The Rock Island Argus., 1881-05-09
NEWS NOTES.

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| in addressing that august body, began
| My fellow statesmen" His bill passed
Colorado has twenty-six Protestant Epis-
eopal churches. and unlike many in the
| older states, they are all free from debt.
The Presbyterian assembly, which meets
at Buffalo on May 10, will have $50 mem
| bers. The church has III presbyteries.
! 5,O14 ministers, 5,489 churches, and 578,
! Ell communicates.
Miss Kate Field has been elected presi-
dent of the cooperative dress association
| by the board of directors. Her first duty
win be to affix her signature to 5000 certi-
fcates of membership.
| George W. Childs' Philadelphia Ledger
has become famous for its obituary poetry
He is now adding new features to marriage
notices. Here is one of the latest: mo
cards! Nobody's businessF7
According to the Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS
Miss Bette Green, of Forsyth county Ga,
has two silk dresses which she made her
self, having raised the worms, spun the
silk, colored and woven it with her own
hands
New Orleans and Vicksburg, 243 miles
apart, are connected by telephone, and the
| Nicksburg merchants thus order goods
from the Crescent City. The plantations
along the river are also being connected in
the same way with New Orleans
The New Haven Comm Register wants
it understood that if there has been anv
stealing on that star route where the CON
| tractors have William H. Barnum for
bondsman, the government is amply secure.
because Barnum is financially sound.
In Philadelphia church weddings are no
longer fashionable. The style is now to
have the ceremony take place at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, and then the
happy couple take a wedding tour in
street-car to their new abode
Dennis Kearney is beginning to fret
under restraint. Having laid up a hand
some sum, he wants to enjoy it. A west
ern exchange says that he lately began a
S10,0 house, but his hackers broke UP
the plan, telling him it was too early vet to
show his hand.
Mauritius, though not larger than an
average English county. has an annual
public revenue exceeding zoo, 900, and an
annual trade Including exports and i'm
ports valued at nearly 96,0O0,0 900 Thus
..the Malta Of the Indian Ocean" as it was
called by NJ. Thiers, while ranking as a
first naval and military station with
Gibraltar Malta, Hong Kong, and Bermu-
da, is also a wealthy colony, carrying on a
valuable trade with Great Britain and Brit
ish colonies.
The landlord of the ST. Cloud Hotel
Louisville, received the following telegram
Tell James Grow to take the young lady
to Jeffersonville and get married before
midnight all viii be up" He learned
from the clerk that Grow was guest of the
house, had gone to the theatre. He has
tened to the theatre, and induced the
tween the acts, that if Crow was in the
house he would raceive information by 60
ing Immediately to the box office Grow
responded promptly to the summons, and
lost no time in taking the girl to Jefferson
vile, across the State line, where they
were married. Her father arrived an hour
too late to interfere.
Leo XIII appears to be decidedly en-
igmatical parsonage, if we may trust the /
account given of him by the Roman cor |
respondent of the Cologne Gazette. The /
most striking fact about him 50 far ap-
pears to be the slight extent to which his /
character is known either by the faithful I
at large, or the inmates of the Vatican
Everyone knew how Plus IX lived his |
hours were all allotted beforehand and .
the same duties always performed at the /
same moment There is a total want Of
this regularity in his successor. He keeps /
late hours, and has sometimes been found
by his servants at his desk in the early
half dazed after writing through
the night. He has all his meals served to
him in the greatest privacy, is much more
5paring in audience than Plus, and even
his State Secretary and the Cardinals can
0nly see him at irregular intervals. One
hing is clear, that Leo means to be mas
.er in his own house, but the exact aim
md tendency of his policy is by no means
,qualiy evident.