The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

evening.
The lumber yards are all we'll stored
with lumber.
! The price of coal advanced one cent
per bushel to-day.
The regular meeting of the city coun-
Gil occurs on Monday evening,
Tuesday next is the day on which the
greenback party expires in this county.
The new building on Moline avenue
being built by Schroe der,is to be grocery
store.
The Reform club, Moline, is to be re-
organized this evening on a permanent
basis.
The steamer Warsaw has gone down
to the lower Mississippi, to carry cotton
during the winter.
Tho Catholics observe this-AI
Saints Day same as Sunday, by
morning and evening services.
Market square presents lively ap
pearance nowadays. 1t looks like old
times to see the market assume its wonted
activity in business.
Scotch Taylor is by all odds the best
man nominated for the position of county
treasurer and ought to be elected. Lit the
proper effort is made he can be.
The Rock Island House is being
handsomely painted from top to bottom.
1t will be thoroughly overloaded and
placed in frst-class condition. The trade
OF this popular hotel is daily increasing.
The boys in Davenport observed
Halloween by pulling out lot OF coup
ling pins on freight train and throwing
them away. When that train started the
conductor didn't seem happy.
"A malt team belonging to man
named johnson tried TO runaway on 18th
, street this forenoon. 1t was hard to tell
who was the worse scared, the horses or
the men who tried to stop them.
The National Organ makes a spas
modic yell for help again this week, and
a divided opposition The people fully un-
derstand the situation and will bury the
National party out of sight on Tuesday
next.
4
J wayward married men are it is reported
to extend their operations to the uumar-
ried. OF course they will begin at home
lremem boring Whittier's very suggestive
lines:-
1.-The eternal laws of justice bind
Oppressors with oppressed
The police have received notice to be
on the lookout for burglars who went
through the postofice at Orion, Illinois,
Wednesday night, getting away with post
age stamps to The amount OF $50, besides
@ ltlery and other yaluabes.
The gun club had practice meeting
yesterday afternoon which resulted in
good scores for all participants. Levi
, Harson and Burt Rodman shot % birds
eich, and straight at that. too. and Major
, Butord Is birds straight. The scoring
generally was good.
"A special dispatch to the Chicago
Journal of last evening from Detroit.
Mich, says that H. S. Harcourt, editor
t of the Cairo (Mich.) Democrat, left home
last week after q rumored attempt to Sc
duee bis beautiful step daughter. A dis
patch has been received. stating that he
has died at bis old home in Rock Island,
ILL.,"
The roadway Cd the Island between
the Davenport bridge and the Rock Island
8 bridge is being macadamized in the most
: durable manner. The macadaD is beng
5 laid nine inches deep ct the center of the
: II 10 re oix snoh OF
, the sides. It is rolled. and then, over all.
! is laid six-inch coat of gravel. This also
! is rolled, and beautiful, even road the
: whole length is the result.
Board of Trade. composed of the lumber
manufacturers of Davenport, Rock Island,
Moline and Muscatine, held at the Burtis
House, Davenport, yesterday afternoon, it
was decided to advance the price of lumber
from one to two dollars per ZOO feet, each
member of the Board establishing his own
grades. The advance will correspond
with that made by Chicago mberman on
Wednesday.
John L. Henry has voluntarily resigned
the SupernteDdercy of the Davenport &
North Western division Of tie G. NJ. & St.
T. Ry. and his successor is d. Flanagan
of Savannah, the present assistant super
intendent on the Western Union and Sa-
bula. Ackley & Dakota lines. He will in
ali probability move his headquarters to
Oxford JuneloS. and become the assistant
superintendent under L. {. DIN for the
Davenport line. the SabuIa. Ackley s. Da-
| kots, and the Dubuque & Southwestern.
If this is Sc L means that the last of the
general Offices left an Davenport is to be
removed. The Davenport Gaseis seems
to properly appreciate that city by saying
in comment upon these changes that ..'the
G. M. & St. Paul Company evidently think
that Davenport is a very small town any
way,and to all appearance are treating it as
SUCH"
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