The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-11


10 Cambridge, ~@
Out door drill Of the Rodman Rifles on
Friday afternoon at 1850 o'clock.
-Pretender, winner Of the 1900 gui-
meas and Derby in 1869. died Aug. IL,
Five English bird slaughterers recent
ly killed 2,4l3 grouse, on Wemmergill
Moors. in two days.
The reports that Mr.. NJ. II, Sanford of
Kentucky is to abandon his thoroughbred
nursery are pronounced untrue.
British Ensigu, man-eating stallion
was shot dead by his owner, in Canada,
last week, while attacking bis groom.
Capt. Bogardus's European trophies
have been released by tae Custom House
authorities and sent to him at st. Paul.
-Four Italian climbers have. without
guides, assembled Mount Blanc on the
Italian and descended by the French side.
"A rich deposit Of coal, sufficient for
the supply of all South America for a
long period, has been discovered at Chala.
Alta. in Peru.
Capt. G. w. Halves, lett for Morrison
to-day to muster 10 6 company of militia.
The new company will be part of the
I4th battalion.
Up to the 9th ult. 6,676,5l3 visitors,
including both the solid public and the
deadheads, had entered the exhibition
buildings at Paris.
"A fight between a man and bear
was advertised in Montana, but a sheriff
interfered The man was to have been
armed with knife.
MIR. L. Mangin of Paris, in a recent
billiard match with Baron Polanco of Spain,
made the astonishing run of 45S points
around the table.
Don't forget the date Of the Fourth
Ward Company's dance-to-morrow night.
i The proceeds of delraying expenses of the
funeral of VIM. Sauerman.
The post of chief librarian at the
British museum, about 20 be vacated by
Winter Jones. has been offered to &. A.
Bond, now keeper of the MSS.
The colored people of this city and
vicinity will celebrate the emancipation o.
slavery, on Sept. 10th. Rev. A. j. Black
burn has charge of the entertainment.
"A japanese paper says that JapaE
has already 80 banks, and that 81 Others
are being established, while other 6uanc'
companies are applicants for official Ii
, censes.
There is q great falling IF in tn
nominations for the Saratoga stakes, re
! Gently closed, the five stakes showing
total of only 10 entries, against $40 fee
last year.
The stallion stake to be run for thi
fail in Kentucky is the richest 10 Amer
ca. The subscriptions for the stakes
with added money for 1880, now amour
to 1886.
The Academic des Sciences of Par
has elected MIR. Darwin q correspondent
4 member in the Section of Zoology, an
= Prof Asa Gray of Cambridge. Mass, i
: the Section of Botany.
8 An officer of the Troy Christian Ten
perance Association deems it necessary {
publish the explanation that be is not th
man of the same name who was fined *
drunkenness.
"A. Meriden Matchmaker has made
steam engine weighing only fifteen grain
The works are silver, and three drops
IL water are enough to keep them in motto
twenty minutes
J -Fraulein Fanny Berlin Of st. Peter
burg has obtained lately the degree
Doctor Juris" in the University of II
rich, after having passed frst-elass e,
E animation, !. e, SHnlanG cum laude,
, The managers of the Prospect Pal
: course announce that they will give S.
- 600 free-for-all purse at their late Octob
:. meeting. provided Rarus, Hopeful, Edwi
~ Forrest, and Proteiue will enter.
"A letter recently produced ia breas
# of pruuise suit as evidence contained Il
l. following sentence: Dearest lovs-I swa
"a loved the postage stamp on your lette
A because knew your lips had touched it.
e. " edding cards are advertised,
E. large type, in some of the Texas newsp
" papers. One couple filed half a coluu
Of with 40 announ cement of the ceremoI
ID aad an Invitation to their friends to O
u tend.
e. "A Chicago Losier claims great skill
adapting his wares to his customers. f
thin legs he recommends ringed stocking
for plump ones stripes, and for thick an
te les combined with lean calves be advis
v rings above and stripes below.
10 The season is uver at the summer r
$ sorts. the hotels being almost empty, at
- only few OF the cottagsrS lingsr. Sar
toga, Newport, and Long Branch ha'
been prosperous although landlords SO
d that guests have been very careful abo
1t expenses.
II. W. Jupp, an English cricketer, W
y recently killed by cricket tall that h'
d been thrown up to great height strikiI
. on his head Mr.. kempster, one Of II
/ best cricketersin ireland, lately received
a severe blow from ball as to paraIy
IS his lower limbs
= -Beecher is an object of great intere
4 in California. The specuiator who ba
l. gained to pay him $4,000 for ten lectur