The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-29
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NEWS BREVITIES.

About quarter OF the Vermont
towns have elected women as superin-
tendents Of schools.
1t is alleged that the oysters found
oil the Texas coast are the largest and
finest in the world.
Canadian papers report an unusually
large domand for horses, particularly for
export TO this country and TO Manitoba.
Making barrel slaves is said to be
new industry in Texas. A contract TO
make 100000 has been taken by gen
tleman Of Jasper
The new church at Hawoth, which
stands on the site Of an old building so
closely associated with the Bronte fam
lily, has been consecrated.
The town and county of Dallas Tex,
were named (about 1870 after George
NJ. Dallas, yice-president of the United
States.
The money order department of the
New York postoilce handled 81, 0O0,-
600 in cash last year. The orders aver
aged $3.50
Young Brown could not lift one end
of q heavy timber at Unionvile, Ohio,
and old Brown, aged 40, showed
him how to do it, but killed himself
in so doing.
A complaint somewhat like the Nj
agara Falls cry comes from Boston,
where it is asserted that there is scarcely
spot in the city, adjoining the sea, to
which the public has free access.
Upward of 1920 young girls are at
present attending the painting and
drawing classes in state and municipal
schools in France, while 1860 are STU
dying music in the various colleges.
An agreement has been reached in
the ease Of Lewis the Hoboken miser,
who left million to the United States
government. The government gives up
fourth Of the estate TO the heirs.
The total number of periodicals pub
lished in the United States at the begin
ming Of the present year was 10, 13l,
with an aggregate circulation, per issue,
of 2O,67IjlS.
Louisiana has had three cabinet Of
licers, as follows: 1881, Edward Living
ston, secretary of state; 1850, Charles
NJ. Conrad, secretary Of war; 1881,
William ii. Hunt secretary of the navy.
Harvard is a pushing university.
President Eliot says that for pressing
needs-that is needs which are clearly
calculated and forcseen and recog-
nized,' Harvard will, in the near fu-
tue, want S3,000,000 more.
\ fierce dog ran after Emma Grutz-
rier, bright little 1l-year old girl of
San Antonio, and when the brute
reached the horor-Stricken child she
fell lifeless to the earth. She was alb
solutely frightened to death.
The New Haven Journal tells a story
of a young woman from the back coun-
try who attempted TO enter a car on the
Housatonic railroad by squeezing her.
self through Il window, supposing that
to be the only means of ingrcss.
The Dominion parliament house at
Ottawa has an open bar in the base
ment, and an attempt is being made to
close il. IL the movement succeeds the
bar-keepcr will use tea cups instead Of
tumblers.
White labor is badly needed in South
Carolina A gentleman Of Due West,
Abbeyille county, has applied to the
South Carolina commissioner OF immi-
grafton for ten families to be employed
by himself and responsible friends.
The French government proposes to
employ the electric light in forty-two
lighthouses along the coast, where oil
has till now been used. Up to the pres
ent time there are but seven electric
light houses in the world, three Of
which belong to France.
The late Thomas Brassey, "England's
wealthiest son." so far, at least, as per-
sonal property was concerned, was ma
tive of Cheshire. and his sons have lately
restored the southeast angle of the cath
odral in his memory. Mr.. Brassey be-
queathed to his eldest son his modest
patrimontal estate, farm in Cheshire.
but divided S30,000,000 between the
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