The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-09-11
EDITORIAL. NOTES,

Capt. Ed. l.. Merritt, of the Stat,
Register, with his estimablc wife. have
gone to Nebraska on visit to relatives
The Republicans OF Pulaski county
have decided not to hold convention fol
the nomination Of county officials thi.
fall.
Miss Emma +. Snyder will COM
mcnce series of protracted meetings
In the NJ. +. church, at Mound City, on
the 10th inst.
Col. ID. l.. Phillips, OF the Spring.
field !State Joanai, left his home on the
| 9TH inst for a journey to California with
his invalid son, John Phillips.
The California legislature will stand
In the Senate, % Democrats, Is lndepend-
ent Democrats, and 10 Republicans; in
the Assembly, 45 Democrats, s lndepcnd-
ents, and IL Republicans.
"A New York telegram says that
Capt. Eads' plan for the improvement
OF the Mississippi river meets the ap-
prevail of tie Committee of Engineers
that for week past has been consider
| Ing its details.
1.-The Mayor has had eight negroes
buried, which lie thinks embraces all that
were killed." says the Vicksburg Herald
speaking of the Mayor Of Clinton, Miss
issippi, where the negroes massacred the
whites by getting killed themselves.
-Gov. Leslie, who has just retired
from the executive Office of Kentucky,
was greater pardoner Of convicts than
our Governor Beveridgc. During the
five years he occupied the office, he par
doned more than five hundred.
The Paducah Ne,cs says: "Thc to-
bacco worms are worrying the farmers
now as bad as the mosquitoes are worry
ing the town fellers. The last moon
brought perfect shower of them, and
they now number from five to scycn to
the hill"
The Republican managers are levy
ing blackmail upon the female clerks in
the departments at Notwithstanding
them contribute to the Republican cam
paign fund in Ohio. This has never
been done before, and proves the dcsper-
alton of the Radical cabal.
-"lt was reported on the streets yes.
terday,' says the Vicksburs Herald of the
sth, THAT three white men ndrenegades
had been killed in or near Utica, in Kinds
county" BY "white men and rene.
gades" the Herald means white Southern
men who are Republicans. The killing
of such white men is venal ofiense
down in the Heralds neck of woods.
The Paducah Herald says: 1--WE think
the Cairo Bulletin IS mistaken in men.
tioning Judge Lindsay and Gen. Preston
as candidates for United States Senator in
Kentucky. 1t may possibly be the fact
that Isaac Caldwell, of Louisville, may
be presented by his friends TOR the place
but whether he will accede to their
wishes, we cannot pretend to determine.
1t is said, Gen. John Cochrane re.
Gently stated that the object Of the New
York Liberals at present was to wait I'M
til the Republicans and Democrats had
made their nominations, when the Llber.
ais would take their choice from the two I
tickets. He said II would cost at least
$4,000 to conduct ali independent cam
yass in the State, and the Liberals did not |
have $40 in their treasury.
If, now, we can get the chivalric st.
Louis editors into the Joliet penitentiary
for few hours. and then pardon them.
no other foolish fellows will ever pop at |
each other In Illinois. The law is as fol.
lows-Sec. G5. Chapter 3s (Reviscd Stat
utes Of 1874: Whoever fights duel
with any deadly weapon, although no
death easue.; and every sscond. and