The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-06

ILLxNoIs NEWS.
Malignant crop prevails in Blooming
Ton. GO
The Decatur fair@sas not financial
success.
The Peoria county poor house has 127
inmates.
The Winuebago county fair took in
$5.359. Is.
Quincy has horse disease similar TO
the spizootic.
The Champaign furniture factory is
again in operation,
Twenty>six marriage licenses ISSUED in
September, in Morgan county.
Wire fence sharks are fooling farmers
10 the northern part of the state.
OuIy ope whisky case on the docket at
the last term of court in piatt county.
The citizens of Urbana have been left
ia utter darkness by an action of the city
council.
The ticket office of the o. g NJ. r. R.
at Flora was robbed on the night of Sep
TENDER 29th.
The estates of 2. 3S4 deceased persons
have been probated in the Peoria county
court since its orgaraization.
The Wabash Railroad Company will
build depot costing 100000 at Peoria
| if the city will donate the land
The grain market at Cham paign stands
as follows: What, So cents; rye. IS cents;
oats, % cents; corn, 33 cents.
| Farmers in Menard county are pretty
we'll along sowing wheat. A much larger
acreage than ever before has been planted
There has been on exhibition in Chica
go a sample of corn from Delavan, the
stalk measuring sixteen feet from root to
| ear.
Says the Champaign Times of October
| ID: Detective Rittenhouse took in four
horse thieves last week, and it was ouly an
| ordinary weeks work.
| Several prairie schoonets passed through
Peoria with good outfits, going west. The
following was Inscribed on each wagon:
| Holiness to the Lord.
Mclean county has 27S school houses
and employs 499 teachers. paying them
$l07 ,633. The lady teachers. last year,
| pocketed 500 S79. and the men 43, 754.
Elk Representative Vasey, who, in the
last legislature represented Greene and
| Morgan counties, is making arrangements
to 90 into the mercantile business in Jack
| sonviile
| Nearly seventeen thousand dollars eff
! Cakes Arles' estate has found its way to
| Champaign, two nieces OF the great Mo-
bllier manipulation, who live in that city,
having been willed that amount.
| Tho latest sckocl law require the county
| superintendent to visit ali the school trea-
sureTs and personally inspect their books
and bonds. and find the exact condition of
the finances and school fund generally.
Chicago now exacts $3.50 for every cir
Gus performance given in that city, $50 Il
Gay Tor every side show and S25 for the
concert in the tent after the regular enter
tainment. Thus. a circus open afternoon
| and evening. with cay five eidesbog s,
must pay 1915 daily into the city treasu
Try.
I At Meredosia. as Harry Weischeimer
and James Anderson were rowing q skiff
below the bridge. large alligator gar
made spring at Anderson. who was sit
ting in the center of the skiff. and jumped
bottom of the boat, where be was captured
and killed. The fish measured four feet
and three inches in length and weighed so
pounds.
Some years ago the fayorite shade tree
in this section was the locust 1t was
hardy and easily planted Every one set
them out, and locust grove soon sprGrg
|up around every dwelling. Then came
the borer, and the locust is now almost q
thing of the past. Everybody then set
out soft naples. and these for time -four.
ished. But from present appearances
these too, have had their day. The little
white, cottony occoons that covered the
branches a year ago of cur down town
naples, hatched out q white worm with a
fat head and couple of jaws like an ice
hook These penetrated the bark, ani
bored channel in the tree between the
outer and inner bark. filing the whole
with sawdust excrement that is filled
with eggs, from which the moth are hatch
ed. Most of the naples in the city are
thus attached Peoria journal.