The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-16
NEWS NOTES.

in her Washington home.
'The Sweet Singer of Michigan" is spend
ing the summer in Arizona.
Attorney General MacVeagh is seriously
i'll from prostration caused by the recent
intense heat.
The poet, Tupper, is II years old. He is
genial and he says of his enemies that they
are not worth answering.
The widow of the novelist, G. P. r.
James, is living at Green Bay, Wis. The
daughter has been visiting Oregon.
KThe Trustees OF Dartmouth College have
just conferred the degree of IL. D. on
Levi P Morton, United States Minister to
France.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, the sister of
Mrs. Hawthorne, is in failing health. Her
brother, DR.. Nathaniel Peabody, died last
| week in Concord, of paralysis.
Hon. Emery Speer, the independent CON
gressman from Georgia, and Glenova De
Morgan, daughter of DR.. Morgan, were
married last evening by Father Gull, of St.
Dominics church.
Bishop E. 0. Haven's son, DR.. A. c.
Haven, has been appointed surgeon on one
of the Pacific mail ships. Another of his
sons, Mr.. Q. E. Haven, is principal of the
public schools of Evanston, Ill.
Mr.. Moody the evangelist, denies that
Guiteau. the assassin, was in any way as
sociated with him in his ministry. He says
he always saw through the man, and believ
ed him to be dishonest and a little crazy.
Mr.. James B. Coleman, of Trenton, N.
J. celebrated his seventy third birthday on
Monday last He had his five children
dine with him. and when they turned their
plates they each found under them a pres
ent of $500.
The Rev. R. Rock, a United Brethren
pastor at Canton, Ohio, has been suspen-
ded for saying oh it"
Thirteen hundred sheep, with their shep-
herds, were recently overwhelmed by an
avalanche near Brigel, IN the Grisona.
By telegram from Foochow, the London
| Grocer learns that the first crop of tea this
season viii be some sixty thousand chests
| short.
The Empress of Germany is seriously i'll.
She has had to undergo an operation,
which at her advanced age is somewhat
critical.
According to the Cyprus Times, locusts
eggs, which would have produced $3.50,
472, 500 live insects have been destroyed
in the island during this year.
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Sir Julius Benedict ON June 81 gave at
| ST. James Hall, London, his forty sixth
annual concert-an experience that has
probably never been equalled by any musi-
| cian
In Lord Beaconsfields library is an edi-
ton of Walters poems which was at one
time in the possession of Edmund Burke,
and has his autograph, Edmund Burke
Beaconsfeld," on the title page.
The Hon G. g. Bredrick the new war
den of Merton College, Oxford, is a man OF
remarkable structure of teeth and jaw,
which has led to his being known through
out the university as Curius Dcntdtus.
The early publication is expected of an
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executions The scene which occurred al
that of the assassins of the late Emperor
has determined the government to take this
| step. In future executions viii be con.
Quoted within the walls of the prison, and
in the presence of limited number Of
specially appointed witnesses.
An archery club went out to practice al
Ensign's Mountain, Mo- Miss Matthews
had a lovers quarrel with Mr. Grace, and
when it came her turn to shoot at the tar
get few minutes afterwards, she sent an
arrow into the young mans breast. 1t was
all an accident, she said, and she was ever
so sorrJ; but he believed she meant to Kill
him, and had her arrested.
/ Two Italians closed their candy store a.
Savannah, Ca, paid the rent three months
in advance, told the owner that they wert
going to Italy to get stock of goods, ane
cautioned him to let nobody enter tht
premises until they returned. They hae
murdered a peddler, taken his $1,000, and
hidden his body in the store; but their in
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vented the discovery until the thret
months had elapsed.
The Rev James Freeman Clarke has
lately been preaching that Christ was the
| type of the coming man. whose psychology
cal and moral developments will qualif,
him to work the same or equal wonders at
/ tributed to the founder of Christianity.
i As considerable doubt is still entertained
as to whether the late Sultan was reall,
murdered, it has been suggested that hi,
4 body should be exhumed in order to ascer
tain whether it bears the marks Of violencs
Il described in the evidence given at ths
Il trial.
I AT Ascension Island there is church
The chaplain has been much troubled b,
the determination of many of his congrega
ton to take the front seats He lately pui
up notice saying that this privilege would