The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-07
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

in New York city.
A farmer at Dexter, Mich. lost twen-
ty-three sheep by lightning last Saturday.
Virginia has ceased being the mother
of presidents, but she raises more peanuts
than any state in the union.
The State elections of California and
Maine will take place in September; that
of Ohio will take place in October.
According to latest returns 20 out OF
80 of the old incumbents have been re-
elected Circuit Judges in this state.
-Four Kewanee men have been sum-
moued to Philadelphia to appear as Wit
nesses in the case of the iucestuous old
murderer Parr.
Elizabeth Fisher will bring suit for
$4,000 damages for SANDER against other
Orion ladies 10 the Circuit Court which
begins next week.
The seventeeniyear locusts have made
their appearance in johnson county, Mo-
and are doing considerable damage to fruit
trees and young timber.
Reserved seats for the Athletic Club
concert can be secured on Monday at the
corner store in Harper's Opera House.
The sale will begin at a. II.
The elevated railroad of New York
has made s. J. Tilden and c. W. Field
richer by from s2.0O0.0O0 to 100000
apiece, and now Chicago wants one.
The Joliet Penitentiary reports nine
IT, nine convicts received during May, and
ffty.four discharged; balance on hand
May 81, l,444, of whom twenty-five are
females.
The Misses Parker, of Moline, have
volunteered to read few selections at the
Rodnan Rifles opening on Wednesday
evening next, and their offer has been &C
cepted.
The greenbackers in Ohio, together
with Sam Carey, are not satisfied with the
result of their convention. and g split has
resulted. The boilers will call another
convention.
The Republic says that Geneseo will
send ten or twelve men to the shooting
tournament at Peoria, which begins Tues
day of next week. Probably both clubs of
that place will send teams for the..champion
shoots.
On last Tuesday evening, as freight
train was leaving Galesburg boy climbed
on the ladder of freight car aud rode as
far as Mulberry street. AS he dropped
from the car one leg was thrown across
the rail and instantly severed from his
body,
"A small green insect, Of the aphidian
order, is destroying the corn 10 the viclni-
ty Of Geneseo, ILL., A swarm of them at
tack hill and suck the young stalks dry.
Acres Of young corn have already been de-
stroyed. snJ the rayages create consider
able alarm.
Charles G. KnelL will furnish the elegant
club rooms of Gideon's Band, at Burling-
ton, Wis; this, too. in face of the compe-
ttion from Chicago. This certainly speaks
we'll tor the enterprise Of Rock Island. 4
} fey more such men as Kneil aud there
, would be very little trade going to Daven
: port.
a The Geneseo Republic says that Mr.
Marston has mineral well on his place il
Cambridge. 1t is &C feet deep and TIL
= water is strongly impregnated with sui
phur. 4 we'll on the lot south of his, con
taius water impregnated with iron. Thes
discoveries have been made Just 10 tlne Il
try the effects of mineral waters upon tn
!. thirsty denizeas who have been deprive,
by rigorous law of Their favorable bever
re age-whisky straight
The doctors decide that the recen
tarrible mortality among the q cbildre
l. that drank FROM a brook at Newark, Vt.
polluted by carcasses Of animals, was du
u to dipthera, aggravated by the poisone
B. water. A mild case Of the disease tina
6 existed before the great fatality, leads t
y the belief that the brook water was no
q the prime cause Of the calamity. EeveI
IS sick ones are recovering.
Some one with malice aforethought
3 did wilfully land maliciousIy," as MI
y George Lamont would say, loosen the breal
on box car that was left. on the rive
track to be loaded with Diamond J
freight, last Wednesday night; and, to b
,e specific, the aforesaid car did perceptibl
r move with accelerated velocity in the di
n rection of its greatest specific gravity, int
,e the waters of the Mississippi river to tn
Of depth of some four or five feet Where
upon there did issue from the aforesai
car bowls, yells and cries that would hav
# done credit to band of wild Indians. An
s. to continue in the language of Mr. Lamont
1t did transpire that two tramps ha
crawled into the aforesaid car to sleep"
| 1t seems that the trip of the innocen
politician who went to Springfield to sc
cure the attendance of our letter writin
governor at the opening of the new Al
e mory building was vain and useless. Whe
= the governor consented, and the telegrap
,e was worked to postpone. the opening (
suit his convenience, he did not know tha
r there was going to be meeting at WASH
rs ington Of the republican governors to cor
x slider The national political situation, and {
lie course his presence would be essential t
Is the salvation Of the republican party. Ho