The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-19
:; =, ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Part Of . graveyard at Morchead, KY,
was destroyed in building o railroad.
and indignant ghosts from the disturbed
collins have taken possession OF the
station house, which stands on the spot.
so say the ticket agent and other en-
ployes, at leDst, and they have proved
their sincerity by resigning their posi-
tons.
Mr.. Riley Kittr,lge, Of Belfast, Me,
has a postal card upon one side OF which
he has written clearly zoos words,
comprising the entire books of Jonah
and Malachi and the fifth, sixth, and Il
part OF the seventh Psalm. Mr. Kilt
! ridge recently sent postal card to
each candidate for president and vice
| president, the six cards containing al
most $1,000 words.
Andrew Simpson, of Carbonate, Pa,
is in possession Of the boiler, cab and
several other pieces of the locomotive
| purchased in England by the Delaware
and Hudson Canal company, June IL,
1879. This locomotive made the first
trip in this country, between Honesdale
and what is now known as Old No. 4,
on TIE Delaware and Hudson gravity
road in 1880
Policeman Egolf, Of Philadelphia, is
| usually accompanied on his rounds by
a big hound. Egolf went into house
TO arrest a man who was whipping his
wife and was set upon by number of
roughs, knocked down, kicked, and
dragged about, Then the dog went in
TO the tight, and enabled his master to
win. But it was hard struggle, The
officers skull was fractured and the
dog had three ribs broken.
About midnight, just after the acct
dent in the Consolidated Imperial mine
Nevada, the wife of Matthew Winnie
was found on her way to the works.
She said she had been awakened lust
before by her husband, who came all
mangled to her ard told her he had
been killed in the mine. She got up,
dressed herself, and started to ascertain
the truth of what she was only too well
convinced was true. There had in re-
atty been fearful accident, Mr.. Win
ME was indeed killed, and the tremb-
ling woman went back to her children
and her desolate home.
The following public requests and
gifts by New Englanders have been
made: James w. Hale, of Springfield,
Mass, has left sS2, 443 for furnishing
stoves, flour, and fuel for the worthy
poor, The will OF the late Samuel Cut
Ter, Of Boston, provides that his execu-
tors shall pay $1,000 each to the Faith
Training college and the Reformed
Episcopal church of Boston, and $500
to the General Theological society.
Sydney w. ThaXter, of Portland, Me-,
has made gift of $4,000 to she Maine
general hospital, to provide perpetual
free bed in memory of his dead wife,
and has given $3.50 for free bed in his
own name for one year,
Bishop Mullin, of Erie, Pa, has pub
licly denounced the custom of extrava-
giant floral decorations at funerals.
Hereafter black pail is to be thrown
over the casket or coffin, which will
cll'cctually hide from view all floral Off
erings that may be placed there. The
only way in which the florists can get
ahead of the bishop is to fasten the
flowers by hooks or pins on the outside
of this pail. The flower business is one
which, although it has received good
many hard knocks at the hands OF the
clergy and some of their people, is one
which is sure to blossom out where least
expected, as long as flowers are in
fashion.
A characteristic anecdote of Carl
baldi is related in a Life" of that gen.
eral. One evening in 1861 he was met
by Sandman shepherd who was H.
menting the loss of one of bis lambs
Garbaldi at once proposed to his staff
that the mountains should be explored
for the little vagrant, but after an un-
availing search the soldiers retired to
rest. Not so the General, however.
For the next morning Garibaldi, who
was accustomed always to be the first
man awake in the camp, was found by
his attendant in bed and fast asleep.
On being aroused he opened his eyes in
some alarm, and instantly inquired
whether the rest of the house were
awake or not. He was relieved on
receiving an answer in the negative,
and stretching his arm under the coun-
terpane of the bed he brought to light
a tiny lamb, which he handed to his
friend, urging him to take it with all
speed and without being observed to
the disconsolate shepherd. The friend
had Just time to remark that by the side
of the bed was saucer, in the bottom
of which remained few drops of
milk.
While party of hunters was passing
through Ulster mountains, a few miles
northwest from Neversink, N. Y, they
discovered small and peculiarly con-
structed hut One Of the hunters walked
up to front entrance and knocked.
There was no response, and he knocked
second time. Still receiving no re-
ply, he raised the latch-string and
opened the door. A wretched sight
met their gaze Lying in filthy bed was
the body of very aged woman. She
had evidently died from starvation and
weakness. The hunter called his COM
panions when n thorough examination
of the hut was made. They found no
food Of any kind, and tho appearance
of the corpse indicated that the woman
had been dead several days Lying on
q chair near the dead woman's bed was