The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-25
NorEs HERE AND THERE.

line price OF coal mas Deen put up ny
the Pennsylvania company. Now let 1t
put up the wages of the starving miners.
DIR Hall says that for the period OF
month before marriage, and month after
death, men regard their wives as angels.
The water in the mains will be shut
off at o'clock in the morning, so get all
you want for tomorrow, before you go to
bed.
BASE is the slave that pays" Our
creditors are asked to observe the poetic
beauty of the foregoing line. Shakespeare
was no SLOUGH.
The twenty-frst annual fair of the
Bureau county agricultural board will be
held at Princeton, Illinois, on the 18th,
18th, 18th and l4th of September, 1877.
Some of our Republican exchanges
are spiteful enough to think that it was
unnecessary for Mr.. Hayes to say that he |
would not run for second rm.-HeraId,
r. 1.
There are plenty of ducks in the Hi
nois river, and the hunters at Peoria and
at other points along that classic stream are
putting their guns in order for the cam
paign.
--Nels. Anderson Charged with abduc-
ton and attempt to commit rape, was ex
amined at Oquawaka last Monday before a
justice, and in default of 1000 bail was
committed to Jail.
Yet another warning. Joseph Bates,
of Vermont, fell dead while carrying in an
armfui of wood Show this paragraph to
your wife. Nay, cut it out and pin it to
the woodshed door.
Some crusty, rusty. fusty, musty, dus-
ty, gusty, curmudgeon of q man, gave the
follow toast at celebration: Our fire
engines-may they be like our old maids
ever ready, but never wanted.
"A Delaware man, arrested for murder,
proved that on the night and at the hour
of the murder he was at home whipping
| his wife, and it was this fact that saved
him. A word to the wise, and so forth.
The editor of the Woodruff Enterprise
was attacked by woman and driven INTO
his Office last week The trouble grew out
of something he had published that she
did not like She was fnaIiv arrested and
| the blockade raised.
"A big tree in California. when cut
up. yielded no less than 100000 shingles
Here is an opportunity for the statistical
! 6end to figure out how many thousand
| square feet of surface of bad boy these
shingles would make smart.
In the state OF Illinois there are A.
749 township and district school officers
alone, comprising trustees, treasurers aud
| directors, an average of twenty-five to each
township Boards of educations are not
included 10 this estimate.
The contract for dredging the harbor
at Dubuque, in accordance with the bids
opened aud published in THE ARGUS a
few days ago, has been awarded to George
| Williams, of keokuk, upon the recommen-
dation of Col. Macomh to the war depart
ment
"A grocer being solicited to contribute
to the building Of church, promptly sub
scribed his name to the paper in the follow.
eccentric manner: John Jones 1.-THE only
place in the town where you can get eleven
pounds of sugar for a dollar twenty-five
cents.
DR.. T. d, Hail. who is meeting with
such marked success in the treatment of
catarrh, is regular graduate of the Tor
onto Medical College, and resorts to no art
of quackery. He should not be COMPOUNDED
with men who make exhibitions OF them
selves 90 the streets,
The Phoenix Glass Company of la
Sale, whose failure was mentioned in TIL
ARGUS Sew days since, has compromised
] with its creditors, excepting uaskileC
labOrers, on basis of SO cents on the dol
lar. The unskiled laborers are to be paid
in full. The works will soon again be run
ming.
"A few weeks ago woman who was
r summoned on account Of her sons non at
. tendence at boarding-school, defended
herself by the plea that she did not ap
prove OF education. When pressed Il
s specify a definite ground of complaint she
q said that the boy had already been laugh
: to spell taturs" with ''p.
Put away his short quart measure
: And the COW with iron tail;
n ''Mi-ilk!' he yells no more at morning
He has kicked the golden pail.
b gone to meet hia shining brothers
:, Down below the groand so far,
u Where they need no chalk and water,
8 But want help to stoke the fire.
Il "A woodman in Austin, New, ba
named his team of eight oxen after ieadin
citizens of the place. except that he use
c profanity Gee, there, John Lyons; whoa
# Dr. Sheriden, you blamed lazy beast; haw
G there Col Price, or I'll break every bon
in your darned lazy body, git up, JAG
: SquiresI" Then he whacks the ministe
:. with the butt of the whip, and throws
d stone at the bank president
is Yesterday westward passenger trai
o on the G. r. |. & p. was a long one, CON
posed of thirteen coaches, With the tran
!, = for the southwestlwere two Wagner palace
J. en- route for Leayenworth, for the accomC
dation of party of Philadelphians there
and the Directors car Columbia, in whic
g were Mr. Riddle, Superintendent Kimbal
= Master Bridge Builder Holmes, and Telt
. graph Superintendent Swift, who start o
+ tour OF examination which ends at Lea
Ie venworth.
lie "A fearful accident occurred is Selby
II Bureau county, last Wednesday, by whic
=, a young man of that town met a terribl
. DEATH Mr.. Andrew Raugh, a single ma
" aged about twenty was helping bis brotl
1t er, Mr.. Joseph Raugh, haul and STAG
IT oats. just about noon of Wednesday,
> team attached to loaded wagon, on whic
was Mr.. Andrew Raugh, started up sac
denly, causing him to fall and slide dow
ID the side of the load and strike with th
le whole weight of his body on the point
re a sharp stake. The stake penetrated b
body through the rectum some :;
{, inches. when he pitched forward aud IA
d stake partially tore Its way out throUg
ut the back bone and then broke off. D
Beecher of MAIDEN was at once called in al
!, tendance aud on Thursday evening D.
~ Thompson was also called, but he only al
ee rived just as the unfortunate young ma
~ was expiring, having lived just thirty houl
ii after the accident, and during which tim
he suffered untold agony.