The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-08
NorEs HERR ARD THERE.

Very pleasant day.
Seventeen prisoners in the county Jail
at present.
a-Miss Minnie Briggs, recently appointed
teacher in our public schools, has re-
signed her position.
Fifth street, in front of the residence
of Aid Davis, is being graded and placed
in frstclass condition.
-Supt. DAYS. says that he is now pre-
pairing to start up both furnaces at the
glass works about September LIST.
-Four wagon loads of bright, n ew straw
came oyer on the ferry yesterday afternoon,
bound for the paper mill at South Rock
Island.
Herman Nausbaum, a former saloon
keeper in the lower part of the city, it is
said, has skipped out" leaving numerous
creditors to mourn his departure.
The game of ball between the Golfers,
of Rapids City. and the Reminetons, over
the river, yesterday afternoon, resulted in
tie-l3 to Is. They played another
game this afternoon.
Sam. Crompton, of Hampton, wants
to be the Republican candidate for county
treasurer. About the only thing that
can be said of Sam is, he's got curly hair,
aud wouldn't vote for Democrat.
In accordance with the civil service
order of Hayes, Stanley Matthews, who
assumed to run the Republican convention
at Cleveland, should be deprived of his
position as Assistant Acting President.
1t was thought this forenoon, that
two coils of rope and three cases of plug
tobacco had been stolen from car in the
yard of the P. & r, I. road, in this city
last night-but they were afterward found
in another car.
The workmen at B. D. Buford & Co.'S
pillow shop complain that the stencil from
Gilmore's slaughter house is so great that
they are obliged to quit work, whenever
the wind blows from the north. Where
are our health commissioners?
The Republican papers have put il
the last week explaining who Judge West
their candidate for governor of Ohio really
is. The only conclusion upon which theI
agree is that he is blind in one eye anC
can't see out of the other.
1t takes, according to q scientific jour
nal, 1000 bumble-bees to weigh pound
-Ep, But many school boy would b,
willing to swear that oRe humble be,
) weighed 1000 pounds when it struck hin
on some tender spot of his body exposed b.
q rent 10 his pantaloons.
"A passenger on the west bound trail
this morning, upon his arrival here fouut
/ that he had been robbed of $3.50. He say
that he put his pocket book containing tn
money under his pillow iu the sleeper, an
on getting up this morning. found tn
money gone, but the thief very consid
Z erately left the pocket book.
-@An application for writ OF habe0
corpus was being argued before Judg
Peasants to-6ay-M. NJ. Corbett. attorne
! forLalayette Robinson, who is accused {
shooting at Capt. Blackburn down til
river, speaking in favor of the writ bein
lissued-while States Attorney Parmente
9 objected, on the ground that Robinson ha
already had a fair examination before
justice.
: On Sunday, the 5th inst, Henri
= Johansen,a German laborer about 25 year
b old, in the employ of MIR. Daniel Anderson
f a well known farmer Of Welton township
Clinton county, Iowa. committed suiciC
!, by shooting himself through the head wit
II a shot gun. He had nos relatives in ths
o state. ae wanted to marry his employer
r. daughter and she said nay-heDce b
). action. An inquest was held and Verde
returned in accordance with the abov
'e facts.