The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-18
GENERAL NEWS.
Bliss,
BARNES,
HAMILTON,
REYBuRS.

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in the condition OF the cotton crop as com
pared with July The average condition
in July was 05 and in August 49, The
condition is reportad to be about fourteen
per cent under that Of last year, and the
plant is small, but there has been much
shedding of bols. Insect injuries were not
reported to any great extent.
Reports received by the department Of
agriculture at Washington in regard to the
condition of the spring wheat, corn and
tobacco crops indicate that the falling of
in the spring. wheat will not be as great as
anticipated, and the falling off OF the corn
crop in the Western states will be less than
expected, but thatin the South the yield
will be very poor. The tobacco crop will
will not yield as much as last year.
Three Quincy drug stores were raided by
burglars Saturdaysnight.
Malignant dipbtheria is doing bad work
among children at Metamora.
Mrs Edwin Booth is better, but her faith
or, j. I. Mcvicker, says he does not feel
justified in expressing belief in the prob
ability of her recovery.
Some months ago Detroit hailed the es-
tablishment of glucose factory as an in
calculable boon; and now the people are
petitioaing against it as nuisance.
Nichols & North have built an elevator
at Parnell, Dewitt county; capacity, co..
600 bushels.
Mrs. Fisher, of Belle River, was burned,
probably fatally, while kinding fire with
coal oil 1t is about time for Cairo to turn
out little sensation of this kind
The official language Of the Transvaal is
to be Dutch--no other to be allowed in the
courts.
Gladstone practices as we'll as breaches !;
he has just made his fourth reduction
per cent--to his Hawarden tenants
In two days last week claims we're filed
at Albany for 20 gold mines, in Fulton,
Hamilton and Saratoga counties, NY.
Anticipating cold winter, Chicago coal
merchants have raised the price from 1926
to 1915 per on.for range al nut coal.
They claim there is scarcity.
A gasoline stove at the residence of j. w.
Mcmillan, near Alton, exploded and burned
the domestic quite severely.
The buildings at the deaf and dumb asy-
lum, at Jacksonville are rapidly going up,
one 60xtOo, the other 4Ox6O.
Samples of water from the new well at
the Peoria water works have been sent to
Chicago to be analysed III it shall prove
to be as pure as 1t looks, Peoria will have
the bOst water Of any city inithc state ex-
ccpt Cairo.
Henry W. Howgote, disbursing officer Of
the signal service, was arrested yesterday at
Mount Clemens, Mich, charged with OBJ.
tanning $4,000 of government funds, by
means of fraudulent vouchers, and is being
taken to Washington, in charge of an Off
Coz.
In the Chicago market, yesterday, there
was great excitement. Early In the day
August wheat advanced two cents, corn
gained three cents, and pork and lard rose
twenty to twenty-five cents. The untavor-
able reports about the president were used
at noon to depress prices below the starting
point. II Ia believed that thirty million
bushels OF corn changed hands.
A prominent physician of Cincinnati re-
ports twenty well-dcaned cases Of typhoid
fever among the four hundred English COL
onists at Rugby, Tennessee. Two deaths
occurred on Saturday. A corps Of physi-
CLANS and nurses has been dispatched to the
lfiicted settlement. Bad drinking.wAter
was tho chief cause Of the epidemic.