The Rock Island Argus., 1878-09-10


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1@The stone tagging was being put
on the Main street crossings to-day.
16The useless sewer on the east side
of Rodman avenue is being filed up.
D@rThe Sylvan Boat Club will give
dance at their boat house next Friday eve
ming. 9o
16>An industrious steady boy desirous
OF learning trade Is wanted at Eastman's
barber shop.
n@rNow that the city has macadamized
Main street it would be in order for the
street car company to do likewise to their
track. rw "a
IFWork was commenced 10 earnest
this morning on the alley south Of Main
street, from the post Office to Lynde
streets. The merchants 10 that block are
thinking of extending their buildings back
TO the alley and having two fronts-a capi.
tai idea.
n6wThe Sylvan Boat Club have obtain
ed permission from Mr.. Ben. Harper to
visit and inspect his new opera house next
Saturday evening. They also have the
privilege of taking their friends and will
invite number Of Moline people to accom-
pany them.
R6rQuite number of Baptist clergy
men, including Revs, Langridge, of ke-
vance. Fisher, of Geneseo, and Miller, Of
/ Aledo, passed through here to-day en-
route to Water Town, where the annual
session of the Rock Island County Baptist
| Association convenes to morrow.
| aSrApple Orchard Shew, of Cordoya,
returns the modest bill OF $3.50 for in-
Iquesting the body of Jas. Henry who was
drowned July Oath. Among the items is
one of $3.50 for neutrality-suspicious., 1900
words at Is cents per. hundred. The u.s.
usl cost Of an inquest is $23.
| D@rCoroner Morris report for the past
Iyear shows IL inquests, II by the coroner
and by Justice Shew, of Cordova. The
expense to the county, including Shew's
! bill of SIS. so, is 1891. so, of which $l4S is
Icoroner's fees, $34 burial fees. The rec
lords of the Office for previous years are
meagre enough aud no inteligible reports
have been made, though Morris has pre-
: pared an abstract of cases from 1870, to
date, during which time 10S inquests have
been held.
i D0rIn addition to the musical and gym,
nastic performances to be given at the
Turner entertainment next week Wednes
: day, a lot of prizes viii be given away tc
ticket holders, among which is ladies
silver hunting case watch, Brussels GOV
cred sofa and beautiful case of wax flow
ers. The prizes will be on exhibition q
the reform club room before the drawing
Remember this is for the benefit of th'
yellow fever suffers. Tickets are selling
rapidly.
/ BILLIARDS! Billiard.
! Exhibition and fancy shots by L. Me
: Affee, of Davenport. at the temperanc
: billiard ball. corner of Main and Salte
: streets, to night. r. REIMaIERs.
Il White and Black.
What's in a name?" The develop
, ments of the last few months prove con
= lclusively that "a rose By any other nam
would smell as sweet" The rose or rose
r White and wife. About two months az
!. Christopher was bound over to the circui
% court for carving Geo. Smart with
5 hatchet, since which time Mrs. White ha
been dependent upon her own resource
for subsistence and has been equal to th
Emergency, She chose none of the poorly
palU duU OVCI-WOIk6Q C4lIlBK5s NO Uu
,fl saw her lsboring still she seemed to dres
8 respectfully and have enough to eat. 1
e dark suspicion crept into the dark bosom
J. of several colored ladies, which wa
Il strengthened by their husbands absentin
a themselves from home. until late at nigh
- This was continued until the outrage
= wives appointed committee to take OF
Is servations and finally wait upon the objet
\ of their wrath They warned her againl
.. harboring their recreant husbands an
r threatened to plunder the house. Afte
ar this they felt better, but it seems it ws
"a only fancied security matters continued Q
before until last night when the polio
"a arrested Mrs, White and Mrs. Middleton
4 at her house, for hilariera conduct over
!. few pitchers of beer. GGeer Holt lodge
. them in the calabooss. Although the
q name is White tisvery evident that there
nothing else of that color about them, III
less it be their eyes aud teeth,
D. The diamond flashes all the more bril-