The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-12
NOTES HERE AND rHERE.
-Aleck feels easier now

NO16S AEE6 AND THERE.
-Aleck feels easier now.
S. DIR. Reynolds at Darts Hall this even
ing.
= Revival meetings at Milan. They are
needed.
Turner'S Fair commences on Saturday
evening.
Hard work for the ferry boat TO make
trips to-day.
The Democratic majority in Texas
will reach about 65.O00.
$50 Births in this county during the
year ending Dec. /, 1878.
Ready to pay your taxes2 The col
lectors are taking our their books.
DIR. Jacobs of Pennsylvania, formerly
ofCoal Valley. this county. is in the city.
License and anti-license will be the
fight at the next municipal election al
Milan.
Mr.. Dickinson reads for Trinity
church sabbath school at Negus' Hall this
evening.
The u. A. o. D. order has given the
widow of Nels Johnsto $500 house or
9th st. and $40 10 cash.
Wages are reported low at the new
Silver Cliff mines, Colorado, and abou
ten men waiting for every vacant place.
"A Vermonter has invented "a bottl'
that will always turn right side up. thus
failing to spill the contents, no matter hov
drunk the owners is. /"
Brick" Pomeroy, the organizer o
the greenback party in this state, lecturet
in Freeport the other night to an audienc
variously estimated at from Is to 2
people.
AMI o. NJ. A. lodge will be organizes
in this city this evening. with 40 charte
members So says Grand Deputy Hal
stead, who meets the forty and others i
the Rock Island House parlors.
The government has closed the gov
eminent canal at the Des Moines Rapids
1t has been operated successfully for
period of nine months this season w;thou
interruption to navigation.
"A jury was impanelled this afternoo
before Judge Adams to determine the sar
ity Of Mrs. Geo. Watson, of Hampton
DR.. G. g. Craig was foreman. Verdict nj
reached at tine of going to press.
1t is the unanimous opinion in the Il
terror Department that to remove th
Indians from the benign influence of tt
Indian agent would be disastrous -disas
trous sto the Indian trader aud contra
tor.
"A lady correspondent in one of tt
fashion papers declares that ''iow.neckt
dresses are an abomination into which it
the duty of the press to look" No 81
/! we won't do any such thing. Let someboC
else look.
One halfinterest in 269 acres ('Bosq'
| Bonita'') the home of Gen. Buford, Woo
ford county, KY, on the Versailles ar
! Midway turnpike, was sold By Mastt
| Commissioner r. B. George, on the 20
ult. to Messrs. Grinstead & Bradley, LIE
ington, Ky, for $4,000.
We have heard the expression, til
was nail driver," and now learn that it
New Zealand invention in the shape OF
mail gun" for driving nails. 1t is not u
like q gun in shape and size. The nail
inserted in the muZzle and slides to t
bottom, when a rod falls upon it and driv
it in with blow. By this method one IN
can do the work of half dozen.
! The Supreme Court OF Iowa has {
cided that man is liable for the bark
bis dog as we'll as his bite. The case can
q from back county. whers a mans d
g barked and frightened team. The tea
. ran away and broke the drivers leg. |
brought suit, and the court says he is i
bic for damages.
The mayor of Philadelphia has I
ceived an appeal for help from the cha
| mau VI lHe COLuutttG0 dp pOiutG0 W "a
measures for assisting the sufferers by t
e failure Of the City of Glasgow bank. 7
n actual deficiency IS something over So
G 100000, and q majority of the shareh
e ders are threatened with ruin. Now, "
l. should the people of Philadelphia cont
butte TO prevent these hitherto rich n
is from becoming poorP Are there
:, thousands of men in this country who
!, financially ruined2 Is it any worse 70
,r rich Scotchman to be poor than for t
s thousands of American citizens? T
n begging business is disgusting to say
east.
l. At the present time the country is flo