The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-25
NOTES HERE AND THERE

NO more 20 cent pieces.
1t will be two dollars, George.
-Calciminiug and painting at the library
rooms.
Chicago now has Mining and Stock
Exchange.
The glass works are running to their
full capacity.
Tomorrow is the last day Of service
for the May term of the circuit court.
-Sociable at Broadway church tonight,
for the benefit of the Sabbath school.
Moral Massachusetts, furnishes more
defaulters than Chicago, as wicked as it is.
Several of our noted stock rsisers are
attending the sale of short horns at West
Liberty, Iowa, to-day,
Davenport has fifteen divorce cases on
the docket-"What is home without
pardner2" Give it up.
Lightning knocked 800 out OF the
belfry of the Methodist church at Port
Byron. on Sunday; divine visitation.
-Rande, the St. Elmo murderer doesn't
wear any defiant air but is quietly doing
his prison work. Bread and water cured
him.
"A meeting of tho Western Illinois
Bee. Keeper's Society Is to be held al
Burlington, Iowa, on the 7th and Sth u
May next.
The republican papers all over thu
state are pitching into the democratic state
platform. Somehow it hurts them, A
good sign.
The Union is engaged in localisini
MiIt. Barlow's old stories about boot
blacks. Why don't it now tell his boot
black-wine" story.
An information has been filed agains
J. G. Evans, of Muscatine, the man VIII
got out the whisky search warrants, charg
ing him with perjury.
The Odd Fellows of Hampton vii
celebrate the seth anniversary Of d.
Fellowship by an excursion to Muscatin
on the steamer Josephine.
The rivival Of the Beecher-Tilto
scandal on the eve of summer will create
large demand for carbolic acid and othe
disinfectants. Ti!non, tilt ever.
The members of the two lodges of
| o. o. F. will celebrate the anniversary {
the Order in their hall in Hull's bloch
this year with speeches and collation..
"A man will sit on the picket fence a
the afternoon to see ball match, but pu
him in church pew for three quarters {
an hour and he will wobble all over tn
seat.
DE committee decides dat de swear
has de most pints and de best backin', al
dat de pen is de most beneficial. an dat d
whole ting is about stan of. - Bosto
Post
1t is announced that Bishop McCo
kry, of Michigan, instead of going
Europe, as he intended, will return
once to Detroit and insist on an investig
ton Of the charges of immortality, whiC
he denounces as utterly false.
The Davenport Democrat says: 81
telegram from La Crosse received to -ds
from Mr.. Gable states that the log jams {
the Chippewa river are all broken ar
logs are running freely, thus ensuring
8 good supply for the mills here"
, john Dillon in All the Rage"
: Peoria, got drunk and brought the pc
e Torrance to sudden close in the THU
? act. The company were obliged to cane
e two other engagements and have return
D to Chicago. After remaining in reforI
J. ed condition for two years Dillon has tt
= time so disgraced himself that it is doub
e full if he will ever regain footing up
d the stage before first class audience. E
u many admirers will regret his disgrace
he is beyond question the best low col
median on the American stage-or now
the ranks of American drunkards.
:. The storm, it seems. did consideral
, damage in this county. We learn fro
: Deputy Sheriff Sherwood, who has j,
returned from Drury, that all of the bride
: are gone or more or less damaged. In ma
= places he was obliged to unhitch
horses and lead them across the ravir
- and then pull his buggy over by hand, a
: had to lay down boards and rails to Ike
- the buggy in sight. He is positive that I
roads have never before been 10 as baC
- state. Mr.. Sherwood says of the sccidt
= by lightning near Drury whereby a you
" girl was killed, that the lightning strr
:, the girl near the hip and ran down
leg and tore her shoe all in pieces.