The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

water is 20 cents per barrel and milk 80
'ents per gallon in Lordsburg, N. NJ.
lhere are at present sos potteries in tho
United States, half of which are in Naw
Jersey. i9 III We"
All the bodies, seven in number have
neeh recovered from the burning coal nina
At Buck Ridge, Pa. va" mine
ne aeposltors of the suspended Albion
" y, bank are offering their claims fo,. n,
iiio 90 per cent, with no takers.
Inc loss by the lumber-mill fire at Du-
ath, Mimi, Saturday night, will reach $40
ooo, with an insurance of sol 900
Worth, the Partisan man milliper has
hover garden just outside of Paris contain
ing nifty acres of plants and flowers
The Very Rev. Patrick II. Terry pastor
d 81 Patrick's Catholic church, Chicago
lieu sunday night of heart disease.
Three prisoners escaped from the county
jail at Saltwater, Mimi, Sunday evening
after knocking Jailer Marty senseless.
Maryland anticipates a heavy winter
owing to heavy crop of chestnuts, which is
SAID to be a forerunner of the stern north
winds
AT Toulon the cholera is on the increase
which is attributed to the hasty return of the
inhabitants. In Italy also the disease is in
creasing.
A meeting of the Knit Goods association
Will be held at Saratoga Sept ,, to cons der a
plan to control production and strengthen
the market
| Lieut. Greedy has been invited to at
tend the meeting of the British Association
Tor the Advancement of Science, to be held
in Montreal
Professor W, r. Kingman of Charles
ton, 5. c., walked out of a window at
Wllkesbarre, Pa, while asleep. aud was
killed by the fall
A small cyclone struck Dallas, Texas,
Saturday afternoon, tearing a deep hole, and
carrying column of sand two feet in
diameter to height of 500 feet.
Silver has been discovered near Richie.
| w. Va, ard prospectors are focking to the
mine. The last assay at one mine showed
$500 of silver and $l1 of lead to the ton.
The alumni of Chautauqua Literary and
Scientific circle Saturday elected Chancellor
John II. Vincent president, and Judge Hen
derson Elliott of Dayton, vice president.
The farewell meeting of the Young
Mems Christian association of the world was
held in Berlin Sunday evening. The Ameri,
can delegates will sail on the 27th and 3ott
from Hamburg for New York
The veterinary surgeons investigating
the case of suspected pleuro-pneumonia in @
herd of Jersey cattle at Normal Ills, have
come to the conclusion that pleuro- pneu
monia does not exist in that vicinity.
An apple tree on j. Wesley Simonds
fars% in Franklin, N. H, planted in 1870
has borne fruit in abundance over ninety
years. 1t measures eleven feet four inches il
circumference one foot from the ground
That years of wear do not always de
preciate the value of carpet, was shown il
San Francisco recently, when s., 500 worth o
precious metal was extracted from the ashe
Of a carpet which had been used for fly,
years as covering for the floor Of one of tn,
rooms of the mint
Sir John Macdonald, referring to Mr.
Frewen's Wyoming cattle scheme, whicl
was the shipment by the Canadian Paciti
railway and thence down the lakes t
Montreal of Wyoming and Montana cattl
to the British marke5s, expresses unqualfie,
] condemnation OF the project as detrimental
to the best interests of the dominion I'll
perfection of the scheme would have diverte,
large share OF the cattle business now don
III Chicago.