The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-04

sure publication the same day.
nsTRegular drill of the Moline Guards
this evening.
s9@The library board will meet next
Saturday evening.
n@Harwood is charging the front exit
| TO his livery stable.
DG=Cars were run in on Deere & Co.'S
side track last night, and Main street was
completely blockaded.
sESome parties have been furnishing
eatables and whisky to prisoners confined
are watching for them.
RgCapt. Bennett says that he does not
wish a reelection to the school board, but
will serve if elected, although he will make
no effort to obtain an election.
D@The Rebeccas held social at Odd
Fellows Hall last evening Speeches
music and an elaborate collation. were the
principal features of the evening.
R@Fisk Bros make the little store re-
duce corsets from $l.25 to 75c. Fisk
Bros never ask an exorbitant price flor
any goods. selling everything at uniform
low profit,
the township election and the prospect Of
the coming city election, the election for
school director next Saturday is likely to
be ignored, as school officers elections
usually are.
sG~Clyde Gould was arrested last eve
r ming by Officer Mapes for jumping on and
3 off moving freight train. He was kept
in the calaboose about an hour and then
allowed to go home. This morning he was
taken before Magistrate Swander and fined
ST and costs.
BaHFisk Bros report trade better than
! ever before at this season Of the year,
The cash system works admirably. Com.
; mon sense teaches people that the little
5 stores who sell on credit and are obliged
to buy of the smaller wholesale houses,
cannot compete with the Cash House.
s~The workingmen held Notification
meeting at Reese's Hall last night
e Rock Island story teller by the name o
- Hodgson entertained them with a skunl
story, the predominating feature of whicl
was obscenity, and the result Of which wa
to convey the impression that the working
mems party was the skunk, and that the,
had polluted the woodchuck's (the repub
licans) hole.
The Assessor of Moline" made
very good address. declaring his intentio
] to fulfill the duties of his Office withou
fear or favor. He remarked that he ha
= Candidate poetical communication
THE ARGUS treasured up among his vail
r ables, for reference in the future to sho
that he had once been assessor of Molin'
n After few remarks from DR.. McKinn
they formed IN line aud marched up Mai
O: street, headed by brass band, cheerin
and groaning at intervals, as 1.-The spir
ns moved them"
ri Council Meeting.
The city council met yesterday, pursual
"a to adjournment, at P. NJ, at the count
as room and proceeded to Sugar Hollow
nd view the proposed route of the mario
,ts gauge railroad, On their return to Il
- council loom, Alderman Hemenway pr
nv scented the following resolution, and move
,ty its adoption, it being seconded by Alderm;
Dg Barnard:
mt Resolved, That the City Attorney
instructed to draw an ordinance grantil
to the Moline 81 Southeastern Mario
Gauge Railway Company the privilege
ers laying track on the north and east side
Oh all that part of Sugar Hollow road lccat
O . within the city limits; the south and We
line of SAID track not to approach nearer
sn' any point than fifty-four (54l feet of t
south and west line of the said Sugar II
low road,
Yeas-ShaIIeue, Jenkins, Hemenws
Barnard and White.
Ill Nays-Ainsworth and Grautz-2.
Alderman GraDtz presented the folio
ill ing resolution. which was adopted by u
animous vote:
H. ReSolUed, That the City Surveyor
hereby instructed to make plat of t
Die county road laying south aud southeast
IN Salter street. and all of the road leading
Dpe the Rock river bridge that is owned by t
elv city:
'H The following resolution was present
on by Alderman Hemenway, and adopted
de- unanimous vote of the Council:
of RESOLVED, That the Bridge Commit
Nr be instructed to confer with the ownC
of the Moline &Southeastern Narrow Qua
Railway Company as to right of way aort
the bridge over Rock river, and over t
ury road therefrom to the Coaltown road, a
ing to have the City Attorney draw an or
nance to cover said right of way. to
presented at an adjourned meeting of t
Council to be held on v ednesday evenir
April 10. at 7:S0 o'clock
MOLINE, ILL.,, April 8, 1878
To the Editor of the Rock Island Argus:
Mr.. EDIToR:-Hoping this will be
ave teresting to some of the numerous read,
lew of your paper in this city, | ask you
to space 10 your paper for the following ira
For lated copy of the resignation of memb
a ship handed in and read at the Swed
Oh Lutheran church in this city, on Sund,
18th March 4th, being one of the many ind
pic tons tending to show that we live IN an 6
est and country where fanaticism and tyra
ern nv are fast approaching an end. and bel
ere substituted by intelligence and liberty.
for Fl. j
go,
Ity, We, the undersigned. will hereby info
lid, the ecclesiastical council concerned of {
va; decision to Withdraw from this congress
lily ton. We take this step after due ref
ain ton and consideration, and we ought
ain point out some of the causes which com
lue US to do SO.
ties Without overlooking the abundance
! crookedness and mismanagement OF |
the synod, OF which the Swedish Luther
ynr church 0f Molinn 10 idaDti6a6 ,nd g.,