The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-LoOk OUT TOT burglars ana sneak
| thieves.
The grass is beginning to look quite
green.
The birds are plenty and musical now,
| in the morning.
The steamboat Northwestern is ex-
| pected up to morrow.
The front of Mitchell g. Parsons
store is being painted.
Housekeeping, whitewashing and
painting are all the go" now.
The spring term of our public schools
opened unusually full to day.
The Harper House register showed
| about 20 travellers there over Sunday.
to fire escapes will be found inside this
paper.
Jacob Wollenhaupt is improving the
appearance of his block by coat of white
paint.
Mr.. Kellerstrass is having the front
of August Housings grocery store neatly
painted and striped.
Sunday evening we had smart little
thunder shower, with moon and stars shin
ing at the same time.
Dance for the benefit of Peter FL.
Smith in Killers Hall to morrow evening.
Music by Bleuer-supper by Mrs. Aster.
Green cucumbers, spinach, lettuce.
| radlshes, young onions, ETC., etc., in pro-
fusion on the Harper House tables yes
| terday.
Emil Koehler now has very neat and
tasty drug store, he having made many
Improvements since he moved into the
new place.
-Gilmore's pork house was entered by
burglars on Friday night of last week,
who probably carried off a number of
hams. No arrests.
Saturday was payday on the Coal
Valley Mining Co.'S road, at the coal mines
10 Coal Valley, and also on the Rock Island
Il Mercer County road
w ednesday evening, at Darts Hail,
Trinity Guild will show Rock Island what
| it can do by way of an entertainment.
Expectation is on tip-toe.
Acting Coroner Hayden wishes the
jury in the Pilgrim inquest case to meet
| in the engine house, in Moline, at 8
@ clock tomorrow morning.
"A little four-year old daughter of
Edward Spellman, Lying at Rock Falls,
| Whlteside county, fell into a we'll on We'd
needay of last week and was drowned.
The ladies will be glad when the ferry
boat Rock Island is again afloat, the cabins
and guards or walks outside the cabin are
so much more comfortable than the keo-
kuk.
| Thieves attempted to steal lot of
lead pipe in the old Burtis House, Daven-
port, on Saturday, but they were fright
ened away, before they secured their
''swag.'
MIR, Joseph Starkey, of Bowling,
laid it on our table, and it weighed 81
ounces, but he said half-breed Brennan
hen laid it in one Of the nests at his hen
house-and the hen is alive and doing
well.
Three notorious girls boldly walked
into the Harper House parlor on Sunday
and rang the bell and ordered ice water
| The proprietor sent a message to them to
| leave the house at once, and not return.
They probably thought they were not so
notorious as they are.
Thieves clambered over the high board
fence back of Leutje's grocery, corner Of
I 3,
Sunday afternoon, got into the store
change, few cans of fruit, and got away
Two buckets of fne-cut chewing to-
bacco were stolen from a freight car il
the yard Of the Peoria road in this city, or
Friday night of last week. The thieve;
probably emptied the tobacco into a sack
as the empty buckets were found near tht
car. Loss Sl4. No arrests.
3 Mrs. August RiemeIs, living on the
corner of LIE Claire and 10th streets, Dav
export. was terribly burned on Friday eve
ming of lasta week, by the explosion of I
can of kerosene-which she had been usinl
to kindle fire. She may recover, though
she will be disfgured for life.
Alderman Joseph L. Hebert, o
Davenport, has consented 10 sing the
Ernani solo "Felice" for Trinity Guild, OF
] Wednesday evening. Those of our citizen
? who have heard his magnificent voice viii
be sure TO attendant those who have
not should not miss the rare treat.
f Joseph Murphy, the eminent comedi
s an, will appear at Darts Hall, Saturda.
! evening, April Goth, as was announced OIL
s TIC UlIlo. 1u6 COmpdLy 10 d ROON Ouc all
!, Kerry Cow" the piece selected for tn
occasion, is said to be Mr.. Murphy's mas
:, ter personatllon.
II "A silver watch and a gold chair
valued at S35, were stolen from the resi-
idence of August Herker. over Turne
Hall, on Friday, of last week. by youn
l. sneak thief who wandered into the hous
e and into bed room looking for MIR
n Wilson," He was seen by the servan
~, girl but when he asked if Mr.. Wilson
!. lived there she was thrown entirely O
II her guard No arrest,
y They had another psalm-siDging NEE
/, ing in Darts Hall, Sunday, and Ed. Ru
n sell, Reconsideration of the Gazet
= spoke. His remarks were very prosy an
F" greatly disappointed those who went I
hear him. They were even duller tina
1t Mr.. Hawley's, who can talk much NOR
n eloquently on fee in the courthouse
" The psalm-singing was led by X. W. SpeI
Ger. Whispering TO a neighbor, at abor
q the close of the meeting, man asked whs
,r was the object OF these meetings. ITO tax
up a collection, was the apt reply.
~ Best satin wall paper at IS to Is cen
per roll, at Murphy's book store. Call an
| 500 him IooInOuu