
mon church in Utah, died Wednesday
{ evening. He was over 76 years of age, and
had been the head-center of Mormonisn
for oyer thirty years 1t is generally antic
ipated that with his death the abominable
= polygamous feature of Mormonism is
doomed to speedy aboliton.
A public meeting of subscribers to thu
stock of the rolling mill and nail factory
company was held 10 Burlington yester
day when speeches denounclng Benyor
for his bad faith were adopted, and meas
ures taken to organize a company withou
his aid Benyon is fraud and tht
sooner Monmouth shakes him the bette
r it will be for her citizens-fnancially- ant
E morally, too, as 1t is said he is drunken
worthless hummer, Who has lot of OF;
machinery he wishes to dispose of.
e Henry Singer, an employee of Sew
! iUg Machine Agent Butler, in Davenport
} was bound oyer in the sum of $500 for tria
} before the district court,over the river. on
!; charge of bigamy preferred by wife No.
II who he married 10 Wisconsin Sh
= alleges that he has now and did at th
d time of her marriage with him have
! wife living at Big Rock, from whom b
had never been divorced. She also al
. Ieges that he has become addicted t
Is drink, so that domestic harmony has flet
e their home The outlook for Singer i
y bad.
! during a family row between Jane
: McCann and his wife. in Galesburg, o
II Thursday evening, the latter was gettin
Y the worst of the fight when she called t
Z Frank Slater to assist her. Frank seize
/; McCann and the two continued fighting to
% some time, and finally Slater drew a reyoly
.r err and fred at McCann three times, one
a the shots passing through the centre {
!. his hand infictibg very painful wounC
% Slater was afterwards arrested and hel
10 under $500 bonds for trial-the justlC
# deciding that he had no business to IL
70 terfere with the brute who was whipping b
IS wife.