The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-06
NEWS BREVITIEs,

San Francisco night schools.
The surprising assertion is made by a
citizen Of Maine that some eight hun
dred or one thousand mechanics aud
small tradesmen are now living in Mas
sachnsettS, who left Maine to avoid m-
pri'onment for debt,
A series OF six etchingS of Carlyle
from authentic and unpublished por-
traits and sketches in the possession Of
Carlyle's family, made during about
fifty years, are shortly to be issued 10y
the London Etchers society.
Dir, George l. Seney, president Of the
Metropolitan bank, Of New York, has
put 5000, 900 and sixteen lots in Brook
lyn. valued at 100000, at the disposal
Of the Methodist Episcopal church for
the establishment Of a Methodist gen
eral hospital in Brooklyn, with the UNI
derstanding that the institution shall I've
open TO sufferers of every creed and ma
tionality.
Colonel w ~ Armstrong, one of the
members Of the suite Of King Kalakaua,
has paid 800 for dress suit for use on
state occasions The front and borders
of the coat are ornamented with mass
of gold embroidery, six or eight inches
wide, consisting of leaves and sprigs
worked by hand with gold wire. The
pantaoons have stripes formed Of leaves
of the same costly material.
NJ Rochefort describes Mr.. Parnell
as very fair young man Of whom CG-
sar might have said a. of Cassius: "He
is very thin for a Senator His eve of
steel is severe His face, almost ascot
ic, is calm, like that OF men whose
minds are made up" Mr., Parnel told
NJ. Rochefort that he knew why Gam
beta was hostile to him and his COM
rades; "ile wants above all things to be
agreeable TO the Prince of Wales.
Just so, - said NJ. Rochefort; great
ideas come from the heart and bad ones
from the stomach
Not long since at Gold Run, Cal, a
man by the name of Taylor slipped in
TO fume in which the water was run
ming at so fearful a rate that. like
flash, he was carried through the flume.
a distance of three hundred feet, then
over the dump, fall of eight feet, then
down the canyon stream. further dis
lance Of five hundred feet, before he
could possibly stop his involuntary
journeyiDg. With the exception of a
few flesh bruises he escaped without in
jury.
Harriet j. Mill writes to the London
Times that the account recently given
of the burning of Carlyle's Ms. in John
Stuart Mills house is incorrect, "Val-
liable papers" she says, "were not left
about in Mr. Mills house, nor was the
disaster owing to him, beyond the fact
that he had lent the manuscript to the
person at whose house it was destroyed
Having heard Mr. Carlyle's own nc
count Of all that passed between him
and Mr. Mill, when the latter carried
him the fatal news, and also of the
alarm felt BY himself and Mrs, Carlyle
at the state Of Mr.. Mills distress, | can
safely say that none of the statements
made agree with the facts of the case. y
A suit has been brought against
representative of the United States gov
eminent by persons in Norwich for an
infringement of patent covering a
process of manufacturing cartridges
which involves nearly 100000. Dur
ing the war some enterprising men, of
whom A. H. Amy, of Norwich, was
foremost, organized company for the
manufacture of muskets, the business
finally leading TO study of the meth
DDS of constructing metallic cartridges.
and the Norwich Arms company EN-
ploved inventors all over the country
to devise an improved cartridge. 1t
occurred to Mr., Amy several months
ago that something might yet be made
out OF the patent, and he took it to the
Winchester Arms company in New Ha-
ven to see what terms could he made,
when he was informed that this govern
ment had been making Just such cart
ridge as his for years and that It had
also been in use in the Russian and
German service. Hence the suit. It is
said that 70,000,0 900 of these cartridges
have been made.