The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-13

The Huachuca Water company have
pipes laid TO Tombstone, Arizona Terri
tory, and will deliver water in a few
days. The source of supply is at the
Huachuca mountains, being the concen-
tration of several streams from the diff
ferent canyons from the mountains The
cost of the works exceeds 100000.
The London Truth is authority for
the statement that marriage has i'm
proved Sarah Bernhardt. She looks
better, acts better, and behaves better
than ever before. Her solemn-looking
Greek husband, either through his
strength of will or her weakness through
love, has succeeded in Transforming her
whole nature. He is the first man."
said she to friend, ''who ever made
love to me of whom l am afraid. He
can make me do what he likes
They had a good deal of trouble in
Montreal court, the other day, trying to
swear in Chinaman. He said he 'Ebe-
lieved'' in anything; that he no swearee
at alle;" and he didn't swear on a sau-
Ger. When asked if he was a Buddhist,
he answered: ''Me no knowee what you
say. What you talkee about?" In re-
ply to the question, What religion do
you belong top he said Estate of Ohio"
hands on his heart.
The Dominion Cattle company, of
Canada, has now invested nearly $780,
900 in lands and cattle in the panhandle
of Texas. Their latest purchase was
the Wolf Creek cattle ranch of $4,000
cattle and 400 horses and mules, with
all the personal property belonging to
the ranch, for the sum of $3.50, 900.
This property adjoins the Word ranch,
containing II, 500 cattle, just previously
purchased by the Dominion company,
thus uniting the two ranches, which
combined are capable of carrying 50,-
600 cattle, making it the most valu-
able property in the panhandle.
The census office has issued bulIe-
tin showing that by the census of 1880
the number of persons in the United
States was so, 155, 7S3; the area in square
miles, 1900, 40; the number of fami-
lies, 9,945, 916; the number of dwellings,
1856. S12; the number of persons to q
square mile, 1929; the number of fam
lilies to square mile, 3.43; the number
of dwellings to the square mile, 3.02;
acres to a person, 37.01; acres to fam
lily, 186. 90; persons to a dwelling, $50:
and persons to a family, 5.04. The area
in land is surface only, and, exclusive
of the Indian Territory and tracts of I'M
organized territory, aggregating 69,83e
square miles
One of the neatest bits of tit for tat
that we have heard for many q day oc-
CURED on the Southern Pacific train the
other morning. A certain lawyer of
this city, we'll known for his powers of
repartee, had been down to Salina to try
a case. Returning to town the conduc-
tor, one of the new staggering set i'm
ported from the East, was very imperti-
nent in his manner because the lawyer
was rather tardy in producing his tick
ct when called for to be punched for
about the twentieth time. Somewhat
ruffied, the lawyer remarked to friend
next to him, "The Southern Pacific
shall never see cent of my money af-
ter this" Going to foot it up and
down from now on, eh?'' sneered the
conductor. ''Oh, no." replied the law
yer quietly; instead of buying my ticket
at the office l shall pay nag fare to you."
San Francisco Neaos Letter.
The youngest pensioner of the Gov,
eminent is James w. Crandell, age b5,
who lives with his widowed mother in
Philadelphia. A year ago last March
he enlisted in the navy, and soon after
ward was sent to Southern waters on
the Constitution. A fortnight later he
was stricken with typhoid fever, which
left him stone deaf. The surgeon thought
he was shamming to secure discharge,
and to test his hearing placed him be-
tween two of the largest guns, which
were then simultaneously discharged.
He stood like statue, whereas the Of
ficers expected to see him jump like a
roebuck. He felt the deck tremble, but
heard nothing. He draws $1S month.
His brother John, age IL, who fell
from one of the yards of the Constitu-
ton and broke his arm, has just applied
for pension.