The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-04
NOTES HrRn AND THERE.

$500 @31N $3.50
james A. Payne has been appointed
city marshal of Hampton.
"A defalcation has been discovered in
the First National bank of Olney, Ills.
"A bucket of white paint will work
marvellous improvement about mans
premises.
Any man can get work in the Black
Hills at "a per day. But it costs $5 a
day to live.
Fred Beck and j. j. Vogle have
opened saloons in Hampton, paying $3.50
per year for their licenses.
d. 7. Robinson has leased his yard
and sold his stock of lumber to Henry
Burgower, who will carry on the business.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
law the object of which is for the more
certain punishment of idlers and tramps.
The Niagara Falls Water Power pro-
perty On the American side was sold at
auction Tuesday, and bid in by Buffalo
gentleman at $1,000.
Reports from the central and south
ern portions of this state, show that great
damage has been done to fruit prospects by
reason of the recent frost.
The Cincinnati Commercials special
says the miners strike in the Hooking
valley is ended by the operators yielding
to the demand of the miners.
Mr.. Ebenezer Stout, an old citizen
and merchant of Bloomington, took an
overdose OF laudanum on Thursday, to
relieve collie, and died from the effects.
Three policemen have been added to
| Al III he oior IF
the men have been reduced from $65 to $50
per month.
Sixty head of Abner Strawn's Bluff
dale herd of short horns, destined for the
Dexter Park sales of the Sth inst. we're
shipped from Ottawa, ILL.,, for Chicago
Tuesday night.
God helps those who help them
selves as the Moline girl remarked to her
lover when he asked her permission to kiss
her. God has helped that young man very
much eyer since.
The ball to be given by the Father
Matthew Total Abstinence and Benevolent
Society on Friday evening the 18th, will
be held at Darts Hall, and promises to be
very pleasant affair."
The citizens of Peoria are agitating
the question of enioining the city from
paying 100000 of bills payable illegally
issued, 1t being for money borrowed from
the banks and private individuals.
An exchange remarks: "The only
jokes women like to read are those which
reflect ridioule on men," Yes" adds
another exchange, ION taking up a paper
woman invariably turns to the marriage
column"
"A two and a-hslf- year old son of Milo
Peterson, of Waterfowl, in this county,
was drowned On Tuesday morning in 8
small pond, the water in which was about
Is inches deep. He had probably beer
playing around the pond and fallen in.
1t is our opinion, on further investi
cation, that the church scandal alluded t
by US the other day is wholly without
foundation, and originated in the meannes
OF envy, aud will be repeated only by tht
envious and malicious.
| Alderman H. Z. Woods, of the Fourth
ward has received a consignment OF gen
uine and very choice maple sugar from hi
native town of Corinth, Grange county
Vermont, which he procured for some Of
our citizens. About 20 cents a pound i
1t is said that FL. Heinze, who re
Gently kept tailor shop on Third avenue
opposite Marshal Hawess residence, ant
who skipped out" leaving numerous bill
unpaid, has been arrested in Little Rock
Ark, fer obtaining goods under false pre-
lenses.
"A partition IS being put into the Office
now occupied by Justice Pinkiey, in Post
Office block, and when com pleted the uortl
room will be occupied by the public library
J A door will be cut through just oyer tn
stairway The Office formerly occupied b
Justice Pinkley will be Justice Halves
court room.
the cost Of it.
You can't always tell. We hav
, known a sweet-faced young man, VIII
spoke such beautiful melodious words {
moral benevoence at the boarding hous
; table as brought tears to the eyes of tn
t tender hearted landlady, suddenly depar
e with a months board unsettled and all th
souvenir he left in his valise was a seconC
hand pocket testament and pair of fade
: paper collars.-PacE.
e "A short time ago lady residing {
e Clifton, Eng, having an income of e5, 90
o year, was so struck by the devotion of
:. young crossing sweep to his mother, tia
she proposed to him, placed him in tf
e hands of tutor for couple of month
y and when he had been Intellectually v,
4 neered and polished, married him at Wei
:. Cathedral. The experiment was not
u success, and the lady is now suing for
/. divorce.
e AT NATION, on the 29th. Jane
n Howe, section man on the Chicago
Paducah railroad, intending to go to Sui
van, got on train No. of the Indianapol
n }and st. Louis railroad, and when abol
a half mile from the depot he Discovers
:, his mistake. He jumped from the trai
= striking upon the left side of his hea
. breaking his jaw and crushing the base
81 the skull. He is now lying in a dyir
E, condition and has been unconscious sin
d the fatal leap.
is For bargains in dry goods 90
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