The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-08
LATE GENERAL NEWS.

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SSo In stamps and other valuables.
The Illinois river, between La Sale anC
Henry, is becoming difficult water wa,
for boats drawing more than tour feet
eight inches.
The receipts of grain received in Peoria
last month were the heaviest ever reported
Tor one month, amounting to 1922, 600
bushels.
There are $40 students attending the
Normal school at Normal, of whom $40 are
IN The Normal department proper, and 1911
in the model or pay department. This is
the largest attendance ever known at the
Normal.
A story is ahoat in ST. Louis that SOUR,
rels are devastating the cotton fields of
Arkansas.
The census of India shows a population
of 59,5OO,OOO
Vcsuvius has been in lively state of
eruption since Saturday morning.
Senator Ben Hill has undergone second
operation upon his tongue for the removal
OF fungoid growth.
General Grant and his son Fred are in
Chicago, The general will go to Blooming
iol, ILL.,, to attend the soldiers reunion.
During the year 1879, the total value of
the fish caught in the great lakes together
with the cavlare, isinglass and OIL made
therefrom, is estimated at $7S4,02S.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, ex.President of the
"lost Cause arrived at Liverpool Monday
and preceded to London. He refused 70
be interviewed He is reported to be in
very poor health,
Monday $50 Mormons sailed from Liver.
pool for Utah. Most of them come from
Germany and Switzerland. During the
present season not less than 1000 persons
left Liverpool for Utah.
Lieutenant Flippcr, the only negro grad
uate OF West Point, will be arraigned
before a court.martial at San Antonio,
September Is, for the enlightenment of
sl,700.
Dr. Hawkes., tutor of the presidents sons,
loft Washington last night with Harry and
James Garfield and Den .Bect..,xo". ruI,-
will ento- w.
day.
In proclamation issued last week,
Ayoob Khan announced his intention to
fight the English, and invited oil persons
having government weapons to join HE
forces.
The New Orleans chamber of commerce,
at the request of the bank and insurance
managers, has appointed committee to
arbitrate the existing trouble with the cot
ton laborers.
There are $50 case Of diphthcria at
Hastings, Mich, and eighteen deaths oc-
Cured in the past three days. The schools
are closed. Impure drinking water IL
believed to be the cause of the epidemic
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has gobbled up the telegraph lines ano
other property OF the Bankers ~ Brokers
Telegraph Company between New forf
and Washington. The price paid is $l2O,
900. The deed of conveyance was mad
by John II. Wells and wife.
| A number of small telegraph lines, OF nc
particular influence alone, but which prom
lac considerable when combined, talk o
consolidation, in order to afford something
like real competition for the western
Union. These lines are the new Mutua
Union, Rapid, Canadian Mutual and Bait
more g. Ohio, which control, in all, abou
10000 miles of wire. AS soon MS the CON
| UlnatlOn Is CntClth WV nv" N'''f"'y
poses to extend its lines all over the Unite
States.
re. ..sa have been arrested at Mlllstre5
Cork, in connection with the recent "Fenia
raid" for arms in that vicinity. In Lime
ick City the police and military have bee
confined to their barracks A stratagc
by the "roters" to decoy them thercire
failed; otherwise there would be son
bloodshcd.
Two cur. loads Of glassbowers, with the
families, arrived at La Sale, ILL.,, from tic
mvny, last night. Two carloads more a
on the way. Some months ago the emplo
eos of the De Steiger Glass Company, slrut
work The company Immediately al
: patched a representative to Germany. II
arrivals yesterday and those expected al
= the results of his labors
: The governors of Maine, New Jerse
3 and Massachusetts have set apart to'd'
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