The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

! NJ IOIllCult ~ tAuiDtllOu at Del
fast, ireland, a bunch of black Ham.
burg grapes was shown which weighed
twenty pounds, twelve ounces.
1t is reported that the Empress of
Russia will go to England shortly on
account of an important event in the
family of the Duke of Edinburg.
The steamer Faraday, engaged in
laying the direct cable, has not been
heard from for several days, and it is
the impression Of the company that the
cable has been broken.
Lieutenant Boyne, of the thirty
eighth British regiment, recently
walked from Aldershot to London and
back in seventeen hours. The dis
lance was seventy miles.
The president has appointed Bepja.
! min 81. Thomas, of Indiana, agent for
the Pueblo Indians, in New Mexico,
vice LOWS. resigned, and j. NJ. Shaw,
agent for tho Southern Apache In.
dams, in the same territory.
Bazaine will live in London, and has
taken the apartments on King street,
st. James, that wele once occupied by
Napoleon III. in the days when he
was called Prince Louis.
Mr.. Proctor, the astronomer, is urg
Ing the adoption in England of our
system of the publication daily OF pre-.
dictions Of the weather, and says that
IN his lccturing tour 10 this country he
only knew these predictions to be
wrong twice in three months.
In England poor curate, unable to
live on his salary, supported himself
by repairing watches. This Was re.
ported to the Bishop as disgrace to
the cloth. This must be put stop
to- said the Bishop, Indignantly, and
he stopped it By giving the curatc
place worth az 0U0 year.
At Ouchy, Switzerland, a boatman
pulled out man who tried 10 drown
himself, in the lake. Later he saw
him hanging on tree, and left him
alone to enjoy his fixed idea" He
was summoned before a magistrate for
not preventing the suicide, and said he
thought the gentleman had hanged
himself up to dry.
The only thing that Earl Russell
ever did greatly was to snseze. His
achievement in that line is thus des-
cribed BY biographer; "This re-
markable man seemed to concentrate
himself, as it were, for gigantic effort,
would be bent nearly double by the
force of the EXPOSITION, and would then
dive down into the flaming banner ofred
silk from which after several minutes of
observation, he emerged with cuuut-
enance IS vivid as the back of scalded
lobster The late Lord Clarendon
said "When Lord John takes snuff
the consequence. brings "down the
House"
The trial of the accomplices in the
escape OF Marshal Bazaine was con-
cluded at Grasse on the 18th inst. VI
Lachaud, defending CO.. Yillette said
his clients conduct in this matter was
the most honorable incident Of his ca
reer. Col. Nillette was the type of
chivalrous devotion to his chief. Couu-
sci then proceeded to examine the evil
dence in regard to the escape, and ar
gued that it was in exact accordance
with the account given by Nine. Ba.
zaine.
The Judge delivered lengthy and
explanatory judgment. He considered
that escape by rope was proved, but
declared that Colonel Villcste assisted
in the preparations. The wardens
were adjugdsd guilty Of negligence.
Rull one Of the accused, who has not
been arrested, and who did not appear
for trial, was condemned in Contuma.
clan to ten months imprisonment. Col.
Nillette and Plantin were sentenced to
six months, Doineau to two, and Gil
goux to one Honth's Imprisonment.