The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-16

nc has given his family positive assurances
to that effect.
The steamer I. 4. Hillman carried
from Evansville to Louisville one hum
dred preachers. Contemplate the posi-
ton OF few sinners In that crowd. No
necessity Of a brass baud on that boat.
The executive committee Of the
Democratic party OF Massachusetts, de.
cided to place the name Of John Quincy
Adams upon the ticket, az candidate for
Acknowledgements. rice General BARI
lett, declined.
-.Judec Robertson, Of Ballard county.
n.y.. Gays IL Bill jenkins wears the same
pair of squcaking boot, next tern vi
court, h. viii fine him for contempt Of
court aud have the boots condemned ~
nuisance.
Tho National Women's Congress US
scmblcd In the Wciting opera house
"Wednesday. Professor Maria Mitchell,
Julia Ward Howe, Rev. Phebe Hanaford,
Miss Lonsa AlcOtt and Mrs. Livermore.
All the professions were fairly repre-.
scented.
The last disaster OH Lake Michigan Is
that of the propeller Marchen'. she was
driven on Racine reef carly Monday NOR.
ming, and her bottom was found to be al
most entirely dragged of. IL was ex.
pected that as soon as she should be re.
lieyed she would sink.
The Co,i-ier-Journai says that viii. :.
Hays finds his music in great demand.
He recently cOnsuminatcd the largest
contract with !. l.. Peters, Of New \ ork,
the music publisher, ever signed By an
American composer. The saies Of his
songs Outrank those OF any five ballad
writer's In the country.
Jefferson Davis has been on visit to
his birthplace, IL Kentucky. His recep.
ton there was characteristic OF the pro-
pie Of the State OF Kentucky, the school
Of refinement and true gentilty. o, Win.
ncbago. that was bad aud uselee-
'.iump"--and VIZ know you feel ashamed
at yourself.
In the debates concerning the Bible
in the public schools, when the subjec;
drst came up at Springfield, one meinI~,
remarked in lines more forciblc than Gle.
giant: by Cd, gentlemen, the Bible
Is the book Of my mother. and I'll bt
d-----d If don't stick to it till hell freeze:
over"
Joseph McCar;y, Of West Virginia
was robbed OF seventeen hundred dollar,
on the night Of the l2lh, in Louisville
while standing on the plstform of III,
indianapolis, Bellefon,aine & Western
railroad, as the train waa leaving the de
pot, BY three men, who jumped on til,
train. Mr.. McCarty thinks the men fol
lowed him from West Virginia.
The following is what Will $. Wash
burn. editor Of the Egyptian Press, has t,
say about Joe ROharts, editor of the M
roison, In reply to one OF Joe's state
ments: "Cnless you can get up some
thing more plausible than this. Joseph
you had better quit your old trade
--lyiny-and take a berth rs roustabout
| in some at those mines at Murphy ;.
boro."
Tom Neal, OF Tie Dyersburg (Tenn.)
Ga5.tte, says: Immortal is that story
Of the king whose malatly could liz cured
only by wearing the shirt of a happy
man, and the happy man
when found had no shirt" Their,
1t not sufficient scope on the Ga.s'te fol
Toms editorial genius to expand. Being
classical In its nature, hc should get up a
corner In one of the worlds great maya
zines.
"A section Of one OF the big trees OF
California arrived in st. Louis Oh III,
18th, on the way to Philadelphia, where
1t will be exhibited at the centennial. |,
Is sixteen feet long. with q diameter OF
twenty feet. 1t was taken from a tree
two hundred and seventy-siX feet high,
with diameter AT the base of twenty six
feet, and. rs indicated by the yearly
rings, two hundred and tweaty year,
old. The section there Is followed out
leaving cylinder about two feet thick
including the bark, which will be con
vcrted into circular house and elegant,
fitted up.
How about this, from the Ballard
Nc'cs, AZ an original joke: "A young
lawyer OF this place while bathing his
plumes in the int-cnchant air and sailing
mid the starry heavens to pluck rhetorical
flowers to lay at the feet Of the Judge,
aud unwilling the angels around the
throne OF the Eternal for the admiration
OF the jury, was suddenly cut short with
the informstlon that the case before the
court was an action for damages agalns,
John Jones for shooting wills Watsons
black spotted SOW. The young man
wil,ed." That joke was handed down
from the days Of Washington and Bur.
goync. Used to be told around the
camp-iires Of our patriotic foretathers,
and didn't amount to much anyway.
Edward Baker Dickerson Jerome,
formerly OF Jacksonville, Illinois. is the
author. 70. months we have been in
search OF il:
"in the middle of the blaesjscks, in the city 81
ON the crrrek called Msuvais,srre, wher, ,hesul,.
| . frogs nWett refrain
| l,,illb to a yeninu md .k.,a.