The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-16
THE NEWS IN Brief.

Ben Butler is yachting along the Now
England coast
Admiral Porter's History of the Navy
During the Civil War will be completed by
winter
On payment Of 100000 francs, N'colini's
wife will consent t. divorce, upon securing
which the tenor will marry, SO it is said,
Mime. Patti.
Mary Clemens, aged 1913 years months,
lied Tuesday at Youngstown, Ohio. Her
father AMI mother lived TO the age of LOG
and 10, respectively
The iron trade at Philadelphia is reported
firm Merehant-irOn mills are starting up
with orders for from one to four weeks.
Nails moving actively, hut slow.
a tin box supposed to contain gold was
plowed up in field near Chattanooga Mon
lay, but when opened and tested it was dis
covered the coins were counterfeit
The Hon. John Bigelow's collection of the
public writings and speeches of Samuel J.
1ilden will be published Aug. l. There will
be two volumes of about 600 pages each.
The deficit of tire postoffice department
for the quarter ended March 81 last was
| 81, 665, 533. 1t is e5timated that the deficit
| for the present fiscal year will reach sc, 000,-
900.
| Paris Tuesday celebrated the anniversary
of the fall Of the Bastils by Grand Army
review, a civil societies procession, and a
parade Of 10000 schoolboys ip military uni
form
| While hosting the center Of the gasometsr
into position at Albany, n Y, Tuesday,
the gall gave way, precipitating three men
to the bottom of tue shaft los feet, killing
them instantly.
An Indian raid was reported Monday
night, near Eagle Pass, Texas, in which fif-
teen Mexcans were killsI. The cavalry
having been sent to the Indian territory,
leaves the section unprotected.
| Violent haiIstorms at Forest Lake, MINI.
River Falls, Wis, AMI at Saybrook, Ills,
seriously damaged crops In some instances
hailstones were found measuring two inches
i'll diameter The loses are very heavy
Tuesdays Sc sion of the Business Edu-
Gator association at Jacksonville. Ill, was
made memorable by the appearance of the
venerable T. NJ Bartlett, of Cincinnati,
founder Of the first American business col
lege.
The opening Of the cattle trail, as reported
by an agent of the interior department, is
denied by stockmen, who say that the diff
ferenceS between ranchmen and drovers is
not settled, and characterize the report as q
ruse.
The Associated Hebrew association of the
United States, which has been in session al
St Louis, pa sed resolution Tuesday that
a. soon as twelve relief societies send fay or
able re ,ponies the organization shall be con
'itered permanent.
The British ironelad Benbow, launched OIL
June L. excites popular interest from the
fact That sine will carry heavier guns thar
any now efioat Her speed-sixteen t.
seventeen knots an hour-will also exceed
that of any arship now in service
The Archbishopof Canterbury, tine Bishop
Of London. Cardinal Manning and the Hon
Samuel Morley will begin an investigation
of the charges of aristocratic iniquity madt
by The Pail Mall Gazette, which journa
the government deems it not advisable Il
prosecute for its revelations.
League bah games Tuesday were: Chi
cage 0 Buffalo l; New York 8, Providence
.; Detroit s. st. Louis 0; Boston 9, Phila
deIpha O. Games were played as follow
by American association clubs: At Pitts
burg Baltimore s. Pittsburg ,; at Cincin
nati-, ncinHati s. Metropoiitans Q; a
Louisyiils--Luuisvilie 10. Brooklyn Z; at st
i4uB st. Ions Z, Athletics D.