The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-10

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= The river is falling slowly.

The river is falling slowly.
The condition of the country roads is |
james K. Bliss has been elected
treasurer, and G. X. Ladd attorney, of the
village of Kewanee.
If B. D. Buford & Co, had inserted
it in the other papers they would have
received more than eighty letters.
The G. B. & @. r. r. pay-car having
been over the line of the Rock Island Il
st. Louis road, returned to Chicago this
forenoon.
This morning, 81 cars of live stock
went east oyer the q. r. |. & z. road,
bound for the stock yards in Geneseo, and
thence to market
During the coming two weeks the
farmers in this county will be very busy
planting eorn-and an unusual large
amount will be planted.
1t looks a good deal as though Mr..
Jacob Riley was about to put down a first
class sidewalk from The ARGUS Office to
the river. Glad to see it.
The accounts from the interior of this
state indicate that the frosts of last week
were not as destructive to fruit as was at
first thought.-,S. Louis Republican,
-Keator & Co., have about logs enough
on hand to run their mill this week, but
they expect another raft Sunday, The
mills are having considerable trouble to
procure enough logs, this season.
One of the new dining room cars on
the G. R. [. & p road is expected to
arrive in this city on the evening train
from Chicago, for the first time, this
evening or tomorrow,
The Gazette alludes to Mayor Butler
as president OF the water board. That
useless and superfuous board was kicked
out of existence long ago. and the business
is now managed by committee Of the
city council, as it should have been from
the beginning.
The sidewalk case in our county court,
to- day, was continued, on motion of City
Attorney Gest, until the 22d inst, to give
people one more chance to build their
walks without paying a large bill of costs
which they will have to pay if they are
not built by that day.
The mate to the handsome new pas
Scnger train on the St. LOUIS road has
|
The new sleeping car arrived and was
| attached to the St. Louis train from this
city last evening, for the first time, under
| the new management.
| MIR. Warner concluded to raise the
track of the street railroad higher than
first contemplated Everybody ought to
be glad OF this From 18th to 10th streets
| the centre of the street should be raised,
rounded up higher, and the cutters be
depressed 50 as to drain the water quickly
away. The pine ties now exposed, though
it is name gears since they were laid down,
are still sound and good.
w ednesday evening, six large red
granite columns-2l feet long and -
inches in diameter, arrived in this city
loyer the Rock Island & st. Louis road from
the Iron Mountains, in Missouri, bound
for Desmolns, Iowa, where they will be
used at the main entrance to the new state
house there. They we're loaded on three
fat cars, and were taken west this fore
noon to their destination, on the Z. Il. l.
& 2, road.
--Carl Kuhl, n young man we'll known
In this city aud Davenport, and formerly
j, connected with Der DeDlOkrat, % Daven
| port, aUu tut AN6u6 ' Guns [CcuhS, Va tnis
city, has opened law office in this city
10 the Office occupied by Justice Chopper
and he will, no doubt, receive large
share Of the business of our German
American citizens, as well as ether prac
tice. THE ARGUS wishes him prosperity
See card in this paper
According to the motion of Sup
9 Bell, of Port Byron, adopted by the board
, of supervisors. any person can keep a
many dogs as thev please for tax of 81
on the lot, or as many shuts as the,
please fer tax of 81, 90 the loft tn
} assessor makes return that anybcdI
owns ANY dog or dogs" or ANY slut o
sIuts." By the way-"btch' would hav
/ been the preferable word, but Slut
will apswer-it is great improvement Oh
the board of supervisors that assessed
( tax on female dogs' That was piec
of mock modesty which would make
S horse laugh. How would it sound to sa
4 female horse" or female hog" o
female deer?" Supervisors are geDel
e ally so modest But Sup'r Bell has mad
e great imT rGvement in respect to tn
II right word, though we think tax of
each for dogs, and 81 each for bitche
t would have been better.