The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-05
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u The Firemens' Tournament closed at
/ Quincy last Thursday. d .aa ss10d2
! The Bloomington milkmen have agreed
to sell Il quarts for dollar. -
The school for feeble, minded children,
at Lincoln, was reopened Thursday.
City Marshal Stone. of Blooington, has
resigned, and win become merchants
police. @ s. .
| Eureka boasts of big bonanza in the
shape of a fourfoot vein of coal at depth
of 204 feet.
| A new post, of the Grand Army of the
Republic has been instituted at London
Mills ae'z' scf l@EatF r
The twenty eighth annual convention of
the Fulton county Sunday school associa-
ton will be held at Vermont, September
9th and 7th. f>s1 /. @
| A 1ynching is said to have occurred at
Dongola ILL.,, the victim being man who
killed neighbours child by whipping it.
In Decatur the prices per ton for hard
ceal are $3.50, and $3.50. soft coal, $3.50
at the Decatur shaft, or $500 per ton de-
tlivered. 20 IL
The democracy of Cass county have de-
cided to hold convention on Saturday,
Oct. Isl, to nominate full county, ticket.
The Pike county Agricultural Board
will hold its thirteenth annual fair at the
grounds near Pittfeld Sept. II, IS, 10, 90
and 81.
/ Two petitions are in circulation in La
Sale for postmaster at that point. The
/ petition men are DR.. J. r. Corbus and
| Steve Forster
A young man named Rector obtained
verdict at Lewiston of $4,000 against the
Wabash road for having been forcibly
elected from train.
At Lake Bluff, ILL.,, Thursday, Mrs
Elizabeth g, Hibben, of Peoria, was elect
ed President of the Womans Christian
Temperance Union.
There is such demand for brick in Pc
oria that it is feared the contractor on the
Oak street sewer will have to suspend for
lack of material.
Fires were blown in at the Alton glass
works the first Of last week; and fifty blow
efs are now employed. Beer bottles, TASKS,
walls and other small articles win be manu-
featured.
Nation had two rainfalls IN August, and |
the %otal Of the year is only 19a inches |
against 10 inches last year to date. There |
was only one inch of rainfall in sixty one |
days of July and August. -
The banks Of the Illinois river, all the
way from Pekin to Peoria; are strewn with
dead fish, and gangs of men are engaged
in burying them: The cause is believed to
be the refuse from the glucose works and
distilleries of Peoria,
The centennial picnic of Mrs. Miraim
Graves occurred last Saturday, at Mag
nolia. Her relatives were present from
Iowa, Kansas, and from Livingston and
Ford counties, this state. With herself
there were five generations represented
herself, her children, her grand children,
her great grandchildren, and her great
eat-grand-ehildren, numbering in all 12s
souls. 9zE& -fz
1uC olbODlll8tOu l~SuUeT HIS tO1cTdDlA
reliable information that the Farley
Gridley breach of promise case has been
compromised. The case has been taken by
Miss Farley out of the hands of her law
yers' and it is understood that Mr.. John
Cheney, on behalf of Mr.. Gridley, has
effected a compromise, by which Miss Far
ley will receive in the neighborhood Of the
original compromise, So, 600, and dismiss
Canton Register: At point where the
Narrow Gauge viii cross the Peoria and !
road at London Mills, the |
grade of the latter road has been raised SO S
as TO make it difficult for the Narrow c
auage to cross.
The woods in the southwest part of Eu
,eka caught fire last Monday; and burned I
over quite large district, doing consider il
lble damage. Fences posts, rails, wood, : :
and everything in the track OF the ire was :.
Morren Higbie, with the mare Kate
Charley Sherman, with Kit
Sanford" and Charlie Babcock, with t
George Sprague, y left Canton Thursday t
or Des Moines, Dubuque, Ceuaf faplds u
md Cedar Falls, Iowa, to attend series Q
IT surf meetings. v
Deleuan Times: The high prices re- q
,eived for corn have brought most of the s
I'D crop into the market. 1t is estimated a
hat not over ten per cent. of the old | :,
;rop remains in the hands of the farmers :;
The present crop in this vicinity got lit D
lie ahead of the dronth and is in good con +,
Iition. Corn win be good property for / a
ome time to come. fS
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