The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-02-14
7goTEs HERE AND THERE.

-DelIghttul m0rnIngSs ITOeIy auu cfeafs
Plenty of people on the streets to-
day.
Pay day on the Mercer county road to-
day.
There is considerable floating ice on
the river.
The matinee brings the ladies out
rain or shine,
The Board of Education will meet
this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Maggie Mitchell played 10 Davenport
last evening to a crowded house.
The doctors are very busy at present.
Colds are the complaints just now.
Fresh eggs are plenty in the market
now, and selling at Is cents per dozen.
Davenport is going to have another
saw mill Crooks Point" is the site
selected.
1t took special baggage car to bring
Maggie Mitchelrs baggage over from Dav,
export this morning.
The c.. B. & Q. railroad have got oul
a neat little paper cutter, with the advan-
tages of the road printed thereon.
A marriage license was issued By
County Clerk Donaldson to William A.
Case aud MISS Fannie L. Dorrance oil
Port Byron.
This is st Valentines day, and the
excitement consequent, of sending anG
receiving valentines, has been consider
able.
The Maggie Mitchell company. viii
remain here till Monday morning, wher
they will 60 to Clinton, Ia, which is thu
next point where they play.
| Ed McKown for a number OF year
with Mitchell & Lynde, has resigned hi
position with them, to accept that Of book
keeper for MIR. e. G. Frazer. 10 Daven
port.
Vending the orator is going TO lee
ture 10 Davenport on the 26th inst, az.
arrangements are being made to furnish
conveyance to persons on this side of tb'
river, to and from.
Rev Theodore Holcombe, for man.
years rector Of Trinity Church in Roc
Island is settled as rector of St. Paul.
church. Evansville, Iud, His church ha
26O COMMITMENTS, fine edifce, and
handsome, nicely finished reotory,
/ In the card of thanks of DR.. 2. Greg
10 last evenings ARGUs-the words
my congress of the medical profession
etc., should read my conireres' etc.
was typographical error, which In the hur
~ OF reading proof. was overlooked.
This morning Marshal Hayes receiv
ed the following telegram from Erie. Ill
which explains itself: Please notify a
banks, that fifteen hundred dollars, i
notes were stolen here last night. drawn i
favor of Vim. Guthrie. If they should b
offered, arrest parties and telegraph me.
VIZ, GUTHRIE.
MIR. Geo. Turner, for so long a tims
with his father in the boot aud shoe bus
ness. leaves for Chicago this evening t
engage in some outdoor situation. Tn
step is necessary on the account of hi
health. We are sorry to lose George fTou
our midst but wish him all the success an,
health he may find in bis new field.
The willy Secretary of the Treasur
keeps his under official Hawley, known a
Censor of news. busy keeping before tn
country the fact that the national debt j
being reduced. The revenue receipts @
the government are now in the fneiRhb Dor
hood OF eleven or twelve million per mont
more than the expenses under the rule Q
the bold, bad, Southern BrigadierDem
ocratic Congress. Almost any 6nancie
Can pay debt when the money is furnish
ed him, Quincy Herald,
No further meeting of the Coumis
sioners of the Rock Island Steam Health
Co has taken place. but the project,
very we'll received generally among on
citizens, and those likely to become stock
holders. which comprise considerabl
portion of the conmunity-haveex espresso
desire to take hold of the matter heart
: ly. and have the matter fairly s,arte
without delay, 4 meeting of the incorpt
rators will be held as coon as possible, t
definitely settle arrangements as to detail
COW pending.
"A burglary is believed to have take
place at Erie last night or TO say the lea!
a rotbery-judRing from the inquire
rsic grsthed to this city. Conductor A
T, lard received telegram this mornin
asking him il there was anybody &c
ID bis train at Erie MIR. PoIlar
ans wered no Then another dispatc
arrived iDquiring whether man al
woman got on at Denrock, and he answer
ed there. were. These were probably tn
thieves. The above in conjunction vii,
the telegram received by Marshal Have
this morning will probably explain.