The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-06
NOTES HRRE AND THERE.
This is the week Of prayer.

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This is the week of prayer.
Geo. Lambert resumed cutting ice to-
day.
In GalesbHrg saloon license costs
5000.
j. s. Gilmore begins packing this
week.
Judge Smith was making up the trial
list to-day.
Regular meeting of the city council
this evening.
W, P. Webster, Reynolds, was in the
city on Saturday,
Burglars have not bothered Rock
Island for two weeks.
-12 degrees below zero at Centre
stables to-day at Z o'clock.
The average boy was unhappy to-day.
School began this morning,
The parlors of the Harper House are
being handsomely frescoed,
Things are quiet in police circles. Is
it the calm before the storm2
This month Justices Hayden and
Halves try the city criminal cases
Mexican dollars are beginning to cir
culate again. They are worth only IS cents.
The funeral of Miss Rosa Taylor was
held yesterday at o'clock. Rev. Geo. r.
Palmer preached the sermon.
Those who failed to get their bills
against the city, before the auditing COM
mittee on Saturday, will have to wait until
next month.
But for the water works in Moline,
the fire on Saturday would have caused
heavy losses to the manufacturing interests
of that town.
The Chicago Times says that 1t is
we'll for the poor creature that the rag
baby is dead Existence just now would
be misery profound"
Nothing does Doctor so much good
as to prescribe an ocean voyage for sick
man who can't raise enough money to pay
his street-car fare down town.
Miss Maggie Clement, one of Moline
best teachers, has returned from Engle-
wood, where she has been spending the
holiday vacation with her parents.
Has the amusement season gone? Or
isn't it coming this winteT?-Gazette.
We supposed everybody knew that the
heating apparatus was out of order.
The alarm Of fire this afternoon was
caused by slight blaze at the house o.
Mrs. Hesly, across the slough. Damage
light. The fire department was not called
into service.
The position Of principal Of the higl
school, Moline. made vacant by the resig
nation of Miss Reyes, is to be SLED by Mis-!
McMeekin. There is pleasant rumor al
to the cause of Miss Keyes' resignation
But then we won't anticipate.
"A FIVE cent cigar, with a good draugh
and an enterprising youth attached to tht
tail end of it, will load the immediate ut
mosphere with fragrance that discounts
a bone yard, or boot-factory that burn
its own scraps. -E}mira Gazette.
| Who is the patriot that is willing t,
step forward and run as the grcenback
national workingmen' s-labor-reform part,
candidate for mayor? Who, that has th
temerity toitalk ldecayed issues, in the face O
assured resumption? And.echo answers
who?
The Cambridge Chief says that REV
Haney," whom the republicans used as
National candidate for congress, 10 orde
to secure the election of Tom Henderson
us holding revival meetings" this week
and that one of the texts is "WiIt Tho
not revive US again, that Thy people ma
rejoice in Thee" 1t is hardly probabl
that the Lord will revive him again 70
congress, but possibly the God and mora
ity party may.
: In closing long editorial furnished b
the committee of our citizens who al
E looking after the new Army Bill, the Unio
adds:
We would at any rate earnestly urg
our member of congress- to examine thi
matter.
If this includes Henderson, it would nj
amount to anything, if he succeeded
comprehending it. He votes as Foste
Garfield and Hale tell him. Better urg
C these gentlemen to examine it.