The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Kerosene to stimulate the fire, and
the tenor who had loved her at the
funeral led the choir"
The Meinengen court company. now
performing at the Theatre Royal. Drury
lane, will accept one of numerous Of
fers which have been made to them to
give a series of performances in Amer
lea, Mr.. Adolf Neuendorff having en-
gagged them for season al Wallack' s
old theatre in 1883.
Some Boston people don't like GER
tain class of books that are circulated
by the public library, and have been
given hearing. They propose to ex-
purgate from the library the works of
Rhoda Broughton, Annie Thomas, Hell
en- Matthews, Edmund Yates, Edgar
Fawcett, and lots of others.
John H. Gilman, an aged citizen of
Orono, Me, lived at Gilmanton in 1916,
and made this memorandum; June Z
and 5, 1916, ice made quarter Of an
inch thick. Our neighbor Swain was
framing barn on the Eth; the work
men had on overcoats and mittens, and
quit because it showed
Walter H. Balch, of Boston, has re-
covered $4,000, from William Cum
mings, whom he sued for SIC, 900 for
running his relations with his wife. Mr..
and Mrs. Balch tended Cummings
through long illness, and the woman
became too fond of Cummings Balch
sued for divorce, but his affection over
came him and he withdrew the suit,
but began one against Cummings.
The big hotel at Rockaway, Of which
Mr.. John A. Rice. OF Chicago. is man
sger. has already called for an expeu-
diture Of more than million dollars,
and may not be open until late in the
season, II at all, this year The first
subscription of 100000 having been
expended before the hotel was half
completed last year, trouble began to
appear and the workmen. unable to
get their wages, were even threatening
to destroy the pile. Then Mr.. Rice
was appointed receiver, and all account
Just now rendered in court shows that
he has issued $3.50, POI in demand GER
titicates, and S97,0 39 in twelye-month
certificates, for the further prosecution
OF the work. Ii is hoped to reorgan-
i2e the company on sound financial
basis. fairly protecting all interests in
volved.
The store and dwelling house of DR..
Timothy Conkling, at Centervile, Cal,
was blown TO atoms by the explosion of
fifty pounds of giant-powder in the cell
lar OF the building. The whole store,
building, and outhouses were wrecked,
and the goods and merchandise were
strewn all around TO the distance OF
fifty feet or more. The iron doors of
the cellar were carried over four hum
dred feet, and at that distance cut q
tree six inches in diameter, as though
cleft by an AK. DR., Conkling was
thrown from his bed, and the building
fell upon him. lie is hurt in the back.
head, and legs and his condition is crit
zeal. He is relative of ex-senator
Roscoe Conkling, OF New York. The
generally accepted theory in Shasta is
that it was done by an enemy of the
doctor, with the intention of killing
him.
The last number Of the Nation con-
tans a communication from Mr.. WV.
Corcoran, the eminent Washington
philanthropist, proposing an amend
ment TO the constitution of the United
States by which it is to be provided
that on the meeting of Congress in
December, 1881, and every four years
thereafter, the house of representatives
shall elect three members of the senate,
whose names shall be placed by the
tellers in box and drawn therefrom
by the speaker--the first drawn to be
president of the United States, tho sec
ond vice-presiden,, and the third presi-
dent pro. tenn. OF the senate, TO sue
coed each other in the same order
in the event OF vacancy by death
or otherwise. Mr. CorcOran thinks
that such an arrangement would
raise tho character of the senate, would
prevent intrigue in tho management OF
political conventions and would put
an end to tho turmoil OF presidential
elections. .,-ea&
A Fool Once More.
"Tor ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such complication of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her, and used up q
small fortune in bumbug stuff Six months
ngo saw U. s. flag with Hop Bitters on
IL and | thought would be fool once
more. tried it, but my folly proved to be
wisdom. Two bottles cured her, che is now
az well and strong as any mans wife, and
Il cost me only two dollars. Such folly
pays, --H. W., Detroit Mich.--Free Press
The Doctors Disagree
As to the best methods and remedies, Tor