The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-24
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If it was fly which made that comma
then that lawyer don't want to insist on
having the indictment quashed.
-Ex-Alderman Jacob Riley has Just
laid down over 10000 feet of lumber for
sidewalks in front of hls property.
Rock Islanders who attend the lecture
of DR.. Haney. in Moline, this evening,
will find street car there to bring them
home, after the lecture.
The Murphy movement is advanc-
ing with tremendous strides through Cen
trail New York. The signers ofthe pledge
are numbered by the thousands
Thirty six shooter American rifles face
each other from both sides on the
European battle fields, and make things
lively and Nineteenth Century like.
The Iowa State fair, this year, will be
held at Cedar Rapids, Sept. 18th, to the
Dist, inclusive. No gambling or intoxica-
ting drinks will be allowed on the grounds.
The Bashi Bazouks are not regular
Turkish soldiers, but are more like guer
rillas or bushwackers-men who take their
pay and ratlons wherever they can grip
them.
Mrs. Carolina Lingenheld, of Daven-
port, has brought suit against Emeis Il Co.,
druggists, over there, claiming $1,000
damages for making a mistake in putting
up prescription.
.Sankey did not write THE Ninety
Nine. 1t is piece that he found in
paper and fitted up for eyangelistic use, and
was written years ago by Miss Eliza Clay
ham, then quite young girl, of the county
If Fife, in Scotland.
| An article in this paper, from the
Chicago Tribune, in relation to the Illinois
Soldiers Orphans Home, will attract
some attention aud probably provoke some
controversy. Let the public know all the
facts about public institutions.
-Keator & Co.'S. saw mill is shut down
mo logs. Anawalt, Denkman Il Co.'S,
mill have enough to run them three or
four weeks longer, but they expect the
saltwater down with some before that
time expires.
Henry Vonach. who has been keeping
a saloon in Coal Valley for the past year,
Intends to open saloon and billiard room
| in Killers Block, in the room lately occu-
pied by the American Express Co.'S Office,
about the lst of june Henry is well
known 10 this city.
Book agents selling the Life of P. ?.
Bliss" throughout the country. represent to
the good church people that it is sold to
raise a fund for the orphan children of the
sweet singer. AS the children are abun-
dainty provided for, the agents story is
probably as false as it is pathetic
-Mischievous children are doing their
level best to kill the young trees planted
in Union square. They will probably sue
coed in killing most of them. A cheap
picket fence around the square, shutting
every body out of it until the city gets ready
to use it for city hall, is what is needed.
A letter was received from Mr., Fred
, Weyerhauser this morning, which stated
that there has just been heavy rain storms
on the Upper Mississippi, but none on the
Chippewa river, though he was hopeful
the storms would extend over the Beet
! Slough region, aud enable the lumbermen
, to get out the logs which are so badly
needed by our saw mills.
That candy making tent and flags, near
, THE ARGUS office corner, makes people
think of circus A good many people
! gather around it. evenings, to see the
! process of manufacture and the boys just
e banker after chunk of it. The boot
blacks seem to be excellent patrons anC
t sit on their backing boxes and suck
. candy just as natural as calf sucks milk
The Kewanee Independent says: THE
ladies of the NJ. E. society, of Kewanee
are making arrangements for d grand X
r. excursion to Rock Island, on Wednes
:; day, June 9th. This will afford all a gooC
u opportunity to see the sights OF ROcl
u Island, Moline and Davenport. togethe
with the many objects of interest on thu
}. Island, at very small expense Th
train will leave Kewanee at Z o'clock a. u,
= returning the same day.
= A fair audience of Rock islanders as
= sembled at the Fifth avenue NJ. Z Churcl
:, last evening to listen to q sermon from
Z Rev. Richsfd Haney, formerly the paste
:, of that church. He is a grand old preach
= er, and has many friends here, in all de
y nominations and outside of any denomina
= ton. After the sermon he could not g vol
handshaking, and it seemed to US tina
nearly everybody 10 the house gave him
grip and word Of respect and friendship
: There was an enthusiastic levee there 70
:, more than half an hour.
A few days since Frank Maui ''tor
e down" stable which stood upon the prot
% eTty he recently purchased, corner Thir
# aud Vine streets. Under the floor of tn
/, stable he found-what?-A skeleton P
e Nol-Fyteen Empty Brandy Bottles, be
y sides some pint and pop" bottles, an
!. these bottles were all fresh and clean
} apparently not having been many month
J. 10 their hiding place, The last occupau
e of these premises previous to Mr.. Mau
Is was g. ~, Whitney, the celebrated temper
e ance lecturer, and editor Of the minister S
d organ of Kewanee. Keaoanee Independent
q Two young men, named Neal, said t
IS be cousins, were arrested IN Marengo Is
t. miles west of Iowa City, on the &. R. /,
% p road on Tuesday,. On suspicion tina
IS they burglarized bank in small towi
e named Amana, near there, and stole abou
2, $I.700 10 money and lot of postag
i stamps They lived alone 10 small hous
% near the depot. aud were first suspecte,
from the fact that they were peddIinl
l. postage stamps. After the arrest thei
10 house was searched, and large amount O
y goods found, the proceeds of variou
f burqlaries A large box filled with good
% of all descriptions was found buried In tn
J. back yard. They are now in Jail.
y Edward Parr, former resident o
- Kewanee, was sentenced in the circui
. court of this county, on Sept. 22d 1872. t
three years imprisonment in the peni
tentary at Joliet for incest with hi
), daughter, Susan. and also to Ia months
imprisonment for burglary. His daughte
- was also sent up for nine months for 10
cest. Parr was released on the 2lst o