The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-27
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
WAITS.

tierceS.
The red spider is doing considerable
damage to almond and other trees in
Old San Bernardino, Cal.
Judge Asa Packers millions will not
be distributed before spring. The firm
OF Noble, Hammett q Co., have claim
of $3. $50, 600 against the estate.
w. Millican, of Eugene, Oregon, de-
PENDANT in the $4,000 breach of prom
Use suit, has married the plaintiff, Miss
Bradley, and so stopped the proceedings.
A water-snake was discovered re-
Gently at Lakeland, l.. l., which was
ten feet long. Its body was six inches
in circumference.
The army retired list is limited to 400.
There are at present only seven Vacan-
cies, while fifty officers are eligible to
retirement.
An old adage says that courtesy
opens many doors True, and it's in
fernal discourtesy that doesn't shut
them again. -- Boston POST
There are 100000 cows in the
United States. This is moro than are
kept by any nation in Europe, Germany
HuNlUR VIC Htultot, OWE -Ei'
Within the last fifty years there have
been more churches built and restored
in England than during the whole time
previously since the Anglican Reforma-
ton.
There are 40, 900 breweries in Europe,
and of all the houses in England and
Wales the formidable number OF 49,
600, or one in every forty, are devoted
TO the sale of liquor in some form or
ano her.
Grace Darling's monument in Bam-
borough churchyard, England, is rap
idly decaying and win soon be utterly
destroyed unless some method Of pres
ervationis adopted.
Pref. William Fiske, of Cornell Uni
versity, has maze the most nearly COM
plete collection OF the works Of Petrarch
and works relating to him, in exist
ence.
Gen. Grants favorito grandchld is
reported TO be little Julia Dent Grant,
the eldest child OF Col. Frederick Grant.
The General is enthusiastic in her
praise, describing her as the most fas-
cinating child he has ever seen.
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford road is putting up near every
bridge warning siynal, consisting of
small ropes hanging from an arm above
the track. The ropes strike the brake
men and warn them TO duck.
Paris has more poor people than any
city in tho world. The number of reg
istered poor who have received relief
during the present year reaches the
number of 354, S12, of whom 200, 900 re-
ceived outdoor relief.
The last extravaganza inFrench hose
is a new stocking of cream white lace
in open work designs to be worn over
another one of spun silk tinted flesh
color. The lace stockings cost S25
pair.
Of course it was an Irishman, but no
seemed to have fair idea Of the siua-
ton. He was describing the different
notices displayed during the obsequies
of the late President, and said that one
read: "God reigns, and the officials at
Washington still hold out"
A correspondent estimates that more
strangers visited the little Swiss village
of Elm, Sunday. Sept. IS, to gaze upon
the ruin which the falling mountain
had wrought, than had been within its
borders during the last 100 years of its
peaceful existence
II has been decided that the monu-
ment to Gen. Burnside shall be an
equestrian statue, and that it shall be
set up in Providence. Citizens of Bris-
tol, r. l., offered to contribute $1,000
to $4,000 providing the same was
erected there.
Mrs. Thackera, General Sherman's
daughter, is to live in Philadelphia
hereafter, as her husband las accepted
share in his fathers business and will
resign his post in the navy. General
Sherman has now sixth grandchild-
the fifth child of his daughter, Mrs.
Fitch.
Harry Garfield, the late Presidents
Oldest son, will, after graduating at
Williams, 90 to Cleveland and practice
law. Harry and his bro her james are
devoted to their feeble old grandmoth-
Ell; James especially watches over her
closely and his mother says this has al
ways been his way.
The soldiers engaged in the building
of the new telegraph line from Fort
Klamath undertook to raft a lot of tam.
arack poles down Wood river to the
lake, and, to their surprise, the pole
sank. At last accounts the officers wert
talking of buoying them up with pun
ice rock.
The family of Samuel Hamlin, oil
Yuba City, Cal, partook rather freely
of new almonds the other day, and all
the family except the father were taken
violently ill, and were only relieved by
vomiting and purging. Their experii
ence may be warning to others with
reference 10 eating undried almonds.
The Duchess Eugenia Litta has sold
her palace for the curious reason that
it is too vast SO be manageable Baron
Rothschld has bought it and will trans
form it into the head Office of the Upper
Italian Railway. Tho interior decora-
ton is magnificent; the famous LUNA
cartoons were bought for this palace at
cost of $22, 600
Fanny Glow found the ordinary d.
versions unsatisfactory at Little Falls,
N. T., and so she amused herself and
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