The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-08
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
~ pleasant day

has remained undisturbedin the possession
of the Turks.
M, M, Corbett has moved his law
Office into the room above Zentgrafs sa-
loon.
War is a great educator. A good
many people are learning, for the first
time, where the Black Sea is.
Thursday is the last day of grace
and all who have not built sidewalks, as
ordered, will have big bill of costs to pay, |
About 60 laborers now find employ
ment at Rock Island Arsenal, and others
will probably be offered work in few days. |
Nearly all the people in Geneseo are
out in the newspapers with cards thanking |
each other because their houses we're not
burned.
Application has been made at our
probate court by two more persons who
want to be heirs of Charley Gray They |
hail from Franklin, KY,
-Sup'r Buffum, of Andalusia, will
probably be elected chairman of the
county board without opposition, He
held the position last year and gave entire
satisfaction.
Circuit court was not session this
forenoon. The afternoon was occupied
by civil business. The criminal business
will not be taken up until the report of the
grand jury.
John Sturdivan, a citizen of Rock
Island county since 1885, Gied of consump-
| ton, at his residence in Yuma township on
Sunday morning the 9th, and was buried
on Tuesday.
j. B. Schmidt, of Fire King Co., has
been reelected chief of the Davenport fire
department. Deficit Kohl, of Rescue Co.,
was elected first assistant, and Chris,
SchwaTtfeger, of Pilot Co., second assist
ant.
Another lodge of A. o, U. W., was
organized in Olney, Richland county, this
state, on the Sd, by W. Ii. Mccormick,
deputy grand master workman. 1t is
known as Olney Lodge, No. IS, and has
Al charter members.
| 1t is estimated that no less than 5000
amateur papers have been started in the
United States and Canada within few
years. Some Of them have attained to
the second number, and some have con-
tinued an existence for two years.
The brick work on the new foundry
at the Buford pillow works has been com,
pleted, and the building will be ready for
the mouldefs in few days, 1t was done
by Peter Farrell. and the carpenter work
by W E. Chopper; the stone work by Nc
Carthy Il Rafferty,.
= We respectfully suggest to the Hayes
Republican organs that they turn their
guns against the enemy, not against their
allies. Let them cease quarrelhng with
the Democrats: every Democrat in the
ITnytol ,nl Al,
southern policy it is only Republicans
who denounce it.-&. LOUIS Republican.
Nov it is Hayes who is going to swing
around the circle 10 the interest of peace
and good will. There is no law against
presidential junketing, but the proposed
journey through the south can do no posi-
BILE good to auy one and smacks altogetl er
too much of royal ways to quite suit a
republican people.
1t is said that an extra session OF
; congress always ruins the party by which
! 1t is called; but the rule cannot hold true
about the extra session in October next
: tbs called by the Republican party, but ii
= caunot possibly work its ruin. That party
! was finally ruined when it installed Its
: president through fraud.
The Geneseo Ne,US says: The worst
garbled report of the fire that could have
been written 10y the utmost ingenuity o.
- man, was that which appeared in thu
e Daily Union, of Rock Island. 1t 90
q everything wrong, except only the bar,
fact OF the house burning down. The UniO1
IN reporter should go and soak his head.
'S On Monday evening, of last week, the,
n, had burglary 10 Annawan. Some tramps
"a or parties supposed to be tramps, took
chisel from one of the blacksmith shops
ar and by its help pried open the basemen
II door of the Hayes house, occupied b,
s. Settler as saloon, and extracted therefron
$, some wine, skin full of corn juice, abou
We 5000 cigars and a revolver from Mr.. Dun
y, can, the proprietor of the Hayes house.
80 Jacob Schuck,A father of Jacob
ne Schuck of this city, died from stroke Q
n palsy, at his home in Yorktown, on las
Saturday. Mr.. Schuck came to this stat
n forty years ago, and was one of the oldes
ID settlers on Rock river bottom. He wa
le well known and highly respected all owe
he the county. Mr.. Schuck was few day
S, more than sixty five years old at the tim
~ of his death. Genese0 NeaoS. 5th.
I'd The practice of sending flowers to
rs funeral has become suoh nuisance tina
lg people are protesting against it, and i
We funeral notices a request is added not [
We send flowers. Children have often bee
n. heard to say when they smell flowers, {
al it smells like funeral" The practice
rs decorating decaying corpse with fres
r. flowers is in bad taste.
~ Puck remarks that when a man whol
~ Tweed says he had occasion to bribe come
90 before the senate committee. he opens b
mouth, shuts his eyes, rubs his forehea
and says: Tweed? Tweed? Let's Sc
!. Tweed? He used to run with Seward.
ne mo, no that was Weedr' "Ah. We
20 Tweed2 Tweed? Seems to me I've hear
W. the name somewhere, but I've never me
- the man.
IN By change just made by the Amer
ON can Express Company, the patrons
tn that popular line will be served abo,
rk three hours earlier than formerly wit
as their Chicago business. Chicago freigl
,rs now comes via Fulton and the Westel
ms Union Road, and reaches Rock Island
av 5:55 A. NJ, Chicago matter now leav,
H. that city for Rock Island each day at 81
by A. NJ, and and l0:15 o'clock P. NJ.
N, Pears to US that people who NAL
he items for the newspapers by violating Il
law and getting ''sDaked" into court ougl
to learn, after awhile, that the court re
Ter ords will be published in The ARGUS, al
of that it is of no use for any of them to con
around and beg that their names be Ike
ne out of the paper We do not make Il
AN court ecord,-they make it; and if tn,
it don't want any court record they shou
not make any