The Rock Island Argus., 1877-08-04

Have you paid your poll-taxF
Council meeting Monday evening.
California train over the G. & N. W.
road tomorrow.
Vote for whoever you please for cir
cult judge on Monday.
A new sidewalk is being put down in
front of Mrs. Johnson's restaurant
Only about II water takers have
failed to pay their rent up to Jan. 1st.
Thirty cars of Texas cattle went east
over the c., R. /. & ?. road yesterday.
Jacob Ohlweiler, Jr., and Paul Raabe
have opened cigar mandatory in Palace
Row.
The 23d inst, is the last day of SER
vice for the September term of our circuit
court
ID. B. Sears & Sons -four mill, at
South Rock Island, has shut down for re-
pairs.
Those who blow the Goals of others
strife, may chance to have the sparks fly
in their own faces.
AN exchange solemnly announces 'the
bed bug is on his annual tour. Same old
smell-same bite"
Henry Ward Beecher gave his lecture
agent a gold watch the other day, and
vouches for its true inwardness.
Man glories is his strength; woman
glories in her hair; and boarding house
butter sometimes glories in both.
If young lady is sensible she will
never lace. No, she'll go about look
ing as large and graceful as tub of soap.
The total assessed valuation of prop
erty in Whiteside county, for 1874, is
ll,765, ,l6S. In 1876 it was $12, ,307, ,678.
"A car load of new barley was shipped
to Cincinnati yesterday by Henry lHass, Of
Dayenport-going over the 2. Il Il. l.
road.
Man on the corner-"If theyd let my
COW run at large there wouldn't be sc
much grumbling about weeds growing il
the streets.
"A Western paper thinks the bes
thing to remove dandruff is undoubtedly
J Sioux" ISM that dandruff joke? Isl
dand old one.
j. W. Pinch, colporteur of the Pres
byterian Society, is laboring in Orlean, n
Y. That's snuff to Maccaboy feel that tht
good work is not tagging.
About this time O year the man wht
has spent a hundred dollars on his gardeI
begins to estimate his onions at 81 each
in order to ma ke his books balance.
The misery Of the young man VIII
courts sparkling fashionable belle. AM
= loses her is only excelled by the misery O
the man who courts her and wins her.
A workman, named Herman
Boehmke, had three fingers of his righ
r hand taken off by acircular saw, yester
e day, in Lindsay & Phelps saw mill, Dav
port.
"A counsel being questioned by judg
> to know ''for whom he was concerned.
J replied: Il am concerned, my lord, for tn
d plaintiff, but am employed by the defend
:. ant.
n Mrs. Anna Ross, of Buffalo township
. over the river, has applied for a divorc
= from her husband, William Ross, in th
Z district court oyer there, on charge {
= adultery.
e An envious paragrapher remarks
y 1t has been observed that the lady with
q diamond ring will scratch her nose, in
given period, four times as often as an
; ether woman,
is -Contentment abids with truth. An
u you will generally suffer for wishing to al
pear other than you are. whether it be II
N richer, or more learned. The mask soc
r becomes an instrument of torture.
" "A we'll dressed man of prepossessin
6 appearance, hired horse and buggy
1t BentOn's livery stable, over the river, ab0l
ty a week ago, saying he wanted to 90
o. Milan. Neither man, horse or buggy ha,
been seen in this vicinity since.
The stone work en- the new scho
re house is nearly completed, and the j
r gives entire satisfaction, which speaks VT
ut for the new firm of Stephenson, Larkin
ne Go. The brick work will be commence
!; about Wednesday Of next week.
Mrs. Mamie Weir Velic, while ridir
Se horseback on Thursday evening, fell fro
IS, her horse near the Ninth street NJ.
is church, striking upon her head. She d
Il not appear to be injured, however, as 81
=, Immediately mounted again and rode O
90 -Itis said that the Republicans a
ne using the plea that John j. Glenn. the
IS, candidate for circuit judge. is cross eyed
n and claim that he can therefore look
ey both sides OF o case at once, while, at Il
same time, he can make both lawyers thil
he is on their side. They all support hir
1T Col, J. N. Macomb has recommend
is to the secretary of war that John Huss,
;. of Burlington, Iowa, be allowed the co
~ tract for furnishing the rock to be used
the improvement of Rush chute and ha
- Dor at Burlington. His bid is to deliv
1T, the rock on the river bank five miles
tai low Rush flsland for 773 cent per cut
- yard,
A l4-year old son of VIM. Smith,
=" AnawaD, was suffocated last Saturd
he afternoon, while playing in a bin of shell
I'D corn. He was playing with three 9th
(" boys at the time. and all were naked.
was in the bin about 90 minutes, and wh
"s the body was taken out his mouth a
ell throat we're full Of corn, and the print
nd corn could be plainly seen on his flesh,
NO hard had been the pressure.
or Amateur heatricals-Leading III
"A docking to the left of the stagel-"A
Su here comes down the hill my kind faith,
1t See what kindly lock in his eyes. A
eft how his face gladdens as he catches sig
of me, his long absent son. | v
=, run to meet him." As he runs, my XII
~ and gentle father" comes in from the 9th
as side of the stage. Confusion among I
Ter actors and tittering among the audience.
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