The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-08
NOTES BERE AND THERE

day.
Umbrellas are now manufactured of
paper.
The Arkansas will be up Saturday
morning.
The Victory will be down tomorrow
morning with loaded barges
Has the board of health done its full
duty? Warm weather is almost here.
The Imperial will be down this even
ing and will turn back for ST Paul in the
morning.
M. frances company are all fully un-
formed in the dress of the N. Y, Fire De-
partmeDt.
IF you don't believe I've any backbone
please feel of my back.-Ruthe'J0'd b.
Hayes
The Northwestern has been remodeIed
at La Crosse, and the Red Wing has re-
tired on account of low water.
The Peoria road will sell excursion
tickets to those attending the state Sunday
School convention at Bloomington.
Clara Louis Kellogg, it is rumored,
goes abroad to marry crowned head.
/ Uneasy lies the head that wears crown.
Tho man who originated the saying,
Hurry is the mark CT weak mind. -
never was chased by bull dog. -Bradford
Era.
Thieves have stolen mill in Full
ton county, Pennsylvania. Building, saws,
wrenches, dogs, croWbars and logs were all
carried off.
"A pauper 10 Gill, Mass, got S. from
the Poormaster ito obtain the necessities
OF life," as he declared, and used the
money in taking to himself wife.
Mary Cosgrove, aged So, was hired
to instruct James N. Warren, aged IT, in
music and French, in New Orleans. AT
ter six lessons they eloped together
Negotiations are pending tor excursion
rates over the Western Union and the chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroads to al
those visiting Island Wild" Browns lake
| The Charles Gray estate case was be-
T fore the County Court to day, The judge
seems to be afraid Of this case Mai
Beardsleys client can almost grab thC
money now.
The Indianola Qowa) Republican
says that q wagon passed through thai
town, recently, going in a easterly direction
labeled on the cover: Going back to my
wife's people"
The Indianapolis Journal thinks Indi
ana should recall the gifted De La Matyl
before the fair season opens. 1t says
Our own Gilbert De La Matyr is the pre-
MUM ass of the large gray kind
The weather for the last few days hai
certainly been fuctuating. and so has 1
+ woman IN one of our suburban towns, wht
has planted and dug up her peas again
= half dozen times within week.
r Calling the waiter to him, he remark
r ed in an insinuating tone The strawber
: ries in this are a great deal shorter thai
Y the cake, and my money is much shOrte
than the affair. Couldn't you drop of sew
r enty- five cents on your check ?"-Nea0 Hd
l. zen ReqiSter.
The c., B. & Q. company is eivin
Williams. White & Co. breathing spe
4 before tearing down their shop, but til
s road is going through the shop, notwitl
tie standing the four pistols purchased by on
II of the foundry owners.
"A Delaware woman, hard worker a
" her life, being about to die last week, cal
ed her husband and children about he
aud told them where she had buried Sc, 0(
of her earnings in the cellar. They du
-. it up before the funeral
The Egyptian pea IS a marvellous Il
&c stance of resurrection, or rather resuscits
ton. Preserved three or four thousan
years, embodied in the clothes Of . nun
10 my, planted il the soil Of another contil
ID eDt, they bloom and produce their kind.
o' The old apostle Of temperance, S
II. II Walter TreveIyan, has left his fine cell;
If Of wines, worth $4,000, to DR.. B, y
CT Richardson, t. R. S., ''for scientific pu
poses" 1t is rumored that the wines vi
be sold and model hospital built vii
e the proceeds.
" Joint resolution was introduced
or the lower house of Congress, on Tuesda,
ID requesting the President TO insist on tt
s. emancipation of slaves in Cuba and to tax
50 such measures, in cooperation with Otht
Governments If possible, as will speedi
and humanely effect so civilizlng an oil
ject
IA The New York Times takes the broa
'n view of Nihilism expressed in the follow
81 ing sentence: Were any six ordinar
"a men called upon to define Nihilism, five
u the six would probably describe it as a
y association of Russian republicans for tt
~ purpose of superseding ahsolutism by pol
- ular government"
The Committee on Judiciary in tt
United States Senate has decided thi
~ there can be no more promotions in Il
ID army until some plan Of reorganizatic
y Is adopted This decision, which it
L not likely that The Senate will sustain, a
fects every officer in the army who is
ID the line Of promotion.
g "A poor vine dresser of Burgund
~ drew from lottery, prize of 800 90
Thankfully he gave $4,000 for the buil
rs ing Of church in his native village, ar
then with his family he wentto Pari
49, where, in one year, be spent the remain