The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-10
ALL SORTS.

A Iu-year-old boy at Newport, Que
bee. went out and hanged himself rath-
er than set the table Tor supper.
The grave of Cen. Braddock. de-
feated near Pittsburgh in ITS, is a few
miles east of Uniontown, Fayette coun-
ty, on the old national pike. There is
no monument or stone.
"A girl 8 years old, nc Newbaryport,
Mass, got mad because her mother
wouldn't give her two cents recently,
and shot at her with pistol The ball
struck the stove pipe and the mother
tainted.
The wild blackberry crop OF Clarke
county. Washington territory, has
been immense this year. 1t ia sesti-
mated that no less than ten thousand
bushels Of blackberries were picked in
Humboldt county, California.
George Smith of New Brighton. Sta
ten island, recently returned from a
four years whaling voyage. He re-
ports that his boat captured ninety-fye
whales, which made $500 barrels of
oil, worth abont SIG, 600.
The wife of the Rev. Bryan o. Malley,
Church of England divine, has OBJ
tanned separation because he kicked
and beat her. During the trial it trans
pred that the clergyman's mother un
derstood no language but Irish.
At Omemee, Canada, they have
curious plant grown from a seed sup
posed to have been turned up with the
earth taken from well at the depth
OF fifty feet. 1t resembles century
plant, and is nearly seven feet in
height
A policeman saw a woman digging
in her garden at Paris, KY, before day
light She was not noted for indus
trious habits, and therefore he covertly
watched her until she brought out a
box containing $20,0 900, the proceeds of
recent bank robbery.
There is a speculative feeling among
oil men in Sarnia CONT and vicinity,
owing to the superior quality of oil
which is taken from the new oil well.
The company have already been of
fered contract at 81 per barrel for all
they can produce of the same quality.
Trouble is likely to arise between the
town of Niagara Falls and the Canada
Southern. The railway people are &C
customed to transferring their passen-
gers directly across the river, thereby
depriving the town of a great amount
of money that otherwise would be spent
in Canada.
Several fin-back whales have recent
~ appeared in the bay of Monterey, Cal
ifornia, and the Whaling company was
at last accounts preparing to resume
operations. The fishermen are having
great luck in the bay at present, more
than a ton of rock cod being shipped
to San Francisco daily.
A bunch of wheat grown on the farm
of Jerry Despair, near Pendleton, Ore,
apparently from q single seed, consists
of 1872 stalks, each bearing full head
of wheat. What was taken to be an
average head shelled out sixty-three
well developed kernels. Hence that
mother grain has yielded S.316-foid.
Two negro women living at Sharps-
burg, Cowatta county, Ga. lately
whipped three children. aged 5, 8, and
2 years, until their little bodies were
frightfully lacerated from head to foot.
Two of them have died, and the brutal
| women, who are aunts of the children,
have been arrested under charge of
murder.
A girl of Is, while on her way to
church at Preston. England, to be mar
| ried, was murdered by her betrothed.
She was induced by him to go into a
public house, He there cut her throat,
| nearly severing her head from her
OOQJ. ne was db OuC6 s-LECStou. Ou0
| was pregnant by him.
The returns of the fve emigration
agencies of Ontario show that for the
| first six months of the current year TO-
034 immigrants have settled in the
province, as compared with 9,142 for
the corresponding period of last year.
For the seven months ending with July
the total number was 1905, as COM
pared with II, 082 for the correspond
ing period Of last year.
A baId-headed eagle lowering over
Sir Johns island, Canada, suddenly
swooped down and attempted to carry
off q 2-year old child of MIR. John
Clancy's playing in q field alone. The
light clothing gave way with every tug
| of the voracious bird, and was torn in
/ to ribbons. Some men working near
! by came up in the time to save
child from injury. but the eagle refused
to go any distance away until shot at.
Paul Gregory, M. D., writing from
Hermosillo, Sonora, says: every mean
thing have known to be done, during
| stay of nine months in Sonora, has
been perpetrated by American adven.
turers, who have flocked to the country
| by thousands in quest of railroad work.
the rich mines, and pretty girls; fol-
they all want to marry Us soon as they
get there. but they find it not as easy 8
/ thing as they supposed. All the troub-
/ les are brought on by such men"
Jacksonville, (Ore.) Sentinel: For the
past week or ten days number OF
Cinnamon have been engaged at the
| Jacksonville cemetery exhuming the
bones of dead Cinnamon, preparatory
to shipping them to the Celestial en-
pire. About fifty bodies that have been
| buried five or six years are being taken
up, and the bones of each placed in
separate sack and labeled with the
name of the deceased. These sacks
are afterward placed in boxes-so many
sacks to each box-and then they are
ready to be shipped to China. It is O
| CHASTITY process.
/ A pet fox escaped from the premises
OF DIR. Smelling at Richmond, Va, q
few days ago, but had not gone far be-
tore several hounds in the neighbor-
hood scented him, soon got on his trail
and in d few minutes regular fox hum
was extemporised on the streets, in which
it seemed that every dog in the city
whether of high or low degree, joined
After half an hours noisy chase. Reyn
ard was run down. and was only savet
from being torn to pieces by the oppor
tune arrival of his master, who held &
bag open, into which he rushed speedily
/ Statistics recently published show
that the process of subdividing thf
great plantations of the south is going
| I.a mildly forrvard In .MiSSigSipDi fOl