The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-09
NOTES HERE.AND THERE.

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The board of supervisors meet next
Monday.
The storm last evening was very Sc
we're one.
Regular term of the county court
begins next Monday.
Brigham Young collected $l5.OO0,000
to himself from the Saints.
The largest cornfeld in the State of
Rhode Island contains twenty acres.
The best housekeepers are those who
give themselves.the least trouble about it.
The equalization committee of the board
of supervisors will be in session to-mor-
row.
-Rowell has gone into training in Eng
land for the next contest for the Astly
belt.
The only living blood relation of the
ex-Empress Eugene is her mother. the
Spanish Countess Montijo now in her S0th
year.
Archbishop Purcell has returned to
Cincinnati from his triumphant trip among
the Eastern brethren who are endeayoring
to relieve him from debt
General Tom Thumb, while sailing in
yacht on the Assawampsett pond, at Md
dleboro, Mass, last Friday, capsized, and
was fshed out with scoop-net.
Supervisor Taylor has gone to Chica-
60 10 company with man named ThOs. G
Burke whom he takes to the State ln6rm-
airy for treatment of his eyes.
judging from what he saw and heard
on the Fourth of July, the New York
Herald man thinks that the Goddess
of Liberty must wear her hair banged.
st. Louis Republican: 1t was re-
publican congress that established the
Philadelphia quinine monopoly. 1t was
a democratic congress that put an end toit
The ladies Of this city Interested in
the morals of the young people, meet at
the Baptist church to morrow. No one
but those hav ug Invita- ions Wi be admit
ted.
-Lime-iuice, as Summer beverage, is
supplanting alcoholic drinks in London,
and is Endorsed by such authority as the
Lancet. Will you take little lime jo'ce
in yours2
Says the McGregor (Iowa) Ne,1s:
''The weather in not ooly unreliable but
uuprincipled. Last Sunday it rained all
day on a camp-mee6ng and shone all day
Monday on a circus"
Mr.. Edward Compton, the leading
man" Of the London Adelphi, has been
engaged as the chief support of Miss
Adelaide Nelson during her engagement
in America next season.
The last slave sold 10 the confederacy
was in 1865, near Richmond, a negro
man, who was bought for pine hundred
heads OF cabbage, Cabbage vas worth 81
head, and consequently the negro man
footed up at 5000.
-C;uCiUnati claims the champion bill
poster of America. His name is John
Chapman; butkhe is called Uncle john
for short. He runs ten men with wagons
and horses, and owns acknowledgements
miles of walls and boards.
Last September Dubuque mau and
women were married by Justice. The
other morning the woman appeared before
the Squire and asked to see the marriage
license. She wanted to find out her hus.
bands name. She had lived With him nine
months and did not know his name.
"A test suit has been instituted
Against the Metropolitan Elevated Rail
way Of New York city for damages to pro
perty against which the road abuts. The
plaintiff Is the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, and the decision rendered will
doubtless decide the action of Thousands
of other damaged and despoiled property
owners along the route of the overhead ca
line,
in the long contest, on account of lc
cal jealousy, between Omaha and Counci
Bluffs, probably no blow has been dealt b,
the courts quite so humiliatng to thu
proud and eDterprisiug city on the ives
side OF the Big Muddy" as the recen
order Of the Post Office Department de
signaling the Council Bluffs Post Office a
the depository of the surplus funds OF tn,
Post Office at Omaha, sud other Pos
Offices in Nebraska.
I 1t is evident that the British baye viii,
as we'll as brave and warlike foe in tn,
Zulus of South Africa. After tskinG
several days to consider the unreasonable
peace overtures of the British ccmman
dant, ths Zulu King has answered no, ant
the war will go on. The duskv- skinned
warriors have been the gamers by the in
terveniug delay, giving them time for re
cuperatlon, end it is altogether likely tha
the next attack by the British force will b
repealed with bloody desperation.
Ever since Ewes iucautions experienc