The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The locusts are ravaging portions of
Vensuela.

The locusts are ravaging portions Of
VenzHea
Mrs. James A. Garfield is spending
the season quietly at Saratoga.
Governor Hale, of Wyoming is inn
proving, and will probably iecover
The Cincinnati liquor sellers have
paid $3.50, 900 under the Scott liquor law.
There are nine railway lines between
Chicago and New York which run through
trains.
The American rifle team has begun
to practiee at Wimbledon The English COM
ment favorably upon their shooting.
A vessel from Vera Cruz, having sew
eral cases of yellow fever ON board, has ar
rived at the New Orleans quarantine statiou.
An Ohio letter says that the iron
trade outlook is Hnpromismg. and that the
only consolation for the mills is that the
situation could hardly become worse.
The New York Herald says that Ran
dali may be called the Republican candidate
for speaker, and it is among the probabilities
that he viii be elected BY Republican votes.
Wm b. Wood, ex-chief OF the treas
ury signal service, asserts that Assistant
Secretary French has son who is provided
with place where he does nothing for SO a
day, and in addition to this the government
pays for living models for the young man,
he being an artist on trying to be one.
Ex-G st John says high license is
wrong in principle, but may result in some
good. He also says that prohibition can not
be ignored by the Republican party; that
Iowa and Kansas will 60 Republican this
year by overwhelming maioritics and that
David Davis is becoming promising candi-
date for president of the unaed States
In the Hill investigation at Washing
ton the prosecution has closed one branch OF
their case, and the defense begun to present
evidence. Z l.. Bartlett member of the firm
of Bartlett, Robbins & Co, which is charged
with collision W it'll Hill in government work
certified that there was nothing corrupt in the
relations of his company with the supervising
architect
Miss Ida Shook, of Bloomington, Ill
| has brought libel suits against The Times and
Sentinel of Indianapolis, and The Telephone
| Of her own town, each for $4,000, and in.
| tends doing abe same by The Cincinnati Ga
! zette; Tribune, Chicago; Globe Democrat
| st. Louis; Terre. Haute Express, and New
| Albany Ledger, each for the same sum The
cause is that the above papers published d
| statement that the lady had become ena
mored of a negro concert singer, aud had left
| home to marry him.
A horrible story comes from New
York II is stated that couple of work
mon took beautiful girl Of 10 to the wood
and after caroHsing for several days the CIR
caught fire or was set on fire during her sleel
and was burned from head to foot Ther
! was no place where she could he taken, tn
poor house authorities refusing to receiv,
her, and she lay in her awful condition with
ont attendance for several days until mortifi
cation set in and death relieved her Revolt
lug revelations are looked for if the case i
| Investigated
| A Washington gossip says that am
| hitiouS mothers have more than once heel
sure that the president was Smitten by th
charms of their fair daughters. hut have al
ways been disappointed in the end If hi
excellency happens to smile upon some beau
tiful girl she Immediately thinks she has ''bag
gcd him. But the president is not marryin
| man. 1t is asserted that he can marry whel
he wants 10 a beautiful woman of about 3
years, of New York city, who is the widoy
Of a man who died worth S., ,oo0, 600 hut h
will probably never marry again.