The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-06
Norgg HERE AND THERE.

NOTES HERE ANO IRENE
The poll tax collector must be after
the Gazette reporter.
The six Reynolds valise thieves were
released from Jail this forenoon.
A paper says of very prominent mill
tia general that This sword was never
drawn but once, and then IN rattle,
During period of temporary aberra-
ton, the White Stockings won game from
the Cincinnatis. Such conduct Is repre-
hensible.
"A great many people are never happy
unless paying two dollars and halt tor an
eight-cent chrome attached to atWenty.tlve-
cent paper.
The fire in Davenport.Saturday after
noon destroyed two barns, belonging to
Olsen. Loss about $500. No insurance,
A statute of the last legislature of
Illinois, in force since the lst of July, re-
quires every physician to record at the
county clerks office every death and birth
where he was employed, under penalty
of $40 for failure to comply with the law.
DIR. Mary Walker swears by yonder
pale moon that she will never marry and
risk the humiliation of having husband
come in and request the loan Of her black
pants so that he may join in firemen's
parade.
Two gambling houses were pulled"
by the police over the river on Saturday
night, and about 80 ''toney" young men
had to she'll out their watches, rings,
pocket books, diamond pins, etc., to keep
out of the lookup.
Who has lost Il pairs of ladies', gents
and ehildrens' hose? A young man named
Carney found that number in an alley in
the upper part of the city this morning,
and handed them over to Policeman Bren
nan to await an owner,
Mrs. Amanda Potter, mother of Waldo
M. Potter, formerly of the Davenport
Gazette and now of the Clinton Herald,
died in Davenport, at o'clock Sunday
morning, aged so years, one month and
! FIVE days. She was much respected by all
who knew her.
-Selover pounded Gould the other day
The trouble was that Gould had attempted
to sell-over Selover. Selovsr didn't like it
so he struck. A nice state of affairs wheI
a man cannot get his friends into a pool,
lie to them, and sell them out without
being pounded and pitched down cellar,
This is the period when the short.
sighted old maid, who will play croquet
grasps her mallet with both hands, puck
ers up her gossip funnel with heroic de-
termination to do or die, lights out for the
red ball and catches her partners sill
stocking just on the turn of the ankle-bone
-fhe racket" between Ex-Judge Hill
ton and the Jews recalls the famous tilt be-
tween O'Connell aud Disraei. The Irish
man tainted the Jews with being 'lnea
descendant of the impenitent thief on the
cross. Disraeli's answer is not so well
known. He conclusively replied that ''ont
half of Christendom worshipped Jew anC
the other half Jewess. Boston Journal
In the Z. S. district court in Keokuk,
Judge Love has rendered decree for de-
PENDANT in the case of the Eau Claire Lum
Der Co., VS.. Wells, Timbermsn & Co., anc
the steamer Cricket, for the sinking of thu
steamer Nansant on the rapids last fall
He held that the Cricket was not guilty o
negligence and not responsible for dam
ages for the sinking ofthe Vansant.
Elmer, a l3-year old son of w. G
Montgomery, was run over by a runaway
team belonging to his father, at Reynolds
on Saturday, and received severe injuries
about his head and on his left leg. DR.
Ashbough, of Reynolds, attended him, an,
he thinks the injuries are serious though
they probably will not result fatally. TIL
horse became frightened at a whistle Of
a steam threshing machine.
-" The wise daughter is the pride .
her father; yea, her mother also doth de
,ightin her, but the foolish maiden bringetI
orrow.' She bangeth her hair over be
; right eye; she tippeth her hat on the BAG
OF her head. When evening cometh sh
walketh on Illinois street, and with he
e left eye she glanceth at the patent yout
. who cougheth on the curbstone and wipet
his nose with red bandana. Her hand
kerchief also is seen. Then the yout
c smileth to himself and followeth in he
r footsteps. She setteth snare and SCOOP
t eth the wayfarer in, and telleth the oil
d woman she hath been to the post Office
t while the youth sayeth to his old man h
8 hath passed the night with friend. s.
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