The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-05
CAIRO BULLETIN.
PERSONAL.

Father Burke is better, and has gone
10 the wooden-nutmeg state.
TO qualify himself by personal expe-
rience for writing an improved edition OF
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo proposes to
marry again.
oliver Dslrymple, whose little farm is
near st Paul, Minnesota, has this season
harvested $4,000 bushels of wheat, and
banked 47,26o for it.
Hon. Russell Quincy, the British
claims commissioner, is the guest, at pres
cnt, of Mr. Cyrus w. Fields, at Hastings,
on the Hudson, New York.
M. ID. Conway says the ex-Emperor
Napoleon left Brighton, owing TO some un-
grounded fear Of his wife that he would be
assassinated there.
-Rumor hath it that Father uyacinthe
made good thing Of it, in n worldly point
Of view, by his late marriage. His blush
ing bride is worth the traffic Of $40, 900.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson has en-
tered the lecture field. Her subject is Sir
Walter Raleigh and his American travels.
The Chicago papers speak of it in terms
OF warm praise.
Walt. Whitman was introduced TO
the Sioux in Washington. His long hair
greatly impressed them, and they euthusi-
astically invited him 10 go west, where
hair-rsisiDg is = popular science.
The pew-holders of the Old South
church, Boston, have voted %, 900 per an
mum to Rev. DR.. Blagden during his life.
His age is seventy. He will preach his
last sermon TO the Old South society to-
morrow.
John Chase, Of Lynn, Massachusetts,,
has worked at shoe-making on the same
bench for the last sixty-nine years. He
uses q lapstone which has been in use by
different shoe-makers for upward of one
hundred and twenty-seven years.
Baseball hath her victories no less re-
nowned than those Of the kicking mule.
In rush to catch a fly, at Constantine,
Mich, the other day, two small boys came
into collision, and each had the unconscious
satisfaction of having knocked the other
senseless. When resuscitated, one had lost
all his teeth, and the other bad broken
nose and split lip.
Andrew 5. Miller, of Vigo county,
Indiana, having no mother-in-law, drove
the blade Of an AK into the back OF his
father.in-law, last Thursday, severing the
spinal column, and producing speedy
death. The old gentleman's name WAS
VIM. Irwin, and the quarrel was about
barrel Of cider which Miller had spilled
in drunken freak.
"A Boston paper, in noticing the death,
recently, Of Mrs. Susan Warren Appleton,
in that city, says: "She was always striv-
ing TO be useful 10 Others, and TO divert
their attention from herself Could
better epi,sph be engraved upon the
Tombstone Of a human being
Harriet Beecher Stowe refuses
positively TO read IN halls capable Of hold
ing more than 800 or 400 people, and on
no consideration will read outside of
New England She will not take the
trouble 10 travel, and will not risk the
strain of her lungs In fact, the old lady
is ''set" in her ways, and has become lux
uriously lazy. Her publishers only get
her copy by sending man to sit down at
her desk until she completes it.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller talks as follows
about the poets admiration for Lord
Byron: He held him as great poet.
He has often told me that q poet should
have some great sorrow, which was abso-
lutely necessary for the development Of
genius. He said should be like Lady
Byron, and suffer patiently Joaquin 5
constant drink was gin and water. He
thought he should not eat much and that
q little starvation was al excellent thing,
and strikingly conductive 10 the ethreal
fancies that should emanate from the
poets brain"
General VIM. Harrow, who died Of
injuries by a railroad accident near New
Albany, Indiana, last week, went into
service as major Of the fourteenth Indiana
in 1861; became Colonel in 1862 and
commanded the Fourteenth when it did
severe and most gallant fighting. In JAM
usry, 1863, Colonel Harrow resigned, AID
was subsequently, appointed brigsdier-
genersl-a position that he held until the
close of the war, resigning April 20, 1865.
In politics General Harrow was Wing
then Republican, and WAS travelling to
meet appointments as q Greeley elector
when the accident occurred which
caused his death.