The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-03
NOTES here AND THERE.

ond page.
Marie Roze's real name is Mrs. Henry
Mapleson.
Rockford has raised $4,000 for base
ball club next season.
-Eightuar loads of hogs shipped from
Reynolds on Monday by Meigs Wait.
The St. Louis train ran over eight
horses nesr Monmouth last Saturday.
Let Congress go for The Ciphers. And
find, the kilograms sent by republicans too. |
/ Dow, Gilman & Hancock, of Daven-
port, are constructinga grain elevator at
Sterling, Kansas.
/ The commercial travellers hold their
sixth annual reunion at the Burtis House
in Davenport, on New Years Eve.
The circuit court wants shorthand
reporter to hurry up the tedi-
Gus and expensive delays of its proceed
!, ings.
Plymouth Church has expelled Mrs.
: TIlton. 1t has no room for people who
confess their sins, but plenty of room fer
/ the other sort.
The temperance ladies of Davenport
propose to open club room and serve up
intellectual and temporal refreshments to
: the young and old.
: The G., r. !. g. P. road handled from
Davenport, during November, 1928 car
: loads of freight, and received at Daven-
e port /, 1858 car loads.
Joshua Burr, the oldtime grocer of
Davenport, has made an assignment. 1t
u doesn't pay to sell goods to Book Island
Q customers for less than cost.
Election is over in New York and 100
! workmen were discharged from the Navy
:, yard ou Saturday, by the republican
managers of that institution,
The Radical State Of minnesota has
- emphatically repudiated $S.0o0,000 Of
ID soIemply- pledged State bonds. Why
is don't republicans bowl about that repub
= lican job?
N Secretary McCrary, like genuine
W republican, beseeches Congress to remove
the restrictions on the use of the army
he he that he may employ it in rolling up re
of publican majority 10 the south in 1880.
'ir George 7. Anthony, the present gov
ne ernor of Kansas. is candidate for the U
be s. Senate. He is cousin of Susan B.
and like good cousin he has always backe'
-. up Sue, Think what 3 racket Susal
in would make with a proxy in the senate
Wouldn't it be fuh7
Isn't it little singular that after thei
prolonged bowling about southern claims,
re republican congressman from North Caro-
n Ina should be the first southern represent
alive to ADVOCATE paying all souther
=. claims, whether the claimants we're loyi
or not, and pensioning confederate soldier:
-What'a tho matter with Mansill?
r seems TO US he promised this locality
y disturbance" about the 18th ult., anothe
about the 25th uii., agd another about th
IL I'd inst. The elegant gentleman of th
- Union, who seems to be sort of Mansi
:. Ian telephone, promptly got out his lit
umbrella on the dates mentioned, bl
''halas" there wasn't disturbance" enoug
in to require its expansion.
Everything goes to show that the THU
GO party was a republican institution gottt
,0oO up to aid the republican party. And no
' ,O to prevent it from aiding the democrats
0co the Second Iowa district Hiram Price
md district, which is close at best) Geige
the late graenbaok candidate declar
against coalition of the democratic al
=. greenback strength. Does Hiram expe
~ to be candidate again that he instruc
' ., his allies to begin their work thus early
You can go into the Public Library
Sundays hereafter, sit around and goss
no abont your neighbours morals, look at Il
ing 49,. -, -or ao..,. 80 g 49,,
"a" This regulation is supposed to be on u
count OF the severe morality of the libra
as board who think it wrong to wear out t
books on Sunday, or else for the accomm
). daton of the Librarian. Won't s9mebo
,.or who is familiar with the most approx
- forms of morality write little essay
:, this subject?
AT Galesburg public feeling is great
= agitsted and Mortified over the discove
: of facts which indicate that system
wholesale body snatchiug has been carri
on for a number of years. Similar offe
W ses committed in other cities have led
80 investigation, which has brought to hg
, facts which, to say the least, are startli
A leading physician estimates that fu
,ilet 100 dead bodies have been taken at diff
: at times from the Catholic cemetery, viii
is situated in the eastern suburbs
Galesburg, surrounded on two sides
woods, and but few farm houses in t
ran immediate vicinity. It is probable Ii
the bodies were sent to other cities for d
8'419971 secting purposes, Several graves in Ho
II cemetery were also examined, and the
mains could not be found The autho
AS ties are on the watch and while they m
81 81 not be able to detect the guilty parti
Y yet measures will be taken to prevent si
As liar crimes in the future
Is
100 Problem Long Since Solved