The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-13
London has no less than rs, 900 in.
digent poor, and Paris Is, 900.
THE NEWS in BRIEF.


Thr>e throusand Belfast ship-build-
sTs are out on strike.
A new brand of atoye-polish has
been named III honor of Fred Douglass
Augusta, Ga, still depends on vol
unteer fire department, and an old bell
tower to locate fires,
The plan of Elbrook & Burnham, of
Chicago, has been selected for the new state
capitol at Atlanta, Ga.
A Youngstown, Ohio, man, named
Altzhul, went insane because his employer
accused him of dishonesty, diving & maniac.
Near Rosehurg, southern Oregon
coyotes are killing lambs and sheep. and
farmers are offering from So to $50 each for
scalps 49,.
A ripe watermelon, weighing twelve
pounds, raise | in the vicinity of jacksonville,
Fla, was recently presented to gentleman
in that city.
Two printers who were distributing
'boycotting" circulars in front pf H O'Nail's
stores in New York city, were farrested and
held in $500 bail tt a.
fhe Augusta tGa.J Chronicle says
Wendell Philips, who abolninatei titles.
would have been called COL Phillips si,ad he
lived In the'south.
Oscar Wilde has just completed his
lecture tour in ireland. Miss Lloyd. the
young lady whom he is to marry, accom-
panied him everywhere.
Mrs, Levi P. Morton, wife OF the
minister to France, is in feeble health in
Paris, and the popular receptions have been
discontinued foc the present. r
Annie E. Fisher, M. D., Who is a
pretty brunette ander25 years OF age, has
been elected vice president OF the Massachu-
sets Homeopathic Medical society.
Frank James has been held by the
federal court at Kansas City. onfa charge of
robbing United States paymaster at MusseI
Shoals, Ala. 1t is likely he will be tried in
Alabama
Senator Morrill,. OF Vermont, has
served nearly thirty years in eongress. sx
terms in the house and three in the senate
twenty years younger,
A Philadelphian, went to a hydrant
in the dark and drew cup of water, which
be drank. One swallow, be noticed, was Of
remarkable smoothness. This, he thinks,
must have been a live eel
At Congregationalist church in
Norwalk, Conn, tho pastor denounced the
congregation as mob and the excitement
grew so intense that the lights had to be
turned out to prevent fight
Brooklyn has begun the experiment
of furnishing free sbootsin the public schools.
The sum of s75,oOe has been set apart for
this purpose during 1854 There are ms M
who doubt the success q. this plan
Miss Jennie MEG van, M. d., who
is said to bear a striking resemblance to
Mary Anderson, has been reelected presi
dent of the Scott County t4owal Medical So
ciety. She has refused several offers Of mar
rage from prominent physicians, preferring
topractice her profession
The three bodies shipped from Balti-
more to Chicago ia a couple of barrels re-
GENTLY, and taken charge OF by the police of
The latter city, on suspicion of foul play,
have bsen delivered to tie Chicago Hemeo-
pathic college, for which institution they
were originally intended
The latest estimate of the sum Of
money required 10 give each enlisted man
who served between April II, 1861, and May
Q, 1866, and was honosably discharged,
$685. per month for his term of service, is
si0l, y47 S2o il no provision is made for deduct
the bounties paid by states. ana if there was
such provision, SIS, 0eo000. exp