The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-31
MOVIES RrRr Assn TrERr.

No criminal cases before Justice Crop
per-.
Quiet as dead maekerel at the cir
cult clerks Office.
One of our rising young men is soon
to become Benedict.
"A. Sinnet advertises 10 the Union |
that he has money enough.
"A young lady Of this city, has been
missing since last week Thursday.
Fourteen new members were added
to the the Athletic club last evening.
Meeting Of Rodman Rifles tonight to
arrange for the turkey shoot tomorrow.
The workion Armory Hall is being
pushed along as rapidly as weather will
permit,
The A. o. U. w. will hereafter meet
in Munger's Office until Armory Hall is
completed.
What has become of that much talked
of game shoot? Where, oh whereas Gen
eseo's team2
the turkey shoot on New Years day
will be participated in by goodly number
of the Rifles.
Tomorrow IS the day Of good resolu-
tons, and the next day is when they van
ish into thin air.
The post-ofice will be open until 10
q. m. tomorrow and closed after that nour
until Thursday morning.
j. S. Gilmore will commence packing
again, next week. He has cut and gather
ed in over II, 900 tons Office.
Richards the wholesale murderer who
passed through on Friday was received by
a large concourse Of people at Kearney,
and every one would like to see him hang.
Eight thousand seven hundred hogs
, have been slaughtered in Davenport, up tc
date, this season. Prices of live hogs there
ranged from So to 1926 per 100 pounds
Saturday.
j. III. Strong, agent for Hayes &
Cleveland, had his team runaway at Rey
holds, and hurt one of his legs, besides
, iDjuring one of the horses seriously
p Insured.
1t is now thought that Mr.. Kasson
minister to Austria. will be promoted t
! the Berlin mission, made vacant by tn
= death of Mr.. Taylor, and that the new ap
e pointment will be for Vienna.
It Those who have been used to maxim
D New Years calls, will be sorry to lear
: that open house will not be kept at Mr.:
John Warmers this year; this is owing t
K the sickness of Mr.. and Mrs. Warner.
! The order Of A. 0. U. W., will occup
Armory Hall when completed, lease {
five years having been arranged with th
board Of control of the Armory Co.. ap
,e the A. o. U. W. beard. The rental wi
'h be 1926 per annum.
1t is about time for Pennsylvania
follow the custom of some of the otht
states and investigate the. conduct of b.
elections For prison Waterman to
10 busiIy engaged in counting tickets while
~ y, convict is taking the patterns of his Ike.
of is as bad as some of the dreadful southel
ms affairs that many congressman rage abou
1t. In the case of John Sherman, it is n
H. to be forgotten that when he entered Il
senate Of the United States at the bsgi
ming Of the war, becoming member of t
Finance Committee, he was poor man: y
re in the course of few years he became
- millionaire, without any other ostensit
ere businessman that of senator.
- The Davenport Democrat says th
'Mr George w. Vinton has brought 81
m. IN chancery against Deere & Co., of NJ
n" line, to oblige the company to divide t
Int whole OF its net earnings annually, inste
NIL OF using portions OF these earnings for ~
az buildings. machinery me capt.
80 stock of Deere 6 90, amounts to $250,0(
nd of which Mr. Vinton owns one-tenth,
az $25. 0OO."
far --Eighty-fve newspapers that not 10
ago were strenuous 10 their champlonst
Of fat money, are said to have succumb
to the fat of fate since the November ell
th ton. With greenbacks at par, any legi
'ds mate calling they may have been suppos
to have is gone They assisted in elect
the republican ticket, and now all that
a mains for them is tC black mail q living
he the demagogues who edit them.
is IF the % electoral votes OF Louisiar
an Florida, South Carolina and Oregon we
FOR for sale as the republicans all along ha
We asserted, who bought them? There
.as truth in this assertion; they aoere offered J
ICE sale But 1ilden did not get one of the
of aud Hayes got them all Then, which ST
it bought them? Why, the Hayes side,
,ly course, or else how does it happen that
es many of the returning board thieves a
es now holding Office under Hayes.
Elder Hammond, the revivalist, W
attempted to convert several portions
eS the God and morality state of Iowa Sc
- erai years ago, has had the gas turned
on him-off at the meter of the church
by the officers of the North Ave. NJ.
Church Of Allegheny City, Pa. The tru
a tees of the church property object to Il
4, crowding of their beautiful edifce With Il
class of people whom Mr.. Hammond q
"a tracts, damaging beyond repair their COS
ly carpets, and laying waste the beatif
temple they have erected in which to wo
ship their Maker. They object to beir
III edged from their cushioned pews by ii
anxious tbrong attracted by the reverer