The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-26
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Tho floor joi.,s Of the now State capit,
nj Srncnc'd, d.. arc Of wrought iro.i
manufactured iu Belgiuin. There's busi
ness fus yua-with an iron mountain with
in "a hundred miles
A Kentucky wedding was interrupted b.
q Young girl. with babe in her arms for
| bidding the bans. The Bridegroom, asking
| them d excuse him for moment. stepped
out and shot his head of.
The Memphis Appcal la. the story OF u
gardener, named lilman Moses VINO Is
strongly suspected If hdvinlg poisoned
three persons--his employer, his employ.
er's wife. and a fellow servant The cir
cumstanccs are very suspicious.
An old and wcll-known printer, Nelson
n. Curtis died ut his residence in Brook
Ign, y. Y, on the morning Of February
18th, in the sixty-dlth year of his age.
lie was foreman of the New York Erea-
ing Express for thirty-eight years.
John G.. Barry, said to bc the ollcs;
printer in the United States, and who SGT
up the fret Intelligence of the death OF
Washington published West of the Ali
ghanies. was Killed near Holly Springs,
Miss, on the I'd ult., 10y being thrown from
wagon. He was eighty-two years old.
An eccentric Indian has just died at
South Bend Ind. hi, name was Prue,
and he called himself the Emperor Of
Lowell. His occupation was catching
fish and drinking whisky. Notwit hstand-
ing this the whisky, not the fsh-he was
very truthful and trustworthy, the height
of his ambition being TO be considered an
honest man and good drinker! How is
this for Lo?
The sensation of Wall street, New
York, at present, is ANNA, the beautiful
cigar girl, She Is said to be the daugh-
ter Of wealthy and respectable parents, is
highly educated, and has n brother in the
British Parliament. She married below
her station came TO America, lost her
husband, and SO came TO a cigar stand on
Wall street.
Thomas Nast's doublc.page cartoon,
which lately appeared in Hdrper's Bdiar,
called"Thu Lost Arts and which met with
such adverse criticism among the cham.
pions OF woman's Rights, cost the Har
per's $3.50, the highest price, 1t is said
ever paid for n newspaper wood-cut IN
this country.
Captain Lewis Randolph, about the bes
scout in Lees army, is dying o. Consump
ton ut Charlotte, \. {. He is the great
grandson OF Thomas jefferson. lie Away
selected the darkest, coldcst, and most In
clement nights for his visits to the Cnioi
| camps As an instance OF his strength,
| IL related that at the second battle y
Manassas he killed man instantly, b.
striking him on the forehead with Ia
fist.
Gen. VIM. Il. W. Belknap, Secretary o
War, II is announced, has deposited in tn
Museum Of Princeton College a collection
which exhibits the history Of improve
ments in fire arms from 1857 to the presen
time, commencing with the old flint mus
Ike, and ending with the Prussisn needl
gun. The collection embraces over on,
hundred pieces In perfect condition, ant
| contains specimens Of Ill the difieren
kinds " weapons used In the South durini
, the war and Of tho ,n,es, aud most perfcc
arms of foreign countries.
There Is man In Ohio ffty-,hree year
Of age, illilerate and nearly blind who r,
members the occurrences OF every day sine
January ], l72T, when he was nine yea,
old. Mention any date TO him in the la
: for,y-four years, and he tells Instant
/ | what day of,he week Il was. wha, sor. {
weather prevailed, and wha, he was WORK
ing a, and converted about. \ gentlema
who proposed n test provided himscl
with n Journal FOR foriy-ave years, on
after several cross-examination prove
the 0hioan 20 be correct invariably.
The real Nathan murderer must !
somewhat Gmgsed--if be Is anywher
within reach Of the newspapers-st tn
numerous sudden discoyerie. Of himself !
widely distant parts Of the country. "
can imagine him, hid away in some coz
nook, indulging In a satisfied chucklc !
lucklcss wr,,chos who become victims q
rustic h.llgcnations aud the suspicious Z
the provincial police. The other day
man of mysterious appearance VII
seemed de,irious of being left qaieiiy 1
himself, WIS hunted down in Nantucket a
the Nathan assassin the other day, poo
fellow out IN Ohio WAS ccu,od Of ia
same crime The real, simon pure muI
derer doubtless thinks that the best joke {
all Is, what jolly good fellows the detec
ives are, 10 hurry OF, rs soon Us they thin
they have got u clua, and tell the publ
and reporters all about itis