The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-19
ALL SORTS.

A statistician in the Peoria National
Democrat estimates the population OF Peo-
ria and Fulton counties at 100 900 people.
He also gives tabular statement OF the
members of evangelical churches in the
same counties, which makes their entire
membership to be only 1901. Instead OF
sending of sending missionaries to the
heather, they should be diverted TO Peo-
ria and Fulton counties. - GaleSburg Plain
dealer.
The Quincy Herald says. There are
two sorts of citizens. One can't take any
chance in an enterprise unless guaranteed
big pay for his influence, the other opens
his pocket book to all efforts for the city's
prosperity. The former is the city's curse
the latter it's glory" We suppose this
this was written for the admonition of
the people of Quincy, but it may be ap-
piled to other places. -Macomb Journal.
It begins to look as if the closing part of
the league race was to see big struggle
between Boston and Providence for the
championship, for Chicago has terribly
hard work in store for her to win any
more games in Boston and Providence. not
to mention Buffalo. The fight for last
place must be between Troy and Cleve-
land, and Ferguson is not going to be left
out In the cold in this struggle. Brooklyn
Eagle.
A very curious play was made In the
ball-field lately. Carpenter was on third
base and Dorgan on second. Dreamer bill
little pop up over the short-stop's head
and Carpenter fearing catch, did moi
run, while Dorgan bowled along to the
home-plate, reaching there before "Hiek,
who was put out at the home base. The
, umpire then decided Dorgan also out fol-
I, running in ahead Of Carpenter. Thu
decision created quite breeze among thu
{ audience, but was undoubtedly according
to the rules.
From the Weatherford, Texas, Exponentl
A lot of COW boys captured four hors
thieves last week. seventy-fve miles ives
: oil Initial mountain 10 the Pan Handle
and secured with them forty.two head @
. horses which had been stolen from Wis
county. One of these thieves is a TexaE
= and the other three are some of the Globe
Democrats pets whose deeds are bein
g daily heralded as those of Texans-one c
them being from Missouri, one from Mict
9 igan, and the other from Illinois.
a From the missouri statesman.
Many years ago the late DR.. VIM. NJ
= Clure father-in-law of the late John W
q Harris. was Wing candidate for the les
islatura in Boone. During the speech 8
;. q county barbecue he announced, anon
Il other things, that he was an humble SO
of Esculapius; whereupon voter who wa
C sitting in the crowd on the grass turned
]. those near him and asked, who in h
e. did he say his daddy WASP"
G from the Boston PoaI
=, The South is more solid than at an
70 time since the war. She will raise tn
: year about 100000 bales Of cotton, 200
e 900 hogsheads of sugar, and nearly 900
'e 600 900 pounds of tobacco, This willhbe
d half million more bales of cotton, twice 6
much sugar, and 100000 more pound
eff tobacco than che ever raised before.
- ''PinS-eye" is the name given to a di
;" ease which has broken out among the no
D. ses at Hartford, Conn. 1t usually follow
le excessive warm weather, with sudde
10 changes, and is very much like cold.
:, settles on the lungs, and produces congo
g ton of the bowels, and if the horse is kel
at work the complaint soon kills him, fl
l. he loses his appetite, and the joints of t
Z legs become much swollen,
s. Six young women are spending Augu
N in six tents, near Northwood, n. II, On
4 one man is tolerated in the cam
~ and he tis a servant. For diversit
ID they fish, row, ride, shoot at
at marx, play games, read, sing and iroli
The camp is called Gumption, each of Il
4 party is "Gump l." or "Gump ., and
on,