The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-07
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Street cars run to Moline after the
Performance tonight,
Fair Of st, Mary's church at Turner
Hall, commencing Dec. 18th.
The K. N. L. boat Annie is still run
ming from ST. Louis to Quincy.
The temperance lectures will be re-
sumed next week, with DR.. Reynolds as
the lecturer.
-Weyerhaeuser & Denkman have pur-
chased, at U. s. marshal's sale the raft tug
Park Painter for 81. 400.
The work on Armory Hall has SO far
progressed that the south wall of the drill
room is nearly half completed Quick
work.
THE Princeton Manufacturing Co.,
Bureau County, has made an assignment,
The principal business of the company was
making plows.
The decision of the supreme court that
sidewalks must be cleaned Of snow by city
authorities will lead to another that cities
must Du1lQ the SlQeW9tkS.
American fruit to the value of over
$3,0O0,OO0 was exported last year. In
1852 the entire proceeds of such expOrta-
tons amounted to but $26O,oO0.
The Jane Coombs company at the
Opera House, tonight, in Shakspeare's
popular play Of Romeo and Juliet. Miss
Coombs, in the role of Juliet. Don't fail
to see her
The N. Y, Express says: Church
soclables are delusion and a snare. got
ten up for the purpose of extracting filthy
lucre from the inner recesses of foolish
young men S pockets.
The recently constructed Auburn
Branch and Harlan Branch of the c., R.
| | & P. are now open for freight business,
and will be opened for passenger business
on the eth of this month.
The Union seems very much In earnE
est about its project for a soup house, and
; says if the ladies cannot afford three bis
: cuist that two will do Evidently someone
about that office is in a hurry for new
boarding house.
That wide awake and thriving town
deneseo, with its epterprising business
men shipped during the month of Aoyem
Der, just past: Coru, $500 bushels; oats
400 bushels; rye, 400 bushels; -four,
4, 400 barrels; mill stuffs, l10 tons; hogs
$500.
Albany Journal - Mother what i
an angelo An angel? Well, an auge
. is child that flies But. mother, VIII.
does papa always call my goyerness an an
gel2' Well. explained the mother, at
ter moments pause, she is going to fl
IS Immediately.
II r, Lyman Potter, the wheelbarroy
e idiot, EAo tFandled bis way from Alban
W to the Pacific coast, is an attraction at Sa
l. Francisco. Having accepted ehalleng
= to wheel his barrow back to New York, b
n will start on that journey 10 about ten day
ot from this date.
b Why don't the Organ ask the men
bers of the council who refused to graz
"a Dir. Harper's request concerning waite
D. rent for the Opera House, to resign, {
s get up public indignation meeting2 1t
is about time it was doing something to pa
its board.
I'd "A burglar at Farley, Iowa, got
mouthful Of shot out of gun in the hanC
of the clerk of the store he was trying
enter, on Thursday night. His lover ia
. and chin was shot off killing Elm instan
,c ly. Two of his companions emptied the
7 revolvers ut the clerk without hitting hi
and then fed.
: The Galva journal gives stateme
nd of the raiIroc3 Indebtedness of that TOW
IT. and village. The debt now outstanding
$75, 900, and the interest paid on it up
y July of the present year aggregates $75
al OO0 A portion of the bonds are now b
J. ginning t. fall due which will tighten Il
ay burden somewhat.
'n Tom johnson was out on crutches t.
h. day; he has sufficiently recovered to
Or, able 30 hobble around. His recovery
ce wonderful, az at the time of the accident
u was not expected be could possibly reco
~ er. Dr. Craig, who has been 10 2ttent
ance, has been unremitting Ia his ate
ton, and to his skillful treatment Johnson
recovery is largely due.
~ The Hunt brothers were taken
"' Warren county.last night by Sheriff Bon
of that county. The youngest brothe
whom the officers wanted and expected
capture, did nof fall into the trap set
him, and made his escape. A lot Of stol
property was found at the home of Il
Hunts in Rural. Constable McLain is
E. the lookout for that other brother.
=. The opera house Organ says that Il
70 opening concert left the proprietor sever
hundred dollars out of pocket. 1t flu
ther states that not one of the hundred ri
men in this city purchased 20 tickets. b
that Marie Roze gave the proprietor
bouquet The proprietor is beginning
fud out that the Organ is an expensi
friend and adviser, and the longer
ID sticks to it the more he will be out Of poe
d, ct and the fewer friends the house vi
have Last spring our hundred rich me
wsuld have gladly purchased 20 ticket
but all this was before the propriet
allowed himself to be run" by the Orga
Rich men don't usually patronize anythir
which is championed by communistic o.