The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-06
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
The Rodman Rifles will go to Musca

The sale Of tickets to the Opera House
opening begins tomorrow morning.
The Mercer County Teachers Asso-
citation meets at Keithsburg tomorrow.
The board of health has concluded to
meet on Monday. They will not do any
thing.
-Ucal Lodge Mo. COS. lOOF will
have a pubIit installation Wednesday
evening, July I'd.
The young ladies of St. Joseph's
church will entertain their friends at a
festival tomorrow evening.
Full returns from Warren county give
Glenn 1929; Peasants 1886; Smith l.
$50; Pepper 9l9; Douglass 40
Sheriff Perkins and an assistant took
Kavanaugh and Heeney, the Rosenfeld
murderers to Joliet this morning.
The name of the city Of Dunleith. in
the far northwestern corner of this State,
has been changed to East Dubuque.
Mayor Reynolds yesterday appointed
as members of the public library board,
Alexander Steel, DIR. las. Mckee, and V.
M. Blanding.
The teachers and scholars ofthe Colo
ma public schools will give their annual re-
union and festival on Saturday evening
June 14th,
The official vote of Henry county just
received at this office gives Glenn 1864,
Peasants 1907, Smith 1853. Douglass
$50, Pepper Csc.
A strawberry festival will be held at the
Methodist Episcopal church, Presumption,
on Wednesday evening next, the proceeds
of which will be devoted to the benefit Of
the church.
The contract for the new Catholic
church at Hampton, has been awarded to
a Clinton contractor for $4,000. The
building will be 65x36 feet and is to be
completed in ninety days.
"A fellow by the name of Turner, a
painter and dead beat of Davenport, was
before Squire Hayden charged with being
drunk. The Squire said s. and costs.
The fellow talked eloquenty for lighter
fine and was finally sent to Jail.
All are cordially invited to attend the
last meeting of the Literary aud Social
Union, to be held at the Central Presby-
terian church this evening. The pro-
gramme promises much in the way of lit
erary and social enjoyment.
The Synod of Augustana meets in
Chicago on the 10Th Of this month. The
delegates from this city are Peter CoIseth
and J. II, Wistrand. The synod has q
membership Of forty thousand and en-
braces three hundred congregations, and
one hundred and twenty ministers.
From the Times Journal Of St. Louis
we see that Mr.. George Wagner and
Ignatz Huber of this city are in attendance
upon the Brewers Convention in session
in that city. The resolutions adopted by
the convention appeared in THE ARGUS
dispatches last evening
"A special from Washington says the
Illinois delegation have recommended
Hon. John B. Hawley, of this city, al
Secretary of War, to succeed Secretary
McCrary. His war record preeminentl!
qualities him for the position. Mr.. Haw
ley is now Assistant Secretary Of tn
| Treasury.
The st. Louis Republican of the 5tl
says of the brewers in session in that city
1.-The convention is fne-looking body 0
men, eminently practical in their name
of doing business, pre- eminently social il
their habits of life, and evidently we'll sal
isAed with the hospitality of their receptio
in St. Louis
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de
cided that the law prohibiting the sal
Of wine and beer within two miles of th
corporate limits OF any municipality wher
such sale has been prohibited by vote c
the people, or within two miles of an
voting place at any election is constitu
tiona and valid.
The medical society on Wednesda
afternoon, at the conclusion of its sessio
in Davenport, visited the Island and wer
royalty entertained by Col. FIagler an
}staff and DR.. P. Gregg, in charge of tn
hospital. The trip was taken in specia
tram of three coaches furnished by Ger
Supt Kimball, of the G. r. /. 4 P, Mayo
Murphy accompanied them. The dele
gates had royal good time on the Island
where they were received by Col. Flagle
and staff and given Freedom of Uncl
Sans domain. The shops were all VISITED
and so was the water power-and tn
hospital, too, of course. Nine-tenths @
the DoctorsIhad never been on the Islam,
before, and they confessed themselves
astonished and delighted at the beauty O
the government works. The party return
ed at O'Clock, highly pleased with tht
visit and the courteous treatment extende,
by the Commandant and his staff-an,
the hospital surgeon, DR.. P. Gregg. TIL
doctor is never tired of keeping the latcl
string on the outside.