The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-11


Warner Observatory, Rochester, N Y, by
November 1881, and he will submit them
to the Judges. With the hope that this
prize will produce valuable additions to
popular astronomical literature"
The following account Of the brutal
murder of little Mollie Dalton near Dongola
some days ago, of which short notice ap-
peared in these columns at the time, IS
taken from the last number Of the Jones'
boro Gazette :a"The scene Of this crime was
in that rugged portion of Union county six
miles east Of Dongola, at the house OF
woman named Nancy Keller. The parties
to the transaction were woman by the
name of Dalton, mother Of the murdered
child, the woman Keller, William Hazel,
brother of the murderer, and Samuel Hazel,
the brute described above, who is said to
be former inmate OF the penitentiary.
None of the parties mentioned
bear the best of reputation. Will
lam Hazel lived with the Keller
woman, and on the night of the murder
August 81, was there with his brother and
the Dalton woman and her child, After 8
o'clock the two men went to the premises
Of neighbor, widow, and stole four
chickens. The woman came out objected,
and was shot at by one of the men, the ball
grazing her face. They took the chickens
to the house where the women were, and
had some of them prepared for supper. sam
Hazel had ordered little Mollie Dalton not
to 90 to sleep, and she replied, me wont"
After supper the child began to nod, and
the brute would slap her face to keep her
awake. His rough treatment at last made
the little girl cry, when he seized cowhide
and commenced beating her. This he kept
up for an hour and half, and the effect ON
tender child of SIX years may we'll be i'm
agined. He then sent her out to gather
kindlng wood for the fire, and after q short
time shouted, "Molie, G--d-n you, where
are you2" The child out in the darklre-
piled, "Here me.n Hazel then went into
the yard and commenced kicking her. He
brought her into the house and kicked her
from one side of the room TO the other like
ball. He stamped the little form, until
no sign of life was apparent, and one OF the
women said, 'Molie IS gone Yes, re.
piled the fend, TO hell head foremost.
After while, as if realizing the enorniity
of his crime, he brought some water and
tried to restore the little one to life. Find
ing that this failed, he took burning
brand and held it to her foot, saying with
an oath that he would see whether size was
dead or not This brutal expedient also
failed 70 restore consciousness, and at ABOUT
five o'clock on Thursday morning, Sept /,
Mollie Dalton died. Samuel Hazel, the
perpetrator of this, the most cruel dnd
cowsrdly murder ever committed in SOUP
ern Illinois, was allowed to escape in broad
daylight, fact which does not speak well
for the citizens of that portion OF the
county. Tardy information was furnished
to the officers in this city, and all they
could do was to strike the trail, but every
effort will be made 10 capture this demon.
VIM. Hazel, the brother, who stood by and
saw the life beat out of the child, is in Jail
in this city"
In speaking of the effects of the dropth
which has prevailed very generally in parts
of the country this summer philosophlc
correspondent of the st. Louis Republican
says: 1.-THE first cause Of graduation is the
general health that the drouth produces.
We are free, almost entirely, from the
frightful curse of ague and other malafsl
diseases that owe their birth and life to the
decomposition of an immense vegetable
growth. Second-A protrscted spell of dry
weather will add greatly to the destruction
of the seeds of many noxious weeds, and
thus leave the places that they occupy for
the future growth of food plants. Third
Our land, like our bodies require rest, and
drouth ia rest to our soils. If seasons
, Of perpetual fertility should occur, one of
two things would happen: Either our
fields would grow up in weeds that would
require in each successive year, additional
labor 10 eradicate, or our farms would be
rendered totally unfit in short time for
the cultivation of our three great creals---
corn, wheat and oats-which crops cutiva-
ted SUCCESSFULLY on the same soil with a
I total disregard of chemical affinities) would
, necesstate the introduction of new food
t plants, or the constant appli.
cation of costly artificial manures.
Fourth.--There is imprisoned beneath our
soils an exhaustless fund Of manures in the