The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-13
EDlrORuAI. NOTES.


-Ey-Vice President Alexander Ste
vens, Of the Confedcracy. Is to deliver two
lectures In Chicago shortly.
Chicago has given up the attempt
to secure the services of Moody and
Sankry, and they will open at Brooklyn,
n. Y. on October 3lst
And now IL Is denied that easy took
the President down to Fire Island to salrr
him of. Casey says the President don't
drink. Maybe 1t was the President who
took easy down there.
Postmaster Jewell has issued spec.
ial order, to the effect that letters marked
'.pos, restontc" may be retained at the
receiving postofiice for three months.
They say that Bismarck's daughter
accepted Count Eulenburg because he
had killed cook. She thought he would
be handy mai to have about the house.
Captain Bogardus, the ''crack shot
has been arrested at the instanc. Of the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty ID
Animals Of st. Louis. IN connection with
his late pigeon shooting matches there.
Judge Harrison p. Ried, now law
partner of General Chalmers, and whose
maine has figured extensively In the
| Friar's Point troubles. Is practical
printer. and about 1s5s was foreman of
Il printing Office IN PaIucah, Ky.
Mail advices from Kingston. Jamaica,
Oct. /, confirm the statement that the
Cubin steam, Uruguay landed q portion
Of her cargo of arms and munitions Of
war Intended for the insurgents Oh the
Cuban coast before she was discovered
by the Tornado and driven into Jamaica.
In the Court Of Quarter Sessions,
Judge Elcock sentenced Westrrvrlt.
charged with being implicated in the ab.
duction Of Charlie Ross. to seven years
In the Eastern Penitentiary at solitary
confinement, and fined him 81. Westcr-
welt received the sentence calmly.
Alexander l.. Tatum was arrested in
Memphis. on last Monday morning for
the murder of John AIKEN. a planter. near
Cottonplant. Ark, on Saturday morning.
on telegram from that place. Tatum
admits the killing, but claims justifica-
tlon. He agrees to return without Il
The Chicago Times says: "Men who
90 down to the seq in ships, have serious
interest In the details presented else
where of one Of the usual calamitics
which are just now running their course
Oh the lakes. Until mariners take
united interest in the preservation of
their own lives, we shall have endless
reports of this sort to plblish.'
Warren aud wife, who were arrested
at the instance of the Coronrr's jury. as
the murderers of young Baltell, in
Quincy, on Thursday afternoon, were
discharged from custody OH Friday. j.
F. Moore. proprietor of the boarding
house, who was arrested at The same
time. was discharged.
Eli Harvey, of Paxton. H., left for
parts unknown in company with Miss
Reno, OF Loda, Oh the train going south. |
Harvey left letter, stating that If any |
one should follow him they would do it |
at their peril; but Mrs. Harvey to-day
notified Sheriff Lyman of the facts. and
requested that steps should be taken to !
return the hayward husband to his fam |
ly. Mr.. Harvey has heretofore been |
counted an excellent citizen, and his |
icighDors have honored him several times
With township offices. lie leaves q wife
md four children behind.
Two weeks ago, Winnie Cobb. girl |
en- years old. who resided with her aunt. |
hrs. Leadbeater, in Detroit, went to
chool In the morning and never re-
urncd. Search has been made contin-
iously ever since, but no tidings came OF
lie child until Monday, when fisher
nan came from EcOrse, and reported that
ne found the body Of girl floating IN the
liver. in an upright position, the head
.urned back, and the face directed to the
sky. The coroner was notified, and the
body taken to the city. 1t proved to
be that of Winnie Cobb. She had threat
ened to throw herself Ia the river, and i t
is generally believed her death was the
result of suicide.
General j. II. Chalmers, late COM
mander of the white pos,ee In Coahoma
county, says the last he saw Of the black
Brigadier General Pc use, he was making
into cainbrake, having dismounted.
deserted his mule, and been deserted by
his followers. The blacks under arms
did not ut any time exceed 300 and the
whites were about half as many. After
scattering the blacks. Chalmers granted
them amnesty, and they are preparing to
return to their cOtton-patches. The dar-
key sheriff, John Brown. is at Helena,
aud will not return to Coahoma. A war
rant for conspiracy has been issued
against him In Coahoma, aud should he
venture back. II the negroes do not kin
him, as they threaten to do, he will b,
incareerated. Unless Governor Anne,
meddies with the matter, and sends
black militia force into the county, Their
VIII be no more trouble.
The commissioner of Indian affair
10 mas received the following dispatch tro,
,r walter +. Jenney, the geologist Of iii
Y party exploring the Black Hills .Can,