The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-21
tbs NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gladst NJ has gone to Coome in Sur
rey for the benefit OF his health.
Gen Graham is in favor of continuing
the Egyptian campaign, thinking the rebel
hon not Vet crushed.
Professor r. c. Jebb, of Oxford, is to
deliver the PHI Beta Kappa Grafton at Har-
ward next commencement.
Charles C. Brown, recently of the
United States lake survey, has been APP
pointed professor of civil engineering in the
Rose Polytechnic institute at TeIre Haute
Nine. Paul Minck, tho Paris anarch-
list, named her first son I.ucifer Satan Yer
cingetorix, and now announces the advent
of a second, who is to be called Spartacus
Blanqui Revolution.
Mrs. G. D. Alsop, residing near
Louisville Wednes lay gave her four CHI
dren, by mistake, opium fer powdered rhu-
bart Two Of the little ones died ana the
others are past recovery
Many OF the Arabs captured in the
CATTLE Of 1eb said they knew nothing OF the
English forces, and never heard of their vie
tory over Arab, and never heard of Arab
himself, and ha never heard of Tewik
The Cincinnati Price Current has re-
ports fFon The winter wheat belt in iiGating
a good average condition in Ohio and In
diana, fairy good promise in Illinois, with
some damage by frost in Missouri, and by
dry, cold winds in Kansas, but the loss in
any district is not ire arabic
E. d. Winslow, who achieved fame as
forgor in Boston, is now very big man in
-
Herald of that city, He also owns blocks of
buildings, drives the finest and fastest pair OF
horses in the city, has unlimited credit. and
is considered an estimahe citizen
Mrs. Bertram Milford, who is q
granddaughter of the old, Original, genuine
Commodore Vanderbilt, has created SEN
sation in Paris by giving party in which
all the guests were III menagerie makeup as
beasts or birds, and where the cats and
monkeys were especia iy Successful.
At LyttleviIle, H., William Scar
| borough shot himself through TIE hand with
his revolver. Maddenei at the accident, be
threw the cartridge which remained in his
pistol in the stove, which burst in pieces upon
the defamation Of the cartridge one of the
fragments seriously wounding Scarborough
| mother.
Fanny Carter, formerly the belle of
Boston, IS now Mrs Ronalds Of London,
where she Is quite conspicuous in society, and
created a sensation lately at a charitable fair
by appearing in a headdress OF intertwined
| American and British flags, while the skirt
Of her costume was fr,nsed with a set of tiny
| cooking utensils.
The Ohio legislature passed the bill
| declaring future oeals in stocks. ellis, uI
provision gambling, making the buyer or
| seller guilty alike, AMI imposing fine on
the owner of the premises where tia dealsare
carried on. The penalties for margin" OF
future transactions are so to $1,000 fine,
and thirty to ninety days Imprisonment.
Governor Hoadly publicly defends
the characters of tho ohio relief commission
who disbuIsad funds 10 the flood sufferers,
| against attacks made by the press of misuse
and misnanageinent, asserting that they
have acted with zeal and energy and are en-
| titled to the thanks of all right-minded men.
| The commission has reported to the iegis-
| lature an accurate account Of the moneys re
ceived and disbursed