The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-16

-Forey Folsom is going to open -four
and feed store.
@-Everything as quiet as a graveyard
vault at the circuit clerks of6cs to-day.
AT Peoria, Ottawa and LaSalle the
snow has fallen to the depth of one foot.
Delaware and Virginia are the only
two states that have officially adopted the
whipping post.
Plenty Of hay and coal on the market, |
but few if any loads of corn or oats to-day. |
Prices remain unchanged.
james Bowlan, ex collector of Will
county, on trial at Morris for Withholding
public funds, has been acquitted.
The president of the reform club, Mr..
Chas. w. Skinner, announces that thew
will continue their temperance work this
week.
| General Singleton has contributed the
Singleton cup, valued at $1,000, to the
prize list of the Quincy (Illinois) sporting
meeting next June.
Chicago packers have slaughtered l.
1859 hogs since November 1st to date,
against 833,87l for the corresponding pc,
Rod in 1877, and $40, 1856 in 1875.
Judge Lynde fell on Saturday eve
ming and severely hurt his shoulder blade.
DR.. Truesdale rendered the necessary
medical aid The sprain is painful one,
The Chicago Inter Ocean says the
! sleighing is good, boys. and although it
may be expensive, "she will go with some
other fellow if you don't take her OUT
r -Hanlan, the sculler, Disguised with
the duplicity of his friends CD of the Han
Ian club, has cut loose from them, and
f, hereafter he will paddle his owa canoe.
"A special dispatch from Peoria says
e that navigation has virtually closed on the
2 Illinois river, The heavy fall of snow
spanned the river with thin coat of ice
Here is chance for Moline, Rock ISL
and and Davenport boys to test their
muscle and skill-Courtney, the sculler,
+ will challenge any man in the world in the
= spring.
n A mandatory of paper bricks has
e been opened somewhere in Wisconsin. The
IT bricks are said to be exceedingly durable
a and moisture proof. They are also larger
). than the clay article.
-Des Moines, Iowa. has brass banl
NJ composed of printers. They set up typ'
ct all day. set up the neighborhood durini
the evening, and then get set up them
selves about midnight.
20 The next races of the Louisville
n Jockey Club begin on the 29th of May ant
last six days. The Great American Stall
re lion Stakes will hereafter close on the frs
Of January each year.
a @-Mrs. McCarty, who was SO severel
in injured by being struck by locomotive
ct few weeks ago, is recovering Her ipjurie
" were considered as dangerous, if not fata
en- at the time of the accident. Her physical
tn says that she will recover.
he -Blaine's great speech is sore disaI
he pointment to republicans everywhere.
he was a poor bid for the presidency. Fl
vii! have to get up something new, COZ
tinuing the war in Dixie as an electio
scheme is played out
~, Isn't it pretty near time for the Unio
to compliment the states attorney G
Nv having another case or to pitch into t.
"' city attorney on some pretext. Sever
as days have elapsed since those customar
'eI items appeared in the Union
IUu n. I'll
49, in a gallon of water at the church fair
'A' and Rebecca at the Well charges ten cen
glass for iced water through which
lemon has passed. None but the bra
Us: deserve the fair-and they must be pref
ay' brave, too.
NJ 1t has been long time since ~. G
ust appeared 10 print, and many of our citize
inc are wondering why his ready pen has n
.pi' solved the problem that is troubling the S
t orS clal moralists in whose veins no long
her flows the youthful vigor. u. g." new
lies wrestles with any subject with which he
not practically conversant
INV The Union says that 'Supervis
ar Zimmerman got $25 out of the board
ats fix up place at Cordova to pat tramps
ogs and took the money home with him." Do
ner !, IT. :.
ely 'ne O".0" ln1eno auy lnsihuaIion3 Is
,et. aware that Supervisor Zimmerman is
member of the great national party2
ur- st. Louis is again torn up about
Who proposition to pass social evil law. T
ub- ministers are preaching about it, the new
ese papers are writing about it and everybo
is for reform. The agitation Of this subje
in this city has not yet taken definite for
cot The committee appointed at the pub
leir meeting have not yet reported.
lay What do our farmer friends, I
lty' grangers, who were seduced into the Z
=" tional party with the assertion that Meth
of the old parties could be trusted, think
I0e' the passage, by the democratic house
n.y. representatives. of that great reform /
lne regulating interstate commerce. Th
at taken with the reduction of expenditures
tue all of the appropriation bills, seems to j
10 dictate that the democratic party can
DC trusted.
ana George Lamont was down on the bal
OF of the river yesterday and made a ma
ven on the "door-nick that the elephar
OF stood on when they were bathing in I
on. river last summer. he says that t
lne river is six inches below the low wat
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