The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-23
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
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Incoming styles-the Indian hostiles.
The country roads are now in very
good condition.
The real name of an Indiana man is
Hope r. Uppe.
The woman with Oakley Hall is spoken
of as Mrs Wart' s-her-name.
Jerry Coe is the pane of an Indian
lawyer. All his clients go to Jericho.
The Graham assault case has oc.
cupied the attention of the circuit court to-
day.
Business is good at the Taylor House.
the register showing long list of arrivals
every day.
IF it wasn't for hope the heart would
break, as the old lady said when she
buried her seventh husband.
History says, Caesar had his Brutus,"
but, some how or other, we always had the
impression that Brutus rather had Caesar
s. According to City Clerk Reds books
there are only taoo drdynaers IN Rock Is
and, and only ten aodgonS pursuing the
business of hauling.
There are certain schools where
children are taught like parrots They
are called pre,parrot ry schools The pu-
pills are exercised in pretty.polly syllables.
Much of the corn planted on old
ground in this county is already up and
looking fine. Sod corn is now being planted
and it will probably not all be in before
June 1st,
Inside will be found another able
article from "Greenback, some Demo
cratic opinions favorable to Hayes. and q
good article on the Murphy movement in
the temperance reform.
One of the best and most popular
Methodist clergymen Rock Island eyer bad
will preach in the Methodist church this
evening, and many of his old friends, of
all denominations will drop in to see and
hear him.
. considerable corn on the market to-
day, and nearly all OF it came from Scott
county, Iowa, Yesterday corn sold all day
for SO cents per bushel, but to- day it is
! selling at 45(G50 cents. The Davenport
, market is below this,
"A Masonic dead beat, by the name Of
TyleT,Iis around trying to sponge money
and provisions He claims to hail from
lodge in San Francisco. California, but the
lodge knows nothing ofhim. He is beat.
-Ioaoa City Press
There is a general demand among
watering place habitues that the gong be
| dispensed with as a summoner to supper.
They characterize it as relic of barbarism
which has long since been dispensed with
in respectable metropolitan hotels
o "A portion of the New York post office
fell several days ago; large mandatory
c in Allegheny, Pa, fell on Thursday, and
G the new court house at Rockford, H.,
0 fell on Friday morning And vet this i,
r not the fall Of the year oT7lStoaoa Her
: MD.
d A Providence man who is fond Of
i statistics, conceived an idea about year
/. ago that he would keep a memorandum tt
d show just how many men whom he should
o have dealings witt would Go just as they
agreed Thus far only four out of 62S have
the right kind of mark against them.
y -Poktmaster Murdoch says that owing
to the change of time table on the G.
:" G l. Il P. road, by which the morning
IS passenger train from the east arrives later
!. than heretofore. the delivery windows a
I the post Office are not opened now unit
= about 7:2O o'clock The windows arr
- open in the evening sat about the sam,
T time they were before.
t Why doesn't the associated pres
It agent in London invest in few dollars
Ia worth Of dynamite with which to blow tn
names of the Russian generals into seven
:" teen or twenty pieces before transmit
ne ting them over the cable fer America
ic readers to wrestie with? If he were
ne blast EN- over there fewer readers woul
~ blast emil" over here-Norrestoson He,
- aid.
: Good John Wilkins, of Stafford, use
pit to say of billiards: 1T seemeth to me if
ct manne have no better use for hys tim
he than to sprawl upon table with one of hi
nc egges indecently in the air, striving
&c make one bale upon green cloth to strik
VI another, it were better that he practys
&C. standing on hys head, the which not on
or needeth the greater skill, but withai dot
nv make the breaking of worthless back Ii
= more likely
" 1T is marvellous the vitality there is I
ne Cuba. Here it has kept up war for yea
IS with powerful nation, and at the san
ur time kept up the manufacture of its slap
,r- article, Havana cigars, supplying nearly g
of America aud good part of Europe
no one half of the cigar makers should lay G
ate their aprons and take up arms, the Spa
on iards would be swept from the face of Il
earth, and their things sold by auction
less than sixty days.-DGnbmy NeaoS.