The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-05
NOTES HIRE AND THERE.

county Jail.
Travel over the bridges was very
heavy to-day.
Quite number of farmers on Market
Square to- day.
The May term of our circuit court
opens on Monday,
The river is about 6,3 above low
water mark, and about on stand.
-'Patronize home institutions says the
Union --edited by too Englishnae's !
"A secondhand store has been opened
IN the frame part of the Rock Island
House.
B. Streckfus & Son have just put up
a fine awning on the south side of their
new block
The first business of the unified leg
islature in New Orleans was to deoderize
the state house.
The bloody shirt" should be en-
balmed and intrusted to Wendell Phillips
for preservation.
The Indian Bureau at Washington
has sagelv resolved that the Crows had no
caws for complaint.
| p Jacob Heverling, late constable,
says: Boss, fishing at South Rock Island
aud Milan is good. ="
According to the Lowell Courier
Nichols now becomes de tacto, and de
jury returns to Washington.
An exchange advances another argu-
ment in favor of matrimony. 1t says that
| living is cheap in Dublin"
1t is the woman that yanks her gal
tiers off with bootiack who knows her
rights, and knowing. dare maintain.
Emanuel Bailey, a negro. had one of
his legs broken at Kewanee, on Tuesday,
by the caving in of an embankment.
| Nobody drove Packard and Chamber
lain out The federal authority stepped
from under them, and they dropped
out.
Leon. the only Leon, gave unbounded
delight as an impersonator OF the rather
loud young lady. He has 10 equal in that
role.
The plank on the lower track of the
city bridge just south of the paper mill at
Milan is badly worn out and should be
repaired.
The Father Mathew Total Abstinence
and Benevolent Society, of this city, are
making arrangements for a grand ball on
the evening of the 18th.
Louis Cohen's clothing store in Gales
burg was entered by burglars on Wednes-
day evening and considerable clothing
taken. The thieves escaped.
The Detroit Free Press thinks it is
about time for some, other New England
dam or reservoir to GO on an excursion
| a nj rU nd rnIv
Says the Harrisburg (Salem county
His Chronicle: Ninety nine per cent
of the people who go to Texas from this
county come back and settle down tor life.
The 'home talent" Davenport Donkey
VINO furnishes brains for the Union shows
good sense in carefully stuuying the
Notes Here and There" in THE ARGUS
! After July no man can loaf in Hi.
nois unless he is talking politics or urging
sinners to repentance. Standing on street
corners just to see ladies pass, is On it:
last legs.
Commissions from the governor fol
the newly elected township officers have
arrived at the county clerks office. Those
qualified can procure their commissions by
calling there.
E Port Byron has been incorporated
e about four months, and during that tins
e not a single offender has been fined TO
D violation of any Of the ordinances of tn
town, lis virtuous place.
Charles, play fully. How much reall
T ibid that hat cost, Jennie?' Jennie, arcbly
If you really want to inspect the bills 70
my dry goods, Charles, there is soau to d
n it" And what else could Caarles do blu
t propose on the spot.
Charles Raptkin, of Kewanee, acci
4 dentaly shot himself in the seat Of hi
! pantaloons on the evening of April 2St
u 10y the premature discharge of a revolve
y which he had in his pistol pocket
" The flag belonging to Wide Awak
IS Hose Il Hook Il Ladder Co. No, 2,
q floating at halt mast and the hose hous
!, draped III mourning in honor of Peter L
Il Smith. late member of that company.
Is -Four workmeu at Keator 4 Co.'S sa
mill, who joined the new temperance ST
cioty recently organized there, have pull
holy forfeited their share in the pool
IS drinking Better success next tim
I maybe
n The fascinating face of Miss Freelov
Hubbard is no longer seen mingling in tt
IL circles of MoDtmorency. She has gor
ct to Rock Island to spend the summer
IL Iifontmorency Items IN the Whitesit
,e Times
nj Millennium times have come to tt
:, sIuth. A contemporary remarks thi
- the white-iner and the bulldozer ca
lie now lie down With the colored lamb, ar
nE all hands take Jamaica ginger when the
s. ;, have the collie"
4
!. The awning in front of Beams bloc
=, is nuisance to pedestrians-being tt
- low. Nothing is allowed to hang within
u - feet of the sidewalk. See new ordinanc
~ book, page 80. Police please do 20,
70 duty, all over town.
ne The editor of the Aledo Banne
ne (Democratic) has just donated $685. 50
IN the proceeds or fees due that paper Fl
;" publishing the delinquent tax list of Me
nd Ger county for 1875 and l876-to the sc
ur diers monument fund.
It's The members of X ide Awake Ho
es Go. did not hold their meeting last mig
d. but will this evening-to make arrang
ments to attend the funeral of 2. [
Ii, Smith, at 2 o'clock to morrow afternoo
ad All the companies will also meet to-nig
ok fer the same purpose.
nv 1t was Moline girl who remarked
:, troublesome lover the other evening,
'" be was about to depart: IF it's just
ng well, you needn't trouble yourself To CT
re any more" 'Oh, it's no trouble -e
gh claimed the chap earnestly-'it's no tro
bic at ALL like to CALL
" When Democratic house propos
no to cut down the expenses of the COVER
! ment ten per cent, that is an attelnDt