The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-12
BREVITIES.
, river is on the decline.

The river is on the decline.
Circuit court is now in adjourned.
The board of supervisors met this after
noon.
The Square man will be presented at
Harper's theatre this evening.
The Sterling fair will begin on the 18th
OF the present month.
Criminal business will be taken up in the
circuit court next week.
The greenback senatorial convention
was held at Cambridge yesterday.
The democratic congressional conven-
ton will meet at Monmouth tomorrow.
The Knights Templar encampment at
Big Island commenced this morning.
A marriage license was issued this morn
ing to d. s. Mills and Miss Minnie Boden.
The petit jurors have been discharged,
owing to the fact that no cases are ready
for trial in the circuit court.
An excursion of colored people from
Galesburg will visit the city on the 9th of
the present month.
NJ. Stevens was adjudged insane yester-
afternoon.
Work on the tile floor at the post
Office was commenced on Monday. j.
III. Cleland & Co.,. have the work in
charge.
Teachers certificates were issued on Mon-
day to Miss Josie Mosher. of Andalusia;
and Miss C. Boney, Of Buffalo Prairie.
Work on the extension of the Fifth
avenue sewer was commenced this morn
ing by the contractor John Lahiff Jr.
The rousters of the steamer Pittsburg
Yesterday struck for higher wages while
that boat was at the Rock Island warf.
Their salary was raised to 80 per month.
A paper asking the pardon of w. A.
Meese who was sent to the pennitentiary
from Moline for appropriating his clients
money is now in circulation.
The Rock Island Baptist association
will meet at Reynolds tomorrow. A
number from this city will attend the meet
ing.
The Blues of Moline defeated the Golfers
of Bowelsburg last week by a score of IS
to II. Next Thursday the Stars and Blues
will play at Sylvan Island.
The fall season has commenced in earn
est. Loads of wood are now displayed on
the streets, and stoves are exhibited in
their most attractive shapes
The survey of ditch that is to drain
the Marshal pond and big slough in the
upper end of the county was surveyed last
week. Work on the proposed draining
conduit will be commenced at once.
A number of male vocalists from the
city will take part in the Harmonic con-
certs to be given in Davenport during the
winter
Dana Dorrance. the captain of the ill
fated steamer Jennie Gilchrist, which met
with the accident at the bridge last year, is
in the city making arrangements to raise
some of the machinery and anchors lost at
the time of the accident.
Ferris Tomkins yesterday plead guilty
to the charge of larceny of tobacco from
the store of II. Flaegel. He was sent by
the county court to the Reform school at
Pontiac for term of two years.
In the prob ate court yesterday the fol-
lowing entry was made: In the estate of
VIM. Wait, deceased. Inventory appraise-
ment bill and widows award filed and APP |
proved. Leave given administrative TO |
sell fatted cattle and fifteen acres grass in |
field at private sale.
The Mt. Joy, Scott county, Qowa) fair |
to-day and will last until Sat |
urday. These fairs are always first class |
and well attended, and the present one will |
be no exception to the rule. B. D Buford |
& Co., of this city viii be well represented, |
having fine display of sulky plows, cult
vators, stirring plows. etc, on the grounds. |
The goods win be handled by John La
Franz, who, it is expected, will come home |
with his pockets full of blue ribbons
POLICE POINTS.