The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


Thos. ]. Lenhart, formerly a resident
of New Philadelphia, o., but for the past
year or two of the west, accidentally killed
his own little boy in the following singular
manner: He was moving a heavy piano
| box and the little child in crossing the
room ran under it just as he had raised one
end. Mr.. Lenharts strength failed him
| just at the fatal moment when the child
was under the box, and he was compelled
| to let it drop. The child was crused into
a shapeless mass, nearly every bone in its
body being broken.
| Fishing Is not now so successful on the
| Mississippi coast as previously reported.
| The pompano, the Spanish mackerel, the
| sheephead, and others of the finny tribe
seem TO have been emigrating from the
| yellow waters on the Mississippi sound.
| Professional fishermen, who always repair
to the shores of Ship island, have in spite
of their seines, met with very little success.
For the last few days not even single
shrimp has been caught.
| The survey of Lake Winnipiseogee, N.
H., by the lake company gives the follow
| ing results Islands containing over 200
acres, 1; 500 to 1000 acres, 2; 100 to 500
acres, Z; SO to 100 acres, 6; 10 to so acres.
| 25; less than ten acres, 226; total islands
lance around the lake and Long bay is 1872
miles; and the water surface is 50 square
miles, 531 acres, and 3.03 square rods.
In the neglected private graveyard near
Preston, Caroline county, Md, is a small
| flat stone marking the last resting place of
Charles Dickinson who was killed in a
| duel with Gen. jackson in Tennessee. The
| farm on which it is located was owned by
Dickinson, but he sold it in order to en-
bark in negro trading. The old mansion
is greatly dilapidated and the farm unpro
ductive.
Col. Comins. of Winnemucca, New, has
delivered to the president of Middlebury
college, Vermont, the title deeds to the
Rose Creek Silver Mine,' in the Sierra
mining district, in Humboldt county. The
value, as estimated by the giver is $50, 900.
The condition of the gift is that it shall go
toward the building of ''hall of science,
which shall bear the name of the giver
Accounts from every part of the state
agree in the statement that there has not
been so large wheat crop in Virginia
since the war 1t has been lately said that
the corn crop was in danger. On the con-
trary, the latest intelligence from all quar-
tiers of the state is to the effect that the
corn never looked better than it does now.
Indeed, for all sorts of farm, orchard and
garden products the season has been ex-
ceptionally propicious.
While man by the name of Mattison
was milking his cow near Cambridge,
Washington county, n. Y, the other even
ing, the animal caught his little daughter,
who was standing near, on its horns,
throwing the child about ten feet in the
air. The father jumped up and caught
A., frsr lol,II oob1 al,
ground. She was not badly injured.
Frank L Gould, of Portland, Me-, aged
%, died last week of starvation He had
a mother and three brothers and sisters to
support, and as he could get no work. went
without food to keep them from starving
The sad case was discovered too late to
save young Gould, fol- he was attacked by
gastric fever, and died in great suffering
At GAINESVILLE, O., Sunday, William
Smith had an eye knocked out He was
playing with little girl in the hall of the |
Rane hotel, when, catching his foot in the |
carpet, he fell against the back round of |
chair, completely bursting his eye. The
entire ball of the eye was taken out by
oculists. The young man suffered terri |
bly,.
Nicholas Metzler, residing near Williams
town, Hancock county, o., was attacked |
by charging heifer while returning home
with reaper knife. The heifer butted him
down, and as he fell the knife nearly |
amputated the fingers of his right hand. |
He received other severe bruises, and was |
injured internally.
The Monterey (Cal) argus reports that |
Spanish family were last week going |
down the mountain near the little Sur, and |
drove off the grade, falling to the bottom of |
the cannon, two hundred feet. Both horses |
were killed and the wagon was demolished, |
but the occupants escaped without injury. |
The men on the north-bound gravel |
train on the Texas Central at Waco ex-
hibited the other day petrified leg of a |
monster animal. It was found in a pit |
south of the city. 1t seemed to be one of |
the bones of the hind leg, and measured six |
feet in length, and was half the seize of /
mans body.
Mrs Clark, of Stockton, Cal, denies the |
charge against her that she did not use all |
the stuff in making shrowd for woman |
who died recently. She has appeared be- |
fore the chief of police, and requests that |
the body he exhumed and the shrowed |
measured.