The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-28
NEWS OF A DAY.
IN A CONVENIENT FORM FOR OUR
THOUSANDS OF READERS.
Personal AND POLITICAL POINTS, cHRoNI-
Giles or CURRENT EVENTS, ACCT.
DENTS, ETC.

| Noriho are uolnS cohsiueraDle damage
to the apples in Logan county.
The Jail in Galena has only Six in
mates, three Of whom are insane.
The Illinois Central railroad company
is building new stock yards in East Dubu-
que.
There are some eastern capitalists who
are considering the matter Of organizing an
iron bridge construction company with
headquarters at Springfield.
The wheat of Sangamon county is be-
ing rapidly marketed, and the principal
roads leading into Springfield are lined
with teams loaded with that grain.
The Toledo, Peoria and Western rail.
road has arranged to run trains through to
Lafayette without the inconvenience of
changing cars at Sheldon, as hereto.
| fore.
Portions of the pilothouse, the ice
box, and some smaller articles belonging to
the wrecked yacht Mamie have been found
in the Detroit river. No bodies have yet
| been recovered.
One of the largest circular saws in
Barrows, Taylor & Cos mill, at Gaena,
burst the other day, causing momentary
CONSERVATION among the men Fortunate.
ly no one was hurt
"A dispatch from Mobile, dated the
26th inst. states that the English bark Il.
W. Wood arrived at quarantine with vel.
low fever, The second mate is very i'll.
and every body on board has been down
except three men. Two died.
Complete returns show that during the
fiscal year ending July /, last, the receipts
of the internal revenue department were
Sl24,5l6,6l7.3s. OF this sum $1,000
GLAD was collected in Illinois; $62l3,-
63G49 in Indiana; sS54sj9.7S in Iowa,
1854, GS9.G4 in Minnesota, and $269s,.
j76.79 in Wisconsin.
New Orleans has neither cellars nor
sewers, because the city rests on a substra.
tum Of marsh. The cutters have carried
of the drainage or failed to, according 10
the frequency Of rains. The Sanitarians,
local society for the preservation of health,
have now brought about steady flow of
water from the river through most of the
streets
W L. Legg aged about twenty, re-
Gently clerk IN the postofice at Fort Worth,
Texas, was sentenced in the federal court TO
one year in the penitentiary for embezzling
| 5000 from the mails and office. He plead.
ed guilty, and returned all but about $50,
and for this reason and former good charac-
ter given light sentence.
Doctor Tanner rested on cot for the
greater part Of Monday. He took his
usual morning and evening ride, returning
from the latter much exhausted, laid on
the cot, and in few moments was fast
asleep. He awoke and asked for water,
| but before 1t could he handed him he had
again fallen asleep. At 945 he retired
| after drinking some water which his stom-
! ach was unable to retain An examination
showed the pulse "a, temperature 9S 2.5
and respiration 10. Since the commence
ment of his fast he has lost 26li pounds.
"A young man named Joseph Stats, re-
siding In the north part Of Centralia, who
was married only nineteen days since, was
shot dead in his yard last Monday night by
some unknown person, There is no clue
| to the murderer. The dreadful deed is
supposed to have been committed by some
| Of his previous rivals in the SUIT for the
hand OF his bride. Some suppose il to be
a case of suicide, caused by the fact that
| he was destitute of funds He WAS shot
through the heart. His wife went out and
found him just dying,
Capt. Geo. N. Stone, former owner Of
Vanderbilt's now famous young mare
Maud S., was on Change Monday where he
was busy receiving congratulations over
the performance Of the mare at Chicago on
Saturday under his management. He says
he was not at all surprised by the result on
Saturday, and feels sure that Maud S.,
could easily have beaten St. julien record
if she had not been slowed up to let Trim
k.t save her distance. He is confident that
she can trot in 2:l0, and says that by her
record Of 2;l3k, the best ever made by
her on her second public appearance
she holds the place Of the best trotter in
the world. She trotts in Cleveland to-day
"wednesday
The colored Baptist camp meeting at
Danvlle, ten miles south of Hillsboro, o.,
was the scene on Friday night and Sunday
nr.ornonn of bloody FIGHTS On Friday