The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-08
DaEswedish quartet at the Congrega

ass-Swedish quartet at the Congrega-
tional church tomorrow evening.
sgDaniel Wheelock has sold his
bakery to his brother, S. W. Nheelock.
RsynA light was broken out of the post
Office front door yesterday by gust of
wind.
n%The Moline Guards have now nearly
money enough to purchase uniforms and,
next Thursday evening, they will meet and
decide upon pattern.
nA~A little son of Nels Olson came very
near being run over and severely injured
by team Yesterday on the corner OF Rod
man avenue and Main street.
s@The dirt scraped from Main street
is being put to good use in filling up the
low places on Illinois street that have so
long been disgrace to the city.
Dg-Geo. w, Draper and Miss Will
hemeGa D. Jasper were made man and
wife at the residence of Squire Mapes by
the venerable Justice last evening.
R9Ben. Keator bought E. NJ, Stewards
lumber yard at Geneseo yesterday. MIR,
Stewart is one of the best established and
oldest lumber dealers in Geneseo.
BTDeere & Go. and the Corn Planter
Works have telephone communication
between their Offices now, A flying ma
chine should be the next invention.
B9~A house of three rooms. one block
west of the First Ward school house for
rent at 81 so per month. Inquire of Theo.
Stenger, Moulder's Home, Wells street.
4d6t.
E@Billy Turner's "Nye horse" was re-
turned to him yesterday. Turner took
the horse from Mrs. Nye about three
months ago under an execution and it was
replevined by man by the name of Craw-
ford, one of Mrs. Nye's admirers. The
repIevin came off few days since. and
Crawford failing to establish his ownership
Turner again gets possession,
BG~The councils street committee, in
accordance with instructions, have conferred
with station agents Hyde and Hines il
relation to placing fagmen at Lynde anC
Rodman avenue crossings. They have also
notified the division superintendent Of
the action of the council and we may hope
ere long to have those crossings guarded
and made comparatively safe by fagmen
a@@Rev. Clapp and Stafford will close
their meetings at the Congregations
church this evening, and the pastors anC
working Christians will take the rest the,
so much need aud deserve after nearl!
two months incessant labor. The meeting
have been productive of vast amount O
good, though not as much as was hopet
from the favorable indications of publ
sentiment.
BSgnA rich joke is told on a couple o
bruisers in the west end of town. how the
started for home after having an alterca
ton in a saloon with another bruiser, AM
seeing two or three persons 10 front o
them, turned and fed scared out Of thei
wits, thinking the other fellow had got re
Inducements and was going to wayla
, them. Returning to the saloon they re
lated their adventure to a policeman an
under his guidance and protection, starte
again to ''tace the lion in his den" Whe
they returned the fellows were still there
but instead Of highwaymen with blood
there eyes, it was three boys Is or Il year
of age comparing notes about their Low
: affairs. No blood was shed.
23H This is a rough country. At an
rate one young man 10 Moline deprecate
! the existence of so many Hills. Hills al
, | eppu tuluS III tIl6II way, but uOlG tiidu
sufhciency OF any thing, belt never so gooc
is too much, and Jud can see no earthI
use for more than one Hill 10 Moline; f
in that one, although it is not of giganti
dimentions, he sees all that his tonde.
dreams or widest inauguration ever pi
: tured to him, and when he takes occasio
to confde to her, through the agency of ii
post office, a few Of these truths as the
burst upon his vision with such consumiu
, force as to make the postponement for
personal interview an utter impossibilitj
then to have the heartless clerk place tn
tender missive in the wrong Hills box,
is more than poor, weak human natul
ought to be expected to bear, and Jud say
he won't bear it.