The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-10
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

Dance ia Turner Hall on Saturday
evening given by the Turner society.
Joseph W. Bracket Esq. is grand
father, and Mr.. and Mrs, Eastman are
happy.
Elder Encell will conduct bible |
reading at Christian Chapel this evening, |
at o'clock.
No good safe insurance company will
take fire risk on property where naptha
ia used for hight
Republican gratitude allowing their
color bearer Tim Riley to be taken to the
poor house instead of giving him a lift,
THE ARGUS offers thanks to the public
library for a few duplicate files not need
ed in the library >set, but very useful in
filling hiatus in our set.
Capt. Huber, of the City Brewery,
has just received IA car loads of genuine
California barley, which will be used in
| the manufacture Of his excellent beer.
j. F. Schnoor, dancing master from
Davenport, has school every Tuesday
and Friday evening in Streckfus's Hall,
which is well attended by the young folks.
| The new officers of Illinois City Lodge,
No. 229, |. o. o. F.. were installed on
Saturday evening, JAN 6, as follows: N.
g., VIM. Twiggs; V. G., r. Kingdom;
Sec, j. q. Kent; Treas, VIM. Bruner.
Fred Walthert has just finished a
handsome painting of VIM. Tell and his
son which he will present to the Swiss
society Of this city at dance to be given
by tie society in Streckfus's Hall on Sat
urday evening.
/ Charles, four-year old son of An
drew and Mary Steward, the proprietors
of the gun boat at Andalusia, was sick, in
jail, with the typhoid fever He is a
bright. handsome little fellow and it is a
pity that he should suffer on account of the
lawlessness of his parents.
Republican Office holders continue to
rob the peoples treasury. The latest
case is that of Fred s, Winslow, formerly
! Dubuque banker, and latey resident of
Chicago, who holds an Office in the treasury
department and has been detected in steal.
ing $4,000. Tilden is needed at the head
: of affairs
Mary Steward appeared before the
? county court Monday afternoon and plead
guilty to % counts of selling liquor without
a license and she was fined $40 and costs
on each count-$500 in all. Owing
to the illness of her child imprisonment
: in jail was suspended, and she left fol
Andalusia Tuesday evening with her child
Shakespeare complete in II monthly
parts, and copy of The Family Story
Paper, published by n. L. Munro & Co.
E "A Beekman street, New York City, fol-
So. For sale by all newsdealcrs for
cents per copy. Whether purchased Of
l. newsdealers or received direct from the
publishers, Shakespeare accompanies the
paper.
. Mary Edella, Mary Jane and Phoebe
;, Ann Ball, three sisters, who have been a
the poor house for several years, will b.
: taken to the Institution for Feeble-MindeC
lChildren, at jacksonville, in few days
4 arrangements having been made for thei
reception there by Supervisors Sweeney
Wright and Kerr, committee on Poo
n and Poor House.
l. The seemingly incorrigible bachelor
U Mr. A. }. LIE Claire, has succumbed a
: last, aud is now happy benedict. Yes
terday morning, at y o'clock, in Ste
10 Marguerite's church, Tony" and Mis-
e Sarah Item were united in marriage, Fathe
# Cosgrove officiating. He was of the prlm
order of men when bachelor-but wit
so estimable lady as companion he wi
d be sorry be didn't change his career Ion
ago.-DaU. Gdz. 9th.