The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-28
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

in circulation, and gratifying increase IN
church collections is noticed,
An excursion from Wyoming to this
city by rail, thence to Muscatine by steam
ers, is talked Of, with tickets at So round
trip.
Now that the railroads have quit run
ming, how would it do to advocate the Hen
nepin canal scheme again? There's mill
ions in it.
Now is the time to subscribe for THE
ARGUS, which furnished all the telegraph
news twelve hours in advance of the
Union or Gazette.
The saw mill men of Clinton in all the
mills ask an increase of 20 to 80 cents per
day all round, and appointed committees
to wait upon employers.
The people appreciate the enterprise
of THE ARGUS. in issuing extras, and
keeping them posted in regard to the
great strike, etc.-by subscri bing. Leave
orders at the business Office cor with the |
carriers.
B. Blosberg, who plead guilty and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for eight |
years at the September term, 1875, OF our |
Circuit Court, on a charge of larceny, |
gives notice that he will apply to Gov. |
Cullom for d pardon for the balance of his |
| term of imprisonment.
Even postal cards may get man into |
| perplexitles. AS recent consequence of
| young mans instruction Of couple of
them, shirt firm got an invitation to take
carriage ride by moonlight, aud the gal
| lant's girl was requested to send him a
sample of the stuff of which her shirts
were made.
"A Pittsburg paper speaks of a young
man who shot himself in the West End one
evening last week The young man is sew
erely but not fatally wounded; but if he
had shot himself 10 the southwest end,
and little northerly, veering southeast
erly there would have been no hopes of
his recovery.
! Young ladies who are in the enjoy
ment of their first attack OF love seldom
finish their first saucer OF ice cream. 1t
you want to see frizzleheaded pullbaek
girl get away with about half gallon at a
sitting, try one that has been engaged
eight or ten times She'll hide it, and 60
off muttering, Yum, yum, yuml More"
Mrs. Stiney, who keeps a MOTEL at
Salisbury Beach, Me-, has commenced
libel suit setting her damages at $4,000,
against temperance paper called the
Word of Truth, which denounced her
as "a woman more degraded than any be-
ing since the days of Potiphar' wife. The
paper further spoke of her hotel as lone
Of the breathing holes Of hell.
The young ladies and gentlemen of
. Hamlet had a surprise party on Tuesday
evening last They surprised the family of
Mr.. David Bopes efectualy, who in tuIn
surprised the participants by providing for
a general good time. The daughters of
Mr.. Bopes have just returned from the
Illinois Central College at Fulton. -Atedo
. Banner.
The Peoria Democrat says: The
newsboys struck this morning for reductioR
from to % cents in the price of ITQRs
criptS. The strikers seized the papers from
all boys who had bought them and tore
them (the papers) up. For these acts sew
SERIAL of them found their way to the Gala :
boose, but the strike prevented the sale OF
transcripts on the streets by newsboys.
DIR. @. Fl. Gran. who for three years
s has been the leading physician of Hamlet
intends removing to Marshaltown Iowa,
{ Just as soon as he cal dispose of his pro
: perty advantageously. A correspondent to
t the Aledo Banner says" The Doctor and
i his estimable wife are so thoroughly lden-
titled with Hamlet society matters that
= their departure will create void which
= will be scnsibly felt by their hosts OF
9 friends.
t One of those terrible sights, which one
e does net care to witness oftener than once
Y in lite time, occurred this morning IN one
d of our saloons so that it could be seen
g from the sidewalk by the passers by. Il
:. was that of woman grasping the counter
e with one hand and with the other drlnklnA
n what was supposed to be whiskey, from {
: glass and before the lumber reached tht
Is counter throwing up what she had Jus'
: drank, and then repeating the doze will
D. the same result. GaieSburg Press.
e On Tuesday night, two hundred
1t tramps took possession of freight train
d at Dewitt and the engineer quietly detach
d ed his engine, hitehed on to the way cal
E. and brought the latter to Clinton, aban
IS donlng his train to the tramps. Abou
re $50 of these roughs stayed at Dewitt las
I'd night and this morning they took posses
he sion of another train by breaking switol
and running it on to a side track. Ih
3 employees could do nothing but let the tel
OF lows ride free.
VI "A near sighted and modest residen
9. of this city entered dry goods store th
az al }other day, and, thinking to perpetrate
~ joke, stepped up to what he supposed t
~ be the dummy on which new patterns G
ny dresses and mantles are displayed, an
struck it on the shoulder, saying: I'VE
old woman, how are your The oil
woman at once turned around, and nc
lie only answered his question, but volunteer
Is ed great deal of information besides.
as Two extraordinary cases of death fror
~ bee stings are lately reported. One wa
- that of an old gentlemen, who was stun
as upon the right temple, and who died
D. fifteen minutes afterwards. The othe
On case happened only few Gays since, sout
of Decater, Illinois, where young lady wa
:" stuug by bee and died within ten mimi
ne ties. The fatality attending these cases
/. bee stingingi is unaccountable, as heretofor
he the poison in the sting of the bee has nc
a. been considered at all dangerous.
m "A petition, signed by about $50 of th
most prominent business men in the city
will be presented to the council at its mex
nd meeting, asking that Harry G. BEETLE, VIII
ed is now engaged lighting the gas lamps,
an appointed a permanent special policema
for night duty, the salary not to excee
Us $40 per month. As Mr.. BEETLE is oblige
os to visit all parts of the city while lighun
r. the gas lamps on horseback, he would, U
"A doubt, prove an efficient addition to tn
!. night force.
Half dozen men staying at the Yves
Iu- End Hotel, Long Branch, had left thei
a beds soon after dawn, and were sporting