The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-18
NEWS BREVITIES.

The legislature Of Texas has defeated
bill TO prevent Offering insanity re-
sulting from drunkenness as a plea Tor
acquittal in murder cases.
The coolest exploit Cleveland, o., has
known was that Of burglars who recently
entered house in the family's absence
and openly moved away the furniture
on drays.
An Iowa Young lady dreamed thrice
that she had married certain man.
She met the man, according TO her
dream, and the marriage took place,
and-now the two are divorced.
+. A. Sothern is said to have been a
most excellent physica medium, and
on one occasion in New York he so
scared Matilda Heron with a letter from
the spirit world, upon which there was
n drop of blood, that she could never
aftcrward bear allusion to the subject.
The pay of one shilling day hitherto
granted to British naval cadets on entry
Is to be abolished. The cadets will be
treated more as private students than as
Young naval officers, thus reducing the
cost of maintaining the training-ship
Britannia.
Representative Cabell of Virginia,
had letter from constituent recently,
saving, "My friend Mr.. Hoerd years ago
moved West; can not hear from him.
Will you please go to the census office,
look over the lists, and send me word
where he sp''
Mr.. Tennyson is said to be SO near
sighted that he reads and writes with
great difficulty. That he is a good
courtier may be inferred from his de-
claring that the nightingales have not
sung at Faringford, in the Isle of Wight,
since the prince consort died.
When the war broke out Gen. William
Newell, of Durham, Maine, aged 81,
dyed his hair and whiskers and enlisted.
When asked if he was not over 40, he
replied that he was leetle. and was ac-
cepted; but when his rank and age were
known he was detailed TO hospital duty.
He died recently, aged 81.
A Mr.. Randall, who lives near Flat
Lick, Ky, has a couple of most singular
monstrosities on his farm-a couple of
lambs, each the proud possessor of two
heads, and each head graced with two
healthy eyes. The singular animals
are as playful and frisky as any other
of the sheep kind. The heads are joined
together just behind the skulls.
Arrangements are now being made
for the erection of monument in Pere-
Lachaise, TO the memory of the first
President of the French Republic BY
Nine. Theirs desire, as expressed in
her will, the tomb in the memorial will
contain the bodies of Nine. Doshe, NJ.
and Nine. Theirs, and Mile. Dosne
alone.
You dirty boy" is the advertising
catch-phrase of soap manufacturer in
England. For permission to print the
phrase on the backs of the paper,
stamps, etc, to be used in taking the
English census, the soap manufacturer
will pay all the expenses of taking the
census, which will be about $500, 900.
The province of Qusbec has two cred
1t foncier companies organized to loan
capital at easy rates of interest, the
first French company with $50, 000,0 900
capital having been supplemented by
Reinach e. Co., of Paris, Duncan McIn-
tyre of Montreal and other members of
the new Canada Pacific syndicate with
S5,000,000
A case of "boycotting" has occurred,
not in Ireland, but in Scotland, in the
county of Dumfries, on the property of
the Duke of uccieuch-indeed, in the
village which adjoins the park of Drum
lanrig castle, 1t is alleged that an ex-
innkeeper has been driven out of the
village, the inhabitants being forbidden
to have anything to do with him in his
present capacity of bailih, because some
years since he offended the Dukes
agents by charging the Tory candidate
for the county what they thought was
too much for the use of his conveyance
on a polling day. Ii is stated, further,
that not long ago retired writer
who settled at Thornhill was also driven
away, as the issuing Of ukase from the
castle caused every door to be slammed
In his fnna