The Rock Island Argus., 1878-11-30
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-Ihe hog-cholera near Viola.
-Galva has new billiard hall.
-Anew Presbyterian church at Viola.
The drive well at Geneseo is now
down 270 feet.
NO more work on the Henry county
court house till spring.
The question with all seems to be-
Who murdered Jos. Theviot?
A roller-skate rink has been opened
in Metropolitan Hall. Davenport.
Navigation on the Upper Mississippi
is practically closed for the season.
There is some talk of getting up club
hunt. among the members Of our gun club.
-VoIk & Cos new building is being
pushed to completion as rapidly as possi-
BILE. a
The Marquis of Lorne, and not his
wife, is the Governor of Canada. She
Governs the governor however.
The cannon to be used as posts for the
new iron fence for the monument in court
house yard. were placed in position to day
1T is limited that there is professor
ship in Rush medical college for DR.. Todd,
late candidate for representative 10 this
district.
Miss M. E, Davenport is quite sick
and her sister Grace has gone to Rock
Island to assist In taking care of her,
Cambridge Chief Miss Davenport is one
Of our public school teachers.
The president has signed the commits
sion, of Mrs. Anna D, H, Thompson as
postmistrsss at Memphis, and Hiram
Raft, postmaster at Hutchinson, Kan.
Did not Smithe, late Of the Cambridge
Chronicle. go to Colorado SO as to be on
the ground for some nice appointment al
the hands of the assistant secretary of the
u. s. treasury?
The Weir plow shops at Monmouth
are closed till January lst. The city oi
Keokuk, Iowa, has offered the manufac-
turers of this plow very liberal induce
ments to locate in that city.
The c., R. l. & P. road has double
track from this city to Colona, and nov
road master, Burnett, is getting ready tt
survey for a continuation of the double
track east as far as Geneseo.
Sl00,OQQ is the amount the chief oI
IordiDance wants to complete the wooC
working and leather shop commenced ol
the island last July. He wants $l85.00
for the iron working and finishing shop.
The Elmira Gesette says: I'VE al
ways admired masquerade balls. It's 81
nice to squeeze little lump of condense'
sweetness for one straight hour, and thel
find out you've only beep huVging you
young sister.
A new style of ladies' bonnets is
the market. They are just too lovely
Cut bias, eight stories. satin trimmed
with chinchiIla worsted, and gros graf
: silk, and black beads ani feathers" The
are bound to create a sensation.
-Geneseo's gun club wants to shoot fO
game supper, and have intimated that
, twelve members of the Rock Island clu
, want to try their skill with twelve Of th
Geneseo boys, the opportunity is afforded
We apprehend that our club can safel
contest with any other club in the state.
The Boston He1ald, having boiIe
down the cipher dispatches, announces Il
following result vi That the elector
! votes of Florida and Louisiana belonged
: Tilden. (2) That electoral votes were
the market; (3) that Hayes secure
= them" Nufced.
= -Muscatine seems to have a good SUI
ply of idiots who are continually stirriI
= up some sort Of strife or other. The la
8 est sensational law case there is the pros
+ cution of T. J. Thompson. livery stab
% keeper, for violating the Sunday law
hiring out team,
1t On and after the 1st of January, 1877
It according to recent decision of the inte
nal revanue bureau, all persons who 81
patent medicine known as 'bitters
whether by the drink or in unhroken pac
70 ages. are classed as liquor dealers, and "
o, have to pay special tax as such.
to Joe Rosenfeld is the boss no
to ''Foh God man, get dat doctor, do
ut gone tole you to fetch dat doctor, quiC
ID white man. you yer me" and then j
Or looked and saw the reflection of raz
j. and few adjectiEss and the way she "
lg TUX down" was caution. Joseph, h
it could you be SO cruel.
he Oats advanced slightly this mornir
selling at Is and 20 cents; corn also "
firm at 90 to % cents; hay remained non
. = nal at S. to 81 per ton, with light recip
e. The market was not very active to-ds
IN but few farmers being in; yesterday
Is large number OF teams were on the squa
,,r and lively business transacted,
(, -O'Brien, who wes arrested by OfiC
10 Rosenfeld last evening for disturbing t
peace and put in Jail, was not brought b
fore the county court to-day owing to t
absence of Judge Adams. Hearing
s, several cases of supposed insanity pos
81 poned for same reason. The judge is e
pected home on Monday when hearil
l. will be had in all the cases now pendin
10 John Volk 4 Co., were awarded Il
contract for the new armory building tf
morning at $7435. Some slight chang
will be made in the arrangement of Il
1t cells in the prison department, the cor
IN mittee having concluded to seal the wa
With hard wood, good idea. 1t is nc