The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-02
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Where one man wants to be an angel
nineteen hundred want to be postmasters.
The newly elected justices and consta-
bles will commence business on Monday
next.
Water rent is still coming in-and
Supt. Cramer is shutting off all water not
paid for.
The test of true love in Wisconsin is
In permitting ayoung man with the measles
to kiss his sweetheart.
The old Geneseo House was burned |
about midnight May l, l865-just II
years previous to the late fire.
The Detroit Post wants the gong
sounded in every hotel fifteen minutes be-
fore fire is ready to break out.
Kelly & Icons Minstrels, at Dart
Hall, Friday evening, They will have a
good house for this is said to be one of the
best troupes travelling.
Owing to the high price of corn and
the low price of high wines in proportion.
the Milan distillery will not start up this
month, as was expected.
The big safe for the general offices of
the Peoria railroad arrived to day and was
placed in the building occupied for the
omces OF the company.
"A grocer in Washington advertises
that he has whisky that has been drunk
by all the presidents from General jackson
down to the present time.
There has been an advance of five
cents on fourth class freight to the east vid
the c. R. [. & P. road, but the tariff on
grain and -four is unchanged.
If anybody has found coon with col
lar and clasp on they will be rewarded by
Ben Harper, Jr., on returning it to him,
it having escaped from the yard of the
Harper House.
VIM. g, Rapp, the runner, and Miss
Mary McDermott an attractive dining
room girl, both of the Rock Island House,
were married by Father Roles at the
parochial residence on Monday evening.
! MIR. and Mrs. E. Remington. formerly
of Davenport, who were living in Geneseo,
: boarded at the Geneseo House, and had
a number of boxes stored there containing
} articles in the housekeeping line valued at
J $1,000. which were all lost. There was
81 900 insurance on them.
Timothy, Burke, Kirk and SCHUYLER,
charged with the assault and cutting of
Henry OSbar, in Davenport, on last Sun
day night week ago, had preliminary
examination before Magistrate Blood
Tuesday morning, and were bound over
tor trial to the district court, and in de-
fault of 200 bonds each, were recon-
mitted to jail.
IT'S rule Of manners to avoid ex-
. aggeration. A lady loses as soon as she
! admires too easily and too much. In man
= or woman the face and the person lose
. power when they are on the strain to ex-
= press admiration. A man makes his IN
. feriors his superioTs by heat. Why need
you, who are not gossip, talk as a gossip
y When you see a newspaper article
, which promises in its beginning to be an
: essay Of high merit. it is we'll to read it
= for the profit to accrue from so doing.
But, as matter of precaution, it is bet
. ter to glance first at the end to see it any
4 thing is said about two sizes of bottles
q one for fifty cents and the other for dol
= lar,-Ddnbury Neo0S.
The recent purchase of the Peoria &
r. l. r. r. by Mr.. Gable will prove OF
great benefit to Rock Island in more ways
> than one. In addition to a better manage.
u ment, and increased facilities for shipping
al and transportation, the Offices of the
= road, heretofore at Peoria, are being re-
~ moved to Rock Island, which will bring tC
, that city an increase in population aDC
/, business. -Aledo Record
At The insurance on he Geneseo House
h was as follows: On building, Home, New
- York, "a, coo; Hartford, 1000; Franklin
II of Philadelphia, $4,000; Springfield, Mass
~ $4,000: British, $500; total on buidint
~ 1925 On furniture, IN North American
70 $4,000; Underwriters, $4,000, total OF
iS furniture $1,000 On billiards, Fireman
-. Fund, 500. Total on building and con
III tents $l8,200.
Is "A negro Baptist said to his Methods
ed master. You've read the bible.
ed s'rose?" Yes" well, you've read il
ks it of one John the Baptist, hasn't YOU?
he Yes" We'll, you never saw nothin
mt about no John the Methodist did you
ly NO" well, den. you see, dere's Bar
IF, lists 10 the Bible, but dere amt no MethC
in dists, and de Bibles on my side. Era
sr. Despatch,
mt The average Englishman is not littl
ed puzzled, He knows that he wanted tn
nd Turk swept 'out of Europe, bag and bag
ice gage" also, that Russia proposes t
es. furnish the broom at her own expense, an
Int yet he is convinced that there is fla
he somewhere in the reasoning, because b
w, isn't content with the prospect of havin
m his own policy thus carried out.
hls "A Hamlet correspondent of the Aled
~, Record says: 1T is quite astonishin
le9 the amount of travel developed over thi
no route, from Aledo to Reynolds. in the pas
at few days Of good roads and fine weathe
le- Not day but several Aledo livery hack
re have passed through with passengers fl
he the new station on the new railroad 1t
certainly much the preferable way fl
Aledo folks to go to Rock Island with au
CIV picious weather"
ne Prof Youmans says of Gen. Pleasol
IF ton and blue glass: "fhe man is pestilel
its ignoramus. He may be entirely homes
he but that is no reason why we should giy
> attention to his egregious folly. PleasoI
ed ton, however, it must be confessed, serve
his one important function; he gauges for
the depth and density of America
stupidity. De Morgan says, somewher
that certain men appear occasionally
L. play the part of foolometers' in the con
up munlty, that is, to measure the numb,
gle and quality of tie fools furnished by ar
)od given state of society. Pleasonton h,
ian done this for US with an accuracy tn,
to leaves nothing to be desired" Now it
lns generals turn to say something.
up I'm Saturday poor man stepped in
MS Billy Wilson's cigar store and asked if |
IL knew any one who would give him work
fSd he could earn some bread for his childre
are Billy called up Mr. John Warner, pres
at dent of the street railroad, and on enquil