The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-23
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A company is being formed to develop
the Cahawba coal fields on the line of
+ the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad.
After the city of Worcester, Mass,
had expended $4,000 In erecting an
engine-house. it was discovered that
the city had no title to the land. rs
Many Boston capitalists are interest
ed in the Inverness Oil and Land COM
pany. of Nova Scotia. which has bought
twenty-five thousand acres of oil land
in Cape Breton.
at Big Greek. Ark, huge eata-
mount, caused q stampede among the
stock in large pasture. It followed
3 the cattle to the house, went into the
! yard, cleared OUT tue dogs, and then
went under the house for rest. a
gun was discharged and SO was the
catamount.
Waiter called Henderson, at the
eatinghouse, ..1this is the worst steak {
ever encountered; it's just like leather"
''Indeedi'' said the waiter, his face
lighting up with pleasure, 'I'm elad.to
hear you say so, sir. There is nothing
like leather, You know
The population of Eureka Springs,
Ark, is about fifteen thousand. Dur
ing the heated summer months it went
down probably to twelve thousand, but
now it is increasing daily. Brick chin
neys and plastered rooms are coming
! into fashion in Eureka Springs; so are
glass windows, in the rural districts of
Arkansas.
Suits against the Emma Mining conf
pany in Utah have been compromised,
and the working of the mife viii prob
ably be reCumed. This Emma mine,
through certain swindling operations.
became one of the most notorious in the
country. English parties lost large
sums of money in it, and that it is in
the hands of q new company, if any
richness should be discovered, there
would be a new howl.
The question who shall administer
the estate OF the late Mark Hopkins is
before q San Francisco court. Mrs.
Hopkins was lately removed as admin
istrator. The public administrator asks
for it. His application is opposed by
sented for the position by Mrs. Hopkins,
and he is opposed by Samuel F. Hop
kins, as Incompetent. The property is
valued at SIS, 900, 900.
Cap. Maxwell, a British naval officer,
who has been cruising with his ship in
the western Pacific, writes home that o
striking popularity of the E1lice island
ers is the entire absence of arms among
them. He did not see q club or spear,
or any weapon whatever, either in the
hands or houses of these natives. At
Ponapi, in the Caroline islands, he was
greatly impressed with the magnitude
and solidity of the residences of former
chiefs, now in ruins. On one isiet he
found four complete squares built one
in the other, with walls, some of them
thirty-five feet high and twelve thick. ~
BY the viii of the late Josiah Parsons
Cooke, of Boston, $500 is left for
monument ut Northampton, Mass, to
Maj. Aaron Cooke, one of the first
settlers Of Northampton. who died in
1890. Prof. Cooke, IF Harvard, son of
the testator. in compliance has ordered
a sarcopba9us of pink Quincy granite,
seven feet broad and live feet ten inches
high. A fac-simile of the original stone
is craven on the sarcophagus, and the
stone itself is inlaid lin the new monu-
mept
Water was being bored for at Wood
vile, jefferson county, n. Y. and when
forty.seven feet below the surface
fountain Of water ard gas was reached,
and The di'if. weighing six hundred
pounds. as thrown up, and the water,
thick with some iniGer;l solution, was
also thrown twenty-five feet in the air,
q large quantity OF gas escaping at the
same time. A pipe was inserted and
the well continues to 4loEy Six and
one-taif pounds OF water was boiled
down to one-fourth pounds, when it be-
came solid matter. which has a saline
pungeut taste, the latter resembling
that of sal ammoniac.
Tive lsftest crush in Idaho is to the
North Fork, about fifteen miles above
Kctchum, where ledge two and q half
feet wide of milling ore that assays up
in the thousands was discovered recent
". The discovery was purely accident
al. a pros ector slipped from ledge
of overhanging rock into the water. In
crawling on the bank he saw native
silver and copper stains protruding
from q crevice. A few minutes work
proved the existence of a ledge.
''Bobt;il ears" those which have
driver but no conductor, are command
ING the attention of the New York So
ciety for the Prevention of Accidents
Scanning sidewalks for passengers.
watching the fare-b9x and looking after
his horse, etc., is believed to be too
much for one man to do. 1t is con-
tended that IL conductor would lessen
the number of accidents on the tram
WAYS.
Miss Braddon in trying to bring
SCOTS novels within .sthe reach of the
poor and needy is not satisfied with
merely condensing them, The London
Saturday RccieaU says she has not only
abridged Scott, but has altered him. In
s.Rob Roy she has recast the plot,
suppressed whole characters, corrected
the Scotch and added touches to the
humor The Rer5etc says the Bradd-
oniZed story "opens with a ridiculous
scene, which for its folly would be
disgrace even to one of Miss Braddon's
own novels
! About mile north of Durango, a T.,
is q wonderful mountain OF solld IRON
ore called the Cerro del Mercado. Tho
ore is said to be entirely free from phos-
phor and sulphur, and to assay from 90
to 70 per cent. of pure iron. That part
of the mountain above the ground
measures 5, 250 long, 1.200 feet broad,
and 7O2 feet ligh. The iron produced
is SO soft that it bends and twists like
wax, and will bear comparison with
the best Norway.
In recent explorations in the foothills
of the Cascade range, Washington Ter
ritory. there was discovered in wide
ledge of conglomerate and trap rock
the petriiied remains of thousands of
fsh-salmon, smelt. and cod. In at
tempting to remove specimens of each
kind with implements at hand, they
were broken, and proved to be as hard
and white as flint ON the inside. The
elevation above the sea level is fully