The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-04
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

City council meeting this evening.
Let bears delight to scratch and fight,
Gail Hamilton is bound to write.
There are exactly 100 Methodist
churches in Philadelphia.
Supervisor Aster bar during the month
of January, assisted 270 people at cost oil
$407, 40. .
Richmond, Va, claims this year
population of 1880, of whom A, 400 are
colored.
Counterfeit half dollars are being
showed" in some parts of Indiana to an
alarming extent,
Alcohol will clean silver" Yes,
alcohol, well stuck to, will clean out all
the liver you have got.-Csnctnndtl Sat
arday Night.
Have you seen the pictures of the
Clement Bros. & Forester at Wylie a
McCuue's store. They appear at Darts
Hall to, morrow.
Judge Glenn. of Monmouth, who
went to the Hot Springs, Arkansas, last
fall, for his health, is rapidly improving,
and is expected home soon.
Reports received at Freeport are to
the effect that hog cholera is prevailing IN
different portions Of Stephenson county.
| The result has been disastrous,
The annual reunion of the veterans oil
the Mexican war will take place in Mon.
mouth, February 22d, at which time Gen
James Shields, the SCARED hero. will bt
there and address the association.
The Chicago Journal speaks of the
gentlemen in congress as Statesmen" BY
consulting Webster. that paper may fine
reason to conclude that under the circum
stances, it didn't use the most appropriate
word.
Hon. J. j. Heron, member of thu
Legislature from the Nineteenth District
died at his residence in Princeton at o
clock this morning, aged ~ years. Hit
funeral will take place on Sunday at
p. N.
"A. j. Streeter, of Mercer Co., i'm
AGNES he would make good congress
man. and will therefore make Ia Unite
number of addresses in adjoining district
preparatory to inducing his new party
nominate him.
Did it ever occur to the Union ths
very many of its readers believe that til
money in which a debt is contracted
good enough to liquidate with, and, YET
certain papers wish the government 10 pa
ten per cent more than it ever promised I
pay.
Fred. Ward, of Orion, shipped b
hogs, the finest lot ever sent oat of Hem
county, to Chicago, and received $3.S!
he is at home now with a pocket full
money smoking Is cent cigars and stud
ing the tariff He never writes auythir
! for the newspapers.
Tommy came home from school, al
I handed his father the teachers report {
: his progress during the month. This
very unsatisfactory. Tom; you We We
e small number of good marks. I'm not
:. all pleased with it," II told the teach
a you wouldn't be, but he wouldn't alter it
That musical soireo at Kelly & Re
: icker's on Saturday night was immens
9 Kelly is entitled to the ribbon as t
d boss" soloist, while Charley Haw
e stands without a rival as ''contralt
assistant Reticker-well-Joh wasl
feeling we'll, was the reason. Soup
y 1t is suggested that, in view of t
financial condition of the city a citizeI
meeting will be held for the nomination
mayor, provided some suitable man W
lie has the time to give to the onerous dut
d of the Office can be induced to take |
nomination. 1t such a meeting shol
:. select man who would take the Office
o. this purpose alone, and not to manipul
re city legislation in special or personal
er terests he would probably be elect
K. Some change is certainly desirable in Vi
:. Of the fact that city bonds are being S
40 at heavy discount when they might hi
ne been sold at par. mo fellah can find o.
st who gets the discount on the bonds t
no have been sold.