The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-08
NOTES HRRE AND THERE.
Dark. chilly day.

Dark. chilly day.
Sidewalk building is still progressing.
County court was held in the court
house to-day.
Iowa state, county and township cleo
ton o-morrow,
Saturday was the last day of the
September term of the circuit court.
Sunday was a dark, chilly, rainy day, |
and but few people could be seen on the
streets.
j. D. Bollman has bought out and ia
ken possession of Solomon u Stephenson s
cigar store on second avenue.
Burbank at Darts Hall tomorrow
evening. Tickets at Crampton's. Street
cars run after the entertainment
The Kansas Sheriff did well in boring
holes in the two sUnion Pacific train rob-
bers and stricking $40 900 in gold.
The village priests of Russia read to
their focks every Sunday the weeks Off
cial dispatches from the seat of war.
"A sandy haired swelrs head in the
high standing collar of fashion looks too
much like kernal OF corn IN hopper
Rev. George Bull, 80 years Of age,
lately baptized forty persons by immersion
in twenty-seven minutes 10 Savannah,
To save the clerks from going home
to vote. the Boston Globe suggests that
the Ohio election be held in Washington.
-Ex. Justice NJ. L. Pinkley wants to
be hotel keeper, and is negotiating for
the purchase of the City Hotel at Galva.
The district clerk of Scott county has
been grinding out voters numerously the
past few days. Election over there to-
morrow.
The members of Wide Awake Hose
Co. No. 2, presented Chief Engineer
Johnston with handsome baby carriage,
Saturday evening.
"A boy named Heitohrends shot him
self in the arm Saturday afternoon, by the
accidental discharge OF a pistol. The
injury is not serious.
| An order having been issued on Satur.
day out of the u. S. court, at Springfield
for the foreclosure of bonds and sale OF the
Paris x Danville Il. r. it was conferred
to-day.
The Comet, which has been laid up a
Rapids City for some weeks, came down
from LIE Claire last evening" to go into TIE
Andalusia, Rock Island aud Princeton
trade tor the balance of the SEASON.
Information of six foot rise in tn
Chippewa river gladdened the hearts o
the lumber manufacturers yesterday
A telegram of inquiry, though, brough
the intelligence that the report was IN
founded, and that no rise had occurred a
ALL
An exciting runaway occurred on Sec
oud avenue on Saturday evening. A team
belonging to Mr.. Vandruff, of South Rocl
Island, became frightened at switch en-
CINE, but after short run were brough
up by hitching post in front of Myers
shoe shop, and the occupants of the WACO
escaped without injury.
The first number of the State Gdzett
an anti Hayes republican paper was ii
sued at Springfield on Saturday. tits edite
by Lusk, the state printer, and has, it
understood, the support Of the state &C
mlnistration. The advance>sheet goes fl
Hayes savagely, and suggests that civl
service reform should begin at the whit
house, and that the present reform is th
destruction of the republican party.
Nat, Leonard. son of Sheriff Leor
ard, OF Scott county, had no business to G
to Fosters republican meeting at Prince
, ton, Ia, on Saturday evening, that i,
VIC mean, ii he remained at home an
kept away from Foster, " Waterman, Goui
, aud those other hbidlDous republicans b
: wouldn't have had his team to fall owe
the bank below lie Claire wheu comin
: home on Saturday night, aud his ia
wouidu'c be baudaged up to day.
The supreme judges Of Iowa, wh
have been holding court at the Burt
House, Davenport, for several days pas
t took carriages Saturday afternoon aud toe
long drive among the beautiful localitl'
of this vicinity. They decide, with no di
: senting opinion, that Rock Island is Il
d brightest aud best locking city 10 the stat
and that she has more fine natural scenel
to the acre than any other three towns
the west combined.