The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

The Cleveiands defeated the Chicago
nine to 5.
There are 5000 miles of overhead wires
in Philadelphia
In the county elections Monday in Utah
the Mo1mons elected all the officers.
Miss Crabtree, otherwise Lolita. arrived
in New York from London Sunday.
There is paper published in Gordon,
Tex, which is named The Cross Eye. ~
In eight years the fourth centennial of
the discovery of America Will occur.
The Democrats of the Twelfth Illinois
district renominated j. NJ. Riggs for con
gress.
William II. Vanderbilt has refused 10
let Maud S, trot again until her record is
beaten.
A credit of 800, 900 pound sterling for the
Soudan expedition passed the house of com
mons by vote of "a to IA.
1t is reported that cases of cholera oc-
| CURED at the Marseilles hospital in 1888, but
that the fact was concealed
Employ the hired man whose clothes
are patched in front rather than behind is
the advice Of Il country paper.
The Mother Hubbard costume has been
placed on the list of things forbinned to EN-
ployes by the Western Union
ay-Eye-See will trot against Maud S. 8
record, and Phallas against his own time, at
Belmont park week from Friday
Ward f. B. Yarnelle, a demented
preacher, committed suicide at Ridgevile,
Ind, by throwing himself in front of pas
senger train.
Gen. Logan has promised to speak at
the ratification meeting to be held by the
Philadelphia Young Republican club on the
Sth of October
The sale of edible snails has become a
regular trade in New York city Most of
them come from New Jersey, where there are
at least half dozen snail farmers
! In an election dispute at Charlottesville,
KY, Burr Dean tcolored), who opened fire on
a crowd, was mortally shot, two negroes
and white man were wounded, and a horse
| was killed
Hail and thunder storms in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, seriously damaged the
tobacco crops. Several buildings and barns
were struck by lightning, and many of the
latter burned.
A mine opened on the Temperance river,
seventy-fve miles from Duluth, Mimi. re-
Gently, is turning out rich rock silver which
yields about $500 per ton The vein is five
or six feet wide The mine is said to be a
bonanza.
Miss Mary j. Cash, aged 10, belle of
Decatur, Ca, who, year ago, because of a
lapse of the moral law, retired to the coun-
try residence of her sister, Mrs McCrary,
has Just eloped with the latter's husband.
The deserted wife is left with five small
children to care for.
A rose bush at Antioch, Mich, has
bloomed this season without bud The
petals have developed in regular order
around the stalk, and the effect is singular
and beautiful They seem to have grown
from the stem like common leaves, but form
splendid crimson roses
| A Red Bluff, Cal, fancier had large
flock of Plymout ROCK fowls Noticing that
his broods of young chickens were rapidly
growing smaller, he instituted close watch,
when he found to his surprise that a large
Plymouth Rock rooster was in the habit Of
killing and eating the little chicks The
roo ter has since been sold as spring chicken.
| Postmaster General Gresham was some
wliat aStoushed the other day upon opening
letter containing an offer from st. Louis
man to rent the basement of the new post
office in that city for bar-room. As soon as
he recovered sufficiently from the shock, he
replied kindly but firmly, that the United
States was not erecting fine buildings for
such purposes.