The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-15
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

The Original Georglas" at Darts
Hall tomorrow evening.
Freight business is very heavy on the
Peoria road at present,
Twenty cars of tea east this morning
over the G. r. |. & P, road.
Only Cd nine COWS in the pound last
night and now, So in the city treasury. |
Mercy county cast SGT votes for cir
cult judge at the late election-520 OF
which were for Glenn.
The melancholy days have come,-.
The saddeet Of the year;
When candidates are 'reund,
setting up the beer
The standing shirt collar is gradually de-
creasing In height. A young man can now
pass under telegraph wire without duck
ing his head.
In the coming elections Marshal Mac
Mahon is bound to win. He has his Zach
Chandler, who has his returning boards
and bayonets.
Save the pieces. The Pennsylvania
Central Railroad company has for sale eight
thousand tons of scrap iron, prepared for
it by the Pittsburg mob.
The idea of teaching every girl to
thump piano and every boy to be book
keeper will make potatoes worth 81 per
bushel in twenty years from now.
| There is more excitement in Europe
over the discovery of one Colorado beetle
than over the arrival of ninety-nine late
American presidents or candidates for the
presidency,
| Sweet potatoes contain about los per
cent. of gum, which will be joyful intelli-
gence to school girls who have been forced
to rely upon the spruce foundries of Mich
igan for their supplies.
An Irish pilot being asked if he knew
the rocks in the harbor replied with conf
dence, L do your honor, livery wan of thin.
That's one, he added calmly, as the slip
struck it, filled and sank to the bottom.
The Georgia constitutional convention
have adopted an article permitting divorce
Cor other causes than adultery, but making
a decree depend on the concurrent verdicts
OF two juries at different terms of the court.
1t will be tough on the Turks, and
rough on the Russians, if the campaign has
to continue another year, but there won't
be any grumbling by the American farmer.
His hogs and hominy will be in good de-
mand.
| Richmond Enquirer: Conkling is in
Edingburgh. Every day be climbs into
the cupola of Sir Walter Scott monument,
and leaning away out over the cliff, shakes
his fist in the direction of the White
House.
~ apologize for saying you could not
J open your mouth without putting your foot
in it, said the editor sternly regarding
4 the horsewhip she held over his head. Il
solmnlV assure you that when said it l
had no idea of the size of your foot. D."
Mary S. jackson, living on the corner
. Of Fourth avenue and l4th street. has lost
an open-taced silver watch, which she
would like the finder to return to her. At
the stem is piece of earring to fasten the
chain to the watch, and there was a short
chain attached to the stem.
The body of an unknown woman was
found floating in the river some distance
below Keokuk on Friday last. Two
women are missing from that city, and both
seem to be claimants to the honor Of hav.
!, ing suicided by throwing themselves from
the Keokuk bridge.
-Chas VAIN, right fielder of the|Valley
City Base Ball Club, of Cedar Rapids, at
tempted to board freight train in that
I city Saturday night last. but was knocked
off by a switch, receiving injuries from
which he died Monday morning. His
home was in Mt. Vernon.
i Burlington Hdaokeye: Many a sweet
girl, with tender loving eyes, has wept
: away the moments of loves young dream
while the young man who was to tell her
about it is pleading with the livery-stable
D man, trying to hire four dollars worth OF
i horse and buggy for dollar aud half.
D Gentleman of the negro persuasion,
s who have been contemplating emigration tC
= Liberia, had better pause long enough tc
ponder on.the fact that Bishop Haven, who
i recently returned from that Eden of the
: the colored blest, brings in his system the
8 seeds of malarial fever contracted there
y and now fatally ripeni3g.
! While miser was on his death bed a
tallow candle was burning on the stand
y and Pickering fame in the Fireplace,
< He watched the candle and then the fire.
I Suddenly he called his son: Come here.
= The son approached his bedside, when the
: old man whispered: BLOW out that can
$ die; tallow's most as dear as butter
s Quite painful accident happened t
s a I3-year old son of VIM. Holsworth, Of
Q LIE Claire, over the river, few days ago
J. He was helping his father to quarry rock
d when he slipped and the pick with which
/ his father was digging fell upon his foot
o passing entirely through, producing a very
q painful wound. No bones were broken
If however, and the boy is doing finely, ant
'e will recover the free use of his foot.
d Matthew Hender, tiDsmith, who ha
o resided in Davenport for the past sixteen
)f years, and is we'll known, was declared in
'e sane by the commissioners Monday after
n noon, and ordered to be sent to Mt, Pleas
ant, to which place he will be taken to
morrow morning. The cause of insanity il
of long standing-he having had attacks
" as far back as 1861 and 1852, which wer'
r of short duration. The immediate cause
- at present time is said to be sunstroke
" which occurred on the 9th of July last.
a "A Society for the Mental Improve
d ment of Cats" has been formed III Belgium
G. This is good move Teach cat that l
le is an exhibition of bad manners ard i'll
= breading to sit on back fence and sing tn
. Star Spangled Banner" until an hou
Is after midnight, or discuss the President
y southern policy with several of its friends
2, until the same hour, and the rain of boot
"a jacks, shaving-cups, profanity, empty bot
ties, and such like things, from the secont
IL and third story windows, will then imme
y diately cease.
% The decline and fall of ORGANISING il
Ie Washington is very sad. A year ago Muir
= tagh, of The Republican,. had the fat pick
ings of the departments in the way of ad
u vertising, the official control of the polio
r department., and the run of the white house