The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

~ military pUITl accompanies 'N'IJ
train on the Mexico and Vera Cruz
railroad, and at every station q guard
is drawn up under arms on the arrival
OF every train.
a gentleman writes 20 The London
Standard that cats can be trained to
retrieve game as well as dogs do,
When he takes his gun in his hand his
three cats are in ecstacies in anticipa-
ton of sport.
The Catholic Emigration society, of
Minneapolis, intend looking the ground
over in the vicinity of the Green River
country, next spring, and will probably
make great improvements along the
extension line of the Northern Pacific.
A gambler at Napa, Cal, had his
place closed by the authorities He
therefore constructed faro layout in
form suitable for packing in small
satchel, and every day makesa round
of the stores, offices, and residences Of
those who desire to play.
The Londoners are planning to use
PENNSYLVANIA anthracite coal as a sub
stitute for their own bituminous fuel,
and so get rid of smoke. Mr., Jennings
who sends the fact to The New York
IYorld, mentions that the coal can be
delivered in London at less than $3.50,
or eighteen shillings n ton.
Four negroes were found in an Ala
bama graveyard going through with
mummeries which, they thought, was
to give them certain magical powers.
One was on his knees praying at the
head of a grave, another was on his
knees cursing at the foot, and the other
two were playing a game OF cards in
the centre.
A society of Mormon girls, having
for its object the securing of mono
gamic husbands, has been discovered
and broken up at Salt Lake The men,
bers took vow to marry no man who
would not pledge himself to be content
with one wife, Five granddaughters
of Brigham Young had Joined it.
Relics of King Philip and his braves
are often unearthed near Fall River,
Mass. Last Wednesday Elisha Anthony,
of South Somerset, Mass, while eXca-
waiting for barn cellar on his farm,
due up the skeleton of Il brave, and
near him lay his pipe and the utensils
which Indians used to bury with their
dead.
The export of iron ore from Spain in
the first half of.-thiS year was 100 per
cent more than in 1879. Spain is now
full of commercial Englishmen, who
run the railroads, mines and vineyards.
The Spaniards are not very fond of
these Britons, but cant get along with
out them. Nearly every engine in
Spain halls from Manchester or Brm-
ingham.
President Grevy, who had fancy for
white Arab horses, has succeeded in
obtaining some after a long search.
As the Arabs believe that white horses
are likely to be weak, and certain to be
less healthy than horses of some other
color, they are not often bred, and n
fine white horse is almost as rare among
the Arabs as pure black one.
Justice Smith said, on opening his
court at Connorsville, Tenn: William
Henry Smith is arraigned for assault
ing his father" The magistrate had
on the previous day knocked his father
down with q club, and it was himself
that he was now arraigning. He con-
tinued; "1he evidence is conclusive,
and I'm not sure but | ought to send
myself to jail for ten days. But as this
is my first ohensc, and | certainly had
good deal of proyocation, | will SIM
ply impose fine of SO"
According to DR.. S. Gibbon, Lon
don health-oilicer, the Jews are the
longest-lived people in the great met
ropolis. They are VIGOROUSLY exempt
from tubercular and scrofulous faint,
1t is very rare that one meets with pull
monary consumption among them. In
the district of White Chapel the medi-
cal officer of health has reported that
on the north side of High street, occu-
pied by Jews, the average death rate is
twenty per thousand, while on the
south side, occupied by English and
Irish, it is forty-threc per thousand,
Senator Cameron has erected his new
house as nearly as possible on the true
meridian from which longitude is reck-
oncd east and west in the United States
In selecting sites for the capitol and
Presidents house, the engineer, Mr..
Elliott, drew by celestial observation
true meridianal lines running due north
and south, one of which passes through
the capitol and the other directly
through the white house and out Six
teenth street, which used to be called
Meridian street. On the corner Of this
street, where it is intersected by Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island avenues and
n street, Senator Cameron's house is
situated p
A few days ago the neighbors were
drawn to house on West Twenty-sixth
street, New York, by the most frightful
cries. They found u woman named
Mrs. Hall standing over her youngest
child, who was stripped naked and
stretched upon table With one hand
the mad mother held the struggling in.
FAINT upon the table and with the other
she brandished q carving-knife in the
air. She told the frightened people
that she and her whole family were 20
ing TO heaven. The child was rescued
and the woman soon after became
calmer, She had been made insane by
the recent death Of her husband
The question Of corporal punishment