The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-07
NOTES HERE AND THERE.

-Tramps are scarce.
Business is at stand still.
Merchants report collections slow.
Court in session and lots of farmers in
town.
Regular convocation of Barrett Chap
ter tonight.
The idea that it is healthy to sleep in
a cold room Is played out in this latitude.
The widow of Lieutenant Benner, the
yellow-fever hero, will reside at Elgin,
ILL.,, permanently.
2Lovers of bivalves viii be cory to learn
that oysters2have advanced five cents
can on all grades.
Ed. johnson, the express messenger,
was pretty badly hurt yesterday, in the
Orion railroad smash-up.
The Union says Justice Chopper
turned in Sc. $40 to the city. At this rate
it won't take long to get the city out OF
debt
The Davenport Democrat says that
Tom Atkinson who was accused of rob-
bing DIR. Amin in Davenport last month,
was UOuuu OftI gColCiOaS
The ice on the river is said to be as
strong now as it was twenty years ago
when the locomotive lie CLAIR" was taken
to Iowa Oh the ice in safety. Now where
is your oldest inhabitant?
A correspondent from Buffalo, Iowa,
says that Phnegan the absconding clerk at
the glass factory at that place has not re-
turned. He leaves wife and FIVE children
there at the mercy of these storms. The
wife is daughter of leading brewery
man of Davenport.
The grand jury were in session to-day.
A number of witnesses we're present from
the country to testify in the case of DR..
W. w. Armstrong, of Andalusia, charged
with the murder OIL Hartman by NAL
practice about six weeks ago.
The appointment of receiver for the
Geo. L. Davenport property in Davenport
will be made this week The appointment
will date from Dec. oath. when the rents
of the blocks in litigation became due.
tits possible that if an acceptable receiver
is appointed, the Equitable Trust Co. will
accept him, and that the property will
continue to be administered by receiver
| for some time TO come.
Ten dollars reward for one of those
individuals. dead or alive, who predicted q
great financial crash when resumption day
came. - Chicago Democrat He is here
boarding at the Harper House. And The
reward business is just in his line. HI
once offered ten dollar reward and whet
the reward was earned, be pa pay No, III
kept it.
The Rock Island Paper Co.. whose
new mill is at Milan, started up their waite
wheels yesterday, and, by the time the en-
gines were properly furnished, the wheel
had come to dead stand. There was
consultation. Before trey will be able t
get much more water upon those wheels
will be necessary TO settle little question
of water aud title thereto under the law 0
riparian rights
The annual festival ofthe Burns Gu
of Davenport will be held at the Germa
Theatre on Saturday evening, Januar
oath The anniversary of Burns birth
: on the 25tE, but as the 25th is Sunday tn
preceding day was selected on which t
hold the reunion. -DaU Democrat.
Now this Is pretty item Of news, isn't
Will some member of the Burns clu
tell the Democrat when the festival wi
be held, and also present that Office wit
e an almanac.
Brick Pomeroy's Chicago Dem0crC
has faded since the election. The reput
licans have no further use fer him to o.
e ganize greenback clubs 10 this state, 40
it is now reported that he has purchase
the Lacrosse Chronicle, and will betak
himself again to the Badger state II
F.. assisted in making the election of Loga
to the United States senate possible, no
c why cannot the republicans give him som
foreign mission and save our neighborin
state the reported inaictlon2
The pre- sident Of the Woman's Reli,
> Society calls for meeting of the Officer
of the society to decide what shall be dor
t with "a liberal donation which has bee
! made to the society" Last winter SON
s $500 was donated to the relief of the poo
r as the proceeds of the Harper House bal
j In the absence of any statement to tt
!. contrary, and understanding that create
r portion Of this 5000 was loaned out instea
of being distributed to the poor at II
time; aud, as the president of the w
, mans Relief Society. does not give Il
s name Of the liberal donor. suppose we IS
that the liberal donation" is the une,
pended balance of this 5000. Everyol
would feel better TO know that the poor al
being relieved with this money than tht
it is still loaned Dat"
County Clerk Cook tells of Iawyt
of this city who rdshed into his iii 80 II
G other day and wanted to know why the f
bill in certain papers had not been II &C
9 out The clerk replied that he could nj
] find the papers; that some one had take
them away and had not returned then
t The lawyer did not think this was much
: an excuse, but when after inquiry it W;
found that this same lawyer had taken Ii
papers and failed to return them, thel
. was no further complaint. Cases of tn
kind frequently occur, aud SO to break u
the practice the clerk has secured the Sc
vices of ferocious bull dog, trained I
seize the coat tails OF any attorney VII
, tries to purloin papers, or tails to put booE
back in their places AS soon as the do
has got good grip the offender is COZ
iTonted by a nan with seven shoote
The attorney who can successfully ''bo
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