The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-09
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Board of Health meeting at the coun-
ell rooms this evening.
The farmers In this vicinity are now
harvesting their rye crop.
The music stores now have the song
Mothers Teeth are Playing Out."
A Bethlehem policeman has had
business cards" printed, soliciting custom.
Blessed is the man who never says his
mothers pies were better than his wifes
are.
There is not an unmarried woman who
can remember the last seventeen-year To-
Gusts.
Asparagus resembles long sermons in
one important particular ends are
sought after.
The Burlington Hatokeye thinks it is
pity that Gath's mother lisped when
she named her baby.
--latest news from the seat of war.
"HOTspur has crossed the HELLespont,
This news is reliable. "
The crop in Western Massachusetts
are rerorted to be so fast as to pull the
roots out of the ground
No 333-which is the New York Her
ald-remarks. About this war we'd like
to get at the Batsum facts.
The man who has more money than
he wants is rich: the man who wants more
money than he has got is poor.
If worse comes to worse, the Sultan
will put his wives into the field, and oyer
run the whole Eastern continent
"A Philadelphia magistrate AYERS that
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thought they played the duece with it.
"A Moliner writes home from the Black
Hills that there are as many wise men
coming out every day as there are fools
| going in.
This rule of Secretary Sherman for
bidding the employment of two from the
same family, is going to make it hard for
the Smiths,
A veteran shop-keeper says that al
though his clerks are very laxative dur
ing the day. they are always ready to shut
up at night.
"A Moline girl broke an engagement
with her betrothed, Mr.. Vyse, on hearing
that after marriage she might be addicted
to small vices.
"A Moline grocer had pound o. sugar
returned with note, saying, TOO much
sand for table use, and not enough fol
building purposes.
4 When hungry tramp reads the Orien
tai war news, how he must wish he werE
Nicsic. Nicsic is 'revictualed" every day
and the tramp isn't
They arrested burglar on the prem
Uses Of Joseph elliott, in New York, this
week. Why should they arrest a man fol
trying two steel pens?
Capt. Blackburn would like to find
that man who was shot on Saturday even
ing. Joe Gaskell tried to tell him,-bu
had to break down. The Capt. bathet
one foot any how.
Col. Macomb in charge of the Z. S
; engineer corps, has chartered the littl,
, steamer Louisa for six weeks, and it viii
E be used in the surveying of the upper anC
lower rapids. and for other work where re
quired.
The lawyers of Whiteside county
) without regard to politics, have held {
meeting and nominated Hon. 0. f. Wood
ruff as their choice for the new circuit
ljudgship. A convention will be held a
) Freeport on the oath.
Released from Jail, yesterday: Mary
Jane Gray, Milan Riggs and Henry Ferrio
Released to-day: John Mcclure and
! "Honist Tim" Riley, late chicken thief
and former eol0rbearer in the Hayes aDC
Wheeler club in this city.
J Peter Bowen, assessor for Drur,
l township. returned his book this moruinl
the 9th. The total assessment in tina
D township is 1868, 1897. This completes thu
list. and the committee on equalization
went to work this forenoon.
The governor has pardoned Franc
{ Murphy, Champaign county convict, wh,
r was convicted of larceny in September
1874, and sentenced for four years. TIL
4. convict is afflicted with an incurable dis
: ease, and the pardon was granted for tina
I reason.
I; Brig. Gen. A c. Ducat. Illinois mill
b tia, has been promoted to major general
+ and assigned to the command of the frs
. division. Col. w. E. Strong. of Chicago
:, has been promoted to brigadler genera
II and inspector general of the state. TIL
e governors staff will be commissioned mex
week.
9 In the June number of Macmillan
Magazine there is an ingenious and inter
esting critique of Daniel Deronda" frou
. a Jewish point of view, by Mr.. Joseph ia
q cobs, "A Jew who thinks that all Jew
will recognize in MOrdecdj Cohen not onl
the finest representative of their rehgio
# and race in all literature. but also the mos
= Impressive personality in English fctior
: SO many ladies come to the dru
5 stores now and ask for bedbug poison
saying that their peighbors sent for it, tia
we have begun to wonder why the bug
are so good natured this season as to a
ways attack the neighbours beds. Thi
IF condesension on the part of the bugs doe
not amaze US so much as the agreeablenes
y of folks IN being so ready to perform littl
10 errands for their neighhors We believ
9. that the world is growing better and les
IS selfish every day.
Y The 'Activcs" came up from Roc
E Island on the Fourth to scoop the Inter
; l0rs'' of this city in a game of base bal
e The Rock Island Union had Dragged high
5. ~ and nightly on the Actives, aud tn
r. Actives were confident Of success. The
o came. When the game was finished til
score stood Is to g, in favor of the Gene
i SEQ boys. The Actives we're sad whe
e they got home. A large crowd collected
i to witness the game. which was a hotl
. contested one GeneSeo Neacs
n -Geneseo will soon be ahead of Milan
:. the moral little village four miles south {
st this city. The Nea0s says:-"A bad cas-
e of scan mag, mixed up with couple c
e prominent Geneseo men, has recently com
to light The girl in the case is abou
fourteen years old, and one Of the me
over forty, and the other in the neighbol
hood of sixty-both with families. w
l. know little about the facts yet, as effort