The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-09

llle causes OF OlNhNlrOuS mOltalUy IN
certain houses, that no special pleading
is needed for it, A knowledge of prin-
ciples of good plumbing and proper
drainage is as essential to the physician
as is that of any other preventive of
disease. -Nep IOrk Tribune.
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The Louisiana Land Redemption
Company has drained $4,000 Of its
POO 600 acres, and will plant them with
rice this year. The company makes
the rosy estimate that it will have an
income of $50, 600 when it gets its whole
tract reclaimed. The land is black
loan, from two TO six feet deep, and it
is estimated that it will yield four hogs
heads Of sugar or forty barrels of rice
TO the acre.
Some of the Chinese smiles are said
to be as pointed as they are sarcastic
They call a clustering, harmless fellow
"a paper tiger A man who places
too high a valuation on himself they
compare to "a rat falling into a scale
and weighing ITSELF IA hunchback
making a bow is what they call over
doing thing. A spendthrift they COM
pare to "a rocket which goes off at
once, and aman who expends his charity
on remote objects, neglecting his own
family, is said to chang lantern on n
/ pole, which is seen afar, but gives no
light below
A bill introduced in the New York
legislature, relating to telegraph wires
in New York city, provides that after
July l. 1882, all telegraph wires within
the city used by telegraph, telephone,
district messenger, or electric light
companies, or any corporation or
person whatsoever, must be laid under
ground, in such manner as may be
agreed upon between the mayor and
the owners of such wire. After that
date it shall not be lawful to use any
wire above ground for any telegraphic
or electric Lighting purpose within the
limits of the city; but nothing shall be
construed TO prevent the introduction
of one or more wires within the limits
of any building where the introduction
is asked for, or within such building as
may be owned or leased, in whole or in
part, by any company or person using
telegraph wires,
The other morning the town of Lcm-
poe, Cal, was aroused by a loud eXpIo-
sion in the lompoc hotel, kept by Geo.
Butchart. The dodgers rushed out of
the house, but nothing could be seen.
Cinnamon in a wash-house across the
street said they saw three men stealing
away few minutes before. EXamina-
ton showed four bombs had been
thrown through the windows of the no.
tel, one of which had exploded The
bombs were homemade, formed by
wrapping cans of powder in sackng.
The bomb which burst was thrown into
a shoe-shop, which was part of the ho-
tel, but was not occupied, At night
other bombs were cast into the sleeping
room of the proprietor and his wife.
Had they exploded, loss of life would
have been sure to follow, as the bombs
weighed six pounds each. The bomb
which exploded broke all the windows
and several doors and partitions. The
cause OF mo altcinpJ is sald 10 be q
bitter feeling of temperance people
against Butchart, who sells liquor on
the sly, although his lease expressly
forbids him TO do so.
Some months ago, John Belts, of
Steubcnvilc Ohio, horse-whippcd his
wife, daughter Matte, and his married
daughter, Mrs Grace Webster The
affair created quite a stir at the time.
The cause of the whipping was because
he found a young man named William
Ferguson in the parlor with his daugh-
ter Matte, on his return home about
Q o'clock in the evening, against his or
dcrs, he having forbidden her to have
anything TO say to Ferguson. He first
attempted to whip Matte, when her
mother and Mrs, Webster interferred,