The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-22
ALL SORTS.

The last caravan OF 1000 pilgrims TO
Mecca were decimated in fortnight
Sixty.ave thousand miles of railroad in
Uncle Sans domicl.
The negro population of Virginia has
decreased 81 per cent. in the decade from
1860 to 1870
Twenty-three Ku-klux prisoners arrived
at the Albany, New York State prison
from Charleston, South Corolina, Wednes-
day.
A Connecticut colony who went to Kan
sas a year ago, and secured building lots
at 50 apiece, have sold some of the same
for 500 each.
A wedding was dashed in Alabama re-
Gently, by the bride taking French leave
just before the ceremony.
Saline county, Arkansas, has taken
| $50, 900 stock ia the Cairo and Fulton rail-
road. 1t is thought that Pulaski county
and the city Of Little Rock will also assist
to the amount Of 100000 each.
The Iron Mountain railroad company
has increased its earnings from January
LIST to the 23d of May, s3lI774,es over the
same period last year.
The low stage of water in the Missis-
sippi and bayous has been very favorable
to work on the levees and to drainage and
ditching by the planters.
The cotton crop generally averages
about seven per cent. in the cotton grow
ing districts over last years
"Brother Dawson can sing better than
L. remarked the deacon, as he arose, 'but
by the grace Of heaven, can fiddle his
shirt oh--for stamps, too.
One million four hundred and twenty
thousand cubic yards Of gold. bearing ce-
nent was thrown down by q single blast
of two hundred and fifty pounds Of giant
powder on Dutch Flat, California, Mon
day.
Among the new locomotives recently
purchased by the Chicago and Iowa rail-
road company is one which the company
named Horace Greeley, in honor of the
great agriculture philosopher.
The trustees of Illinois college at Jack
sonville have determined to return 10 the
dormitory SYSTEM and building is TO be
erected for'the purpose.
Thursday evening John Rodericks, en-
ployed in n Springfield foundry, emptied
ladle Of molten iron on one Of his feet,
receiving very severe and serious injuries.
The Marseilles quilt factory at Moline
is turning out two hundred quilts per day.
Sixty hands, Of whom forty are women,
are employed.
THr Supreme Court of the United
States having decided that husband can
recover damages for the loss Of his wife.
proportional to her usefulness and capa-
city to earn money, a Boston man whose
spouse persisted in recent railway
accident was allowed by the discriminating
jury exactly six cents.
, Here is a prospectus Of Oil City by a
t Tlusville paper "A small, gnsrled,
t irowzy, knotty bare-backed, up-snd down,
bumped, round-shouldered, gully, prec-
: ipicy, and generally shot-up, scouped-out,
ravined, inflexible, irregular, grcasy and
slab-sided shanty town.
A sportiye hunter Of Detroit, who kept
flask Of whisky with him on shooting
! trip struck race course in the suburbs
on his return and walked around it all
night, wandering why be didn't get 10
town.
A lady correspondent Of the San
Francisco Cal writing on esrlh-quakes
thinks, that "beteroneOus parallsres
dramatically converging are not due 10
the siiiciOus lntroduct Of
photosphericsl asteroids, bu, rather to
parsbolc qualification ofigueous zygema.
We think so.
a few days since at Hartland, Wis, 4
man named Hills picked up n club 10
throw at an unruly COW. and the club be-
ing icy, slipped from his hands ~ he rails
. ed II 10 throw, striking his son, u little
fellow, in the stomach, killing him instant
ly,
Lydia L. Aver has recovered $4,000
damages from the city of Norwich, Conn,
for injuries received by being thrown
from a carriage, IN consequence of her
horse becoming frightened at at Il tent
which the city authorities permitted to be
pitched on the highway.
At Newburgh, N. Y, Frank Wilson,
three years old, WAS supposed to have died
on Monday, but when the child was
placed In the coffin, Tuesday Afternoon,
indications Of life were shown. The fun.
eral was indefinitely postponed. The
child lies in state Of trance.
Miss Lizzie Moore living near sheboy-
gan Falls, Wis, captured and killed large
eagle, measuring seven feet six inches
across the wings. 1t was attempting TO
carry of a young lamb. The fght was a
desperate one, but the eagle lost his life,
and the girl her apron.
| 1t Ia said that MIR. John 7. Alexander
the former cattle king OF Morgan county,
VIII be able TO fully recover from the A.
nsnc'al embarassmenN which year ago
tnrestensd to engulph him, and retain
J handsome petsncy-probsbly Q hun.