The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-21

| as many are leau W pcneVe from the laCt
that there have been no demonstrations of
late on the part of the organization. AL
though no regular meetings are held, the
interest in the cause Of ireland IS undated
and efforts are constantly being made to
secure the services of oil eminent speaker
who will come here and arouse
the people generally. A letter has
been sent to Rev. Anastasius, Of Hickman,
who is known to be an able speaker and III
deep sympathy with the cause of the peo-
pie of Ireland, to come to this city and dis
cuss the subject of Irish wrongs and Irish
independence. It is thought that the
reverend gentleman will comply with the
call at no distant day
On the 18th instant District Attorney
Corkhill stated that the grand jury had
been held in session after the 18th of July
until after the date Of the attempted assas-
sination, yet he could not at this time pres
ent Gulteau's case to it. He then read the
following letter from the presidents at
tending physicians: "In reply to your in
quiry as to the condition of the president
we would say that up to the present time
he has done exceedingly well tor one who
h"" .ev~i-"a u" dangerous a wound. but
while in anticipated recovery it is not yet
possible to assert with confidence that his
injuries may not terminate fatally" Under
the circumstances The district attorney said
he could not present the case,o the grand
jury for the present, and suggested that
they be permitted to take recess until
Sept. 10, which was accordingly ordered by
Judge Wylie.
Yesterday morning frightful and fa-
tai accident occurred at the Illinois Central
yards, in Bloomington, IN the death of
Mrs. Victoria Keough, and her son, aged 10
years. For some time past the boy had
been in the habit of Jumping on freight
trains and stealing ride to different sta
tons on the road. This morning ne left
home at an early hour, followed by his
mother, who went to the railroad to prevent
her son from leaving home by boarding a
freight train. He was caught, but broke
away from his mother, when the latter
started to run after him, and when in the
middle of the side track both mother and
son were struck by slowly moving switch
engine, both being literally torn to pieces,
their heads severed from their bodies and
both presenting most ghastly sight. Mrs.
Keough came to Bloomington few years
ago from Philadelphia, where she resided
for some time, having large circle of ac-
quaintance.
AT the meeting of the board of school
directors held last Monday, the following
teachers were elected to serve in the pub
lie schools during the coming year: For
,he high school, Misses Mary Patterson, G.
Il. Krinbill, Jennie Chase, Eta Foss and
Ella Armstrong; in the Thirteenth street
school, Misses Mary McEwen, S. H. Risley,
Emma Lacrone, Mollie Riley, --- Russell,
Kate L. Hackstaff and Mamie McKee, in
the Eleventh street children's school, Miss
E. Hotchkiss, and in the colored school,
Messrs. II. A. Parker, E. w. Tanner and
Mrs. NJ. Talton and Mrs. Crofton. One or
two of these have not yet slgniied their
willingness to accept the positions to which
they were elected, but it is thought that
| they will do so. Several of the teachers
of the last school year declined to again
accept their positions, hence the school
board was compelled to employ Others.
Col. L. j. Long, the popular state ect-
urer of the Good Templars, was in the city
yesterday, being on his way home after
finishing his tour of this and other states in
the interest of the order above mentioned.
lie reports that he has met with greater
success in his labors during this year that
he ever met with during any previous year.
The people seemed all to be thoroughly
arousedSto the importance of the temper
ance cause, and entered willinly and en-
Enthusiastically into the movement of organ
izing Good Templar lodges. He has also
been to Kansas and canvassed that state in
the interest of temperance reform, and, in
his travels, was particular to observe the
manner In which the new prohibitory law
was being enforced and observed. From
his observations land from what he could
learn in conversation with representative
men, he judges that the law lisa wise one,
is being strenuously enforced and we'll OBJ
served by the people generally The col
onel's observations do not seem to coincide
with those Of Others, who send quite COR
trary reports to the newspapers Il the coun-