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

There are / ,966 miles of streets in London
Two DesMoines saloons will fight the
prohibition law.
Arkansas has 1900 white and 800 col
ored school teachers.
The state of Louisiana has imposed &
license fee of s. on all newspaper men
1t is estimated that $40, 000. 600 worth Of
grass is annually consumed by the prairie
dogs in northern Texas.
The new cable street-car company has
asked New York city for the privilege of &C.
cupying seventy miles of street
A statute of Washington, the gift of the
public schools of the city, was unveiled
Thursday in Riverside park, New York
There are over 700 light houses and
twenty-five floating light stations on Ameri.
can coasts and rivers supported at yearly
cost of 81, $4,000.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are so penti.
full in Florida that hundreds of acres of them
are being plowed under because they are not
worth the cost of picking.
The formal presentation of Bartholdi's
statue, Liberty Enlightening the World
by the French government to the United
States took place in Paris
The Egyptian lotus grows in this coun
try at Jones' creek, Maryland, and at the
mouth of the Raisin river and along the
River Rouge in Michigan.
There are $50 colleges and universities
in the United States, of which only twenty
four have more than $50 students, and only
seventeen have more than twenty teachers.
John Jarrett, well-known in connection
with the Amalgamated association, was nomi
mated by the president, Friday, as head of the
labor bureau recently formed by congress.
Col. R. g. Ingersoll, when asked if he
thought Butler had any show, replied that
the General had very good show, but he
would not dispose of many tickets this year
The chief of police of Louisville has is
sued an order directing all stores to remove
all pictures of nude figures from their show
windows, even though they be copies of cele-
brated paintings.
The number of killed and drowned by
the railroad disaster near Cunningham, No,
June go is now stated to be fifteen, and as
many wounded The railroad authorities are
reticent The river is being searched for the
victime
A windstorm at Sioux City and its
suburbs wrecked the Episcopal Mission
school, the pillow factory and Booge & Co
packing-house. Glass fronts and weak walls
were demolished, structures mroofed, and
trees leveled.
Near Mobile, Ala, party of Dem
ocrats returning from political meeting il
a wagon, were fired upon by two negroes
armed with shot-guns One man died in al
hour, and six others were wounded The ne
groes escaped.
In league ball contests On the Fourth
Chicago won both games from Philadelphi;
IS to in the morning, and % to 8 in thu
afternoon. Rain stopped both games a
Buffalo At Cleveland but one game wa
played, Providence winning to 2. Their
was also but one contest at Detroit, in which
New York beat the local club to 8.
Gen Mcclellan presided at the ceebra
ton at Woodstock, Conn, the Rev Henri,
Ward Beecher opening the proceedings witt
prayer and Dr. Franklin Fisk, of Chicago
closing with the benediction Addresses wer
made by Gen. Mcclellan, the historian Los
sing, Ex-Governor st. John, of Kansas
Joseph Cook, of Boston, and Others hyml
by George H. Boxer, of Philadelphia, wa
sung by the whole audience