The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-28
NEW SERIES---NO. 1877

NV SWISS cuntOnS next 10 liernlanV com
pam mat they arc ovcrrin with vayabon,s
from that country, mastcrlcss men seeking
work, and Socialist refugees, most of whom
being unfinished with papers and without
'lsIpie means oi subsistence, are Conducted
back to the frontier by the cantonal police.
young man IN La Crosse, Wis. was AN
infatuated but an unskilful poker PLAYER
losing heavily nearly every time he playcd.
After getting rid of all his own money and
all that he could borrow, he stole 800 from
iflend and went once more 10 try his luck.
which was a, bad as usual. Just ms no vrnt
away from the table he was informed thai
his mother, on learning of his theft had
fallen in tit and died.
The late Archbishop Whately wrote from
Dublin in 1870; 1T is only by making the
rising generation civilized beings, and NOT
mere unicathcred bpcds, that Socialism
and all other such poisons can be cflectuallv
counteractcd. The law-not perhaps in
these regions tlreland), but in dcspotic
countres-may guard the people against
the arrow that fieth in the MONDAY but
not against the greater danger Of the pest
lcncc that walkcth in the darkness"
The total population Queensland, Aus
tralia last year, was 203,0S4, ofwhom l24.-
VA were males. Queensland covers an area
as large as Europe, less Russia, GERMANY.
Austria and Scandinavia. The immigri.
non to 1t has been mainly at the cost Of it,
government, The present governor /,
brother to Lord Chancellor Cairns. lie re-.
sides at Brisbane, the capital, and has a
salary OF 100000 a year, with furnished
house and allowances worth about 81. 800
more.
j. j. Shcarer, Of Greenvillc, Mich. has
been sentenced to six months in the pen.
Tertiary for whipping Congressman Ell,
worth The assault was made in the street
and was very brutal, The proyocation came
of Ellsworths connection rs counsel in a
divorce suit brought by Shearer's wife.
Shearer claiming that Eilworth conducted
the plaintiffs case after being retained for
the defendant A petition for Shearcr>
pardon has been signed by 2,40O of his
townsmen.
John {. lngersol, nephew of Colonel
Robert lngerso!l, publishes partial account
OF how he was recently hazed by fellow
students at Cornell. lie says he was nut
through an absurd initiatory ceremony bv
members of a mock secret society. Several
years ago one young man WAS killed and
two were badly injured by falling into "a
gorge, near the college, while engaged in
that kind of diversion at midnight. At that
time the faculty cndeavored to break up the
practice, but ii seems without success.
Washington correspondent writes 70
the Hartford Times. that he interviewed a
prominent Republican official, at Wash
ington, the other day, and the official said
Already pool OF nearly 100000 has been
subscribed to make Grant the next prcsi-
dent right or wrong. lie says that, besides
tins, as much more money as will be re-
quired will be put in the pool the moment
that it is needed. OF this amount, the
s s1f SS2Gat s ' sn5sc tbt 5doCof6 h ahp
that other persons on the Pacific coast have
lined in to the extent of making 81 600
600 of the 100000 SO far promised Of
course there is no means of telling now
whether this is so or not Time will de
veIop it, however 1t was charged against
Mr.. Tilden that he used "bar'l of money"
during his campaign, which resulted in his
election. If this Grant money story is true.
and it is more than probable that it is, it
will take several "bar'ls" to hold it. When
Grant returns to this country, which will be-
in about year, il has been arranged that
he shall make tour over the entire
country. His managers here believe that
he will he big attraction, and will outdraw
the Hayes travelling combination in all see
tons. Mr.. Key, tie postmaster-general.
who has just returned from California, and
who worked up the business at that side of
the country, securing the subscriptions of
Mackay and other millionaire miners and
stock operators, will arrange so that he will
travel with Gram while he is swinging
around the circle. In return for his labor,
Mr., Key is to he put on the Grant ticket
for vice president.