The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-16
NEWS BREVITIEs.


The performance of Lobahof's trans
laton of lie Roi Amuse" in ST. Peters
burg has been stopped. IL was thought
by the authorities that posters at the
street corners announcing that ''the
king was amusing himself would lead
TO belief that he thought there was
something humorous about the VAN
plots of the nihilist.
A Philadelphia reporter has been
looking into the poriits made by ven
ders who sell the coal TO poor people
by the pail. He carefully measured
ton of coal and found il contains l6S
pailfuls. The dealer charges eight
cents pail, and the poor buyer thus
paws SlS "A for ton, which can be
bought for So.
German colonists on the banks OF the
Volga, in Russia, are in extreme des-
ttution, and 81. Petersburg journal
publishes ptiful account OF their SUI
ferngs. The number of the destitute
is stated at 200,0 900, and there are very
few well enough oil to furnish even the
most meagre aid to their impoverished
neichbors The Russian authorities do
nothing for their relief,
Antonio Ashley was found dead in his
bed in Oswego, and the physician who
made the post-mortem testified that his
feet had been poisoned by wearing cloth
slippers. He had been employed on a
steamer in the west, and wore cloth
slippers. His feet were often wet, and
the poison by which the carpets were
colored soaked in through the cloth
and poisoned his feet.
In California the males formerly out
numbered the females very largely, but
this disproportion has been gradually
decreasing, and now the disparity is
comparatively small According to the
last census, the population of the state,
exclusive Of Chinese, who are nearly
all men, is 7S9. $50, of which number
3,27l are males and 3i6,4 females
London JVorM "Mr. Edwin Booth
performed a graceful tribute TO the
memory of the late Mr.. Sothern. Des-
pite snow, wind and cold matters very
apt TO affect him seriously in his profess
sional work-he left his hotel at six
O'Clock in the morning, travelled to
Southampton, attended Mr.. Sothern's
funeral, and was back again in London
in time to play at the Princess Theatre"
The Oregon system of liquor licenses
is being urged for trial in Boston. I'm
der the buyer not the seller, is obliged
to procure license. Objection ismade
to the plan on account of the great
number of licenses that would have to
be issued and looked after. while friends
of the measure think it would debar
from the saloons many chronic drinkers
who have not the money andr respectable
ity to secure license.
Pail Mall Gazette: ut appears that
the halftime system is TO be tried in the
communal schools of Paris The first
experiment will be made this year in
certain schools, sum of l50, 000f. hav-
ing been voted by the municipal coun-
Gil for the purpose of opening work
shops Fifty or sixty will be opened to
begin with, and if the experiment sue
ceeds, the system will be adopted by
every municipal school of the capital
In Florida the value per acre of clear
ed land is Sc AZ, and of timbcred land
50 03. In louisiana cleared land is
worth Sl4 &c, and timbered land SO So.
In Texas cleared land is worth So SO,
and timbered land 81. In Arkansas
cleared land is valued at 81 7S, and
timbered land at $S4S. In Oregon
cleared land is worth S21 II, and tim
bered 81 80. But in Nebraska cleared
is worth IS 92, and timbered land S25 So
per acre.
The Reno (Ncv) gazette is respon-
sible for the following statement; "The
earth has cracked open near Murphy's
salt marsh, making a long assure four
feet wide and of depth unknown. With
view 10 exploration, man was the
other day lowered into il by rope
distance of fifty feet perpendicularly,
where the creyice began to dip at an
angle of about 40 degrees. The man
could see no bottom, and thought he
had gone far enough, and was hauled
back to the surface
The rector of Rufford, near Ormskirk,
Lancashire, recently received letter
written in pencil, and signed "Ameri-
GUS" asking him 10 warn the proper
authorities TO watch carefully the valua-
BILE jewelry of Lady llesketh and the
family plate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, at
Rufford hall The letter said that
diamonds were soon extracted and the
gold speedily melted in the crucible of
the London jew. II gave a warning TO
move all ladders from the neighborhood
of the hall, and to watch all means OF
ingress while the family were dining,