The Rock Island Argus., 1884-07-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


O'Donovan Rosa is supporting Ben But
Ter for president.
The New York city directory for this
year has 800 029 names, indicating 1,5OO, l45
people.
A Stuttgart doctor says that corpulent
persons may become thin by sleeping on and
wearing animal wool
In the Louisiana house of representatives
the bill to prohibit prize-fghting in that state
was lost; yeas, AZ; nays, 43.
Earl Granville has received a dispatch
from Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, giving as
surances of his health and safety.
Minister Lowell is much improved in
health, and has decided not to abondon the
Fourth of July dinner he intended to give
The marquis of Allesbury in England
was married to Dolly Lester, a chorus singer
at the London Comedy theater, the other day
Diaz, a Cuban, was found guilty at Key
West, Fla, of violating the neutrality laws
in arming an expedition against a friendly
power
League ball games Tuesday: Chicago
"A, Philadelphia O; Boston2, Buffalo /; Prov
~, SiGNClaHu NEW I OIk H. De
troit 5.
At Natalie, N. Y, Ulysses Ashley, aged
"a, was requested by his mother to chop some
wood, and replying that he would rather die,
shot himself dead with revolver
David NJ. Stone, editor of The New
York Journal of Commerce, has not been alb
sent from his editorial chair for recreation
for more than thirty years
The captain and crew of "a ship in
Toulon harbor on which cholera broke out
abandoned the vessel and fled to the woods
near that city. Policemen are looking for
them
A lady in New York has Just finished a
silk quilt composed'of IA, 900 pieces, each about
the size of 10-cent piece 1t took her seven
years to complete this work, and it is valued
at 5000
A number of Chinese farmerssin Merced
county, California, have begun to cultivate
the opium-yielding poppy AS they are
making success of it, it is likely that others
will follow iii their steps
A young man faultessly dressed and fol-
lowed by his valet goes through the streets of
London playing barrel organ, He is Lord
Somerset and he takes this method of raising
money for the London poor.
Rev. E. NJ. Meany, the rector of the
Episcopal churah in Santa Fe, N. NJ, went
there hopeless consumptive eighteen months
ago. He is now entirely cured. He con
sidcrs the climate the best in the world for
conSumptives.
Preparations for the meeting of the So
ciety of the Army OF the Tennessee at Lake
Minnetonka Aug. 13 and ia are progressing
Gen. Sherman will preside, and Gen. Grant,
it is intimated, will probably make his fare
We'll address to the army and the people
-Four children while playing in the door
yard at Mitchell, Tex, one day last week,
we're severely shocked by bolt of lightning,
which struck the ground near them. The
youngest, Il babe, was scorched about the
hair and eyebrows, and on removing its
clothes the mother found the child's breast
and body covered with a delicate tracing of
leaves and vines.
The Washburn Memorial library build
ing, erected on the old WashbuIn homestead
at Lewiston, Me-, will be dedicated in
August The building has been erected by
ex- Minister E. B. Washburn, of Chicago and
Gen W D. Washburn, of Minnesota, and all
the Washburn family will be present at the
opening exercises. Governor Long, of Massa-
chusetts will deliver the Grafton.