The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-23

The bridge across Big Muddy. near
DeSoto. will be passable this week. The
ninety feet central span, just finishing,
reflects great credit upon the builder. Mr..
Jacob Hartman, ofMakanda.
In the great trotting match for $1,000
u side between "Prospero" and "llonest
Dutchman," at Prospect Park, "Pros-
pero" won in the first heat. Time, 2:22l =.
"llonest Dutchman" distanced
Thomas NJ Judd, one OF the strong
est Republican workers in Massachusetts,,
las Just been arrested in Berkshire
county Tor $1,000 forgery. Judd is a
member of the Republican State Central
Committee and prominent lobbyist.
"A Berlin dispatch says that the SUI
premc Court has Endorsed the verdict of
the Kammergericht in Won Arnim's case
which sentenced him to nine months, i'm
prisonmcnt for willully making away
with State papers entrusted to him while
| ambassador to Paris.
Speaking of Chandlcr's appointment
| to the position of Secretary of the lntc-
rior, the Com'ier-JoWnni says: prob
| ably there will be n row. but Chandler Is
as likely to quarrel with the president as
with Bristow under certain wel-known
cerebral conditions.
| john Wilson, Carlo Calinc Giovanni
| Petroni and James Dairdson were ar
rested in Philadelphia, recently, on the
charge OF conntcrIciting and altering
postage stamps of foreign governments.
| Stamps are countcricitcd on the govern
ments of Nicarauga, Greece, Guinea.
Bavaria and Hanover.
Matt Carpenter j, The 1a.t-reportrl
invalid whose physician. according to
the Milwaukee Sentinel, has positively
forbidden him To attempt to fill hi. APP.
pointmcnts to speak," advising him that
any cndeayor to speak in public "would
probably be followed by serious consc-
qucnces."
The death OF the old racc-horsc "Jacl.
Rossitcr," on the farm of Judge Duffy,
near st. Louis, is announced by tclc-
graph. Ros,itcr was raised ut Buffalo,
n. y. and was winnin. horse at
races twenty years ago. Although
thirty-slx years old, he was used every
day Oh the farm, until recently. He was
considered the oldest trotting-horsc in
the United States.
In Franklin, Tenn, Colonel John
House wa, instantly killed, and his son
NJ. House MORALLY wounded, while en-
gagged M difficulty with Il policeman
named Griffin and church member
named Allison. The coroncr'- jury rem
dcrcd Il verdict of unju,,iliablc homicide
Griffin and Allison are both under arrest
House was, during the war, Lieutenant
Colonel OF the First Tennessee infantry
anu man OF prominence in his locality
| Hon. II. T.. Davis. eldest son of the
late Senator Garrett Davis, and the mosl
prominent member of the Bourbon
county bar, was found dead in bed Thurs
| day morning. His death is supposed to
have been caused by an overdose OF
choral. which he was in the habit OF
usin. as an anodync for pain. Mr.. Davis
wa. President of the Northern Bank of
Kentucky. and dcscrvcdly held as one of
the first citizens of his county and State.
Geo. VI. Medary, a printer at Robert
Clark u Co.'S establishment, Cincinnati,
attempted suicide on the night OF the Goth
by taking laudanum. lie was found in
the street in an unconscious condition
and was taken TO the hospital, where he
was restored to consciousness. lie adj
mittcd that he wanted to die and said he
had been there six months, but could not
drive from his mind The vision of his wife,
who is imprisoned in an insane asylum,
at Louisville. with no hope of release.
His lonely life had no hope in it, so he
tried TO end it.
We learn through journalistic
source that the Hon. f. Z. Albright went
over to Marion, Williamson county, to
insist upon Il retraction Of certain STRIFE
lures made against him by the editor Of
the Egyptian Press. What success he
met with We are unable to state. Al
bright is double distilled lightning in a
fight, if he does wear kid gloves, and is
as game as coon /; but what evil genius
directed him TO travel thirty miles after
an apology, and from an editor, is some
thing fellow can't find out.
The Southern Nlinoisan publishes the
following: Marshal Grain was ar.
raigned at Marion, Williamson county.
on yesterday for the murder of William
Spence and plead guilty to the charge.
lie was rcmanded back to prison, and
will be sentenced soon. Jasper
W. Grain, alias Big .Jcp, Noah W. Grain,
alias yellow Bill, WI. Grain, alias Black
Bill, were also arraigned upon the same
charge and pleaded not guilty. They
will be taken to the Alexander county
Jail, there to wait the February term OF
the circuit court, change Of venue hay
ing been taken
Jacob Etlcy, formerly proprietor of
the Louisville thcatcr, died there of CON
sumption. For over twenty years he
was a resident OF Memphis, Tenn, and
owned some of the most popular saloons
in that city. Ills ambition to be thcat-
rical man led him 10 open varieties