The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-08
BREVTTIEs.

BREVTTIES.
| No marriage licenses were taken on
yesterday.
The supervisors will meet early in Sep
TENDER.
The public test of the new water work
will be conducted next Monday.
The Chicago Laundry is open and ready
| for business, at 314 18th street. If.
Coles circus exhibited at Davenport thi.
| afternoon.
James Roche was released from the stone
pile last night by order of Justice Cooke
The City Clerk was engaged this after
noon in paying off the city employees.
The directors of the library board failed
to hold a meeting last night, on account OF
a want of a quorum.
Judge Peasants will hear the evidence
in the Vetter- Tendall Injunction case to-
morrow morning.
Tomorrow evening Patience" will be
given at Harper's Theatre by the Chicago
Church Choir Company.
N. Bush was fined 81 and costs yester-
day by Justice Halves for an over indul-
gence in the Intoxicating liquids.
A teachers certificate was issued to
Miss Clara Plumber of this city, last Mon
day,
The death "f Mr.. Nathaniel Folsom oc-
Cured last evening. at his residence on
Fourth avenue.
The members of Everts Commandery
will hold a camp on Big Island the latter
part of the present month.
The appropriations for street work are
about exhausted, and very little work will
be accomplished from the prenent time.
The meeting of the city council last
evening attracted large audience in the
lobby. The electric light tower location
did not come up for consideration.
Ellsworth, prisoner at the county Jail,
was released this morning, after serving
out his sentence for carrying concealed
weapons.
The democratic voters of Hampton
township will hold their primaries next
Saturday evening, when they will name
delegates to the county convention.
An excursion from Mendoza will visit
this city on the nth of the present month.
The affair is under the direction of local
post Of the G. A. R.
A game of base ball was played yester-
day between the Phoenix and the Wide
Awake hose boys. The former came out
victorious, the score standing % to 9.
The young lady victims of the runaway
last Sunday are all improving as fast as
could be expected. Miss Levy who re-
ceived the most serious injuries, is also
thought to be out of danger.
A large amount of stone has been placed
in the yard adjoining the city armory, and
the rock pile will be started as soon any
prisoner is secured who is unable to pay
his fine.
A young cooper by the name of Hoffman
has been missing from this city since the
18th of last month. His chest of tools are
now at the boarding house of Mrs. Shack,
on Second avenue near Twentieth street
G. Bowman appeared before Justice
Cooke last evening to answer a peace
warrant which had been taken out against
him. No case was made out, and the
accused was discharged.
The ceiling of the office occupied by the
Circuit Clerk is in a damp condition, rem
dered so from the water thrown on that
building during the fire of last winter. |
Unless some steps are taken to improve
the condition of that Office, the records and |
books generally viii be greatly injured.
The Rock Island and Milan street car
line will be completed and in running
order by the list of September, as the con-
tract calls for such completion by the |
latter part of the present month. The |
pavilion of Black Hawk tower will also |
be finished at the same time.