The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| the SUMMER
j. Il. Wade has given 100 acres of forest
to Cleveland for park.
Classic Boston celebrated decoration day
with procession of 800 bicycles.
The water works company of Quincy has
commenced a suit against the city for thirty
thousand dollars.
The reduction of the public debt for
May amounts to 81, 150,721, and the cash
in the treasury is 1887 ,4O6,OSs.
The Massachusetts, Legislature last win
ter made memorial day legal holiday,
and it was 80 observed on Monday.
The coinage of the various minis for the
month OF Say was $12,92s,56O, of which
S9,30O,OOO wasetandsrd silver dollars.
British agriculturists are now advised to
cultivate tobacco; but to do il an ancient
act of Charles II, will have to be repealed.
Mr.. De Coster threatens to bring suit
against the city OF Quincy for about five
thousand dollars as damages for false ar
rest by the officers.
Farmers in Central Illinois report winter
wheat suffering from the chinch-bug and
Hessian fly. Thousands of acres are being
| Moved I'm IN nlant cnrn
A petition in favor of Plat and Conkling
eighty feet long aid signed by over two
thousand voters has arrived at Albany,
New York, from ANR& and Woodins dis
tricts. MS~
The mayor of.Quincy has brought suit
for two thousand dollars damage against
the Herald of that city for saying that he
had received stolen property and calling
him "shyster"
A Fond du Lac banker ran away with
100000, but his confidence made HIM re-
turn $3.50 that he haFstolen from GENE
terry fund. Well, in these days $3.50 worth
of remose is not to be sneezed at.
Cincinnati turned out on Monday even
ing and held memorial service in remem
brance of the late George Graham, the
founder of the Cincinnati public schools
Stanley Matthews delivered the grafton.
A prominent Wall street operator volun
teers statement of speculatlons in whicl
Gen. Brady made over $500, 000-thus rem
dering il unnecessary to conclude that tn
latter got his wealth by star route crooked
ness.
II reported that Mr.. Hugh Childers
the English secretary of war, will soon sue
coed Mr.. Gladstone as chancellor of the ex
chequer, leaving the latter only the duties
Of the first lordshlp of the treasury to az
tend to.
&c Taylor sues Indianapolis for dam.
ages for injuries received by the explosion
of steam fire engine he was stoking up in
the fire department service. The engineer
who was seriously injured at the same time
obtained a verdict of $1,000.
The dry goods trade in Philadelphia has
been startled by several heavy failures. E
V. White failed several days since; Ores
well, salanne & Co,@sntunder for 100000
]. A. southwick assigned for $4,000, and
Mackcy, johnson & Turner went down fol
$4,000.
The old mail company of A. Arnot, st
Louis, with headquarters in Washington
has failed. II has carried mails in nearly
every state and territory and has been il
business for forty-six years. The recen
curtailment of the contract service is as
signed as the cause Of the failure.
The international typographical uniol
meets at Toronto, June 9th, and continues
during the week. Apart from the bushes
sessions, the delegates will take carriage
ride on Tuesday afternoon, moonlight ex
cursion ON Wednesday night; and on Thurs
day night the visitors will be banqueted a
Albert hall
The thirty second general assembly of Hi
nois introduced one thousand one hundred
and sixty bills, of which four hun
bred and tifty-six were by the senate ant
seven hundred and eleven by the house
The whole number passed is one hundre'
and thirty-six, and fifty-one of these wer
appropriation bills, leaving eighty-fve o
a general nature, which will become laws
the governor being willing.
A call has been issued for a non. partisan
prohibltory state convention to be held II
Jackson, Miss, on Wednesday, July 30. 1t
sole purpose is declared to be to combin
the friends of prohibition in the effort t.
induce the adoption Of q constitutions
r amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic il