The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-05
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

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Iowa.
There has been several burglaries in
Kewapee during the past week.
Will Mr.. Packard happen around to
the Ohio Republican Convention, too2
Steve Hull has withdrawn his sprinkler
from the streets. Cause-it didn't pay.
John Hale, the oldest man in White
side county, died receatly at Morrison. aged
SO years.
Only twenty-three states have Demo
cratic governors And yet the party re-
fuses to die.
Only q police cases in Peoria last
quite moral town,
The President might have taken a cold
clam or two from Rhode Island to Wash
ington to calm pertinacious Office seekers
with.
People desiring copy CT the laws of
II, as passed by the last legislature, can
get one by calling at the county clerk |
office.
Secretary McCrary should state in a
small card that his visit to Iowa had no
political significance, Itcertainly had no
political effect.
"A little Philadelphia boy startled
lady friend ofthe family the other day by
remarking that he was -four years old with
his clothes on!'
Can animals communicate ideas"
asked an exchange. Hang a couple of
Thomas-cats across clothes line aud you
will soon fnd out.
The citizens of Arcadia, in the parish
/ nf RianxJilla aianfaA fau dow
fifteen town officials, and the whole number
of votes cast was thirteen.
Mrs. Mccormick, of Elgin, recently
gave birth to three children. They were
two boys and girl, and their aggregate
weight was twenty-five pounds.
Jones got down on his knees hastily to
his girl the other night, and was about to
pour forth his soul in poetry when she
said, Il see you tumble to it.
"A chap who was counting girl named
Bush. said he was only beating around
1.-THE Bush" He eventually got Bush
: whacked' by her irate father.
What did you hang that cat for
Isaac?" asked the schoolmarm in Fishtown,
recently. The boy looked up and answered
gravely, For mew-tiny, marm,"
"A singular case of death by lightning
recently occurred at the Thames gold field,
New Zealand, where a man was killed at
the bottom of a shaft 500 feet deep.
f -Hugo's last work, The Art of being
Grandfather" affords encouragement to
{ parents. And yet it is the art of being
, father which costs. The other is supple
mentaPy.
2 "A man named BrowQ was last week
J sentenced, in the Knox county circuit
court, to two years in the penitentiary for
forging what purported to be decree OF
divorce from his wife.
The freedom of American people from
scurvy is chiefly due to their use ofyegeta-
!. bles. They absorb SO much cabbage in
e the shape Of pure Havana cigars" that
it acts like medicine
A man sentenced to be hung was of
fered his liberty if he would act as Judge
of baby show. He said he preferred
less violent death, and told the sheriff to
e go on with the hanging.
J, "A woman pushing baby cab with
t one hand holding up her skirts with the
other, and carrying her parasol 10 her
teeth is a sight which can only be seen
= since the new fashion broke out.
3 DIR. Plummer says that the little SOP
;, of VIM. Rinck, who was run over by a
:. runaway team and so badly injured about
the head, short time ago. though still
suffering from the effects of wounds, will
L. recover.
) Mr.. Pinchback has turned up 10 San
lie Francisco. That is nice place for HIM
is But if he stays long and plays poker at all
At he won't be able to pay his way back fol
:; some time. Here's hoping" that he'll
play poker,
Y, "A Sterling barber, Memo Delp, ha
II recently made three unsuccessful attempt
Sc an to commit suicide, the last by swallowin,
.. ounce of laudanum. Over ofhcious friends
however, administered antidotes in time t.
save his life. He says he is not at all dis
~ couraged, but will prcservere, and hence
er forward death shall be the object Of hi
it life.
y During the storm of Sunday nigh
mr. last the stable of Charles Rombum, in tn
southeast part of Aledo, was struck b,
lightning, and two horses and calf killed
rs Another horse, standing beside thos
I'd killed, was uninjured The stable wa
considerably damaged, but did not catcl
of fire. Mr.. r. had an insurance of 81!
on his stable, and 500 Oh the horses.
~ "A man in Moline has brought peac
er into his family circle forever Last weel
Vn he moved into a new house containing
IN bay window and twenty-three closets, AM
he bought his wife nine miles of clothes
, line, a cord Of clothes-lipe props, and or
lie hundred and twenty-four dozen clothes
OF pins. And the angels just come down ant
a sit around on the side-fonce and envy tina
4 woman's perfect happiness.
"A "A Mr., Bradbury of the vicinity o
~ Kewanee, had horse stolen week ag
Ill last Sunday. The horse and thief wer
caught by the sheriff of Stark county a
of Wyoming, on Saturday last They wer
re taken to Kewanee and after an exam
ination before Police Magistrate Fisher
the thief-a boy sixteen years of age
named Geo. White-was held in $50
10, bonds in default of which he was com
'' mitted. He is now in jail at Cambridg
as for safe keeping.
y This is the way they do things il
be Peoria: A German named Staff, wh
o. lives on Garden street below the terminu
= of the Fort Clark horse railway, called a
=, the sheriff Office Tuesday. and complainet
az that his wife, also white. ran away on Sat
h, urday with black man, named Levi
Ell, Graham, who also lived on Garden stree
~ and was neighbor He believes that tn
pair went to Braidwood in Will county
9o The wife leaves four small children tor lin
to to take care Of.
at "A fast young man of Springfield
at Charles Johnston by name, was overcome
n. by combined heat, malt, vinous and spir