The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
John King, Jr, will get $4,000 yea,

1ohn King, Jr, will get $4,000 yea,
salary as president of the Erie railroad
A goblet placed over the head Of q na,,.
baby in Georgia reached to the ,,;sa-e 70"
hips. '"o i'iiagets
Gen. W. T. Sherman now consiaoro
taat he has passed through all the t,iolS ~
an American citizen. He lately umnirad =
base bail game. "'pii gu
"A process for utilizing stalks and stemo
OF the tobacco plant as substitute fo,. ,yood
pup Is alleged to have been discovered hv .
citizen of New York. 9"
The coast line of New Jersey, according
10 prominent member of the Washington
Cuy signal bureau, is settling at the rate ~
two feet per century.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Florence, the en-;
heht and widely known comedians vii
commence two weeks engagement al M.
FlcNerS theatre, Chicago, Sept. l.
a woman aged So years recently aston
iShed the natives of seaport town in Rbod
Island by appearing at the breakfsst-tabla
ciad IN white Mother Hubbard dress
The liabilities of Warner g. Merritt frn;.
importers of Philadelphia, are estimated at
s'oo,oD or more, as are also those of era
nam, Leder Il Co, of the same city.
"A railway official from the east made q
statement IN Chicago that the Baltimore &
ONO road had offered $23, 600, 900 for a con-
Trolling interest in the Illinois Central
Another human monstrosity comes to
'he 'front.' from San angelo Tex, said to be
little girl of natural form but completely
covered with large scales like those of y
fish VI i"
"A charming girl who was employed
Dy MRS. Totten in fashionable boarding
house in Passalc, N. j., and won the hearts
Oh male and female boarders, proves to have
been man
The sixteenth annual reunion of the ca
cletS OF the Army of the Cumberland. of
winch Lieut., Gen. Sheridan is president, will
DE held at Rochester, N. Y, Sept. II and Is.
Chlcamauga week
Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, the first sec
rotary OF war in jefferson Davis Confederate
cabinet, aud who gave the order for firing ON
Fort Sumter, died at his home in Huntsville
Ala, after brief illness,
According to a computation made by
49, h1'huVs NLuAblN belOle MS death.
America spends, on an average, $500 900 a
day for plays and dramatic compositions. or
the enormous sum of $50 GOO, 900 per annum.
a woman at GrotOn, Conn. has beoun
suit against a married man for $50 for max
ing the match and baking the wedding
cakes, services which she performed at the
request of the mans wife before MARRIAGE.
for which the bride expectant promised to
pay.
Chicago millers complain of the appear
ance "t smut" in wheat received from
southern Minnesota and southern Iowa.
The smut renders the wheat almost use.
ess for flour purpose Grain Inspector
Drake says that after good deal of scour-
ing in the mills "it may be turned into low
grades of -four"
The American Bar association, in session
at Saratoga, elected John w. Stevenson. OF
Kentucky president, and Edward Otis Hink,
ley, of Baltimore, secretary. A vice presi
dent and local council of four were elected
for each state belonging to the association.
After the passage of several minor resolu-
lions the association adjourned sine die