The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-13
NOTES BERTRAND THERE.


ing.
The Slavery House. Des Moines, is to
be closed tomorrow.
-Muscatine Island has raised $4,000
bushels of sweet potatoes this year, valued
at $25. 700.
The October report of w, LSweeney,
overseer of the poor, shows twenty-one
families, comprising sixty persons, relieved
at the expense of $ll8.20,
The first jury trial of the November
term of the county court is that Of Buford
& Taylor VS. Frederick Haas. as garnishee
for Geo. Downing. set for o'clock to-
morrow morning.
--Itis believed that before the close OF
this week the amount of logs run into Beef
Slough will reach 100000 1t is ex-
pected that at least 100000 feet will be
brought frem the DOM before the close of
navigation.
Grant has been dined and wined by
the King of Portugal, who offered to
knight the ex-President. When Grant
found there was no salary nor perauisitea
attached to the honor he declined it with
thanks.
Work was commenced on the Athletic
Clubs club rooms and bowling alley, this
morning As it was frame building and
within the fire limits, Marshal HAYES or
dered work suspended until permission il
given by the council.
-The:chief Of police of town in Min
nesota has issued an order to the effect that
t'all persons whose COWS are found running
at large in the city limits will be impouDd-
ed" A more effective process, on the
whole, than to impounded the cattle.
George Titus has lived 10 the best
hotels of the largest cities for FIVE years
without paying any board worth mention.
ling, He wears good clothes, talks like 9
man with plenty Of money, and is so dig
nifed in his demeanor that the clerks hes.
itate to demand prompt payment lie ii
rarely turned out sooner than mouth
and often able to stay longer However
he is at last under arrest in Bosten as
swiud!er. Elk.
On DR.. Weeds farm within the limit,
c Of the city of Muscatine, are SO mounds
which the searchers after relics have de
clared to be the handiwork of the Indians
{ The Journal Of that city now attempts tt
T destroy this belief by saying that it ma!
e not be generally known that according t
: the best authorities these mounds wer'
? not constructed by Indians but al entirely
different race which occupied this countr.
before the Indians. The mounds are sup
posed to have been constructed about
i thousand years ago. On one of the mound
!, on DR.. Weeds farm is an oak tree will
= $50 rings, showing that the tree is not les
) than $50 years old.
And noW it appears why Geo. L. Hol
land, the ascending c., B. & Q. railroa,
g agent, could ruin the excellent reputation
= he had in Davenport Everybody won
'' dered how for the paltry SUN Of $1,000,
man who had no bad habits, went
st church regularly and walked circumspectl
before the world could do such thing,
has been discovered that his Christian req
5. utation was patent affair, made to orde
! and used for the purpose of stealing froI
| the railroad company. As a general thin
:, railroad men do not boast of purel
Christian reputation. It is surmised thu
= Holland has gone to Canada, where b
T. used to live, and that he will stay Their
t, The Democrat very sagely remarks that
is discovered that he had bad record, an
that he has in one previous instance prove
.; a defaulter,