The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-02
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
DO you think it's warm2
oil don't be weary, Beecher.

COll6t.
The Rochester Democrat says there
is rest for the Erie.
Regular meeting of the city council
next Monday evening.
The striker wants TO know whether he
is vassal or peer.
- The recent riot in Chicago cost at
the rate of $3.50 for each person.
The country would be happy without
politics for the rest of the summer.
Send Moody and Sankey among the
rioters. They will soon dispense them.
Gut down the weeds!lIIl! which line
the sidewalks and interfere with travel.
Why is a newborn baby like a cows
tail2 Because it was never seen before.
Why don't they use the Mississippi
river as water power2 Dam it they can't.
Louisville Courier Journal: - ''St.
Louis to Chicago-'Let us commune"
with one another.
Who uttered the first oath on record ?,
Eve. When she was asked to taste the
apple she said: II don't care Adam if !
do?"
What is the difference between the
death of sculptor and a barber2 One
makes faces and busts and the other curls
up and dyes.
-Muscatine's new directory gives pop
ulation of 1875, and one of the grave
yards to fall back on in case another town
tries to rival its figures.
The Athletic Club intend to organ
ize a permanent base ball cIub-which
after little practice, expects to scoop"
ANYTHING in the three cities.
i Mr.. Brookman, of this city, is build
ing neat parsonage, two stories, SO by II
feet, and a wing of 10 by 10 feet, for the
Methodist brethren at Taylor Ridge.
That new side walk around Franklin
Square greatly improves the looks of the
place, and is great accommodation to the
residents OF the lower part of the city,
The game of base ball. yesterday after
noon, between the Aotives, of this city,
and the Interiors, of Geneseo, resulted in
victory for the latter chubby a score OF
10 to 20.
| The Methodists of Hampton intend tc
build church 80 by 55 feet in size. and
costs about $500. H. & II. G. Fuller.
ton, Of that place, have the contract fol
the work.
Judge Drummond has been first tC
t give judgment against the rioters. HI
sentenced the ringleader to four mouths
and the rest to two mouths each in Jail
= and to pay a fine of $50
. Cincinnati Comn,ercidl:-"Pulling CT
gars out of their mouths to cry for bread,
i the Pittsburg rioters burned 10000 bushels
of wheat. That is the way to distribute
u. not wealth, but poverty"
The steamer VanSant, now on til,
ways at our boat yard undergoing repairs
s On Tuesday. while coming over the lowe
d rapids she ran into reef of rocks, auC
r her floor timbers were badly broken.
The Jacksonville Insane Asylum
being too crowded, the superintendent
writes that he cannot receive David LohrS
the Mol line insane Yagrant. at present. Ii
will probably be sent to the poor house.
!. john Volk has just built a ine tT,
story frame store and residence for Mr.
James Taylor,a at Taylor Ridge, which vii
IS be occupied by j. Unger as shoe shop
:, store and restaurant 1t cost about 81 200
n -Pittsburg begius to receive a humble
o of little bills from different parts of tn
, country, which she is politely asked to sci
= tie. One Boston arm requests seYentee
J. thousand dollars, the value of only two ca
le loads
rs The governor has advised the sheriff
" of counties in Illinois, in which riots hav
O. lately occurred, to arrest all rioters agains
whom evidence can be obtained, and hav
10 their cases presented to the grand jurie
TX as soon as possible,
The Pontiac Sentinel thinks that til
j. new insane asylum should be located {
IF that city, because Peter Cooper receive
more votes in Livingston county than
~ any other county in the state, and trans
TT port6tion is quite an item of expense.
o. The postofice at Milo, Bureau count,
is was entered on Saturday 2lst. and all til
or change, stamps, ETC., in the Office carrie
off. On Monday following the postofiC
40 and drug store at Sadorus, Campaign coul
lie ty, were treated in the same way.
X, The Moss Bank coal company, at Dal
Mt vile, have struck a second vein of coal, fI
or feet and three inches IN thickness, at
= distance of ll9 feet below the surfact
''' which heretofore was supposed by tt
to miners to have no existence in that vicinit,
D. During the month of July the Daver
be port police made / 6 arrests under the Gil
IN UIuIuduCCcy duu uuoOI LuW Ebdlc law
:. making a total of 227 arrests for the mont
ed we're received lodged and cared for
at A hundred or more of Princeton either
10 visited the residence Of John A. Bryan
at few days since, and presented him vii
!, a gold headed cane in homer Of his 7Ol
'A' birthday. The presentation was made |
y. Hon. Thomas j. Henderson. and NJ
I'd Byant made nice response.
% Kyle" the absconding and defaultir
ms Republican treasurer of Howard count
M Iowa left $65. 0 in his safe, after stealth
y from it $4,000 to $4,000. and with it
We left an impudent note stating that he lie
little to treat the boys with. Kyle
cheek is equalled only by his scoundrelisr
A man came into our Office yesterda
hs aud remarked that 1T is hot"
! astonished US. and reminded US of the fe
oe low who told his friend bis wife had bal
ls' and asked him to guess what it was, III
IN a boy" No" well it's a girl then.
hit 'Oh, go long, (astonishingly) somebod
= must have told you"
"A The Avery agricultural implemer
az manufacturing company, Galesburg, capt.
lt $4,000, and the Metamora mining cor
he Dauy, capital $l,O0o,000, have bee
Id licensed to incorporate. The Mound CT
he stove company. has also fled articles of i
corporation.
1t will be interesting to old soldie
les who were prisoners of war during the la
lin rebellion to know that the courts have d.
is cided that privates and non-commission,
IF officers are entitled to twenty-five cen
:. per day while prisoners. as a commutatit
oh for rations. This bit of information