The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-08
NOrEs HERE AND THERE.
-Rarnbl;oan nr;maries to-nioht.

MOTIFS HERE AND THERE.
Republican primaries tonight.
Bureau county fair, Sept. 18th to 14th.
--MiIt Mills has moved his store one
door east.
-Workingmen's meeting 10 Killers
Hall tonight,
M. T. Wiser is now travelling for the
Naptha Gas Company.
There is one way for woman to keep
secret. That is to keep it going.
A Pennsylvania tramp in moment
of weakness accepted a job at splitting wood.
During fair week in Henry county Is
marriage licenses were issued by the
county clerk.
The G. ]. Caffrey, Weyerhauser &
Denkman's raft boot, will leave for above
on Monday after another raft.
Six pickpockets were arrested in
Davenport yeAterday-but they all man.
aged to escape from the calaboose.
| All who went over to Barnum's circus
last night were highly pleased, and all
pronounced it the best aud greatest show
in the world"
-Chas. Alden, in Jail on suspicion of
horse stealing, WAS released from jail to-
day, the grand jury failing to find an in
dictment against him.
-Jellypots, plain and fancy flower pots,
hanging baskets, ETC.. at wholesale and re
tail, at the Rock Island Pottery, Milan
road. Sd3t
1t is reported that the c., B. & @.
managers have discharged about $50 of
their employees at Galesburg who were
prominently identified with the strike.
The man with white vest often looks
disconsolately at the varying lines across
the front of that garment, and wonders why
all bars are not built the same height.
The residence of Rev. DIR. Mott, in
Davenport, had narrow escape from de-
structlon by fire last night. A coal oil
lamp exploded, and several articles of
clothing were destroyed.
Why, Sammy said father to his
little son, last night, II didn' tknow your
teacher whipped you Thursday II
guess" replied Sammy, IF you been in my
trousers you'd know'd it,
1t would be a commendable act in the
county judge if he would suspend the
balance of the sentence against Michael
Davis, the bulldozing Reynolds saloon
keeper, who has been 10 Jail since last
spring
The Harper House is full of guests,
which is an indication that business is
picking up. The travelling public APP
preciate our hotels, and reach this point
for Sunday in larger numbers than ever
before
John Collins dumped" his wife,
Jane, again last highland Justice Hay
? den fiued him $40 and costs-about $24 in
$ ALL He gave security for the amount.
O One appeared to be about as much to
blame as the other as usual.
You are a clever fellow" said coun-
sci to an adverse witness. II would gladly
t return the compliment if I were not upon
It oath" was the reply, with which the wit
a ness brought the cross-examinatiou to q
: speedy close.
The Tiskilwa Register after a DrieI
and precarious existence of one short
e year, pulled down its curtains and CLOSED
D its blinds last Friday. Peace to its ashes
r 1t died from an overdose of size and ar
: under allowance Of ratious.
"A woman in Baltimore wears purple
clothing, her under garments even being
that color.-HOtel Reporter You ough
to be ashamed of yourself! If you knew
Q her clothing was purple, green, blue, red O
4 any other color you should have kept still
o. about 1t.
|, An old darkey fishing on wharf a
-, Galveston was heard liking to the fi>l
- lie saw swimming around his line iu thi
le fashion: Give NE bite, honey, de child
N rem am crying down to my huuse, and tel
le you it's fish or nothing 10 dat establish
il. ment.
- Twenty. nine barrels of whisky wer
found in one drug store at Des MONIES b
& the police and captured Some lntimat
to that twenty-nine barrels is a pretty larg
le stock for medicinal purposes, but the
RI must bear 10 mind that Des Moines is a
"a awful sickly place.
: Rev, J, S. Jencks, rector of Grac
- Cathedral, Davenport, was arrested owe
TX there yesterday on a charge of horse stea
D. ing. The matter turned out to be mis-
IN take,-he mistook a horse and buggy bt
- longing to Alderman Els. of@Moline, fo
. one belonging to an acquaintance, an
IT. drove off. It's good joke On the Rev
ut gentleman. anyhow.
an Last evening. on the ferry boat, "
,r- had the pleasure of witnessing the cheerfI
spectacle of seven church members takin
"o one 2-year old child ito see the animals,
ht at Barnum's show. Il didn't go into I'll
nd circus department" said good deaco
ms after the circus, "but dropped in to loo
- around the menagerie few moments wit
* my little grandson, ard | 60 think IL
Die man that ted his legs in bow ku'
an, around his neck and then crawled throug
the hoop was alone worth the price
admission.
A lapse of memory or an ignorance
zoo the laws and customs of the county hi
al gotten MIR. John Watson and Mary OR
nal ley, of Bureau county, into deal of trol
he bic. They loved, perhaps both wisely al
\" well, but through innocence or forgetfu
ness neglected to inform either ministe
- priest or j. P. of the fact, and now Jof
10 pines behind the grated bars of the coun
= Jail and the O'RiIeys would also be the
II; had she not just become mother. natu
of seemingly having been as ignorant as the
no. They lived in the timber several miles ca
lis of Dover, and will now have to stand
trial for adultery.
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by Marrow Escape from Death.
at A few days ago John Shunniek al
n