The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-29
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

---Teachrs' Institute opens at Geneseo, Ii
Jnly 9th.
-Geneseo will celebrate the fourth BY
picnic in the park.
John Graham, the Coaltown rough, will
be released from Jail to- morrow.
-Geneseo has IL churches, and only 8
saloons. Rock Island has Is churches and
rs saloons.
The Central Illinois Fair will be held |
at Peoria, from the 18th to the 14th of |
Mrs. Alice Carr was released from
Jail to-day, her term ofimprisonment, as
changed by the court, having expired.
John A. King, of the Western Brew
cry has sold half his interest 10 that in |
stitution-to a 10 pound boy, who arrived |
this morning.
An interesting incident at the recep- |
ton given to Packard at DesMolnes was
the call for Eliza Pinkston, the mother OF |
the Republican party.
Notices are being served upon all
water takers to drop into the city clerk
Office by July lst, and pay up their water
rent six months IN advance.
The lawyers of this new judicial dis
trict should hold convention and nomi-
nate judge Tie people would endorse
the lawyers nomination, at the election
Dia TEL
The Island City boys 'scooped" the
High school boys, Of Davenport. in a
matched game of ball in Dayenport's pas
ture, this city, Thursday afternoon-the
score standing II to %.
OF all the bores who have thrust their
oratorial requirements upon the republi-
cans of this state Stephen B. Packard, of
Louisiana, is entitled to the first premium.
-Des Moines State Leader.
The Aledo Banner publishes, this
week. list of the premiums for the oath
annual fair of the Mercer County Agri-
cultural Society, which will be held in
Aledo on Sept. 25th, Goth, 9th and 2sth
Packard has been in Des Moines, and the
Leader says: ANY man who could shoot at
Packard and hit him iu the knee would, if
he was aiming at barn hit cow in a
hundred acre pasture on his neighbor' s
farm"
Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume of the week, y
says writer. 1t is also a good time to
pull off your boots and try what bunion
remedies you have accumulated during
the proceeding six days.
AT one of the recent races at Grand
Rapids, Mich, 10 horses started, and
among them was Little Wonder, driven by
Parker Wineman, of this city. During the
race Mr.. Wineman was ''cut down his
sulky being smashed to kindling wood and
his mare somewhat injured, though he
escaped without injury.
The Republican papers in this vicinity
are busy putting" Packard's speech in
DesMoines-but the Leader says OF it:
The anti Policy men, who, it is reported
paid Packard $500 to come out here were
Disguised with his straddling speech last
night. All agree that it was fiat.
%. E. Yocum's store on Front street,
Galva was entered by burglars last Sunday
/, night. They gained admittance by break
ing out O. pane Of glass in one of the back
windows. 1t is supposed that some ready
made clothing was taken; nothing else was
missed.
If the new civil service rules concern.
ing Federal officers taking part in eau
cuses and manipulating conventions are
enforced it is feared that Iowa will be en-
tiaely bereft OF officials since the close Of
the state convention. Nine-tenths of the
delegates and the spectators were office
holders.
] In speaking of the Iowa state Repub
lican convention the Des Moines Ledde
, says; "A large proportion Of the mem
bers of the convention to-day have attend
ed every convention in the State since thu
organization of the party over score o
E years ago. Being Office holders, few di
and none resign"
Il John Raymond, Sweed lately from
Rockford, while grinding plows in tn
> Grand Detour works, Grand Detour, wa
a caught by and carried around shaft sew
+ eral times so rapidly that every stitch O
his clothing. except bis boots, was torn of
and then he dropped to the floor not seriou
ly injured.
u The Married Woman's association
= proposes to erect a statue in honor of tn
o husband who empties the water out of tn
basin after he washes bis hands. But tn
association has not found him yet --Ea
e And now, how would it do to erect a stat u
; in honor OF the gentlemen who SO ably ad
q yocated the selection of women Oh th
8 board of education at the citizens meetin
20 at the court house, last Monday evening
shall woman be denied the right t
vote because she can't fight, when dar
y key, who cuts off his right little toe with
e Ratchet to keep him from being drafted
lenjoys the iuestimable privilege of the ba
lot?" asks Mrs Gage. Aud she nigh
have added, And are they to be deDie
! the right to hold positions on the board c
e education, when men have been elected |
o those positions who did not have commo
school education pete.
The last number of the Kewane
Independent completes the seventh yea
>, of its existence. The Independent is on
d of the best papers on our exchange list;
r devoted to the interests of the people c
.. Henry county, aud should be heartily sur
II ported by them; is always opposed t
e fanaticism wherever found; is indeDenden
K in every sense of the word,-and tn
% ARGUS wishes Bro. Bassett success in til
future.
"A verdict was rendered Wednesda
e at Cam bridge on a case which has bee
o some time in court The widow of GeC
q Ii. Gleason, an engineer who was kille
!, by the explosion of boiler at j. A. Nile
& Co.'S -four mill and distillery, at Ke
e vance, in 1873, recovered $4,000 from til
j. company. j. A. Mckenzie made tw
and half hours speech for the plrintif
q. *, Ladd managed the case tor the de
: tendents.
In Mendoza there is question of il
risdiction between Alderman Coleman an
> Policeman Okane. The former foun
gerants, and disarmed the policeman, claim
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