The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The net national revenue from the
money order business for 1888 was SAIL,
s2S.
The main building of the centennial
cotton exposition viii contain 900, 600 square
feet of floor space.
Goldsmith Maid is now 26 years old.
She was exhibited at the New York horse
show and applauded.
On the fourth day of the New York
horse show, two of the city fire companies
hitched up in three seconds each.
Bismarck has introduced a bill into
the German reichstag prohibiting persons
who owe military DUTY from emigrating.
Carleton and his allies will be friends
with the new Spanish government if it full
fills its promise TO restore universal suffrage
An alleged French count is in trouble
in Milwaukee because he wrote Alex.
Mitchelrs name to an acceptance for $4,000.
The American legation at London is
bending its energies to the work of finding out
where o'Donnell, the avenger, owes ale
glance.
The reported confession of a col
ored woman in Kentucky, who charged her
self with the murder of several people, is
Mulhattonism
DIR. Mcdonald, chief of the money
order department at Washington City, says
the postal note is popular, and fully realizes
his expectations.
1t took 800, 1926, 164 postage stamps,
sc, ;}39 600 stamped envelopes and "a, 9S5, 80
postal cards to satisfy the American letter
writers last year.
P C. Small, in the Trenton, N. j.,
jail for horse stealing, has eaten no food for
fourteen days because he is too much of an
epicure to enjoy prison fare.
N. ". Fitzgerald & Co., pension
agents, Washington City, are among the
| latest who have been suspended from prac-
tice before the pension bureau.
P. B. Delaney, of New York, says he
has invented telegraph appliance by which
six messages can be sent by as many oper
ators over one wire, and in different direc
tions.
The Patriarchal circle, which ha
been connected with the Odd Fellows as
sort of higher degree, has abolished the re
quirement of Odd Fellowship as necessary t,
membership, and thereby organized itself a:
an independent order.
Eddy, Harvey & Co., wholesale deal.
ers in hats, caps and fnr goods, Chicago, have
made an assignment. The liabilities are sale
to be about SIS, 600; assets not known. 1t il
believed that the firm win be able to resum.
business at no distant day.
| At Wampum, Pa, where the Penn
sylvania and the P, C, g. 7. railways ar
quarreling oyera slip of land, the latter com
pany, being in possession, defends its portion
with dynamite cartridges by which shower
of stones and earth are discharged.
| An insect about an inch long ant
one third as thick, with horns like tobaccl
worm, borcs into the noses OF sheep In tn
neighborhoed of Dayton, Ohio, and kin
them The worm stands twenty-four
| hours soak in coal oil and comes out refreshel
and ready ior az ..esa
Sister Mary Joseph, a nun of tn
order of st Frances, in Philadelphia, ha
brought suit against the sisters at the con
vent for the recovery Of money deposite
when she was admitted eighteen years ag
and for her services since, in all about s., 50t
The cause of the suit is alleged iil-treatmeni
Sir Moses Montefore, who is cele
bated for his efforts in behalf of his race, an
has spent millions Of money in aid of phi
anthropic measures has entered on his loot
year He received congratulations at h
home in Kent England, from all parts of tl
world on his birthday anniversary, anon
the letters being one from the prince c
Wales.
Judge Carlton, of Terre Haute, Ind
one of the Utah commissioners, says tha
four-fifths of the Mormons have never bee
practicers of polygamy and that the prope
ton is increasing; that the Edmunds law
not wholly failure; but has done somethin
to weaken the Mormons, something whie
no other law has done, that more legislafio
is necessary, which, together with the infil
! ences of civilization, will gradua lly wipe 9
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