The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

There are 80, 1876 postoff1ces in tie United
States oi'i'e'
Mail locks and keys cost Uncle Sam
$4,000 "a year. ''''D
ohe hundred fiat cars were built at ths
shops at Pullman, ILL.,, recently in one dav
seventy thousand dollars worth ~
wrapping Irvine is used by the postofica do.
partment annually.
A woman in Chattanooga. Tenn sougb,
recently TO place her ll-year-old daughter in
house OF i'll fame
me president appoints 1888 postmast
eis' Inc others are at small offices and ara
appointed by the postoffice department.
Dufihg The twelve years occupied in the
translation Of the new version of the Ola
testament, twelve of the twenty-scven trans.
lators died.
AT Trenton, N. j., the pottcrs now
make excellent limitations of Chinese and
japanese ware. The demand for these goods
is undated
J. j. Woodward, United States army
one of the physicians who attended President
Earneld IN his last illness, died near PbiIa-
deiphia Monday
IL Is SAID at Saratoga that Robert Bon
ner mas purchased of w H. Vanderbilt the
celebrated mare Maud s., and that she will
be used Iii trotting races.
There are nine establishments in the
United States producing 3, $50 watches day
one establishment alone turning out watch
minute for ten hours each day.
George Alfred Townsend, the cores
pendent known as Gath" has his wife at
tend to all his business contracts And she
does it so well that his income is Sl5.O09 a
year.
The average depth of the Pacific and
Atlantic oceans is about two and half
miles. short distance off the banks of New
Foundlanl bottom has been reached at a
depth OF five miles
Henry {. Lewis, Of Coldwater Michi-
gan, died Monday afternoon of a complica-
ton OF diseases. He was Juror in the
Paris exposition of 1867 and special commits
sioner TO the Vienna exposition.
The natives OF StOnington, Conn. assert
that 1t has never rained there on Aug. 10 for
Iol years That Is the day they celebrate
and the weather record, they say, has been
accurately kept in the borough ever since
the first anniversary of the battle of Stoning-
ton.
Deseronto, Canada, is lighted by cas-
made ont of sawdust. 1t is claimed that the
works show product of 500, 900 feet of gas
out OF thirty tons of sawdust, at a cost of
: HOG, with by products of an aggregate value
Of SlOl, making the net cost of the gas So, OF
Lee cents 900 feet
Henry Ten Eyck, farmer living nea1
Broadhead, Wis, became enraged at his
wife on saturday night and stabbed her
three times intiictinS fatal wounds Ten
Eyck left the house. and Sunday his body
was found swinging from the limb of a tree
not far from the house, he having committed
suicide.
The Mark Lane Express in its weekly
review of the British grain trade saws "A
large proportion of the grain has been har-
vested with the best results Wheat returns
show that "a per cent of the Weld is over
the average, 80 per cent. is the average, and
ID per cent. under the average Foreign
wheat at Liverpool is demoralized both for
present and prospective trades"
The editor of The Nox Populi, published
at Higbmore, d. T. believes that the big
territory of the northwest is of more i'm
portance than the United States, and he adj
yises the convention which is to meet at
Pierre soon to organize a state convention,
adopt constitution, nominate a state ticket,
elect legislature, and have that body meet
at once and elect two United States senators
then inaugurate the new governor and set
the state government running.
Dangerous cracks have been discov-
cred in two thirty-inch brick piers that
support iron girders in the government
building at Chicago. The brick work may
stand the strain, but it is not expected TO-
Ii it goes down some of the floors in the
north part of the building will go, and the
east elevator shaft is liable to cave H.
Immediate measures are being taken to re
pair and support the girders and thus relieve
the piers. Figures from Washington show
that the building is seven and ten-siXteenth
inches wider at the top than it is at the bot
tom, or as shown in the plans Some Of the
| upper stones are liable to fall.