The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Macon, Ca, man has been fined SIS
tor attc,n t.ns to comlais suicide.
A fock Of blackbirds fully mile long
recentiv flew over Seneca, n Y
Six hundred thousand dollars in gold,
from Europa, reached New York Monday.
The fire at Palatka, Fla, destroyed
property worth $685. $50 The insurance is
placed at $24l, $50.
The Spaulding Iron and Nail works in
Jefferson county, Ohio closed down Monday
for an indefinite period.
President Arthur has appointed Gov
ernor Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, first as
sistant postmaster general
A Swedish citizen at Rockford, His,
when he heard that Blaine had been prob
ably defeated, wept for an hour
Six women began 16S hour go-asyou
please pedestrian contest Monday at Louis
vile, drawing large crowds to the building
r. B. Elliott Il Sons tiouring-mill and
elevator at Couiterville, his, were burned
Saturday night, the loss being placed at
$4,000
Sullivan and Latin. the dude pugilist,
fought four rounds in New York Monday
night, tie LATHE being awarded to the
former.
Thomas J. Wood Democrat announces
that he will contest the election of W. d.
Owen in the Logansport, Ind, congressional
| district
Thomas Shaw, member Of parliament
| from Halifax, has been appointed succea sor
of the late atmaSter General Fawcett, of
England
The vote in the city of New Orleans
has fallen of steadily during the eight years
viz; 1884, 1871; 1882, Is, sos; 1880, 81 ,276;
| 1876, 40,094
The first exhibit of the executors of
| Charles G. Stratton Tom Thumb, after all
debts AMI expenses had been paG, shows q
balance of SIG 43l.
Philip llcnnessy shot at the polls in
Cincinnati week ago, dicl Sunday. HIS
wife, Mollie, shot herself through the heart
Monday afternoon.
Ten carloads of honey, valued at &c.
| 600, were recently purchased ut Santa Anna,
Cal, for shipment to Liverpool via New
Orleans. The price paid was AZ cents per
| pound.
1t is not improbable that duplicate of
| the John Harvard statue at Cambridge will
be ordered for the Cambridge college, Eng
| land, where John HarvarI's saaSe was re-
Gently found recorded.
| The national cotton exchange estimates
the cotton crop in tho United States this
| year at 5,7!G ON bales, a slight tnsEaase over
| last years yield. There aIe prospects that
the stop crop may increase this by 5000
| bales
An incendiary fire carly Monday morn
| ing at Duluth, Mimi. Destroyed two saw
mills, four dwelling, store and other
| buildings, beside l,00J0O0 feet of lumber
The total loss is placed at 100000, witt
about Si00, 900 insurance.
Clearing house exchanges last week
| S71o, 057, 7G6-arc greater than the return.
| for the previous week 10y S33, 100, 800; but
| when compared with exchanges Tor the cor
responding period IN 1888 there Is falling
| Off equalin& l9.5 per Ceit
The Mark Lane Express, in it's weekly
review of the British grain trade, says For
oign wheat dragging along with prices in ia
vor of buyers. The downward movement
continues, and it is impossible to predict
when and where it viii stop"
Judge Lippincott, Of Ulidia, Mcaghe
county, NJ. T., is reported to have caught
mountain eel weighing seventy three pound
and eleven ounces, the skin df which he will
have stuffed and sent to the New Orleans ex
| position as representative of Montana
| fisheries