The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DR.. Ball, charged with murder, es-
capped from the jail at Tyler, Tex, by
means of French harp, which he con-
yerted into key.
A poor fisherman Of Tallahassee, Fla,
while digging worms for bait recently,
struck brass kettle that was found to
contain l,400 in coin,
Miss Bette Green of Forsyth county.
Georgia, has two silk dresses which
she made herself, having raised the
worms, spun the silk, colored and wo-
ven il with her own hands.
Nearly 1900 persons visited Mount
Vernon during the fiscal year ending
June Is. The receipts were 80, 834.50,
and the expenditures $40, 223.68, leay-
ing balance of S6l0.92.
The japanese government has APP
pointed special commissioner, Mr..
Monosuke Sano, to study the subject OF
Cremation, and ne is now Investigating
;Ire- nlVrIt.s of ,he It;stan syst,sn TT
Milan,
A paper dome, thirty feet in dame
ter and weighing about two tons, is
being made for the observatory at West
Point II will weigh only one tenth ms
much as copper dome of equal size.
Mrs Abijah LOOMS. widow, cele-
brated her one-hundreth birthday in
New Hartford, Conn, recently. Her
eyesight and hearing are represented
to be quite good, and her health is fair.
According to the Boston HeraM: III
all the things that jeff Davis didn't
learn in the late war were written
down in books, the aggregate would
make very respectable library"
A handsome young lady, n perfect
type of the Albino, white hair, pink
eyes, and clear, beautiful complexion,
can be seen walking one of the princi-
pal streets of Milwaukee any bright,
clear day. She is the daughter of an
old and well-known citizen.
1t is said that the check given BY the
Pennsylvania railroad company in pay
ment for the Philadelphia, Whining
ion and Baltimore road, $l4,949, 052
was the largest ever drawn in this
country.
At a woman's suffrage convention OF
Portland. Me-. one of the speakers
stated that she had letter from q
prominent physician, advising women
not to become mothers until they had
the ballot.
The bronzed old captain of the ferry
ry-boat Mystic, plying across the Hud-
son from Haverstraw to Cruger's sta
ton has daughter, Hattie, who
though only twenty years of age, is ac-
customed to steer the boat Willie her
father collects the fares.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
enacted law making $500 fine and 90
days Imprisonment the penalty for any
saloon-keeper who allows his custo-
mers to play pool, cards, or any other
game fos drinks.
Josephine D'Orme, an Italian wo-
man claiming the title of Countess of
Carroll, recently died domestic SER
want in San Francisco. She went to
that city in 1868 rs prima donna of the
Biarchi Opera company, but lost her
voice, and dropped into poverty and
| obscurity.
Atkins Lawrence, the handsome actor
who has been the Romeo to Mary An
derson's Inlet and the Claade to her
Pauline, has been compelled to guar
antee s. week TO a wife whom he de-
serted in Philadelphia. He urged that,
after paying his own expenses and those
of two children by q former wife, his
salary of $40 week was exhausted.
The late Henry Wells, founder of the
American express system, personally
handled the alleged Mormon plates
which Joe Smith pretended to find near
Palmyra, N. Y, and whichvcontained
the revelations" on which the Nor
mon religion is founded. They were
encased in cotton bag, and Mr. Wells
did not actually see them, but from
their lack of weight he did not believe
they were metal plates as Joe Smith al
legged, but were states. He was great
ly tempted to smash them; and il he
bad--wbere would Mormonism havs
been to-dayp Mr.. Wells died in 1878.
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