The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-02

City council meeting Monday event

over tue river mau0 lUo aTTeSLS-t0 ~ IN |
this city.
Prof. Plper's lecture, in the High
School building, Monday evening will be |
free for ALL
Concert and gYmnastic exercises, by
the children of the German-English
school, in Turner Hall tomorrow even
ing,
Marshal Hawes says he is serving
notice to property owners to clean up
their filthy alleys and bac k yards. A good
move.
Belle Boyd, the confederate spy,
warns the public against bogus Belle
Boyds who are travelling and seeking Pc
cuniary aid. The real Belle is married,
and is living with her husband and chill
dren.
About this time last year the query
was. Are you going to the centennial"
Many answered in the affirmative and
went, and now-that's the reason great
many do not pay their bts.-Hanttng-
ton Ind. Herald.
Street commissioner BoyDton now has
q men and one team at work on the
streets. He was busy to-day raising the
Joliet stone street-crossings on Second
avenue-a much needed improvement,
especially in wet weather.
AT meeting of the members of tue
Rock Island Shooting Society, held last
| Wednesday evening, resolution was
adopted disbanding the society. The
property of the association is worth about
81 300, and this will be sold to pay indebt-
ness, which amounts to about $1,000.
Rev. DR.. Nisbet, of Rock Island. de-
livered very interesting lecture in this
place on Tuesday evening on 1.-The
Antiquity of Man." in which he showed
how unreliable many of the estimates OF
of biologists are on the epoch of man. -
Cambridge Chief jane 2.
There IS a tradition that the last Old
Line Wing was buried somewhere il
North Carolina, and the resurrectionistt
have been sounding trnmpets all over tina
state in order to coax him into a rise. A
the latest advices they hadn't blown oyel
the right grave.
Gen. Buffers letter to Mr.. Pitk!I
would be sound ADVICE. if it were Offered
in earnest But it pains us to observe
under the smooth language Of this letter
|
Gen. Butler is evidently disposed to girt
at the presidents notions of administra
tion.-N T. Tribune
A small pine tree, on trip aroun,
: the world, passed through this city tn
! other day, 1t LETT San Francisco on tn
18th ult., and is. being carried across tn
continent in front Of the different locomo
tives, In New York it will be placed a
} The bow of steamer aud sent to Liver
e pool
-, II tell you, sir" said DR.. - on
morning to the village apothecary, L tie
j you. sir, the vOr populi should not-mus
not-be disregarded," What, doctor |!
exclaimed the apothecary, rubbing hi
hands. "You don't say that has broke
out in town. too, has it? Lord help us
what unhealthy times these are!"-N
Commercial Advertiser
The current paragraph to the effeC
! that General Wade Hampton carried tn
: body of his son Preston from the 6el
: while the battle of Petersburg was sti
, raging is incorrect. Wade Hampton, il
7 now living in Mississippi, was riding Sit
his brother when the latter was kille
and carried the body to the rear. Gener
Ham 3ton. did not known of his bereay
ment until the battle was over.
e Says Grace Greenwood: II would G.
to ali worthy working women, to all enc
y getic, honorable young men seeking
re- opening for talent, field tor honest indu
I'd try. keep da0dy from Washington! Avo
IL the place as iearfully as though eve
department of government were a pes
~ house; as though congress, instead
G. benefcently legislating, were doing live
er business in all the plaques OF Egypt"
OF 1t is generally known that for sol
NJ time the Liberty Association has been I
gotiatiug for one concert by Thomas {
&c chestra. At last they take pleasure in a
rd nouncing that Theodore Thomas, with
r. full orchestra, will give one grand conct
lis at the Burtis Opera House June a.
= will be accompanied by celebrated soloi
probably Whitney. Further particul;
40 soon. Gazette
ST. The fact must not be lost sight of II
the ultra elements in both political part
ne are doing everything in their power
~ break down the policy of paciicati
:, which, though not yet three months o
h' has already conferred countless blessir
to on the country. They are plotting tc o
no vent conservative support of all j
- measures Of the administration, and fo
;, the president to acknowledge only
w. bourbons OF his party. Memphis Al
IN tdnche (Dem.l
ok Suicides seem to multiply A rep
lse was in circulation in our village last Nj
# day afternoon that Vim. jackson.
young man we'll known here, had tax
III dose of arsenic. DIR. Morse was cal
NJ and promptly administered an
he tidote, and thus far we have not heard
oh the young man death. Some PEG
look upon the matter as a SELL" but
~ any event, the young mans stomach
a pretty thorough cleaning out Ca
las bridge CHIEF.
OF, The Burlington Haoobeye tells O!
is solitary Ohio man WAC demanded, il
arc dusky voice, at the Office window in
railway station: Tiki" Where tc
nl- asked the unruffled monopolist behind
ale window. "'Nywherel Anywherel" '
the freczied response. Anywhere! Oh,
through Clean acrosti TO Burglary,
las Prooshy, or the Danube, or DittendorI
III. or any place. Anywhere out of an
grateful country, that coldly turns its bi
upon its deserving children. Any VIII
Ige out Of America Aud he bowed bis b,
nat aud wept He was the only man in o
nd that didn't get an office.
'pe Several years since Miss Carrie p
zen ker and her sister, of Sheffield, Burt
Oh county, performed a wonderful feat
eu physical endurance at walking match
9h Opera hall, in Princeton, The G
ny walked 100 miles iu "a hours fer a pu
x. of 500. Last Wednesday, Carrie,
lao oldest girl, and now % years old, :
ow 'nan;..a H. 81 tas,;SoS a.. ;.