The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-17

5 getting dusty again.

NOTES HERE AMI THEME
Its getting dusty again.
The street sprinkler is out again. y
Splendid weather for the farmers. 4
Only 10 prisoners in Jail, at present I
The taxes of the Coal Valley Mining $
Co. for 1876, amounting to $675,4l, have :
been paid to County Treasurer Porter.
The farmers of Ellington township
have commenced harvesting their wheat
crop which is said to yield good return.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Ii. Gest died yesterday forenoon of {
erysipelas. and was buried late yesterday
afternoon.
Annie Abbott-no relation to Emma
Abbott was released from Jail this
morning, her term Of Imprisonment, for
vagrancy, having expired.
This is the way it read: Married,
at the U. B. parsonage, in Yuma, July
18th, by Rev. q. Bender, Mr.. VIM. Orr
and Miss Frances Hutchinson, al! Of Canoe
Greek"
Farmers from the lower part of the
county say the vicinity of Hamlet, Aledo
and Millersburg was visited by a very
heavy rain last Sunday night and Monday
morning.
Robert johnson, near Presumption,
is having a large barn. AZ by 60 feet IN
size, and So feet high, erected CD his farm. |
The work is being done by Chris SchreiDer,
of this city.
The following item may be of interest
to those who attend the Turner festival at
Milwaukee tomorrow: Lager beer in
Milwaukee is FIVE cents glass, or three
glasses for ten cents.
p. L. Cable, P. L. Mitchell, w. 2.
, Butler, Chas. Conquerer, George Mixter,
John Warner and T. j. Robinson, have
been elected directors by the stockholders
of the Rock Island Glass Co.
"A San Francisco clergymen says his
city is the most lrreligious in the United
] States, and gives the following as Cali
q fornian's prayer; "Oh, my God (if there
is Cod, have mercy on my soul (if have
e a soul."
i Two rural constituents were talking
!, Of the new member of the legislature from
Q their district. One of them asked, rs he
o talented?" well said the other, Il
should say he might set house fire by
rubbing his nose against the doorp J"
- 1t is melancholy sight to see a man
3 . start off with valises, fishing rods, and the
s other requisites of summer vacation
! 1ou know that they will return in few
- days with red noses and disheveled ward
II robes without having caught fish. Twas
- eyer thus.
I'll And now the question is, what does
d E. D. Sweeney, United States Commission
# er, intend to do-disobey the acting presi-
,e dents civil service order or resign his
s, office 7" lie has been appointed dele
gate to the Republican convention at Galya.
p We shall see what we shall sec.
MIR. J. n Holmes, the architects now
engaged preparing plans for a handsome
residence soon to be erected by Mr. Henry
" Stoddard at EdgiDgton. The cost of the
70 building will be about $500. Levi
Cavitte, of Edgington, has the contract for
IL doing the carpenter work.
is "A corps Of masons are engaged ia
N repairing the roof of the catacomb in the
ID Lincoln monument, at Springfield, and the
~ top of the pedestals on which the ststuary
is to be placed. 1t has been found neces-
sary to remove large portion OF the stone
K slabs that cover the cataeom6 aud replace
e. them with others of a more substantial
character.
>. Boys who cannot swim, should never
attempt to enter the water, unless accom-
y panied by their father or some friend, who
al is able to care for them. Friday another
e. little fellow about ten years old-Eddit
"a Dougherty, of Muscatine, was drowned
while padding aro3n1 en- a ard in tt,
river with some young companions HI
IA was said to be bright and interesting chile
be and the pride of his parents whose grie
is inconsolable. The body was recovered a
~ FIVE o'clock in the evening.
~ The thirteenth annual session of tn,
oO Rock Island Baptist Sunday School Con
Cd ventjon will be held at Hamlet, MeTce
Dg county, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept
il IL and r. The meeting will be address
= ed by President Talbot. Revs q. W
- Lewis, J. Chirns, r. J. Langridge, g. F
itf Brayton, o. W. Van Osdel, T. A. vii
es- Hams, j.. n. Elton. e. hisbet, D. D., DR.
ri, I. j. Merryman, Messrs. Sinuet, /. D
,ot Holmes, S. B. Alfred, H. Sellers, Hon
- ". w. Warner and others.
'' is is stated that the government de-
100 tectives are going for pine log thieves wit
nix sharp sticks. There IS said to be terri
IS BILE reckoning in store for the lumberme
70 on the upper Mississippi and its tributa
ries on the st. CrOix, and also on the Re
'm Lake river and other streams whose pin
'ok logs are floating into British America. /
half the facts reported can be substantial
-rv ted by proof and it is said they can be
M there will be some squeaIing on the par
'iu of those who have failed to settle for tbei
tFespaSses or who haYe by mistake set
tied with the wrong parties The musi
will begin in the course of g couple c
'ur weeks, if the signs of the time are not a
in fault We have heard it rumored tina
ing one of the leading lumber dealers of Roc
ho Island is in imminent danger of prosceU
=, ton By the government, and that he
VS. preparing for saeh an exigency. Davea
he port Democrat
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we Rapids City and Vicinity.
r. Editors of Argus:
o' RAPIDS CRY, ILL.,, July II, TT.
l'' j. p VideFstgon is another happy mar