The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-03
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

the First National bank of Olney, Ills.
"A bucket of white paint will work
marvellous improvement about mans
premises.
Amy man can get work in the Black
Hills at 81 per day. But it costs SIS
day to live.
Building sidewalks, cleaning house,
and paying water rent is the order of the !
day IN this city at present.
Fred Beck and J. j. Vogle have
opened saloons in Hampton. paying $3.50
per year for their licenses.
k. Weitnaner has moved his butcher
shop to the north side of Fourth avenue
between 18th and 10Th streets.
d. T. 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 tor the more
certain punishment of idlers and tramps.
"A letter addressed to James Gardi-
ner, Orion, ILL.,, was found in The ARGUS
box this forenoon-but it didn't get off in
the afternoon mail,
The Niagara Falls Water Power pro-
perty on the American side was sold at
auction Tuesday, and bid in by a 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 10 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.
WIN. Bowles, young man fifteen
years old, was instantly killed at Barry,
His, Friday last, by lightning, during a
heavy storm which passed over that place
The locomotive engineers of the ILL.,
nois Central have been notified of the
intention of the company to reduce their
pay ten per cent after the first of the
month.
Kelly & Icons Minstrels in Daven-
port to night, and at Darts Hall tomorrow
evening. They will have a full house, as
reserved seats are selling rapidly at Wyhe
Il McCune's.
Sixty head of Abner Strawn's Bluff
dale herd Of short horns, destined for the
Dexter Park sales of the 9Th 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 Hail. and promises to be
very pleasant affair.
Franklin Square is beginning to
assume a more respectable appearance
the small trees are being grubbed up or
trim ed and the weeds of the past five
years growth are being removed
The citizens of Peoria are agitating
the question Of eniOining the city from
paying 100000 of bulls payable illegally
issued, 1t being for money borrowed from
the banks and private individuals.
In some portions of Brown county,
Wis, the recent snow fell to the depth OF
Is inches. The smaller streams are swol,
len, and log driving on streams emptying
into tie bay is reported as progressing
favorably.
An exchange remarks: The only
| j1kes women like to read are those which
reflect ridicule on men" Yes" adds
another exchange, ION taking up paper
woman invariably turns to the marriage
{ column"
A two and hslf-year old son of MILD
Peterson, OF WATERFOWL, in this county
was drowned on Tuesday morning in ;
small pond, the water in which was abou
q Is inches deep. He had probably beer
playing around the pond and fallen ill.,
E Alderman H. Z. Woods, of the Fourth
/ ward, has received a consignment of gen
S ulne and very choice maple sugar from hi
5 native town of Corinth, Orange county
e Vermont, which he procured for some oil
: our citizens. A bout 20 cents a pound i
l. the cost of it.
= Arrangements have been made 70
!. the erection OF handsome building il
g place Of the parsonage of the Lutheran
d church, two miles east Of Ham pton, which
was destroyed by fire couple of week
aga Lumber has already arrived for th
building Mr.. Winter. the pastor, re
(, ceived considerable aid from TIE member
K Of the Lu.heran church 10 this city.
You cant always tell. We have
D, known sweet-faced young man, VIII
d spoke such beautiful melodious words O
II moral beDevolence at the boarding nous
table as brought tears to the eyes of th
/ tender hearted landlady, suddenly depar
D with month board unsettled, and all tn
!, souvenir be left in his valise was second
|, hand pocket testament and Eair of fade
paper collars. Puck.
, A short time ago lady residing a
. Clifton, Eng, having az income of G5, 90
7 a year, was 50 struck by the devotion Of
) young crossing sweep to his mother, tina
" she proposed to him, placed him in th
hands of a tutor for a couple of months
and when he had been Intellectually ve
q neered and polished, married him at Well
~ Cathedral The experiment was not
success, and the lady is now suing for
divorce.
Last night Marshal HAYES took GU
one or two of L, Holberton & Co.'S bilIiar
L tables, on u mortgage-and to day tn
IS whole concern is closed The failure is
III pretty bad one-in a small way, as til
70 number of people who suffer by them
a quite large. The chattel mortgages RI
9 corded in the recorders office are as 70
II lows: Brunswick Billiard Table Co. $500
e. H. L. West, 81. 800; Ben. Harper one
,e $500, and one of $604,75.
a, AT Nation, on the 29th, Jane
es Howe, section man on the Chicago
i Paducah railroad, intending to go to Sull
b, van, got on train No. 2 of the Indianapoi
ly and ST. Louis railroad, and when abor
a half a mile from the depot he discovere
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