The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

The French are promising some war
Rews from Anam soon.
Mrs. Gen. Stager, wife of Gen An
sou Stager, of Chicago, is dead.
The French government will Oppose
the demand of the Radicals for the expulsion
from France of the Orleans prince.
Mary Anderson has banquettel with
the prince and princess of Wales been com
plimented by her host and is now the London
rage.
At fight on Sunday near McBlan
church, Burke county, Ga, Thomas B. Sym'
and his two sons, Frank and Tom, were shot
to death.
Robert Bates, standing in a circus
tent at Nashville with child in his arms,
was shot dead by James Briefly; an old feud.
Briefly was arrested
The Episcopal general convention
has passed a resolution that wardens must be
communicates and vestrymen committed To
the church's doctrine and government
A passenger train went through a
bridge near Fort Edward, n Y, and killed
three and wounded twenty persons. Every
person on the train was injured except the
newsboy.
A fire at Annapolis, Md, was permit
| ted to spread and cremate two persons and
destroyed $4,000 worth of property because
there was but one fire engine in the city-a
hand engine-and it would not ork
John Edwin Palmer, of Pittsburg,
expert telegrapher, had young lady pupil,
whom he loved so well, and she him, that he
deserted his wife and children, writing her
| that she could take care of herself and leav
| ing her power of attorney and his house
and contents.
Meetings OF colored people wore held
at Washington City and other places to dis
cuss the recent supreme court decision. Two
opinions were expressed; one that the decis-
ion had no interest to the eolored people and
the other that it was a backset. Douglass
and Bob Ingersoll took the latter view.
Capt Mayne Reid, the traveller, sol
der and author, is dead. He Travelled in
Mexico and the United States fought in the
United States army in the Mexican war and
was wounded, and wrote over forty books,
mostly fiction. He was dependent, during
|
ceived from the United Statet.
The New York produce exchange
committee which has been considering the
feasibility OF line Of telegraph between that
city and Chicago for the exclusive use of the
exchanges, report in favor Of purchasing the
| lines of the New York, Chicago & st. Louis
Railway company, and the New York Lake
| Shore & Buffalo Railway company for
81, 000, 900 in bonds with 6 per cent. interest.
Abbey, the opera manager, opened
his new Metropolitan opera house in New
York with great audience composed of the
beauty and fashion of the metropolis; and at
the same time Mapleson opened at the
Academy of Music with a similar audience.
The cast at both houses included the best mu-
steal talent in the world At the Metropoh-
tan Faust" was given with Nilsson, Scalchi
and Campanini in the principal roles; and al
the Academy Gerster was the attraction.
aided by the new tenor Vinci, and the new
bass Cherubini
The duke and duchess of Edinburg
recently caused a commotion in court circles
by abruptly leaving a ball given in their
honor by t..c >.4-y -. s-Cobourg- Gotha.
The cause of it all was that among the guests
invited by the duke of Saxe-Cebourg were
two court officials, one of whose wives had
been an actress and the other was divorced
woman The duke of Edinburg demanded
the emission of these two and his host not
deeming the cause sufficient, demurred- Upon
insistance however, he prohibited the attend
ance of any Of the court officials and when
their highness heard of this they sailed out.