The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-07

NOTES HERE AND THERE.


Rapids City schools number 1870 pupils.
Good skating on the slough, boys.
Tickets for the Burns Festival are
|$L5O.
The Phoenix Hose Co, have a masked
ball on the 25th.
-Chas Emeigh no longer runs the Rock
Island House Barber shop.
There are over 600 applicants for the
Office of Commissioners to the Paris Ex-
position.
MIR. E. Carter is now guager relieving
Col. Burgh in accordance with the 60 days
regulation.
-Fcund-a ombination l. o. o. T.
and Masonic pin. Call at No. 5, Sixteenth
street. WOODEN mill building.
Commodore Vanderbilt said: "Wo-
men are not fit to have money, anyhow"
Crazy? Of course he was crazy.
The Rock Island Wooden Mills were
sold, at Master in Chancery's sale, on Satur-
day, to p l.. Mitchell, for S., 3S2,62.
| The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company have given their c0nduc-
tors discretion to carry free, people who are
objects Of charity.
-Madame Grecning packed her traps
and lett for Rock Island last Saturday, and
all is now serene in that part Of town.
B,~eam Co. Tribune.
"A German paper says: American
school teachers are permitted to shoot
unruly pupils through the shoulders or
i stab them in the legs"
Another fashionable wedding on the
i Al 49, ,,-,li
then take away the accomplished daughter
of enc of our popular brewers.
The funeral Of Patrick Grady who died
on Saturday evening, took place this fore
noon. He was a member OF the St
Patrick Benevolent Society.
C. C.Warren has been appointed Mas
ter in Chancery of Bureau county, to til
. the vacancy created by the election o
O Harvey Trimble as county judge.
b The Pilot, a paper published a
: LeClaire Iowa, revives the ancient dream
J, of the inhabitants Of that little republic OF
:, railroad from that place to Davenport,
= The Boston transcript boldly assert
that all the Eastern spress, since Canon
Farrar's and Mr. Beecher's sermons OF
;, the subject have taken their stand on he'll
as it were.
t There were eigLty-nine failures in tb
}. city of New York during the month @
December, the aggregate liabiitie
y amounting to $7,704. Sol. But they sti
% want to get down to hard pan.
If The two reformed drunkards who hav
" been aboring in the temperance cause i
: Davenport during the two weeks past, hav
g succeeded 10 getting 1900 signers OF tn
II pledge. They will remain two weeks longer
a The New York Sun publishes
record Of defalcations, embeZzlements
breaches of trust, etc, in the Unite
States for the four years beginning wit
the panic of 1873 The money stole
since July, 1873, by city and county off
u Gals, bank officers, executors Of estate, etc.
: amounts 20 over $30,000,000.
It A married, middle aged lady, haviDI
9 two children, was adjudged insane, IN thu
county court yesterday. Her name l
i Sally A, Passmore and her family resideC
u somewhere near Yorktown. -Bare0W 20
TribRpe.-Cause enough. Any one hav
:, ing even one child these hard times lay
u herself liable to a suspicion of insanity.
!, The funeral of Fred Parker, the wei
known express man. of Davenport, ant
j., son-in-law of William Channou, of thi
;. city. took place in Davenport yesterday
n His death although not entirely unexpected
;. will be learned with regret by his old arm
- companions and his many other friends
n At pittsburg Landing and at Shiloh h
- won the admiration of the boys by hi
. heroic bravery And long after leavin
- the arena of war he showed his Drawer
20 still more, when during the cholera attic
a ton in Davenport in 1873. he was anon
"a the most devoted of the band of worker
a in the cause of humanity going into in
a fected houses aud helping the inmates
: doing excellent hospital duty, and buryin,
the dead with an unselish disregard fo
his own welfare. The deceased was
:, - member of the order Of A. o. U. W. an
:. = also of the knights of Pithias, both {
- which orders attended his funeral.