The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-23
DAVENPORT.
Illinois street is to be gravcled.

Illinois street is to be gravcled.
The city council will meet tonight
The police made four arrests Sunday
night.
There were picnics in two of the parks
yesterday.
The town was full of Sunday visitors
yesterday.
Business with the ST. James folks is
picking up
There were forty Sunday guests at the
Kimball house.
l.. d. Harnear. of New York, Sun
dayed at the Kimball
The Y. NJ. c. A. meeting was well at
tended yesterday afternoon
j. II. Lane leaves tomorrow for West
ern Iowa, on business trip.
A good many of our people took in the
e lcursion on the Josephine last night
Leon & Cushman's minstrels will be at
the Burtis opera house on Tuesday night.
The Knights of Labor are making prep
arations for grand time on the Fourth
july.
Company BIS new armory in the old
market house will be ready for occupancy
by the first of next month.
]. NJ. Howe returned last evening from
Danville, N. Y, TO which place he went
some time since to attend the funeral of
his mother.
A lot of kids were in the river swim
ming near the ferry dock yesterday after
noon. Where were the police?
Buck" Toer got full as goose yester-
day, and was making fool of himself on
Brady street, when he was run in by the
valiant peelers.
The police station has lately been re-
paired and presents han 1some appear
ance. The color is blue. 1t is one of the
coolest spots in the city hence its name.
the cooler"
Ed. Mcclure and John Monroe were
both drunk yesterday. They are both
toughs. They got to fighting while out
near the fair grounds yesterday, for which
they were run in.
The entertainment at the opera house
by Keene Saturday night was largely at
tended by the best people in the city. The
management of the opera house is to be
congratulated on securing such artists
There will be nothing going on at the
opera after Tuesday night until some time
in September.
The saloon men are determined not to
close their saloons after the Fourth of
July il they can help it, and neither viii
they. They say that they will sell no
whisky, but will sell lemonade and soda
water. If you want anything that is good
after July Fourth you will have to try
some of their lemonade.
N McKaack is picture man. That is
to say he is photographer. Yesterday
was his birthday and he came to the con-
clusion TO celebrate. He proceeded 10
| do so, but made such fool of himself
that the police had 10 take him under
their wing. He viii rest in the cooler
until this morning, when the good and
only Kramer will sit on him.
The following was the programme of
the Irish national league meeting held last
evening: Resume, John L. Miles; reading,
Mary E. Nolan; song, Mrs. Jas. F. Nc
Gowan. Debate, ResoEUed that Henry
Gattan did his whole duty in 1882;
affirmative, Thos. Sharon; negative, P. ].
Hagary. There was large attendance
at The meeting.
| Mike Hagar is regular devil. He is
if all we hear of him be true. Yesterday
he got full and declared he could whip all
the neighbors on Eleventh and Scott
streets, but the police came along and
snaked him in. By the time the peelers
got him to the station house, he was deaG
f drunk, and when we last saw him he wa.
laying on his back on the stone floor in
: the cooler, asleep.