The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-26
NEWS BREVITIES.

Scycnty-twO tons OF coal were shlppcu
from the CIcariield, Pa, region last
year.
There were iifty-hve savings banks IN
Maine last year, the deposits in which
increased 81 ,96S, 1888 against decrease
of SlS6, 363 in 1879 and S3,725,32O IN
1873.
A curious accident happened to a To-
connective near Rutland, Vt, one OF its
driving wheels becoming loose and roll
inc down an embankment. No damage
was done, and by disconnecting that
side the engine was able to 90 on.
The famous collector of fossils, Prof.
Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, has
started for Australia by way of the
the Southern Pacific railroad, for the
purpose of obtaining material for the
Agassiz Musucm of Natural History,
at Cambridge, Mass.
The life of Isaac Butt, Parnelrs pre-
decessor as the leader of the Irish peo-
pie, is to be written by member OF
Parliament, and Mr.. Butts papers have
been placed in his hands for that pur-
pose.
During the year 1880 there were
twenty-four homicides in Philadelphia.
OF these two were poisoned four died
from gun-shot wounds, eight from
blows, five from knife-woundS, four
from criminal practice, and one mans
death was caused by his being thrown
down while fighting.
II. II Warner, founder of the Roch-
ester On. W observatory, offers prize
of 5000 in gold for the discovery of ev-
cry comet to be unexpected and tele-
SCOPE, excepting only the comet of 1912,
which is expected to reappear during
the coming year. The offer expires
Jan. !, 1882.
On Christmas eve the five principal
night restaurants at Paris entertained
452 parties, for which they received 15,-
926 francs. On the boulevards and in
the streets the same night there were
sixty carriage accidents, 9lS drunken
people were run in" twenty-nine chill
dren were lost and found by the police.
During 1880 about 322, 900 gallons of
brandy in wood and 46, 900 cases in bot
ties were imported into the United
States against about $4,000 gallons
and $4,000 cases in 1879. Of cham
payne. about 2l5, 900 cases were imported
IN 1880, as against about 1000 during
the preceding year. There was how
ever, a slight falling off in the importa-
ton of clarets last year.
Ivan Petraru, now under arrest for
the attempted assassination Of M. Bra
tiano, President of Roumania, is q man
of 80 or 35 years of age. He is strong
ly built, has a full black beard, and is
not bad looking. In lS47 he was head
master of n college in Bucharest. One
day he absconded with the salaries of
the other masters, deserving at the same
time his wife and children.
The Colossus and Majestic, the latest
type of English turret ships, the build
ing of which the Admiralty have ordered
10 be advanced as fast as possible, are,
roughly speaking, reproductions of the
InteXible on a smaller scale, but will
each be as effective for offensive and de-
fensive purposes as she is, although
their guns will be only about half the
weight of hers, forty-ton breech-loadcrs
having been proved to be almost as
murderous in their powers as cighty-ton
muzzlc-loadcrs,
A writer in the Gentlemen's Maya
zine tells the people of London that if
single shock of earthquake, such as was
felt at Agram, should occur at the me-
tropolis, it would entail a frightful ca
lamity upon hundreds of thousands of
families now residing in desirable
residences of the very himscst charac-
ter, only one brick thick He estimates
that single shock would kill half
million people, and shows that. accord
ing to high geological authority, Eng
land must in time past have been fear
fully shaken.
A reckless but ingenious Bohemian
has fed riotouSly from Philadelphia af-
ter posting IN inOtlcnSvc young man in
Mount Vernon street rs the heir TO an
estate of 81 100000 left by a cattle king,
in Australia, substituting n corn report
for the Bible, on which witnesses are
sworn at the Central Station in order TO
screen man from perjury, loading a
fruit steamer with munitions Of war for
the Cuban insurgents, and paIming off
upon the local press many other I'M
wholesome ictions of dSordered fancy.
They had charvar festival near
, San Diego, in Southern California, at
which the MeXicans and balf-breed
Spaniards of that region had high
time After imbbing largely of mescal,
favorte and rather enivening bever-
age, they brought out a long unused
Spanish cannon, dubbed NJ Jupiter,
loaded it with giant powder, stones and
other ammunition Of a miscellaneous
character, and fired it off, II burst, and
nearly everyone in the crowd was more
or less injured. One is reported to have
been killed outright.
Lord Randolph Churchill, growing
English politician, years ago married
Miss jerome, the daughter of one of the
New York Jcromes, current and mali
cious New York gossip saying that, in
addition TO making over the Union
League clubhouse TO his daughter. Je-
rome pere agreed not TO visit his daurh-
ter in England. The London WO1.M
now announces that another of his
daughters, Miss Clara jerome. il 10
marry Morton fewen, Of Derbysbirc a
great traveller, who has paid number
of visits to this country.
A writer in Ftgd,o devotes an article
TO what he calls LES Jfonda,neS-cantat.