The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-01
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

sale cheap at W. u. herr livery stable. |
The recorders docket for March show
10 mortgages, 68 deeds and Is other doc
uments.
The little Dispatch of Moline continues
to burlesque the Moline reporter of the
Gazette.
The Nationals candidate for SuperVi |
sor in South Moline declines, in fact says
he won't run on that ticket.
Invitations to county fairs must be
directed to Mrs. Hayes The president is
now engaged reading congressional debates.
The N. Y. Herald says that John
Sherman nov sings
O'Zacharish, o, Zachariah;
Come over and sit by our kitchen fire.
MIR. W. L. Sweeney ,overseer of the poor,
reports for March an expenditure of $780,
95, distributed among IS families Of SO per-
sons.
Fred Deutschmann, furniture dealer
of Davenport, has run away and left his
family in destitute circumstances, so says
the Gazette.
T. J. Robinson, P. L. Gable, R. R.
Gable, d. Donaldson and E. P. Reynolds
have been elected honorary members of
the Rodman Rifles.
Probably no body of men can perform
less work in three months than those COM
prisiug our state legislature, barring
Al -; Of AhSavop.uy> ~
The Uai0n claims that the father of
the found child is "a solid married man of
Rock Island" Why is the Union so
deeply interested,no one has accused them
yet?
The ladies Of Davenport who have
managed the public library of that city
during the past five years propose to sur
render the management back to the gen.
tlemen.
They are having a three handed fight
over city Offices in Freepcrt. Hen. E. l..
Cronkrite, late democratic candidate for
state treasurer, leads on the democratic
ticket for Mayor.
It's pretty hard work for the Organ
to 90 over to the republican party, but as
the communists of Chicago have gone
over to the republicans the ultra element OF
the organs followers vii! have to go.
The Union has recovered and is hap
by over the nomination OF straight repub-
licans for supervisors in South Rock Island
and Black Hawk townships, while the
prospects are excellent for the defeat of
| both.
"A notorious rough and bully, named
Tom Carroll, was shot Gad killed by a
policeman in Peoria on Sunday evening.
At the time of tho shooting he attempted
to get into fuss with the officer, used
threatening language and made teint of
drawing pistol, when the officer dropped
him.
Some one who signs himself "the
committee has published three column
hand bill addressed to the voters of Port
Byron in which q very feeble attempt is
made to defeat r. J. Bell for supervisor.
, While we have nothing to say in defense
of Bell, the attempt Of the committee" to
iDjure him is very weak affair. Such
anonymous attacks never do much harm.
The Muscatine Journal learns. on
what seems to be reliable authority. that
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern Railroad company, have determined to
: push our Muscatine Western out west, at
least as far as the coal field in Keokuk
! county, the present season; that the con
tracts for grading are partly let and that
preparations are being made for com
mencement as soon as the ground is settled
The Davenport Gazette says that the
father Of the baby found by Mr.. Barbee
and Mr. Henry Dart is wealthy citizen OF
Book Island Why not call his name il
30 certain about,it? The girl has worked al
the Burtis for the past ten months, suppose
you call the roll Of the boarders and see il
any are missing. To the best of our re.
collection Davenport is very wicked
city, and there is no need of the Gazette
coming to this side to look Up its pedigree.
"A young woman with some colored
blood IL her veins, living rs domestic with
family on the bluff, has recently become
the mother of child several degrees
lighter than herself The indignant query
now is, who is the father. This is one Of
those things that no fellow can find out
Davenport Democrat. Oh, yes, it can be
found out. IF you really want to know,you
can secure che seryices of ''the Elegant .
of the Union. He is perfectly at home on
that particular kind of inquiry.
The individual who sent rag baby to
the Union Office could not have had the
fear of a hereafter before him The
Elegant" has spent all day looking for the
father The sight Of baby now makes
rim dance with ioy,a visions OF a half col
umn ltem foat before his mourntul gaze.
He now sings
Rock G-by-Eaby
On the door step;
When the Union is ont
All the people will know;