The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-13
NOTES HERE AND rHERE.

line D0dTQ Vi H6hltu Will u1cO1 LuIb
evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Princeton has seventy teams employed
in crawling her streets.
The camp meeting, at Lyndall' Grove,
commences on Wednesday.
The rain yesterday cast a cloud of
gloom over the faces of our base-ballIsts.
Meeting Of the city council tomorrow
evening at 7.30 o'clock, and not to night,
as stated in the Union.
Prof. VIM. Pike, of Chicago, who shot
and killed S. P. Jones for Beechery, has
been acquitted. on the ground of insanity. |
The attendance at Dan Rice's circus
on Saturday evening was fair, and all who
went appeared to be well pleased with the
entertainment.
Now that the Indians have got all the
arms they want, the administration has
issued an order forbidding the sale of any
more guns to them.
Six horses, while standing In barn
belonging to a man named Tag, at Wolcott,
Iowa, were struck and killed by lightning
on Saturday morning.
j. E. Chapman, lately with PEBBLES &
Chapman, will open his new saloon in
Hull's block this evening. He has the
finest place 10 the city.
The game of ball Saturday afternoon,
between the Island City boys and the Idle
wilds, OF Davenport, resulted in a victory
for our boys. by a score of % to 49,
VIM. G. Marshal, of Cordova, the
corn king" now has 100000 lbushels of
corn in crib, in that village. H. w. Rath-
burn, of the same place, also has about
$4,000 in crib.
The auditor has cancelled the certi6-
Gates of compliance with the insurance law
issued to the Citizens Fire Insurance
company, of Newark, N. j., that institu
ton having failed.
The ditch for the steam heating ap-
paratus between the Jail building and the
court was being dug to-day. The steps
to the conrt room of the latter building
were also being put
imprisoned lover, quoting Moore in
whisper: Our couch shall be roses,
bespangled with dew Practical shop
girl: 1t would give me rheumalics, and
so it would you"
Here is another, Gov Cullom has par
doned Dewey W. Olds, convicted of rob-
berry at the March term. 1877, of the Cook
county criminal court, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year.
Recently, while the President was at
the Washington schuetzenfest, faetotum,
wishing to do the handsome thing, said.
. Mr.. President, | vos glat you komed,
We yoost vos keepin' some water on ice
for you-ehl"
! "A light, bay mare, medium size, seven
years old, and shod on fore feet has either
= straved or been stolen from G. W. Sher-
, mans place in Hampton, and he offers a
suitable reward for information or the
return of the animal.
} Woodruff has a couple of youthful
till-tappers aged respectively 10 and II
J years. Their names are Maurice Zuver and
julius Miller and they have confessed their
J thefts and are under bonds to answer when
the grand jury calls.
OF the fifty freight conductors and one
hundred and twenty five brakemeu en-
ployed on the Galesburg division of the
. g. b. 4 O., forty of the former and one
hundred. of the latter were discharged for
participation in the strike.
"A number of applications have been
f made to the state auditor for information
. and blanks by persons desiring to organize
n county insurance companies under the act
4 passed by the last general assembly, but
as yet no companies have reported.
o Next Sunday the members of the
y Davenport Turner Society will celebrate
y the 25th anniversary of their organization
in the Schuetzen Park, oyer there, and
the Turner societies of this city and Mo
5. line will go over and participate in the fes
tivities.
f. The other day, two convicts, named
p James Mcfarland and John Pierson, es
Or capped from the penitentiary They wer
working in the prison yard in charge o
Guard George Miller, and broke for tn
woods near at hand, in which they secretet
themselves,
~ During the strike, Marshal Have
y says be only had FIVE or six extra men o.
lg duty for few nights, but careful can
10 yass shows the number of men who wen
~ home long after midnight, and explaine,
:" to their wives that they had been acting a
special police, is about 750
81 "A mass meeting of Burlington citizen
IN was held on Friday, and $4,000 subscribe
of to the stock of the rolling mills which it !
es proposed to have erected there. Twenty
= five thousand dollars of stock yet renal
IN to be taken by the citizens before the mill
Cd can be secured
While washing Henry fireman
lg butcher wagon In the river this forenoon
he the boy who was driving upset the yehicl
I'd 100 feet from the shore. and he wa
h. thrown into the water. The horse the
Iir ran away. but was stopped before an
it. damage was done. The boy waded t
Oh shore, badly frightened
an Now that it has been learned tia
ng Sheriff Hitchcock, of Peoria. didn't shoe
n that Gibson tramp, good many peopl
ne would be glad to know how the Union re
y. porter learned that the desperate turned
a gave savage scout at his pursuer, whippe
I'd out revolver and fred in an instant.
at I ou missed it that time, Hy.
IS, "A fact. Her husband had told he
'st that he had been playing base ball, an
W when the doctor came she exclaimed
US Poor Adolphusl He got pitcher in bi
'e' center-feld, and he can't walk" Tn
re doctor thought it more likely that he ha
10 been playing short stop to the jug-and
Sc was right.
ne The E@ople Of this state, with the bel
e. of the ofceholders, defeated Lev. Stewar
III as candidate for governor because
III kept seventeen stud horses. But ii
question whether governor with sever
ed teen stud horses would be more absur
re than is governor with nineteen aides d
,at camp, is question nov in order.
br Col. j. N. Macomb is having a sui
= stantial sidewalk put down around h
's' property, on First avenue. The Col.
ID. following plan he noticed generally use
IN Detroit-of burying the sleepers In II