The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-21
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
"A counterfeiter was arrested in Daven.
port yesterday.

"A counterteiter was arrested In Dayen-
port yesterday.
See proposal for coal for our public
schools, in advertising columns.
John Fleming is the Uaion'S war cor
respondent at the Tyndall Grove camp
meeting.
The total vote received by John j.
Glenn in this (the Tenth) Judicial District
was 4,540, the scattering votes numbering
322.
As requested in his will, A. F. Cutter
has been appointed executor of the estate
of the late James Copp, which is valued at
about $1,000.
John Kane's house, in Andalusia, was
destroyed by FIRE Sunday morning. 1t
caught from sparks falling upon the root |
The building was insured.
Carpenter, said a gentleman finding
lot of nails strewn about the floor. IF
you do not pick up these nails they will be
lost" mo fear, sir" said the man; you
will find them all in the bill. !"
Mrs. Matilda Goodman advertises
"All persons are warned not to sell or give
any intoxicating liquors to Mrs. Madeline
Frownore, better known as Mrs. Frank, on
penalty of prosecution for damages
"A man named Patrick Dougherty was
arrested and jailed Sunday night, as he was
little weak in the upper story. He had
ticket from Peoria to Clinton, and Sup'r
d Astsr shipped him up the river last
The reports of the commissioners of
the Illinois and Michigan canal for the
quarter ending May 81 was received by the
auditor Saturday. The report shows the
receipt from tolls, &C., to be $23,6S2 SO,
and the disbursements $28,841.
Since Justice Hayden went into Office,
on the 18th of May, 1876, he has had $50
city, state and civil cases. up to Saturday
evening last As a justice, THE ARGUS
will say that Mr. Hayden has given entire
satisfaction, and made many friends.
s-J. B. McFarlane, a school teacher
from Coal Valley, wants to be the Republi
can candidate for county superintendent OF
schools. That makes three-and if 1t
keeps on, before the election every mem
Der of the party will be announcing him
self for Office.
"A jury, consisting of DR.. Craig, fore
man, g. ". Henry, Geo. Herbst, VIM. A.
Pilgrim, Robert Don and I B. Requa, in
the county court, yesterday, decided that
Mrs. Catherine Gillen was not insane
though the evidence showed that she had
an uDgovernabie temper:
The miners at Springfield, having been
on strike since May Is. held a meeting
Saturday and agreed to SO TO work at
cents per bushel for digging coal 1.-THE old
rate) upon being allowed by the mine own
ers check weighman at each shaft and
certain reduction, in the price of oil,
powder and house rent.
According to the new law, DR.. Plum
mer has made affidavit before the county
clerk to the effect that he has attended the
following list of births, occurring in his
practice from July TO Aug. Is: Andrew
: Anderson, male, born July 2; Henry
Schucker, female, born July %; James
McEnery, male, born July 30; William
Sarman, female, born Aug 3; Melvin
Mckay, Jr., male, born Aug. IL
"A new counterfeit $50 bill on the
Third National Bank of Buffalo has made
its appearance, and is described as follows:
Letter A on upper right hand corner.
Dated March 10, 1868. This is printed
from the altered plate of the Central Ma
tional Bank of New York Title ard date
J the plate. Note about an eighth of an
inch shorter than the genuine.
p The planet Mars is one of the most
= conspicuous objects 10 the sky these even.
. ings. lie rises 10 the southeast a little
after o'clock, and just ahead of him q
few degrees is the planet Saturn. The
! two make quite contrast by their great
. difference in color. They will be in con
i, junction on the Goth OF this month Mars il
n in q position ta appear more brilliant thar
: since 1916, or than he will again be before
! 1924.
e When Mrs. George w. Strong, o
Davenport, awoke about IL o'clock Sunday
night she reached out her hand and PLACED
1t right against the face of burglar wht
T was bending over her, She screamed, anC
y her husband rushed out Of another room
g meeting the burglar at the head of tn
s stairs-where he seized him and threw
! him down the steps. He then went int
A his room to get revolver, but when h
= returned the fellow had made good hi
:, escape.
ii The St Louis Republican gives SOM
interesting incidents in the life of an oil
9 Spanish Indian woman now living 10 tina
n city under the familiar name of "Aun
Mary" This old woman knew Black Hawl
and other Indian chiefs, and has disrinc
e recoliectIons of many of the famous event
t. Of those early days, resulting from the con
n hicts between the whites and Indians. Sh
- was born in st. Louis, but went to Galen
., with Charles Savery, clerk to Col Daveu
5 port, married there, and raised family
s, but finally returned to St. Louis and ha
lived there ever since
/. Among Saturdays dispatches to tn
% St. Louis Republican from Springfield i
= the following: The governor and at
as torpey general returned to day from thei
e. visit made to Grand Tower for the purpos
~ of inspecting the site chosen for the south
le ern penitentiary. 1t is impossible to ge
any expression of opinion from thes
gentlemen, but the impression among tn
- best informed people about here is to tn
, effect that they will dlsapproVe of the 10
u cation. The opinion is quite freely ex
es pressed throughout the state that Gran
lie Tower Is too far south to be convenient
IN and that it offers few or no compensatin
advantages"
he The Channels of Exit
- From the human system bear the sam
- relation to it as sewers do TO a city. The