The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-28

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Weighmaster Eggleston was able TO be
down to his office for an hour last even
ing.
The grass in Union square has braced
up again after the republican tramping it
got.
The Jollities meet at the residence of
Frank L. Bowen this evening, corner of
second avenue and Ninth street.
Parties from Chicago say that peaches
are coming in there by the car load on
every train from the south and are sell
ing for song.
Mr. Ben Harper is kc g close at
home these days. He does not feel well,
still he is better than he has been for some
time.
Mason's jars, quarts and half gallons,
at Henry Lamps.
The Sheffield base ball club has tele-
graphed that it cannot come here ON Sat
urday Therefore there will be no game
on the park that day.
The Misses Carse and Miss Cunningham,
of Pittsburg. Pa, who have been visiting
the family of ex Mayor Carse, of this city,
returned to their eastern homes this
morning
| Young Ransom Gable went east on the
$50 c., r. |. & P this morning.
Hunters are getting ready for the
slaughter of prairie chickens, which will
begin soon. The young chickens are very
plump this year.
j. ID. Thorp, of Drury, was around
town today. He reported the farmers in
his part of the country as being nearly all
through with their threshlng.
The new crossings on Second avenue
between Wheaton's drug store and the
postoffice building are to have arched iron
crossings over the cutters.
Drs. Morgan & McCandless, dentists.
Frey & Sergeant yesterday presented
the ARGUS office with huge water
melon that weighed just forty pounds,
and to say that the ARGUS force done jus
tice to it would but feebly express it.
Fresh oysters, at Vests.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ Miller, of Rey,
nolds, arrived in the city from a trip tc
Pennsylvania, this morning, They have
been gone six weeks and have had a fine
time visiting relatives in Philadelphia and
elsewhere in the Quaker state.
Charles Ntzhugh, the night clerk at the
Harper house, is once more in his accus
toned place, having returned from his
pleasure trip northward. He had fine
time and looks as though the trip had
done him good.
A drunken man with huge valise was
anxiously looking for the Mayor last
night. He wanted to deposit his proper
ty with the Mayor and expressed the
opinion in tangle foot language that il
wouldn't be safe elsewhere
Robert Wagner's broken arm, which he
broke by throwing base ball with toe
much vim, is getting along reasonably
well, though he has not as yet ventured
to remove it from the sling, 1t has now
been over month since the accident tool
place, but Mr. Wagner believes in letting
the bone get fairly grown before using his
arm.
When you want reliable fire, life cy-
clone and tornado insurance at low rates
call on W. L. Coyne, corner Seventeenth
street, and Sd avenue. d3m
MIR. j. c. Young, who is now in Gaines
vile, Texas writes to Mr.. George Alter
telling him of the gloriousness of the
country, the abundance of democrats, ant
other encouraging news. Among othel
things he says that Martin Prick has fur
nished 10000 brick for the opera house
which is about completed
Sheriff Reticker went out to the poor
farm today TO see about the insane peo-
pie who are to be removed to Kankakee
next week. There are large number OF
mildly insane people at the poor house
and those who will be most Immediately
benefited by change will be first re
moved.
E. W. Hurst represents the leadin.
American and Foreign Insurance Co.'S
Policies carefully written at current rates
Agency established 1874. Office owe
, Rock Island National Bank.
Meigs Wait, the veteran shipper of liv,
stock, of Reynolds, came in from Chicago
this morning, where he sold big load o
hogs yesterday for $500 per hundred
weight. Mr.. Wait is heavy shipper
He took up two patches of hogs this
week. To one man he paid so, 45O, ant
to another $2.70O, total, $3.50, and he
made money on the investment