The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-01

WduulnBlain immense cattle raiicD,
seventy mics or so due east Of Las We
gas, N. NJ, known as the Montoya
grant, has been sold 1t is twenty-nine
miles wide and thirty-fve miles long.
The sale was made to wealthy Eng
fish syndicate, which planks down 81
100000 for the property and all Chat
goes with the ranch
Near Kingston, N c., a negro boy, 6
years old, shot his sister, aged years,
in house, dragged the body into a
field, and hid it in the rows of cotton.
He said the child began to cry, and to
hush it he snapped a gun at her, as he
had been in the habit of doing. The
gun went of, and the charge nearly
blew off the childs head.
A curiosity in the fruit line is on ex-
hibition at Tampa, Fla 1t consists OF
five distinct, fully matured pineapples
on one stem, touching each other at the
sides, and spread out in the shape Of a
fan, and around the top Of the fan, like
handsome fringe are nineteen crown
lets, which will each make distinct
plant
Portions of the old elm which stood
on Boston Common have been placed
as relics in Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia. They were presented by the
Board of Alderman Of Boston, and con-
sist of large section Of the tree and
polished veneer Of the wood, upon
which is photographed picture of the
tree as ii stood before its fall.
Asparagus to obtain the highest price
in the New York market must be
bleached like celery. To make it white
the earth is thrown over the beds early
in the spring, and the stalks are cut
with long knife. 1t is known as
"white-grass,' and sells for twice as
much as that which grows in the sun
and is called "green-grass,
Jack Lincoln, son of Secretary Lin.
coin, is very bright and interesting
little fellow, and affords considerable
amount of entertainment to the clerks
and visitors to his fathers office The
other day he was amusing himself by
copying the names NJ the Presidents,
and, pausing, looked up from his work,
and, with great naivete, remarked,
why, ever so many of the Presidents
were named after streets in Chicago"
Some twenty years ago, Daniel Coe,
of Durham, n. Y, gave 800 for the
purpose of Presbyterian education in
Iowa. One thousand dollars of this was
used in the purchase of eighty acres OF
land near what was then the village OF
Cedar Rapids. The village has grown
to a city, and the city has taken the col
lege farm into its plat, which makes il
very valuable. 1t is worth now $4,000,
and on it has been put a building which
cost $4,000. From n small beginning
has grown up Coe College, an institu.
ton of which Cedar Rapids is very
proud.
The following effusion is pretty gooC
for Dakota orator: mo sharper, no
bier, wide-awakur, straighter-tobacco
splitting, more enterprising, whole-soul
ed, generous, true-hearted, and public
spirited men than ours ever left thei
stoga footprints ON the golden sands
of time. And no brighter, dearer, love
lier creatures ever fitted through ORR
entail poets raptest dream of paradise
than our blessed dimity divinities, oul
homemade calico soraphs, our patent
inflatable-crinolined darlings, our Dako.
Ia sweethearts, wives, mothcrs-in-law.
and MarianncS, who are creations
special pets and prides, fitted to beaI
queenship in any realm"
The late Bishop Scott was strongly at
tached to outdoor sports. In early
youth he was forced by poverty to fish
for living, and to the latest years Of
his long life he retained aiondness, which
he frequently INDUCED, for the boob
and line and net, He was expert Attn,
tiller and at the oars, and was also 8
crack shot with a fowling-piece or rifle
After he had risen to the highest honor
of the church, he often took delight ir
roaming through the fields and woods
and sailing on the streams or the bay
accompanied by his grandsons and 9th.
er boys of the neighborhood, who found
him a genial comrade and an apt in
stIuCtor i'm thespOrtsmap' arts