The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-30
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
-Supt. Cramer was repairing the city
e engine, "Rescue," to-day,

OupIs StduuGI Was ACpdnluS tuC SLtJ
fire engine, Rescue, to-day.
Five new gas lamps were put up
yesterday, and Is naptha lamps to-day.
The water in the river is now about
2 feet above low water mark-a rise of
half foot since last evening.
-Erastus DIN, sent to Jail, in Aledo. on
Monday of last week, in default of $1,000
bail, on the charge of poisoning Joshua
Goddards horses, was released on Wednes-
day, his wife going on his bond,
John McCabe and Tom. Marshall.
two coal miners from Hampton, were fued
S. each and costs by Justice Hayden to-
day for being drunk and disorderIy. They
had been gathered in by Deputy Black
burn and Policeman German last night.
Bounced.
The cook Of the steamer Red Wing
named Alonzo Gilbert, and colored fire.
man, lad savage fight on that boat on
which the fireman was badly slashed with
a butcher knife, Gilbert also being seri-
ously cut in the hand,
Even at this early stage in the canvass
the Ohio workingmens party pulls after
the manner of captious young steers. The
state ticket now in the field was nomi-
mated by the Cincinnati wOrkingmen. The
Columbus w0rkingmen now propose to
nominate another.
Frank Ankrum. another bleeding
patriot" wants the Republican nomina-
but he would probably be the first per-
1b,n L. e
coroner or an undertaken. Still he would
be more satisfactory than the "Commo-
dore"-if we're to have republican cor
oner,
An old Connecticut statute reads:
"A wife shall be good evidence
against her husband" In what way or
| for what she was good evidence does
not appear; bit an old bachelor Judge
ruled that it meant that a married man
was to be condemned on general princi
pies
A man named Peter Ryan, working
for Reynolds, Saulpaueh 4 Co, on the
new bridge across the Rock liver at Frank
lin Crossing, had MS hand badly smashed
on Wednesday, by having il caught il
| the pulley OF a derrick. Drs. TruesdalC
aud Gregg amputated three fngers-and
| he is now at the Shamrock House, where
he boards.
"A dispatch from New York says il is
now reported that Gesner, charged with
| forgery, who was clerk in the auditors de
partment of the custom house in that city
in December, 1868, was concerned in tht
forgery of the raised check for s., Cox
which was accepted at the sub treasury II
that month. and the authors of which were
never detected.
On Friday last MIR. Thos. Patton uu
dertook 10 drive home some shott-horr
cattle, purchased by James Feather, at tn,
sale of Streetor & Son, at New Windsor
Among the herd was a bull, who go
loose and attacked Patton, tossing bin
over his back and breaking two of hi
ribs, Patton was carried!into house, ant
Feather happening along soon afterwards
undertook TO capture the animal. who at
tackled him furiously. and inflicted some Sc
we're bruises, but no serious damage Boil
are doing as we'll as possible under thu
circumstance
Mrs. Mary Roche, OF Davenport, who W,
started a couple of weeks ago, was takeI
! by her brother to Moline, to see if chang
of scene and surroundings would have ten
dency to relief her mind, was brought be
fore the commissioners ofinsanity in Daven
port, on Wednesday, examined. declared in
sane, aud ordered to be sent to Mt. Pleasant
In place OF getting any better in Mo
line, she got worse, and had to be brough
back Some time ago she lost her hus
band by a railroad accident, and then tw
of his children died within a short time O
each other She is about so years old, an,
and native of Ireland About four week
ago, the disease began to develop, in he
! imagining that her neighbors were plottin
, against her life ana property. She ais
imaRines she sees her deceased HUSBAND
and children and hears strange noises, an,
voices advising her to do strange deed;
She frequently speaks of destroying he
own life. For the past few days she ha
been confined at Mercy Hospital, but he
case was of too aggravated form for treat
ment there. 1t is said her troubles frs
commenced when she lost some money b
the failure of a creditor.
5 LIGHT, WHOLESOME, DELICIOUS, are bis