The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-12
THE NEWS III BRIEF.

The Supreme Temple OF the T4t'i
archai circle is in so5si "A at Chicago. There
Is full attendance
The Panhandle road las r1a1c a
formal demand upon the Chicago t.d New
York east-b0und i've stock pool e.. Is per
cent of the 1--we stock traffic
Fiftys thousand acres of land have
been fraudulentiy taken up in the 7yc>;. and
the entries thereof declared yoid, and the
land returned to the pu!Ea domain,
De Cassagnac, the French laeling
deputy, called Prime Minister Ferry liar
and coward and was excluded frorl the
chamber for two weeks as punishment
1t is said by The New York Sun that
the Washington departments are being
stocked with clerks so that the civil Service
board will have nothing to de Ton & long time
to come,
Mrs, Langtry and Fred GchhaId
spent two nights at Long Branch in the
special car in which they rode from New
York, and the gossips are trying ~ ascertain
the reason.
The charge of bastardy brought by
Mrs Ann Hainlina Sherman against H c.
Cleveland, Of Rock Island, Ill hos been dis
missed, the prosecuting witness not appear
ing at the trial
Governor Crosby, of Montana, bo,
hood friend of President Arthur says Conk-
ling has no more influence with the admins
traton than any one else The relations Of
the two men is one of friendship bit net IL.
timacy.
Senator Warner Miller, of New York
says New York York Republicans are
united, the Democrats divided, the new Re
publican organization working wei and 8
Republican majority almost assured at thG
next election
No new eases Of yellow fever have DC
CURED on the Bernia, at the quarantine station
near New Orleans. The latter city Is in goo5
condition as 10 health aud thorough pre-
cautions are being taken 20 prevent the intro
duction of the fever
Ex-Gov. Talbot Of Massachusetts
has written a letter to Gov Rutlcr, in which
he tells him that he ttil, governor ha H0t
treated the board OF charities with such
courtesy as to cause its members IL desire any
more communication with him than can he
avoided Talbot = chairman of tha board
Miss Lilly Cook, daughter OF Cook
of Mississippi, who assassinated Capt. Cole
near Vicksburg recently, refuses 10 state
what relations existed between her and the
murdered man, but though she would moi
directly charge her father with the crime,
her evidence was such as to justify the jury
in declaring that Cook was the man
Congressman H. c. Matson, of In
diana thinks the race for the speakarship is
a little complicated, with the opening for 3
dark horse growing better all the time He
says Indiana politics is the question who is to
be next governor, and that Mcdonald is the
most available man in the Democratic party
for the presidential nomination.
The crop report of the United States
department of agriculture for July shows a
general improvement in the condition OF
cotton, corn and wheat. The indications
point to a crop of 800, 900, 900 bushels of win
ter wheat and 125, 5000 bushels of spring
wheat. There is a large increase in the area
devoted to corn, and a total of 6, COO 600
acres.
Judge Blodget, at Chicago, has de,
cided that the May Bros windmill is an in
fringement upon the Eclipse Windmill com
pauy's patent for the weight of varying re
sistance by which the vane is returned to its
normal position, the May Bros. using a spring
| for that purpose, which the judge said was G
| mechanical equivalent, and So an infringe
ment