The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-06
ALL SORTS.
Ohio has 7,s43 prisoners in her jails.

caused great CONSERVATION among the
native population of New Mexico, and
their churches were crowded by fright
ened men. women and children, pray
ing that the dire calamites they feared
might be averted.
The sale of Queen Victoria's year
lings has of late years generally brought
forward lot of very inferior animals.
This year. however, the contrary was
the case; the yearlings, although ths
majority of them were small, realized
an average OF nearly 81, 900 piece.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
association have bought 10000 square
feet of land on the corner of Boyston
and Berkeley streets for $4,000. The
sale requires the building to be set back
far enough to make 1000 feet unavail-
able for building.
Mrs. Mary Scott of New Orleans, a
singular character, known as "Rebel
Mary" among the federal soldiers dur
ing the war. because of her rabid south
ern proclivities, whose picture appear
ed in Harper's Weekly at that time,
died recently.
Peter T. Phillippi. Reading ma
chinist, was wounded in the battle Of
Spottsylyania, the bullet lodging in the
liver, where it remains TO this day
Mr.. Phillippi is in robust health, and
suffers no pain. except in sudden
changes of temperature ,a.
Jennie Russell, II years old, was in
duced to secretly marry Homer Dan
nett, at Newburg, N. Y. last May, by
his promise to buy her gold watch
and silk dress, and to take her on
trip TO New York, and now her pa
rents are trying to have the marriage
annulled.
The shoemaker Of whom Walters
ordered pair of heavy shoes, with a
half-pound coppertoe on the right one,
at Lodi, New York. wondered what was
the purpose of the strange continuance
until he heard of Miss Walters beau
being frightfully kicked out of the
house.
The Holy Man Of Senoussi, in Trip
oil, who is only awaiting his 49th birth
day which will be next year-to re-
veal himself as the ''Mehedi" OF re-
former of the Mohammedans, destined
to drive the christians from Northern
Africa, is visited by thousands OF pill
grims.
A fund is being raised for veteran
soldiers home in San Francisco, TO care
for disabled soldiers from any part of
California. 1t has been ascertained
a. - a. ~, 1u,e, int va
counties of the state thirty-four Mexican
veterans, twenty-one Union, and six
United States veterans.
The corporation Of Dublin has po-
litely declined the offer of the Alliance
and Dublin Consumers Gas company
to make a series of experiments in
lighting the streets by electricity, even
though the company are willing to
make The experiments under the direct
control of the corporation.
Mr.. MCGOWAN, OF Fall River. has
seen Paine, the fugitive Fall River en-
bezzler, in Montreal, He says Paine is
getting rich and is putting up large
cloth mill, backed by 100000 raised
by Montreal citizens. lie has fine
house and is happy as cricket. Mr..
Paine ''wouldn't 20 back to the states
for anything"
In a rare book "Contes Fantas.
tiques," by Jules Janin. published al
Brussels in 1882, that famous critic de-
clares his conviction that Shakespeare
was q butcher. and says that when he
visited the poets house at Strstford-on
Avon he could still see the stains of thu
blood OF sheep and calves on the flool
and on the worm-eaten doors.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune re-
lates the circumstances of the horribl,
torture OF a little child by its Immature
mother, residing in that vicinity. Tn,
baby is only a year old. and is jus
learning to walk. In order to keen
from getting into mischief while she |
at work, the mother stakes IL out" /,
the hot sun for hours at stretch. Tn
infant suffers terribly, but its moaning
are UNDECIDED by its heartless parent. .
A young fellow in Rouen, La, bo
rowed an old trunk from his aunt sol,
time ago, and when he got ready TO r,
turn it the other day, he found IL ha
| a false bottom and $4,000 in the hi,
den recess. Now he, his aunt. and
junk dealer, from whom the woma
bought the trunk, have gone to la
over the possession Of the money
Sixty miles northeast of Socorr,
New Mexico, are the Grand Quivir
mountains. They have never bee
thoroughly explored. A prospectc
claims that he has found rich min,
there. The most wonderful of his di
coveries was tons upon tons of potter,
y mostly broken, but q large portion /,