The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-22
NOTES. HERE AND THERE.

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The mud is drying up rapidly.
!. Iowa estimates til. hog crop at 1,500,-
900 head.
Herman Ringert was released from
jail this forenoon.
This weather is a great improvement
on that of the past two weeks.
Freight business on most of the rail-
roads is quite heavy at present.
If this weather continues the farmers
will soon be in with their potatoes and corn.
Jennie Snyder, the female horse thief,
was. on Saturday, sentenced to six months
10 the peniteniiary, in the district court,
over the river, and Celia Brant, for larceny,
gets one month at hard labor in the same
institution.
The Temple Quartette, of Boston, Oct.
| 30th. Wendell Phillips, Dec 9Th, and the
Swedish Lady Quartette, Dec 18th, are
but part of the Davenport library assocla-
ton course. which are billed for the Burtis |
Opera House this season.
w eyerhauser & DeDkman's saw mill
has been shut down since Wednesday,
aud if logs do not soon arrive the mill will
not start up this season. In the mean |
time the 'log-way' and other parts of the |
mill are being repaired. All the other
mills are also closed for want of logs.
Two warrants are out for Sherman D.
Pinkley, for assault and battery-one on
Icompiaint of his sister 10 law, Charlotte
Phillips, for beating her over the head
with a broom-stick, and the other on com
plant of his father-in-law, John Phillips,
for whipping his (Sherman's) wife. They
were issued BY Justice Hayden.
Yesterday Edward SCHNEIDER. boot
black, Is years old, got drunk and threw
himself into the river saying he was going
to swim to New Orleans. lie was pulled
out by Officer Metsch and taken to the
5 marshal's office, where he was retained
( over night. He says a man gave him the
/ whisky for shine.
One of the decisions rendered by
Grand Master Herman Block, at Daven-
port, at the session of the Grand lodge of
Odd Fellows in Des Moines, on Wedues
day last, was, that no Indian or negro, al
e though he have card regular on its face,
e and can prove himself 10 the work of the
:. order. can lawfully be permitted to visit
. lodge thereof.
Oakley Hall could stand it when he
was accused of stealing along with Tweed
J. and his gang, but when the gossips go so
II far as to intimate that he ran of with a
- woman with wart on her left ear he gets
up aud protests that there isn't word of
truth in the whole story. He must draw
: the line somewhere and he draws it at q
p wart under the left ear.
e In the Jackson county, Iowa. circuit
court, last week, Mr.. Bailey, editor of the
a Maquoketa Clipper, was brought up tC
answer in regard to the scurriious article
in his paper rejecting upon Judge D. "
1t Ellis Bailey said the article in question
le was written by r. W. Henry, an attorney
of Maquoketa Bailey was fined S. Twt
. suits were instituted against Henry, ont
e for contempt of court, and the other FOL
re disbarrment. On the first he was sen
fenced to one days confinement and to pay
a fine of $50; and on the other a suspen
l. sion from the practice of law in this state
for three years.
10 That Reid Mcpherson rape case
= which has caused so much excitement il
- Davenport for the past week, COLLAPSED
D very suddenly last Saturday. 1t will b,
n remembered n B. Mcpherson charged DR.
y J. A. Reid with committing the offeDc,
49, upon the person of Mrs Mcpherson, whili
- attending her as her physician The cas-
- was laid before the grand jury, last week
ne and after tuIl Investigation of all III
i'll facts in the case, that body refused to 6nt
= any bin against Dr. Reid This being tn
- case; the suit Lrought against the Dr. an,
D. to have taken place before Justice Finge
I'd Saturday afternoon, was GiSmis ed. Thl
i shows that there was nothing whatever Il
% the accusations against DR. Reid Nc
Pherson, however, has been indicted fo
at assault with intent to kiIl-by attemptn
lis to shoot DR.. F cid.
ey Saturday evening DIR. Bell, of Dayen
ak port, had al oyeFcoat stolen from his bug
or gy in that city. ana Eman ct tn
- Turner Hall, also in that city, los
an overcoat and dress coat frol
the bar-room. To-day Marshal Hawes an
= Davenport officer caught young man
ny named Ha,F ,son, in this city with the dres
coat on. He refused to go over the rive
but willingly gave up the coat, saving h
traded for it-aDd was released Later
We Since the above was in type, Policema
ve Brennan arrested young man Who CAV
his name as Joseph Kelly, from Chicago
MS who had on Harrison coat He was take
an over the river, There is 20 doubt bt
ith that he is the thief.