The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-14

ay, but there were no suggestions as to
Is contents.
There Is q probability that the con-
estants In the Wards will case will
from the fight and, instead of
about dead mems shoes, set
hemselyes to the Improvement OF their
,wn.
Major John Somerville, q popular
lawyer. died recently, at Ma.
sons Depot, near that city. At the time
Of his death he held the position OF
County Superintendent OF Public |
Schools ~
IA pawuod watch has been tho means
Of pointing to the murderer Of the New
York merchant. Noe. John Nolan was
arrested on the charge, and IL IS believed.
by detectives, that he is the person who
struck the fatal blows. |
MIR. George Young, who Killed
butcher named Frank in Charleston. Mo-,
was formerly a resident Of Golconda, ILL.,,
where lie has many friends and relatives
living. He was bailed in The sum OF
$4,000.
An exchange says: "lt took Web
stcr twenty-onc years TO make his die
tionary. but that book has done more to
take the John Bulism ont of Americans
than all the pictorial histories Of the Uni
ted States put together"
Ham, of the hitter Ocean, the late de-
capitatcd, Is in bad way. He has spent
considerable time in writing letters to
Bristow which Bristow refuses to notice.
The Secretary says that Ham can write
his own replies if he wants any.
1t IL stated that Wilbur Il. Storey. of
the Chicago Times, will soon travel to Eu-
rope, and that J. Startling Morton, Of Ne
braska. formerly associated with Storey
In the cditorship OF Detroit paper, will
control the Times during Mr.. storey CAB
sencc.
--Advices from Washington City state
that the encouragement j. in daily re.
cept ofadvicCs from Mississippi. Gov.
Amcs is uyrrsc to arming citizens OF the
State for their own protection, for IL,
reason that 1t would produce great ex.
element. Everything i reported quiet
--Sam Bowles of the springfield Repab
lican, was one of the judges at the Massa
chusetts baby show. Therefore we lin,
The following attributed TO him:
'Twerty-four babies all in a row,
Twcntv-iour maninas also on show;
: 1wentt -four daddies happy as clans,
: how of live babies none of your shame
A visio5 Of angels, dear little lambs. -
An old Democrat In Pennsyiyani
recently went to church Tor the first tim
in iorty-onc years. When the ministe
: began to pitch INTO PLATE, the old ma
picked up his hat and lett, cursiug Ill DC
, litical preachers. He thought the rcveren
D gcntlcmnn was abiding 10 Piolatte, Ill
Democratic nominee for Treasurer o
tho State ticket.
--Gov. Allen said the other day ii
whole issue was, disguiseit rs you please,
or complicalc it us YOU would. or discu.
it under the word currency, or the wor,
national banks, or the words national d
iaultcr- and national oilicers-thc onl
question was, whether in the future III
country was to be governed by the ma
CT the dollar.
In Obedience 10 call Of a large nun
Der of the medical fraternity OF the State
there was a mass convention OF ply
/ cf I,at IA,
Of the organization Of another State Med
ical Association. The following officer,
We're elected: Or. Ellis Byrd, Of Phillips
county, President: DR.. l.. r. Dale, OF
Texarkana, Secretary.
"A London dispatch states that q due
was fought with swords at Visinet, nea
Paris on Sunday between two youn
Americans named Riggs and Paine. Th
cause was an old family vendetta, whic
was renewed last Thursday night, in tn
Renaissance theater, when blows wcr
exchanged. The result of the duel WI,
that Paine was wounded slightly in til
+ arm.
john Allen, a brakesmau on til
, Cairo Short Line railroad, fell from III
{ train when near Columbia, ILL.,, Tuesd;l
, morning, aud was killed. No one kne,
. When he fell. or how the accident O,
g Cured. As soon as he was missed III
3 train was run back mile or so, and h
body was found lying near the tract
His skull was crushed out Of III rescn
blance to humanity. His body was prop
erly cared Tor by the railroad officials.
Edgar A. POc's brain was found /
an almost perfect state of preservatio
, when his skeleton was exposed to Il,
view of the living, recently. The Ger,
l bral mass, as seen through the base ,
+, the skull, evidenced no signs of disint,
T grafton or decay, though, Of course, 1t
somewhat diminished in size. The sk,l
was intact, and the general skeleton WI
in as good condition rs an anatomi.
! preparation IN doctors Office.
: -rhe Tennessee peanut crop OF 10;
amounted to two hundred thollsai
bushels. and Is valued at over halfa mi
lion dollars. The crop Of lS75-76 is esl
mated by Mellen. Brown & Co., OF Gil
! Cinnati, very large dealers, at from tv
hundred and twenty-five thousand
two hundred and Tiny thousand buslicl
= One peanut is not much. but 1t will