The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-02
BREVITIES.
Minstrels tonight.

mic tomorrow at Davenports pasture.
The directors of the electric light compa-
ny will meet this evening.
| The band concert will take place tonight
at Union Park.
The temperance society will give sup
per at Ellis hall next Tuesday evening.
The police failed to make any arrests
| last evening or this morning.
The town board will meet next Tuesday
| afternoon.
The finance committee of the council
will me ct this evening.
Circuit court eonvenes next Monday af
| ternoon.
Fresh Milwaukee beer on draught at the
Massasoit. a29dtf
The painting of the Congregational
church will be done in few days.
Tomorrow will be train day on the c.
B & @
The Trinity and Mission chapel Sunday
schools gave a picnic at Bethel Island to-
day.
Next Tuesday the republican congress
siona1 convention of Gen. Henderson's
district, will be held at Sterling.
On the 18th of September the greenback
senatorial convention will take place at
Cambridge.
The first teachers institute will be held
this evening at the Office of Supt. Kemble.
Six applicants for teachers certificates
were undergoing examination this morning
before Superintendent Southwell.
The regular meeting of the directors of
the public library, will be held next Mon
day evening.
A marriage license was issued yesterday
to s. Brown and Miss Charlotte Carlman.
The work of filling the track of the Milan
street car line is progressing, and will be
completed next week
The Mercer county Scientific and Histori-
cal association will hold quarterly meet
ing at Aledo on next Tuesday.
All bills against the city should be filed
with the city clerk to-day to insure their
payment by the council on Monday
night.
The Lizzie Gardner was the only boat
that passed this port during the morning.
The Grand Pacific and Josephine are ex
pected up tonight. Tomorrow the Min
neapolis and Josie are due from above.
A female passenger on the c. r. l. & p
train yesterday afternoon, caused consid-
cradle excitement by suffering from a
spasm. She recovered before the train
arrived in this city
The widow of Harry O'Brien, baggage
man on the r. /. & p. railroad, who was
killed about three weeks ago, has been
presented by the officers and employees of
the road with about 1920.
The ARGUS job office has just laid in
large quantity of all kinds of stock, and is
prepared to fill the largest orders on short
notice and at reasonable rates Give us
q call
The old settlers of Illinois will have re-
union at Mt. Pulaski on Wednesday, Sept |
Is. A grand barbecue will be held, at
which eight oxen and over two hundred |
sheep will be roasted for the immense |
crowd which is expected.
J. d. Dusard, of St. Louis, was in the |
city last night making enquiries of the |
police concerning his son, who ran away |
from home two weeks ago. No trace of |
the runaway has been discovered.
The hour for evening service at the diff |
ferent churches has been changed to 7:30 |
o'clock. This is an indication that the
winter time table has been adopted.
During the month of August 210 docu |
ments were filed in the circuit clerks of |
flee. OF this number 81 were deeds, 81 |
mortgages, and 30 were of a miscellaneous |
character.
Complaint is made that certain parties |
allow their horses to run at large during |
the night, the horses breaking fences and |
otherwise doing considerable damage along |
First avenue.
The persons who are in the habit of |
eongregating on the court house porches
and eating the luscious watermelon, will /
get themselves into trouble if discovered |
by any of the deputy sheriffs. The latter
claim that the evening watermelon brigade
is nuisance.
Lena Dederick, was the name of small
pox patient who died in Davenport last
winter. The administrator of her estate
has entered suit against the city to recov-
err $4,000. The petition affirms that the