The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Only three-eighths Of the rail furnaces
Of the United States are now in operation,
There are about SO, 900 Italians in New
York Most of them speak the Enolish
language.
Labouchere, in London Truth, saws that
salt spread on bread and butter is the best
preventive of cholera
A Cuban lady at one of the SARATOGA
hotels is famed during meals by a colored
lad, to keep off the audacious flies
Elk Mayor Cooper, chairman Of the New
York County Democratic committee has re-
signed, assigning ill-health as an excuse.
Texas fever has appeared in the vicinity
OF Clinton, Ills, and is occasionng much
alarm among the farmers of that section.
The liabilities of Edmund Yard & Co,
The New York importers, amounts to 81 .069,-
i5o, and the actual assets are but s262, 372
Berrien county, Georgia, has raised the
license for selling liquor to S, 900. and all sa
looms not having unexpired licenses are clos
ing up,
The congress revising the French CON
stitution adopted paragraph 2 declaring
monarchial pretenders Ineligible to the presi-
dency.
League ball games Monday: Chicago
Buffalo, a tie game, 6 each; Providence 8.
Boston l; Cleveland s, Detroit l; PHILADELPHIA
5, New York 3.
A NJ West. the National party's candi.
| date for vice president, declares to be false
the statement that he would support the
Democratic nominees.
A father and mother who had not
spoken to each other for several years were
recently united at Albany, n. Y, over the
casket Of their dead son.
The Denver Republican and Denver
Tribune have consolidated and will be known
hereafter as The Tribune Republican, re-
! naming Republican in politics
A coroners jury at Americas, Ga, Sat
urday, after investigating the case of Aaron
Coachman, who was lynched for rape, re-
turned verdict of Unsuitable homicide
! The New York state fish commissioners
report the introduction of the German carp
to have been very successful 1t breeds as
well and thrives as well here as in its original
| home
Another shock of earthquake was felt
IN the villages along the south side of Long
| Island Monday afternoon 1t was not as
heavy as Sunday, but sufficient to cause ex-
element
Cyrus q. Luce, master Of the State
Grange, is Il candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor of Mich gan He
is confident of success Gen AIger is his
| principal competitor.
A kearn county (Cal) farmer suggests
that farmers who are bothered with grass
hoppers should turn their sheep on them He
says they eat the grasshoppers as readily as
do coyotes and turkeys.
| Clearing house exchanges last week
reached S!24 81 1913, which is $40 $50, sol less
than for the preceding week When coul-
pared with the corresponding period in 1888,
the falling off amounts to lO.4 per cent
Mr. Blaine has declined invitations to
dine with the Massachusetts and the Middle
sex, Essex, and Norfolk Republican clubs OF
Boston, on the ground that his engagement.
III Maine prevent him from leaving the state
The oldest and largest tree in the world
| Is a chestnut near the foot of Mount Etla
Its hollow, and large enough to admit two
| carriages driving abreast through it, Tbs
circumference of the main trunk is PIP feet
| The grizzly giant, monarch of the Mariposa
| grove, measures ninety two feet The famous
| "Charter Oak, " near Hartford, Conn, which
fell Aug y, 1856, was thiIty-three feet in
| circumference at the ground.