The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-16
NOTES HERE AND THERE.
ice cutting still continues.

is expected back tomorrow.
The ice now being cut is deterioriating
fast, still it is better than none.
H. Ell. Grover has been elected Cap
tain of Company A. Fourteenth Battalion.
-Haverly's colored minstrels performed
in Burtis' Theatre, Davenport, last even
ing to full house.
j. c. Cameron was busy to-day near
the ferry wharf-boat. preparing a boom
for the use of same.
Religious services in tee United
Presbyterian church at 7:30 o'clock this
evening and to morrow evening.
A marriage license was Used to dav
from the Office of the county clerk to
Milton Boyer and Mrs Anna Beatty.
Meeting at the reform Club rooms,
Palace Row at the 7:30 o'clock this even
ing. All friends of temperance are inyi-
ted
DIR. Plummer went to Yuma this af-
ternoon to reset the jaw of John W.
Palmer, it having accidentally been put
out of position.
The Central City Stove Co." have
received some of their patterns from Troy,
n. Y, and are getting ready to put them
to practical use.
A team was left standing on Market
Square yesterday from about eleven o clock
in the morning till late in the evening with
no one to look after it.
The vendor of writing paper had a
: large audience at the corner of Market
Square and Second avenue this forenoon.
His stentorian tones could be heard two
blocks off.
The seven prisoners released yester-
day evening by the County Court, left fer
Happy Hollow by the night train, accom-
panied by their husbands and other rela-
tives.
The Florence troupe came in this
morning. over the c. B. & @. railway,
from Clinton. Iowa, where they played
last night to a crowded house, and are
stopping at the Harper House.
On Saturday evening Messrs. Louis
May and H. Burgoger, representatives of
Rock Island, will leave, for Chicago TO
attend the District Grand Lodge No, {,
IL, Q, B. B. which com euoes its thirteenth
annual convocatioD on Sunday next
Mr.. Bowlby, the manager of the
branch store Of ". W, Kimball & Co.,
Chica go which rs being opened IN the Harper
Housa block. was busy to- day receiving
his stock. 4 number of foe pianos and
organs have come to hand
Judge Adams, Of the county court,
is still occupied ia hearing The ease Of the
estate of Hazard p Webster. Mr. Curtis,
of Curtis i Peasants. appears for the
petitioner, and Mr. O'Neil, of Osborn
Curtis Il O'Neil, for the heirs OF Hazard
P. Webster.
On Thursday, Thos. J. Saunders
was brought before Justice Chopper,
having been arrested by Officer Brennan,
on peace warraus sworn out by his wife
Mrs, Harriet Saunders, The charge was
beating and threatening to kill. The case
was continued for 10 days.
County Treasurer Reid has received
the following payments of taxes of 1879:
Thos. Il. johnson collector of Rock Island
$99.99, Jan, .; Foster Armstrong OF
Bowling $50 Jan, IA; Joseph Burdiek
LOT Andalusia. 500. Jan. Is; Theudas
Ward, Yuma, 500, Jan. I6.
From the Musca'ine Tribune We learn
that WyIie Dillon, highly respected
young farmer living near Illinois City has
been out of his mind since before New
Years when he partook of drink from
a stranger who is supposed to have drug
ged hin for the purpose Of robbery. Nj.
Dillon is well cared FOR but his mental
conditlon is such that be may have to be
sent TO the Illinois Hospital for the insane,
for scientific treatment.
There was pleasant wedding party
ia the parlors of the Rock Island House
this afternoon. the parties being Thomas
Holland, aud Miss Mary A McCausland,
both of Orion. Henry county. Justice E
c. Chopper oficiated and performed the
ceremony which made the couple man and
wife. Mr.. Holland is q farmer, and for
several years has been il that business
with Ms. Fred Ward. of Orion The last
| named gentleman was present at the cerc-
mony. The young couple have the best
wishes of The ARGUS for success.
The services of Justice Chopper were
in requisition this morning to perform the
marriage ceremony at the Armory. The
bride was Anna Beatty. later Anna Clay
ton, and known in certain circles as Mrs.
Annie Smith; the groom was Milton
Boyer, railroad man. IL appears Mrs.
Smith resides on Twenty second street.
| between Third and Fourth avenues, and
com plants have from time to time been
made that the establishment was not
strictly such as was desirable in the neigh
borhood; consequently Officers German
and Metsch made descent upon it last
night, and found Boyer, who admitted be
was living there. and as his relationship
with the woman, was suchsas the law does
not recognize he was escorted to the
Armory and passed the night there, al.
though he declared his intention of making
matters legal 10 the morning. Mrs. Smith
was allowed to remain at home, on he