Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-08
The total receipt, Of the chicsg

The total receipts Of the Chicago and Al
ton Railroad for 1871 we're $j,37s ,092.
The store Of W. l. Jones, at Watseks
was entered by bargiArs some time Monday
night, and goods TO the value Of three, four
hundred dollars we're carried off.
Mf. +, NJ. Doyle, Shelby county, accord
ing 10 the Alton Telegraph, harvested 2,Osj
buShels Of corn of thiriy acres, and raised
Fl hogs which averaged a weight Of $50
pound each at thirteen months.
There are said to be over six hundred de.
linqueut administrators and guard ans ~
Jersey county, and the Probate Judge pro
poses 70 send the Sheriff after them unles,
they report aud settle within two weeks.
90 Wednesday afternoon, John Meken.
zie, a miner at work in the Ksnosha Goa
niue, about three mlleB south Of LASAle
waa instantly crushed to death by the fAl
Of al immense mass Of rock from the roo
Of the mine. Hi1 body could be rescued
only after blasting the rock, and was so
horribly mutilRted that It was found neces-
sAry TO remove IL in q sheet.
Tho Alton Telegraph shys:-Sinoe 1865
the river, at . point about eight miles below
this city, has cuG into the bank a distance OF
$50 feet, and the abrasion still continues.
The former stone levee OF the town Of MAdi
son ia nov an island in the river, nearly q
quarter Of mile from shore. The abrasion
IL caused by the swift current Of the Mis-.
souri, striking the bank at righ, angles.
A case Of poisoning occorred few days
ago, in Champaign, IN which three ladies',
Mrs Turbush and her daughter, and Mrs.
h. X. Groom, very nearly lost their lives
They partook freely OF some canned fruit,
the acid Of which had oorroded inside the
can and soon we're each seized with violent
pain aud became deathly sick. Physicians
were promptly called, VINO administered the
necessary remedies and they are oil slowly
recovering
A Pontiac correspondent says a most dis
graceful riot occurred al ibe school house
near Rock wood, on the line between AvocA
and Oswego, Sunday night, while Rev, Mr..
Hueston was holding religious service. A
number Of inhuman fellows, who are now
under arrest awaiting examination, broke
up the mectiag, tore up the books, and
smashed up things. carrying on their orgies
nearly al night. Some Of them made 80
assault on Mr. SturmGu. well nigh killing
him.
The Knoxville Republican Ia informed
that A J. Miller, Of Ontario township, on
The 22d instant shipped TO Japan three OF
the finest lambs ever sent abroad from the
United States, on the order OF Hon. Hor-
ace Capron late Commissioner Of Agricul
turs, Washington, now IN pl Dyed in the same
capacity by the japanese Government. The
lambs are Of the Lincoln stock, ten months
old, and weighed nearly too hundred
pounds sscb. The price paid here was
500 per head.
The Bloomington Leader gives an ac-
count Of = rather singular phenomenon, ~
follows: A few day ago we published az
account Of IN accident at Springfield, BY
which William Daniels, Of Normal, wa,
deprived OF his hand. IL seems that Mr.
Daniels did not know that his hand had
been cut OF until he got to the light III
thought his wrist had been bruised probably
by falling on the track. Imagine his sur
prise At finding his hand gone. After hi
wriat had been amputA,ed aud his arm
dressed, he complained that his thumb VA
pressed down in an uncomfortable position
In the palm OF his hand. On examination
Il was found to be true tina. his thumb VA
occupying the position be complained oil
and when Il was pu, in proper position Of
the hand the pain ceased aud has no
trubled him since.