The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-16
FOREIGN NOTES.

The shah has sent a sword valued at
$4,000 to the car, and magnificent
turquoise ring to the czarina.
According to Nj. Cresson, when Bis
marck in 1870 was asked to grant an
armistice, he made the astounding prop
osition that all the journalists in Paris
should be given up as hostages.
A vessel has arrived in the port of
London from the river Plate with 1000
carcasses of sheep on board, brought
over in frozeu state. They weigh on
an average thirty-siy pounds each, and
have fetched AID. per pound in the
market
Lady Cavagnari, the widow of the
soldier killed in Afghanstan, now lives
in the royal apartments at Hampton
court. Queen Victoria suddenly ap-
peared the other day, and was very
charming to all the inmates, but Lady
Cavagnari's youth beauty, and quiet
sadness especially touched the queen,
who kissed her tenderly.
There has recently been remarEs
progress in the principal comnSE
centres of the Volga-Ry binsk, oE
Novgorod, Samara, Saratoy, at
trakhan. The extraordinary en-
ment of the navigation of IA
during ten years has caused / 4
ton of new stopping places -fnsc. -
establishments, etc,
A parliamentary return shows that
the total number of ships ordered to be
detained by the board of trade or its
officers since the passing of the mer-
chant shipping act, 1876, is Alp for al
legged defects in hull, equipments, or
machinery, and l49 for alleged overload
ing or improper loading. OF the former
class 1893 were found TO be unsafe, and
of the latter the whole number report
ed-149.
Among the incidents of modern pro-
gress in Japan is the creation of min
lister of agriculture and commerce,
whose position and duties are defined
after the model of the similar officer in
France. A society for the encourage
ment of Tranco-Japanese literature has
also been started, and commenced its
operations with sixty members. One of
its first duties is 10 be the compiling of
a Franco-Japanese dictionary.
At Paris Nine. DIES Valieres, daugh-
ter Of NJ Legouve, was stabbed in the
arm recently, while in bed and without
light. The assailant, apparently
thinking her dead, made off while she
had tainted. Theft was not the motive,
and the c0aS{efge states that nobody
left the house after the hour of the
crime. A key was lost some time ago,
and may have been used by the author
OF this mysterious outrage.
Many Russian young ladies of posi-
ton appear to have been beguiled into
more or less completely with the nihilist
party. tits said that an intimate friend
Of the duchess of Edinburgh, young
lady who only the other day was one of
the party who officially received the
duchess on her arrival in st. Petcrsburgh,
has since, under the pangs of remorse,
confessed to very close acquaintance
with the nihilist leaders.
The Paris municipality lately granted
to one DE Mouncie the right to station
cows and retail milk in eight public
gardens for fifteen years at total rent
of only SS0per annum. Having thereup-
on bought one hundred and sixty cows,
De Mouncie issued prospectus for
Public Garden Milk Refreshment COM
pany, with capital of S4S0,000. The
municipal council charged him with
abusing their concession by concealing
that ii was revocabe at will, and on
this ground cancelled the contract.