The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-07

1t VIII cost cents for one of the new
postal money-ortlers for Il sum less than
$5, and the service is so extended as to
raise the limit of orders from $50 to
800. Persons will not be required to
fill out blank, but will receive an or
der payable to the bearer at any desired
mOney-oflice.
A novel question is agitating the resi-
dents of Tucson, Arizona. as to whether
a female who went through the mar
riage VOWS with a man on his diving bed
is maid or widow. The technical pro-
position is that the physician exclaimed,
just as the minister was pronouncing
them man and wife: my God, he's
dead
IL do said a young man at a Col
orado wedding. when the minister
asked if anybody knew any reason why
the couple should not be united. The
objector explained that the bride had
promised to marry him; but that was
not considered sufficient reason for
stopping the ceremony, which was con-
cluded amid the tittering of the assem-
blage.
1t is related that fine cedar planted
by the late Senator Hill, and in the
growth of which he took much interest,
began to show signs of disease stimuli
taneously with the prostration of the
senator, and that. in spite of the garden
er's.care, q few days after the death of
Senator Hill there was not Il green leaf
upon it.
A lawsuit in Fulton county, New
York, involved the sum of cents. A
man bought two penny pears, and ten
dered coin in payment. The seller
H. II.
said the coin he rendered was dime;
the seller asserted that it was Scent
piece They went to law about it and
the jury disagreed.
A San Francisco policeman who got
nothing but curses for rescuinga would
be suicide from watery grave is said
to have soliloquized: If you are crazy,
the world won't miss you; if you are
not crazy and want to put an end to
yourself, you are fool not fit to live. l
ought to throw you in again" Which
he did, and the lamp of the once rescued
mans life went out beneath the salty
water of the bay.
From being the dryest and one of the
unhealthiest towns in SouthwestGeorgia,
Albany has become, perhaps, the best
watered town in the State, and while the
country round about is as full of sickness
as ever, it has had very little, indeed, of
the customary sickness. All this has
been brought about simply by boring
two artesian wells.
Fifty drunken colored men from Coates
vile, Pa, descended upon a camp
meeting near Honeybrook and insisted
upon kissing all the bouncing colored
girls and fighting all the men who OBJ
iected A riot ensued, and in the fusil-
ade of pistol balls bad negro was kill
ed. Singularly enough, his name was
Togood.
Bishop Huntington is of the opinion
that one prolific cause of malaria lies in
the action of mill owners who draw of
their ponds or allow the water to run
off in dog days, leaving the bottoms with
all their filth and decaying vegetation to
poison the air around. As malaria is
on the increase in certain parts of Mas
sachusetts, it would seem that this mat
ter was proper subject for legislative
investigation.
According to the report Of the Scot
fish herring fishery for 1881, the yield
consisted of ], Iii, rs barrels of cured
behring's. This number has only once
been exceeded-in 1880, when l, 473, COG
barrels were obtained. In 1881 Ia, 80S
boats we're employed in the fisheries,
with 48, 121 men and boys, being an in
crease over 1880 of So boats and $50 fish
ermen.
The ex-Empress Eugene is about to
quit England, having bought chateau
in Styria for $300,0 900. She is mad be-
cause the queen showed so much atten-
ton to Cetywayo, the Zulu king, who
she considers responsible for the death
of her son. the prince. She is justified
in getting huffy, after the queen had
given her so much taffy. The idea OF
treating that colored brute with any
thing but kicks is repulsive to many be-
sides Eugene.