The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-10-27
The NEWS IN BRIEF,

1t j. ann pnncel from London that pSr.
iihment will 10 dssolvsd Nov IS
Tue Glenwnoi (Cplo) Eagle advertises
for 669 girls for wives in that country.
The transactions on the New York stock
exchange last week averaged GOO, 900 shares
per day.
A train of twenty cars of fresh whale oil
from the Pacific coast passal thr nigh
Chicago Saturday.
Bridget Farley diel Sand ny night In
West Stratford, Conn, aged l0i yelrs :
months and days
Angus Blenlow, w,io was ARE to in
Cleveland saturday night for passing chun-
terf,it inouey, hanged himself in the cell
L. II. Rauch, of The Mauch Chunk Demo
crat. was e,ectel the ugliest man in that
town at the Soldiers Monument Fund fair.
Sermons against disesta bl ish,aent were
preached by clergymen Of the Church Of
England throughout Great Britain Sunday.
call for the convention of the Irish
National lea lue at Chicago, Jan. % and II.
has be,n issuel by the president. Patrick
Egan.
The pulpit of Unity church, at Des
Moiue+, was occupied Sunday BY Mr.. julia
Ward Howe, who discussed the power Of
| religion.
New York lawyer says it will take tile
UniteL States supreme court 1874 years to
get even with business at the present rate OF
progress.
Derby, Miss, declined bequsst of S., 900
becau'e of the condition that the town
| should not touch the money until it had ac-
| cumulated to 81. 900, 900
| All the European powers have accepted
| the pnrte'S invitations to attend a conference
at Constautinople upon the annexation of
Roumelia by Bulgaria.
| Near Platte Lake, Mich, two hunters
mistook woman who was picking Gran
berr!oi for bear, and shot her i'll the neck,
| intlicting mortal wound.
Isaac Davis, IA farmer near Lawrence,
Kan, is gathering his corn with "A ladder
| this year. Tho stalks are said to he sixteen
| feet IN length and tho ears twelve feet
| from the roots.
Fails and Henri tia Tex, suspended pay
| nentl Saturday. Warrants hav1 been
| sworn out for til, arrest OF the parties con-
nected with both banks.
Sister Ciprisni, vino arrived at Cairo sun
day from kbartoum, says that Olivier Pain
fell from his camel while i'll, aud that the
| Arabs, who were hurrying forward at the
time, buried him befors lie was dead.
| The sensation in French political circles is
n manifesto by Priuco Bonaparte Vlon
| pionl /, his followers. advocating that the
republic be upheld, US the Monarchists are
not nj present strong enough to bring about
| a revolution.
4 number of Virginians have attempted
| to sscure tie removal of Fred Douglass,
| regi ster of deeds at Washington, and the
president is reported t, have said that if
thu Democrat| would suggest the name of
good colorei man he would appoint him
Mrs W. T. Whitmore. who died at Fair
berry, llls., Oct. II. was the first and, it is
said. the only female member of the we'll
knawn Union league. a political organiza-
ton formed during the war to assist the
| eau of the union.
| Poe Ever, n wei-known sporting man re-
siding at Port Huron, Mich, was shot and
| killed Friday night at Detroit. He was
| knuwn Ia have a large sum of money on his
| per son. AMI as his body was found in an un
| fieluentai street. he had evidently been
murl.rsi for mis- money