The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-16
NEWS BRIVITIEs.

1t is asserted that $50 out of COO odd
members Of the British House Of Com
mons are in favor of disestablishmen Of
the Church OF England.
The Duke Of Westminster is the
richest man in England, owning acres
Of ground in London. He was raised
to his present title by Mr., Gladstone.
Commander Cameron, the African
explorer, is in Constantinople, trying
to,get a concession for Il railroad from
Jailra to Jerusalem
The Nevada legislature is disposed to
strike for cheaperprayers,t the chaplain's
salary Of s. for ten minutes daily SER
vice being considered too high.
A clever toy of this season in London
is the musical top. 1t is spun in the or
binary way, and, while spinning, plays
airs accurately and melodiously
\ narrow guage railroad is to be
built from Chattanooga, Tenn, to the
top OF Lookout mountain, and hotel
to accommodate one thousand guests
viii be built on the top of the mountain.
A learned physician finds that the
figure on the cruciiiX in Burgos cathe-
dral is n human body in perfect state
ofspreseryaion. 1t is said to have been
pthere since the eleventh century.
California funded county debts are
80, 673, IA and the floating debts ST.
7j9, SD grand total, 81, 1873, 500. The
total value Of the property owned by all
the counties is estimated at SlS,596,-
236.
a correspondent,writing from japan,
says the ceilings there are made of pa
per, so that if one of them fall down
on Il man while he is sleeping he only
feels as if he was having piece of
court plaster put on.
There is n lively demand for good
cooks and house girls in New Orleans,
such help finding more profitable en-
ployment in the tobacco, cotton, and
other factories which are rapidly in
creasing in number
Allentown, Pa, rejoices in the posses
sion of a baby that was born with teeth.
Two well-developed teeth appeared in
each jaw the day after its birth, and
other milk" teeth show evidence of
soon coming to the surface.
There are now six electric light COM
panies in New York, the Brush, Edison,
Maxim, Sawyer, Fuller, and Jablochoh.
The Brush company seems to be best
organized, for it is in running order,
with capital of 100000.
The project of an elevated railroad
in Boston is hindered by the great cost
OF right of way. The city will not
give up street without a provision for
full compensation to property owners.
The same view of the question is taken
in st. Louis.
Edward Richardson, of New Orleans,
is called there the cotton king of
America. He is said to be worth SIS
0OO,O He owns ten or twelve cotton
plantations, on which some fifteen to
twenty thousand bales of cotton are
grown each year.
Hay is selling in San Juan county.
Col, for $500 per ton. That is pretty
well up, but is still far behind what was
seen on the Comstock lode in the early
days, when hay brought twenty-five
cents and green grass ten cents
pound.
Mr.. Charles H. Northern, who lost
leg on the Grand Trunk railroad sever
al years ago, has just been paid S47,-
557 damages This is said to be the
largest sum ever recovered from rail-
road corporation in suit for personal
damages.
A Portland, Oregon, correspondent
hunted up joaquin Miller's first wife,
now married to Thomas +. l.. Logan,
a house painter, and found her living
in very uncomfortable board house,
which shook and tremblcd with every
iitful gust of the wind Mrs Logan is
perhaps 80 years of age, of medium
height, blue eyes, and perfect wilder
ness Of the blacklist hair, seeming al
most to shadow the thin and wasted
face beneath it. Her health is far from
good, being greatly affected by the alb
sencc Of her daughter, whom joaquin
removed to Il convent in Canada q year
or more since.