The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-11
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

go in the shade at 2 .. m. to-day,
Iowa City has female base ball nine.
Are you going te the Keokuk regatta
The gun club were practising to-day
at the park.
Trinity church pic mic tomorrow at
Credit Island,
The committee of equalization closed
its labors to-day.
The sociable at the NJ. E. church on
Tuesday evening was s!imly attended
owing, no doubt to the uncertain weather.
Mr.. Henry Smart. who wrote the
hymn From Greenland s 10y Mountains,
has received pension of $500 from the
British Government.
Robert Purdy, hailing from Cam
bridge, Ills, got too much benzine aboard
yesterday and was jailed by Officer Bren-
nan. To-day he was brought before JUS
tice Halves and fined S. aud costs, which
he paid and was discharged.
AT the shoot last week for pigeons,
we omitted to mention S. r. Porter's score.
As it was good one, and worthy Of note,
We give it for the benefit of those who
doubt Sans ability TO hit pigeons. Here
Observation-Disclosures.
For the accommodation of ladies who
desire to witness the battalion drill at the
gun club park tomorrow, arrangements
have been made for reserved seats for
ladies or gentlemen with ladies, in the
amphetheatre. No admission fee will be
charged and those attending will be pro-
vided with seats as above.
Farmers near Dixon. Ice Co, are con
planning of the chinch bug in their wheat.
The heavy rains may wet the insects down
so that they will not get in their work be-
fore harvest, but some alarm is felt. Our
correspondents in the south and central
portion of the county, report that these
little wheat pests are at work there.
The Olof Peterson inquest was re-
opened to-day with what result had not
TRANSFERRED when we went to press. We
received communication from "Justice"
bearing on the case, and rejecting severely
on Coroner Morris management. AS the
charges are rather specific and very
direct, Justice" must furnish his name
before THE ARGUS can publish his com
munioation.
And now they say that Gen. Dan. K.
Sickles is TO be secretary of war. provided
McCrary succeeds in getting the judge
ship. What a happy, well mated pair of
wire pulers Chandler and Sickles will
make Under their direction and with the
assistance of the sainted Davenport, pure
elections" will prosper, amazingly, under
civil service order number one. What a
fine coterie of political bummars are train
ing for republican dirty work in 1880,
Two oddities recently died at Quebec
One was a man who went to bed forty
years ago because of disappointment 10
love, aud did not leave it until he was
carried to his grave The other resolute-
ly refused to speak to living soul for
even longer period. invariably express
ing his opinion and wishes by means of
writing on a slate or tablet that he kept
conveniently near. Like the other, he
owed his idiosyncrasy to bad treatment
from the female sex, and both led peaceful
if uneventful lives, after adopting these
peculiar means of revenge.
The ugly girls never get married, and
the common young men die OLD bachelors.
No matter who is married, the bride, in
the report, is always beautiful and &C.
J complished,' and the sheepish groom is
invariably, the son of one of our best
families. Burlington Ha,1k-Eye,
= General Ewing will be elected Cover
: nor of Ohio not because of his 6uancia
theories. but because he was a brave anC
patriotic soldier 10 the war, because always
1 in all circumstances he has shown himsel
> an able aud honorable man, and because
the people want him by a large majority
N ]. Express.
"A prisoner confined 10 our Gala
D boose last Saturday becoming thirst!
determined to go on out and get drink
10 pursuance of that design he took off tn
inner door of the structure, and using i
as a battering ram sphntered the QUITE
one, The way thus opened he walked on
aud secured his liquid refreshment. W
: are obliged to add that he neglected t
J return GGlUa Journal
n Why is baby like wheat? Because
:, il FIRST Graded, then thrashed and fnal
becomes the flower of the family An
we would add, soothe it with DR.. Bull
Baby Syrup. 1t contains no opiates
ImportanS Decision.
q There is trouble at Galva over tn
recent decision of the Supreme cour
relative to druggists selling liquor 70
4 medicinal purposes on a physicians pre-
+ scription. The Galva Journal aments th
y decision and says
% The former decisions of most all of th
70 circuit and county courts 10 favor of drug
gists having the right, under the stat
law, to sell liquors on doctors prescrir
tions, and in good faith for medicin,
10 purposes, has lately been reversed by th
II Supreme court. The law as now construed
allows no liquor sold for such purpos
unless by permit from the proper author
D. tiles of an incorporated town. Our tow
p, not being incorporated is debarred frol
selling on Doctors prescription or fC
20 medicine, however urgent tho case migt
be. As there are many towns not incol
'e porated, and situated many miles fro1
Is towns that are, it certainly appears thu
W this is an unjust decision.
The Pivotal State