The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-16

terday,
Senator David Davis, of Illinois,
weighs 1924 pounds.
Gov. Cullom's step-mother is visiting
relatives in Tiskiiwa.
What we want is standing army to
sit down and rest on Sitting Bull.
When the Gar heard about the de-
feat at Plevna he danced up and down like
Gail Hamilton.
When Gail Hamilton used to tread
down bed cords she made 'em go to the
floor every time.
The excuses of our youths are drafts
upon our old age, payable with interest,
about thirty years after date.
The vices of the rich and great are
mistaken for errors, and those of the poor
and lowiy for crimes.
The river was 1.6 inches above low
water mark last evening, and during the
night fell to l.5' River men are growing.
j. J, Vogle, of Hampton, has sold out
his residence and saloon in that place, to
Mr.. Epstein, the price paid being 1850.
The Jennie Gilchrist sunk barge of
coal in four feet of water near Willow
Island, opposite Hampton, Wednesday
afternoon.
Mr. Ben. Carlton is building a sub
stantial plank sidewalk around his prop
erty on the corner of Fourth avenue and
18th street.
There is nothing that is calculated to
break ones confidence IN man sooner than
n hu 0lk
pocket full of cloves.
Senator Edmonds, Of Vermont, accord
ing to Washington correspondent OPP
poses both the civil service and Southern
policies OF Mr.. Hayes.
The parsonage of the German Luth-
eran church near Hampton, burned down
| several. weeks ago, has been rebuilt and
will be ready for occupancy in few days.
"A boy named Joseph Ropista was run
over by a street car IN Peoria. Wednesday.
and almost instantly killed. The coroner s
jury censured the driver for not using due
diligence toward avoiding the accident.
Some men can never take joke.
There was an old doctor, who, when asked
what was good for mosquitoes. wrote back,
How do you suppose [ can tell unless
know what ails the mosquito?"
1t doesn't do bit of good to go to a
picnic, and stand on the river-bank aad
admire the gorgeous sunset, and talk about
! the teuder beauties of nature, to a man
who has just sat down on custard pie.
The Lieut.. English reported to have
been badly wounded in the Gitbon fight
with the Nez Perces Indians, is son Of
| M oh Of Ilo
Lieut.. English was married about one year
ago,
When Englishmen first gaze upon
Niagara they exclaim, by Jove!" West
ern men say 'Thunderl" people from the
rural districts. by Jimmenie!" and the
brides--bless 'em-say, 20 hold me
Gwarge"
Not long ago they had Sunday schoo
picnic not far from this city, and the two
senior 0eacons threw couple of lemons
and pint of sugar in the well, and charg
ed strangers five cents every time theJ
took drink.
| Eleven bakers use daily one hundred
barrels OF -four aud make ten Thousand
loaves Of bread on Blackwelrs Island
All the bread used iu the several institu
tons of the charities and correction il
made on the Island
The naptha gas lamp on the corner o
Fourth avenue and 4th street, while being
lighted, Tuesday evening, exploded The
man VINO was lighting it was burned abou
the face and hands, and his clothes caugh
fire, but it was Immediately extinguished
john Cane, blacksmith, from Brad
ford, Stark county, while attending tn
Tiskilwa races, last Friday, got drunk, ant
! lying down on the c., r. l. l. T. railroa,
track was run over by freight train, ant
his body was literally cut and ground TO
ljelly-l0 cars passing over him.
Baltimore can get up riot on shor
notice but she is nevertheless, solid city
DESTROYS of refunding water loan of SIS,
100000 at per cent. with percent
bonds, she advertised popular loan whic
was nearly all taken in Baltimore at froI
par to l03.
They found the jaw bone of mastodo
10 Livingston county the other day, 1t
! three feet long two and half feet wide
and the huge monster must have had neal
ly as much cheek when it was alive as til
editor of one of the Republican papers j
this vicinity
Put your round, ripe red. tomato int
/ hot water for a second, so that the ski
will come of easily. Put the shorn toma
, tie upon ice over night, so that it is as fri
and cold as a SNOWFALL. Ii the mornin
have it brought fresh cold in deep saucer
2 and, with pepper, salt, vinegar and OF
, 1treat it as cannibal would treat baby
eff any one wants to know what tn
Workingmen's party in Ohio intends I
do. they can readily find out from
9 moments consideration of the fact tina
! every nominee on its ticket has been take
from the Republican ranks and is an oil
machine politician. 1t is simply vent
hole to let off the bent-up indignation {
the Republican soreheads.
When Spotted Tail, Red Cloud an
the other copper colored ENJOYS extraol
binary reach the national capital, it woul
be-prudent for the Mrs r. B. Hayes ten
perance society to take them under il
4 unlovely than that of Sioux ambassadc
9 on an aboriginal drunk.
4 "A railroad engineer in New York de
] clares that when there is talk of
strike it comes first from those who hav
little to lose-the floating workers, VIII
haven't laid up a cent and have no one d.
|. pendent upon them" He also says tia
: not one man in twenty in the last strik
r wanted to go into it, that few hot-heade
ones RAT the whole thing, and the res
joined for fear they would be sneered a
: The fremens' tournament at Dixor
Wednesday, resulted in the Morrison
D Whiteside county, boys winning the frs
prize. and Sterling the second. Our boy
! were left out in the cold" all be
cause only nine members of the of Wild