The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Matthew Arnold, the English litera.
teur, has arrived in New York.
Pittsburg reports the iron trade in
good condition and prospects for work all
winter
Three children went skating at Elk.
horn, Manitoba, recently, and were drowned
by the ice giving way.
There are 29,s69, 500 bushels OF wheat,
and Il, 49,, 9S1 bushels of corn in sight in
Canada and the United States.
Ramsey Mckee, well-to-do farmer,
living near Kewanee, H., committed suicide
by strychnine because be was calaboosed for
drunkenness
A 14-year old daughter of farmer
near Richmond, Ind, took Trough on Rats"
sufficient to kill herself because her father OBJ
jected to her marrying farm hand.
Gath, " the celebrated correspondent,
denounces the recent civil rights decision in
the most severe terms, declaring. that all
things considered, it is more infamous than
the celebrated bred Scott decision.
1t is asserted at Boston that S. A. B.
Abbott, recently nominated for lieutenant
governor ia place of Pierce, declined on the
Democratic state ticket, also declines for
lack of sympathy with Butler
Sixty-five thousand names are regis
tered ON the voting list in Boston. The Re-
publicans have appointed a vigilance com
mittee of 700 to guard against fraud at the
polls, and each polling place will be watched.
A party of Mexican bandits siezed an
II 10 -
when his servants opened fire and killed two
of the bandits, woUnding another. The rob
bers fed, first, however, killing their pris
oner
Fires at Miles City, Montana, de-
stroyed about $4,000 worth of property, in
one block, and being beyond control and
threatening other blocks a key of powder was
exploded in its midst with the effect of stay
its progress.
James McDermott writes to The
Brooklyn Eagle denying the charge that he
was an Irish informer and declaining that
any man who says he is, lies in his throat!p
Notwithstanding all of which, O'Donovan
Rosa reiterates the charge.
A young man of Is years has turned
up at Portland, Maiue, who is like Jacob, in
search of father Ho thinks he may be the
original and only Charley Ross, and will test
the matter as soon as he can get money
enough together to go to Philadelphia and
see Mr.. Ross.
An address, signed by John Quincy
Adams, Leverett Saltonstall and other prom
inent Bay state men who are Democrats, but
have not been known as active politicians,
has appeared, in which Democratic voters
are warned that Butler is as dangerous as a
Democrat as he was as a Republican.
Gen. G. B. Raum, in an article in
The North American Review, objects to the
long tenure feature of the civil service reform
rules, because it is obnoxious to tie institu-
tions of the country and will create privi-
legged class; and to the competitive feature,
because. he says, it will prevent the head OF
department from obtaining the man he
wants and knows is best fitted for a vacancy,
and force him to take one selected by a COM
mission which can not know all the qualifica-
lions needed.
A Burmese idol was ignorantly put
upon the stage in the Chicago Dime Museum
where the Burmese priests are exhibited, the
result being that the priests passed an entire
day prone before the little god. At the end
of the day they voiced a vigorous protest,
explaining that it was their bounden duty to
PROSTATE themselves before their idols when
ever they were in their presence. They we're
were indignant, and the managers of the
museum had the idol taken away and made
the fullest apologies.