Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-04
TIE MAILS.

Mince pies made Of onions are 4 New York
dainty.
Mis-. Foster was burned to death at Montreal
by her clothes taking fire from red-hot stove.
There will be two hundred miles of railroad
in Minnesota before the winter sets in.
A man in Philadelphia lately cut a wart of
his foot and bled to death.
An Irishman in Connecticut was trying to
Kill hog the other day, when the animal
seized his arm and bit it through the bone
A man at Baltimore while carelessly hand
ling loaded gun, shot his little daughter
through the head +
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to
make new issue of the tive-cent postal cur
rency.
The colored residents Of Columbus Ga,
have held public meetings denouncing the
negro thieves operating there, and declare their
intention to discard their society and bring
their lawless brethren to justice.
Mr.. A. J. Prints, Superintendent of the
GAINESVILLE (Ohio) gas works, was found dead in
a street there last Thursday morning about 9
O'Clock, having been suffocated by piece Of
tobacco (Which he used too freely lodging in
his wind-pipe.
Capt. Girarde, of Augusta, Ga, has invented
an engine by which he manufactures Ice rap
idly and Of the finest quality. He supplies the
city of Augusta, and says that when his estab.
lishment is perfect and in full operation he can
fu nish ice al ] C per pound.
A man at Cincinnati was knocked out of his
wagon and had his back broken at the junction
of the dorsal and humber vertebrac. He was
taken TO a hospital, chloroiorm w as admins
tered, and he was Strengthened out and tied
fast to the bed. He is rapidly improving, and
in fair way to get well.
France, writing to the State Department.
under date of September 80, says the cholera
seems to follow the railroad, from Marsei.les,
via Aries and Nismes, toward Bordeaux. The
policy of the French press appears TO be secre-
tive, in order to allay the fears and appre-
tensions of the people. One case has appeared
at La Rochelle.
In boring for oil in Apalachin. Tiger county,
Florida, vein of salt water was penetrated
which forced It's way up, and compelled II aus-
pension of operations. The water is very salt,
yielding about seven ounces TO a quart Of water
evapOratcd. IL flows about fourteen hundred
barrels daily. The oil company have gone into
the manufacture of salt.
A little boy, son of Mr. Samuel Leforce, of
Franklin county, Ind was sent out on Friday
evening last on horseback to drive up the COWS,
and, not returning in time, his parents called
to him; but receiving no answer made search
for him, anu found the horse running loose, and
the boy terribly mangled and dead Itappears
that he had fastened tho haltcr-chan around
his neck and tie horse, becoming frightened,
threw him off and kicked ard dragged him to
death.
They have new burglar trap in London de-
sign ed especially for safe robbers. The burg
lar attacks the safe TO force the lock, he affects
telegraph wires which have been placed in
communication with the street lines, and sends
an alarm to the nearest police station, indica.
ting the number Of the sale which is in ieopardv
The safes are registered, with the number of
the houses where they belong, aud the officers
proceed at once to the spot and capture the
robber who has informed against himself.
An illustration of Russian rule in Poland Is
shown in a fact Just come to light. The luuatic
asylum at Warsaw-a Government institution.
of course-has been visited by the police. On
this occasion some SO out of the ia patients
We're discovered to he political offenders who
had fed for refuge TO tie abode of madness,
aud spent already couple Of years within its
terrible walls. The physicians have been ar
rested together with the delinquents.