The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-04
NE WIS NOTES.

More wrecks are reported on the English
coast.
Sixteen thousand less immigrants left
Germany last year than in 1881.
The courthouse Of Lafayette county, Ga,
burned, with all the records
The twenty three persons killed in the
panic at Bombay factory were women.
Twenty car-loards of -four, consigned to
Cuba, were shipped to New Orleans Fri
day.
The jury in the Newhall house inquest
have not been able as yet to agree on
yerdic;
Business laipfes for the week were 305,
large increase 10 number, but generally
for lights amounts,
Four houses burned at KirkvilIe, incud.
ing hotel and drug store, which blew up
Friday, injuring several men.
The government brings suit against Chas.
L. Blood, for $4,000 tor selling uustamped
patent medicines in New York
Tue Western Union lost the case brought
10 compel it to receive dispatches and for
ward them for the Mutual Union.
A bill was introduced IN the house Of
representatives Friday appropriation sG2,-
900 To pay expenses IT contests for seats in
coDgre ;.
i is claimed that two prisoners At Dab
lin are positivel, identified as having occu-
pied the car that drove from the scene Of
the PhGuix park murders.
The pension payments have only aver
aged $1,000 900 month since the begin
ming Of The fiscal year, and considerable
curiosity is felt rs to what the 800 new
clerks are doug. If the estimated 1885,
100000 Is to be paid in the year they will
have 10 double the rate at which payments
have thus far gone.
The Illinois senate Friday confirmed the
nomination for canal commissioners aud
state entomoogist. About twenty new
bills were introduced. 10 the house
resolution was adopted looking 10 reduc'
ton of department cerlcal force, and Capt,
Cowdeu was invited 10 address the assembly
on the evee system.
AS the defa!cation OF the treasurer OF
ylabama really took place during his term
of Office, which expired Nov, 20 1882, it is
probable his securities up 10 that date
who are solvent, will be held for the
money be embCzzled These securities are
Messrs. Pratt, Driver, Robinson and Craw-
ford, for whom much sympathy is felt
In the UOited States senate yesterday
Mr, Hosr presented petition OF the Harv-
ard professors, asking that no one but On
astronomer Of experience be hereafter eligi-
BILE as superintendent of the United States
Nav observatory. Mr.. Mcmillan endesv-
ored to call up the subject OF the district
water supply, bat the senate again attacked
the tariff bill, The duty on potatoes and
corn was fixed at<wo cents a pound, and
on other starcheS at two and half cents.
The cotton schedule was taken up and
some progress made with it. The house
adopted resolution calling for information
as to the Leayenworh, Pawnee and West
efn railroad and then resumed the tariff
discussion, The duty on tan bark was
Increased from ten to twenty per cent. ad
vaIorum. The varnish section was dis
posed OF, the duty on shellac being fixed
at 90 cents gallon, aud varn'shes other
than shrllac forty per cent ad vaiorum,
plus an amount ebual to the tax on the
alcohol coutained ia each case. The
chemical schedule was completed, and the
house proceeded with the crockery and
glass rates.