The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-23
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Splendid weather.
The water in the Rock river is falling.
Juvenile burglars are! raiding il
Aurora.
Col. Burgh is a grandfather-again.
It's female.
Indian summer land yet Sitting Bull
won't surrender.
Two glasses Of beer are now sold in
Dubuque for five cents.
Potatoes are now selling On Market |
Square at 35(040 cents per bushel
The funeral procession of Mrs. W. J. |
Browne, this forenoon, was one of the |
largest ever witnessed in this city.
The wood shop of the Novelty Machine |
Works at Aurora was destroyed by fire |
about l o'clock Sunday morning.
The annual session of the Dupage
county teachers institute will commence
Thursday. Hon. Newton Bateman will
deliver an address.
The innocent merchants of Davenport
are again being taken in" by an innocent
young man who gives them a check on one
Of the banks in exchange for goods. Next.
| John Saurman has moved his harness
shop into his handsome new brick building
lust north of the Bellows house. Mr.. S.
is one of our most upright and successful
citizens.
Andrew Schyader, an old and faithful
employe of Fred Hass, died at his resi-
dence in this city last night. He went
home last Thursday complaining of having
r the fever and ague. He leaves wife and
: four children-the oldest child being about
IA years of age Funeral at 10 o'clock to-
morrow forenoon from the German Luth-
eran church.
The attendance at the fair in St.
JOseph's church is unusually large, and it
| will be financial success. The handsome
= young ladies who sell chances on the
I various articles know their business, and if
any young man thinks he can escape their
D charms he should go by all means-and he
e will come away much wiser-and poorer IN
purse.
Mr.. Kellaher, of EdgiDgton township,
who had the misfortune to break one OF
his legs couple of weeks ago, by his team
running away at South Rock Island, and
e who has been at the house of Joseph Me-
l. han, in Milan, since the accident, was
taken to his home to-day by DIR. Truesdaie
C and Mr.. Mehan. The break is healing
rapidly.
Frank ArrisoD, alias Harrison, taEas
WymaD, the young man arrested yester-
day for stealing DR.. Bells coat in Daven
D port, Sunday night, but afterwards releas-
n ed was picked up again by Marshal HAYES
2 this forenoon and will be prosecuted fol
being an aecomplice, with Kelley, 10 the
theft He is now in jail but will be brought
before Justice Hayden 10 the morning fol
5. examination.
When Capt Haverstick writes letter
to the Union advocating the nominatioD O.
NJ. NJ. Sturgeon to the Office of superiu
d tendent Of schools, that paper thinks thu
y Capt's views will be endorsed by the party
= but when Messrs. s. w. McMaster anC
= j. F. Everett refuse to support Sturgeon
= and advocate the election of Miss Kirk
" patrick, it turns square around and CALL
the former a granny" and the latter 1
r political shamber."
= Louisa county, Iowa, has girl o
the period" who rather casts IN the shade
y all other ambitious pretenders to that dis
IS tinctiou. Though she will not be ffteer
y years old till next January, she has Lately
taken to herself second husband Hel
,e maiden name was Rebecca Beamer, ant
e she kept it for thirteen years and ST
= months, when she married a man name
Head In less than a year she lost he
4 Head aud became the blushink bride G
Or MIR. John GoYen.
10 The Illinois Fraternity Of Liber;
as Christian churches meets this week 4
al Geneseo, III, ON the 23d. oath and 25t
instant. The opening sermon, on Tues
20 day, the ed, will be by the Rev. Brook
de Herord, of Chicago. Sermons and &C
r dresses will be given by the Revs. He
ford, Sunderland and Forbush, of Chicag'
Snyder. St. Louis. Mo-; Hunting, {
g. Davenport, Iowa; Blake, of Quincy
ho Douthlt. of ShelbyviIle, H.; Jones, I
u " gainesville, Wis and Keen. of Rockford
IN Ill. AL friends If true freedom an
ms broad fellowship in religion will be 60
daily welcome.