The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-29
MOVES urRE ArD THERE.
Twelve car loads of tea went east over
the Rock Island railroad on Tuesday.


the Rock Island railroad on Tuesday.
The river is rising rapidly and is now
nearly four feet above low water mark.
--Sociable at the Christian chapel to-
morrow evening for the benefit of the Sun
day school.
Henry kuehler. Davenport chi ok
en- thief, was fined $75 and sent to iail 10
that city yesterday for plying his vocation
over there.
Alexander Valentine has been taken
to joliet to serve his % years for the muir
Ger of Nelson Stark, the Swede shoemaker,
near Orion.
We have been requested TO say that
overseers of Highways will be elected at
the 2 o'clock meeting, in the Sixth district.
and not on the general ticket. This is
right.
The general exchange of whisky gau-
gers in this (the Fourth) district will be
made on April lst Elijah Carter will
probably be stationed here, and j. M.
Beardsley, 2nd will probably 60 to Canton.
| A letter addressed to John c. Hart
man. ConnersvilIe, lnd.," was found in
The ARGUS box this morning. 1t is now
in the postofhce-where it should have
been dropped by the writer.
Street Commissioner Maucker is al
ways looking after the convenience of the
public. In the evening, after the principal
travel of the day, by teams, is over, he has
all the street crossings on the principal
streets cleaned.
| Some local matter will be found in
side this paper. The article in relation
to MIR. Samuel A. Taylor will be read
with interest. He is. undoubtedly, good
man for the position, for which he is
named.
On Wednesday afternoon VIM. Hogg,
foreman in an elevator in Monticello, Iowa,
went into bin of oats to push the oats
from the spout, and the oats came down on
him so rapidly as to smother him before
assistance could be rendered.
Rock Island never had a better super
!, visor than John Aster, Honest, careful,
prudent in everything All his transac
tons are on open books to the people whose
! servant he is He invites all citizens tC
call at his place of business and see his
, system Of keeping the public books.
! "A man named P. Fl. Carter, who has
: travelled for several eastern hardware
! "duuloCboIlCos SuulubIbhCu dG GLS
y Revere House, in Clinton, last Monday, BY
: taking laudanum, The cause was proba
! bly,, 'out of employment and money" FL.
lived in st. Louis, but was known to hard
= ware dealers in this city.
G The Union.and the Gazette of thi
= morning each have column articles pre-
:: tending to ''show up" the bigamous AM
10 swiDdling transactions of sewing machin
. agent named Hough, formerly of this cit,
y but late of Davenport. THE ARGUS pub
70 lishel him as a dead beat and swindle
~ and gave the names Of the persons he ha,
. swindled, three or four months ago.
- A car load of mirrors en- route frou
New Y ork to San Francisco, for new hote
80 building there, arrived over the Roc
10 Island road on Monday. They were s
% large that they could not be loaded IN
10 box car, and were being transported acros
10 the continent on a fiat. The freight, b
80 the time they reach their destination, wi
81 be $4,000.
sol MIR. Joseph H Kerr, the Democrat
~ candidate for town clerk it seems, has no op
= ponent, according to the tickets publishe
III in the two Republican organs. The absenc
g. of any candidate in the ticket in yesterday
le paper we attributed to carelessness in tn
as persons who prepared the copy. But {
no candidate appears to-day we conclud
that the Republicans are so we'll suite
with Mr.. j. H. Kerr that they have col
ne cluded to drop their candidate
6. District Attorney Fairman, of Brool
cd vile, Pa, who is here after George Palme
with requisitiOn to take him back to TIL
city to answer a charge of highway 70
20 berry, and another for perjury, appears
30 be ''bulldozer: of the frst-class Fl
~ papers are all right, but the sheriff refus
90 to deliver up the prisoner until Mr.. Fai
90 man comes down" with the stamps al
'S00V pays the costs, which amount to about S 10
80 Falrman, who appears TO be suffering wi
20 the idea that "W estern people don't knC
.0o much" has been "buldozing" the sher
80 all day-but he hasn't got his prisoner.
100 The Iri- City Times contains six
65 seven columns of exposure of the It'll
20 fraud, Edith ORG orman, comprising pei
so tent letters from her as printed in the NJ
10 Y ork San, begging to be taken back to t
100 convent school, and other matter /
30 creditable TO the creature,-also extraC
20 S0 from the ST. Paul papers showing that s
100 was drunk there and missed one of /
100 appointments because she was drunk: a
10 also that she and her man were turned c
- Of the hotel because OF her drunkenn'
''VO and the quarrels they had in their roo
1t is a rich number. We presume {
10 Times has extra copies for sale at it's off
II in Davenport.