The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-08

A new sect of Adycntists has sprung
up in Jasper County, Indiana, which is
distinguished by the sobriquet of Soul
sleepcrs," The members themselves
do not use this term, but it has been
given them because they believe that
the body sleeps until the resurrection,
so that the soul will be somehow, in
state Of quiescence until the general
resurrection.
The report Of the Rev. }. Milums
visit TO Abomey shows that the sous
tom" of human sacrifices still prevails
in Dahomey. Mr. Mlum is the general
superintendent Of the Wesleyan Mission
station in the Yoruba and Popo districts
of West Africa. During the missionarys
stay the annual customs" were being
held at Abomey. These were Of the most
horrible description, several hundred
natives being killed in the most bar
barous manner and offered in sacrifice.
The French Government is laying
subterranean cables from Nancy to
Paris. This telegraph line is composed
of twelve insulated wires placed in a
large tube Of cast iron. For each length
of 500 meters doors have been arranged
so that any section may be removed
and replaced without having to open
the ground, which is necessary in the
German system Of laying the cables in
solid bed of alphat.
A fashionable drcssmaker tells the
Cincinnati Enquirer that the chief
trouble with women's forms is their ir-
regularity. "The number whose two
sides do not correspond is wonderful.
Sometimes one shoulder is higher than
the other, sometimes one hip is bigger,
and sometimes the whole figure is awry.
Women's dress, is this era of clinging
garments, reveals every imperfecton,
unless art comes TO natures help"
The school law which recently passed
the North Carolina Legislature is con-
siderably In advance of the statutes al
ready in force. County Superintendent
are provided; money is appropriated
for teachers institutes; two normal
schools for whites and two for blacks
are established; the tax is increased to
y! cents on the 800, and local schools
supports encouraged by required coun-
ty boards to lay a special tax to meet
deficiencies in the school-funds.
The following incident of President
Lincoln, which has never been pub
lished, is related by one who was at the
time Il member of the New York Seventh
Regiment. When the Seventh Regiment
reached Washington, few hours after
the Massachusetts regiment, President
Lincoln and Secretary Seward were
TO receive it. The enthusiasm of the
party vented itself in repeated cheers
for "the President "the Secretary
and "the Union" Boys" said Mr.
Lincoln, ''your last cheer is the best;
the Union will live when the Secretary
and myself are in our graves"
The metric system of weights and
measures is advancing in the United
States. 1t was legalized here in 1866,
and has now been made obligatory by
the Marine Hospital Service and the
| United States Coast Survey. The Boards
Iof Education of several States have in
Itroduced it in the public schools, while
q knowledge of it is required for admis-
olou W Ahoot VI Oul NolltStS' luc lhul-
tiplicity of measures in continental
Europe, an out-growth of the feudal
system, was long barrier to CONNER
cial intercourse. Until recently there
were more than one hundred measures
there bearing the name of foot, no two
Of which were alike.
Mr.. Labouchere writes of his famous
libel suit as follows: II am perfectly
satisfied with the result of the trial in
which I have unwilingly been forced
to play part during the past week,
and l hope that Mr.. Levi Lawson is
equally satisfied. The issue raised by
the plea was whether the aforesaid Levi
Lawson was q coward, and q disgrace
to journalism. On Monday evening the
Lord Chief Justice stated that the jury
were, as nearly as possible, equally
divided and, therefore, discharged
them. Six men, therefore, it would
appear, out of the twelve taken by
hazard from the inhabitants of the
county of Middlcsex, held that the plea
had been proved"