The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-21

ALB; Jena, AS; Geissen, 39l; KEEL, 2S4;
Rostock POO. The greatest number of
foreigners were in Heidelburg and
Strasshurg.
The inspector of the dredging ma
chine in operation near North East,
Cecil county, Md, recently discovered
in mass of mud that had just been
raised by the machine an old brass pis-
tol, which upon examination proves to
be n revolutionary relic. The quaint
old weapon is about six inches in length,
and Is provided with the old-time flint
lock of our forefathers who reigned in
the times that tried mems souls. The
pistol is in good condition.
The wife OF j. +. Harding, president
of the Harding Paper company at
Middletown, o., has sued for divorce.
in the petition plaintiff says that defen-
dant has refused to cohabit with her;
has charged her with adultery; has re-
fused to recognize j. L. Harding as his
child, and will not permit him to 60 to
the table with the other children, and
never speaks to the said child or gives
him the least attentions; and upbraids her
by charging falsely that another person
is the father of the child.
Sam McAtee and Henry Harris, of
Oxford, Mo-, started in wagon to
church with a couple of young ladies.
Robert McCord insisted upon going
with them. This being objected to, u
scullle ensued, first between Harris and
McCord, in which neither was hurt, both
parties desisting by mutual consent.
McAtee and McCord then became en-
gagged, the latter with his knife and
McAtee with the wagon wrench, with
which he struck McCord terrible blow
over the left eye, from the effects of
which he died
A crusade against bogus doctors
which started lately under the new law
in New Jersey has begun in Camden,
the result of the efforts of one "Df."
Thomas j. Ricord in the curing line.
furnishing the basis of warrant for
his arrest by the coroner. One of his
last patients WAS Mrs. Eliza Bartlett,
wife of Samuel Bartlett, who was suffer-
ing from consumption. Ricord visited
her the last time on Wednesday last,
and on Thursday she died. The under
takcr who is also coroner for South
Camden, was called by the family.
When he asked for the certificate of
death that he might obtain n permit to
bury the body, he was referred to Ric-
ord. That person being unablcto show
the coroner II diploma authorizing him
TO practice medicine, the latter refused
to accept his certificate.
Capt. Wardell, If the steamer Gaelic,
states that the Oriental and Occidental
Steamship company had a lively time
landing Chinese lepers, whom they took
10 China several weeks ago by order of
the board of supervisor of that city.
The utmost CONSERVATION prevailed
among the Chinese passengers, and il
was found necessary, to prevent u mu-
tiny on board, to coop the lepers up by
themselves in an inaccessible part of
The vessel When the vessel reached
Hong Kong the municipal authorities
pontblank refused to take them ashore,
which resulted in n prolracted diplo-
matte discussion, but the governor of
the colony remained obdurate. The
company, however, played a neat bit of
sharp practice by removing the lepers
before the Gaelic sailed on her return
voyage TO 4 hulk, from which the Hong
Kong authorities found it convenient to
remove them to a private hospital
outside the city limits after the vessel
had sailed.
The cold winds of the past winter
passed through the whole of Mexico,
and the effects of one of them were ex-
pcrienccd as far south as the isthmus,
an event perhaps never recorded before.
in northern Mexico, all the cotton fields
and banana trees were badly damaged,
and injury was sustained by the coffee
trees OF the isthmus. The personal suf-
fering endured by the population of
Mexico was not the least OF the winters
evils. Mexican houses are made for
summer, not winter, weather. They
are open to the breeze on every side,
and have neither stoves nor chimneys,
all the cooking being done out of doors.
Through these habitations the freezing
northers blew with hardly an obstruc-
ton, and the scantily-attired people
suffered intensely