The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-10-25
THE NEWS ~ BRIEF.

The round taip expenses of On Atlantic
passenger steamer vary from 900 to
s7O,00j
In family quarrel Harry Altman
killed his father, Lafayette Altman, at ST.
Charles, Ky.
Maud S. trotted the last quarter of sec
ond mile at Lexington, KY, Thursday in
31A seconds.
A couple aged respectively so and SO, at
Pleasant Prove, u T., were recently united
in marriage.
Kate Smulsey, the Fort Plain, N. Y,
faster, is still alive. What and how she eats,
if anything, is as great mystery as ever.
In game for the championship of the
United States, the providence nine Thursday
defeated the Metropolitans at New York,
too.
Copious rains have nearly extinguished
the forest fires in southern New Jersey,
which still smolder in the underbush. The
damage will reach $3.50, 600
Washington Mclean has given up his
beautiful residence in Cincinnati to his son
and his bride. The old gentleman will make
w ashington his future home.
The Ohio Masonic grand lodge has re
solved that the selling of intoxicants is a
Masonic ofTense, disqualifying such persons
from utilization or membership.
The Washington Herald is authority for
the statement that Allan Arthur will marry
Miss Katy Beach directly he finishes his
course of study at Princeton college.
A lady in West Point, Ga, mas a per.
fectly white rat, said to be quite gentle and
an excellent mouser He is said to be
trough on MICE" as well as terror to bis
fellow rats of color.
Charley Mitchell challenges Dominick
Mccartney to a fight with hard gloves OF
bare fists, for from $500 to s., 500 side, the
contest to take place in any city in the world,
New Orleans barred.
Mr. Mitchell Brewer drew a pail of
water from his we'll at Woodbury., L. l., and,
finding n green sediment at the bottom OF
the pail, Investigated matters, and found q
package of paris green in the well.
Miss Eliza Kidd, of Kcene, Ky, is only
20 years of age, but she has immortalized her
self by finishing a crazy quilt containing
1854 pieces, 532,S 91 stitches, twenty -onf
spo OILS of thread, and thirty yards of cloth.
AS Engiishmen have proposed to raise
l00,000 in America for The rcstoration Of
Shakespeare's burial place, Tho New Yora
Mail makes q suggestion that England should
be asked to contribute SluJ, UO1 to finish the
Bartholdi pedestal
1t is asserted by old inhabitants that
much les water runs III the Kennebec
river, Maine, of late than in former years
Who're the bed If the river is now bare cleaI
water once appeared, and what were once
islands along the shore have become portions
of the main land.
1t is said that the most unpleaSantly
odorous city in the country is Newark, N. j.
viii CHI has the bone-factory smell, the trucl
garden -cesspool-cabbago smell, the varnish
factory smell, the leather-iactory, slaughter
house, the Central market, and the new
sewer-ditch smells.
At Point Claire Station, Quebec, &
Grand Trunk express dashed into stocl
train, the locomotives interlocking and theil
boilers exploding. An engineer was killed
and his fireman fatally hurt, while mum
Der of passengers were bruised All th,
freight cars were completely wrecked ant
100 sheep killed The loss is placed at 500,
| 900.