The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-01
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August 1st.
Boat club meeting to night.
Monmouth has a colored policeman.
Fine rain yesterday afternoon and last
night
Mercer county fair, Aledo, September
25,
Scott county, Iowa, fair at Davenport,
September 3.
The state fair, at Freeport, commences
September II.
Warren County holds her fair at Mon
mouth, on September IL.
The Henry county fair commences
this year on August 27, at Cambridge,
The Rock Island county fair was held
last year.
Mercer county circuit court convenes
one week from next Monday, August Is.
The Red Wing will be up tomorrow
and the Alex Mitchell down on Friday.
The cutters on Third avenue, between
| 18th and 18th streets, should be cleaned
out.
The raft boat Dispatch, sunk by the
Minneapolis couple of weeks ago, has
been raised in very damaged condition.
The Idlewilds, of Davenport, will
play the Island City boys matched game
of ball in this city on Saturday afternoon.
-'Courting. says philosophic writer,
is down hill work. y Yes; but you want
to look out that the breeding strapdoesn't
break.
-Danbury NeDs:-''I woman could
only take her pillow-sham and tides with
her when she went visiting she could enjoy
herself better"
AN Indiana postmaster has refused to
whip his wife any longer, because he does
not wish to mimgle his federal duties with
} local politics. Herald
The c., B. & @. lR. R. 20. have Sc
, cured the right OF way through kelths-
burg, to enable them to connect their
Sagetown and Galva branches.
The safe of J. E. Lafferty, at Alexis,
was blown open on Tuesday night of last
week, but the burglars had their labor for
naught, as the safe was empty.
The question, says the Baptist Weekly
is whether ministers should have vacations.
That depends Some minister should have
vacations twelve months in the year.
; Opposition to all subsidies. This is the
. doctrine of the Democratic party, as ex.
pressed by the Democratic state convention
of Ohio and very sound doctrine it is,
| 1t is an established medical fact that
! vanilla ice-cream causes relaxation OF the
muscles and a tenderness of the heart
while lemonade makes girl revengful.
On Monday. while jumping out of 6
e buggy, in Milan, Justice Hayden lost hi'
e pocket book containing $98. Yesterday
q afternoon he went out there and found it
q South Cardinals late Ring rascals wi!
soon be under lock and key. Thesecretary
: of the senate has Just been arrested on the
e charge of larceny and forgery. They are al
D opposed to the presidents southern policy
e The trial of Marshal Jennings, o
. Davenport. before Justice Geisler. a
Blackhawk, Scott county. on charge o
assault preferred by Alderman LaVerenz
e. terminated at o clock Tuesday morning
; by the jury disagrceing, when they were
! discharged,
n Edward Russell, postmaster in Dav
export, and chairman of the Republican
/ county committee. over the river, ha
u signed call for q political coIvention-il
IS opposition to the civil service order o
!. Hayes. The question now is, will he b,
. asked to resign?"
The floating body of Benz. Ratz, al
> employe of Hershey's mill, Muscatine, wa
J. found in the river about three miles beloy
d that city on Sunday He committed sui
10 eide on Friday night by drowning Rat
=, has lived in Muscatine for the past 2
IL years. He was single man,45 years Old
re Albert Bangess, of Millersburg, wa
K arrested one day last week charged wit
SIS stealing a saddle from J. ". Wharton
o. and in default of $50 ball. spent two day
in the Mercer county Jail At his trial o
ie Friday be proved that be had traded
lg revolver for the saddle, trading wit
another party,-and was of course dis
g charged.
9 An incendiary fire occurred in Da7
export about o'clock Tuesday morning
Which destroyed James Kinks blacksmith
ed and wagon shop, and two story fran
st adjoining. occupied by Mrs. Lindquist as
I'll saloon. The buildings belonged to A.
:, Perry aud were insured for $1,000 Nj
% Kirk lost new wagon, which was in II
D, rear shop, nearly all his tools, bellows, etc
ed and stock on hand. His loss will aggregat
W, between $500 and $500. He had no il
-, surauce and the loss is deeply felt by hin
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