The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-12

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Ghe Bu!letin.
NUGGETS.
Miscellaneous News Items Gathered
from Our Exchanges.
II is asolmn thing for penniess young
man to lead blushlng bride up to the
alter and promise TO endow her with NIL
hi worldly goods
Charcoal has been discovered to be q
sure cure Tor burns. BY laying piece OF
cold charcoal on the burn, the pain sub.
sides Immediately. By leaving the ch.r.
coal ON for All hour the wound Is healed, az
has been demonstrated on several Occa.
| son,.
The society editor OF the Butler Eagle
reported high-toned wedding, an ID said II Q
Bird suoussei al was the ioveIiest he ever
saw. The printer set 1t up 'trowsers and
since that time there have been two va.
cancies on that paper, in consequence Of
two admissions - the hospital.
Gov. Ham pton's son, Preston, was the
younger of two brothers. He was not
twenty years OF az" when he fell during q
severe engagement that occurred in Octo.
Der, 1884, about twenty-five miles north
west of Peter burg, Va, where his fathers
command was covering the right wing Of
General Robert E. Lees army. At the
time both Of General Hampton's sons were
acting "a his aids and when young Preston
fell the father gapped iecklessly to the
spot, followed by his Adjutant General,
Major Baker, and Wade Hampton, Jr.
Both ofthe last named were severely
wounded while General Hampton was lit.
Ing the dead body of his boy from the
ground. Judge Waford, Of Kansas City,
says he witnessed the scene, and saw Ger.
eral Hampton carrying the dead body Of
his son on the horse before him.
The Valley Clarion says "Another new
swlndls has been developed, the modus
operandi of which Is a. follows: A pack
pedlar call. at the house with tine lot of
articles, which he offers at ruinous sacri-
fees. lie makes a sale and goes on his
way. The next day two men drive up to
the house with printed bill giving an &c.
curate sccount Of the robbery Of a certain
store. They claim the goods and usually |
bulldOze the purchaser into giving them
up. 1t would be well for ne wspaper men
throughout the state to give these swlnd.
'ers the benefit OF gratutous advertise |
ment, so as 10 guard their readers against |
such impostures. People who DO not read |
the papers would then be the only suffer.
ers-and this class, 1t may be added, are
generally the ones that are taken in by the |
plausible rlscals.' Pass them round.
\ historical character has passed awJy |
with the death OF BENJAMIN Ravens, at |
Highland FALL, New York. He was the |
original and oaly Denny .Havens, o" OF |
the song Of that name, which every officer |
In the regular army knows As We as he |
knows the position Of soldier. Old Benny |
kept tavern near the West Point military |
academy for nearly halt cen Jury, and dis
D nsed cheerful and flowing hospitality |
to the cadets that came to see him on the |
8 y, for his place was "tabooeF by the |
aut no titles. Among those whom he could !
call friends were Burnside, Longstreet and |
a hundred other generals Of more or less |
distinction. His ideal hero was Andrew |
Jackson, and he bel JEFF Davis in hi. h
esteem. The song which immortalized |
the old mans name was written by |
O'Brien. an Irish cadet, who fell In the |
Evergau e., tiyhti NJ under Dade. Where
ever our flag has gone that song has been
heard. There We're originally ten verses,
but the poet Of every cl Iss mas added a
s,anzi until now there must be hundred.
The song begins:
'Come fll your glasses, fellows all, AMI saal
up in row.
To singing sentimen,ally we're going for to go, |
In tue army there sobriety, promotion's very |
slow,
So wen sing our "reminiscences Of Benny Ha-
yens, o."
The ia of poor o. 6rien Is CONNIE nora
ted in tuesc wor Ia;
Hark from the wales Of Florida there c mes u |
wall oil Woe;
His head among the beautious flowers,
O'Brien's yng low
NJ ore he'll drink petite Coqnille at Benny
Ravens, or
II isnow in or Ter for some of the oil |
West Point boys to wind up the whole by |
a starza celebrating old Bcnny's death and
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