The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-15
NOTES HERE AND rHERE.

Turner Hail to- night.
Capt j. j. Parks, has gone to Cinoin-
natl on legal business.
Remember the Trinity church fair at
Turner Hall, tonight.
Several loads of hay were left standing
on Market Square last evening.
r. r. Cable, General Manager q. IL.
L. u z. returned from the east last even
ing.
The funeral of Mr.. Joseph Franz
Haas, occurred to-day and was largely
attended.
The Plow Works Brigade will give a
ball 10 the new company building on Mon
day Dec. %.
beautiful Christmas presents. lnclud
ing some lovely dolls, at the Ladies
Festival at Turner Hall tonight.
DO not forget that the fair of the Ger
man English school begins on Friday.
Season tickets so cents good for four
nights,
Joseph Starkey and John A. Cress-
well, Of Bowling, were in Rock Island and
visited THE ARGUS office on Tuesday,
Come again.
Austin Donaldson. the county clerk,
drove lively matrimonial business on
Tuesday. Licences were issued to Sam
uel Dunnire. of Carbon Cliff. and Mrs.
Josephine Smith, of Moline; Charles
Hahn and Miss Fredrka Kindas, of Coe,
and Nathan A. Boyer and Miss Salina j
Todd, of Bowling.
New York city has a dozen jewish
milionaires. There are large number
whose wealth ranges from 100000 to
$500, 900, while at least 100 are worth
from 100000 to $500 900 each, aud TO-.
900 are worth from $4,000 to $4,000
each. They own an immense amount of
real estate
The mudhole on l4th street and Sec
ond avenue was fixed to day, so that it is
in passibe condition, 1t has been an eye
sore for some time. By the way, would
it not be a good idea for the county to
raise the sidewalk to its proper level2 At
present the sidewalk is from eighteen to
twenty inches lower than the street. The
city has done its work-placed good
crossing, now let the county fix the side
walk
In the retirement which he haa richly
merited as to quote himself anent the
four who wouldn't obey-the Judas Of his
party. the man who, with malice afore-
thought, beat Robinson in 1879, Mr.. John
Kelly will have the profound satisfaction
of knowing that he was made a mere
cats paw to pull Chester A. Arthur's
chsstnuts from the fire Its Il solacine
reflection for 8 fallen boss Chicdg
Times
The total receipts of the Illinois State
Treasury for the two years ending Septem
Der 80, 1880, were IS, 475, l49 90; expen
. ditures $685., 935 90. The total amount
of State debt, outstanding October /
1880. was 1921, 059II, of which 1913 6G(
has been called 10, but has not been pre-
scented for payment The amount of bonds
outstanding September 80. 1880. which
were issued by counties. cities. incorpo
rated towns. townships. and registered in
the Auditors Office was $lS,S88, 274,93.
How many people, proof-readers aside
actually read that that annual inevitable
The presidents message7 An eptsrpris
. ing reporter 10 Syracuse made il his bus
D mess to endeavor to reach satisfactory
answer as to his vicinage, and upon in
curing of two hundred and thirteen
intelligent persons. who read newspapers
daily, he found that forty-ons claimed to
have read the message: thirty said they
= had glanced at it; twenty-three had rsac
portions of it; one hundred and eight sale
they intended to read it; eight had moi
looked at it, and three declined to answer,
i, or The the one hundred and eight who
said they had not read the message but
had laid by the paper with the design of
doing so upon fitting occasions. it is safe
to say that fully sns hundred and eight
will never do SO. So far as the Syracuse
figures furnish data. they 20 to the con
frmation of the the general opinion tina.
the presidents message Is a document
more widely disseminated and more gen
orally unread than any other bit Of writ
ing. - Chicago Times.
Philosophers say that affairs should all
ways be conducted with view to the
Of he Ia