The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-11-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

"A narrow-gaugc railroad to connect
Little Rock and Hot Springs has been
commenced.
"A band of gypsles, filling ten wagons,
passed through Louisville. Ky, en- route |
to Nelson county.
"A woman of ill-faDie. named Josie
Warner. committed suicide in Omaha on
last Sunday evening.
"A force Of 800 Turk, was defeated
while attacking a strong lnsurgent posi-
ton mar Zubi. The loss of the insur-
gems in killed and wounded was only |
ihiriy.
The Pail Nal Gasette publishes Il
special telegram from Berlin, in which it
is stated that the imperial government is
about proceeding formally to cashier
Count Won Arnm from the public ser
vice.
The libcls OF Henry c. Bowen against
the Brooklyn Edgle, its editor, Thomas
kinsella and James McDermott, reporter,
claiming damages aggregating S2jO,OOo
have been set down for trial on Novcm-
Der s.
After making one speech in Pttsburg
Governor Allen turned his back on Penn
sylvania and went home. The Pittsbiirg
Post explains that difficulty about
counting the vote in Ohio compelled Mr..
Allen to hasten to the scene of his defeat.
Correspondents wonder why North
ern newspapers are sentimental over
Stonewall Jackson, 'the secessionist.'
Correspondents ought to be satisfied that
if Northern bullet killed the secession
list ii did not destroy the fact that he was
an American.
This time ii is Admiral Porter's son
Essex who has been invited to take "a
fighting position in the dominions of the
Khedvc of Egypt. The other day it was
General Joe Johnston. If the khedivc
keeps on getting officers into Egypt there
will be no room for common soldiers.
--Rcavis, whose particular form OF
madness is an idea that st. Louis is a
great city, doesn't charge anything for
his work in behalf of that easy-going
community, and the result is that he is
without money and at times ''cxposcd TO
actual want"
The very patriotic Forney, who
seems to be uniting the Centennial bust
ness with correspondence for his paper,
in recent letter frow London on slang,
endeavors to put in a pathological protest
against the Misrepresentation of Amer
lea in regard to her loose expressions
and slang idioms.
-Carlysle says there may be a courage
which is the absence OF fear There is
also the courage which is the result of
excitement, and maniicsts itself III the
presence of crowds. Such bravery falls
immediately below true courage. The
great masses OF the race are dependent
| on society.
A little book has just been published
in Paris entitled "Terpsichore, the pre-
face to which is from the pen of Mile.
Rita Sangallo, the premiere danseuse of
the opera there. 1t maintains that men
are absolutely indispensable" to the
ballet, and should not be supplanted by
women in male attire.
twenty-five plates for counterleiiing
money were found buried near Ccntralia,
hidden by briggs. Washburne, Chief Of
the Detective force, paid the fortunate
finder $500. The engrayings are said to
be of the most superior character. II is
supposed that all the plates are now in
possession Of the authorities.
-Adyices from Cape Palmetto OF the
18th Of October state Liberian force
of 900 troops had attacked some native
villages, but were repulsed and obliged
to retire, losing twenty-four killed and
wounded. They also abandoned three
Commons. The disturbances result from
the Liberian law prohibiting direct trade
between natives and toreis ners.
Monday morning about O'Clock the
| boiler Of the locomotive attached TO a
gravel train on the Lehigh Valley rail
way, exploded three miles west Of Bound
Brook, New York, killing Thos. Copper,
engineer; Abraham King, brakeman /;
VIM. Thompson, brakeman, besides in.
juring about twenty others, many fatally,
All the cars were thrown from the track
by the force OF the explosion.
--Sergeni Bates, who trotted all over
creation with the banner OF liberty, is
beached on poverty Hat, Canada, with
| no funds TO satate the moncy-craving
appetites Of the plodding and honest yeo-
many OF that irigid country. He has
sold all the stars OF the flag, and Is
now about TO lease the stripes to an
enterprising barber.
Three blocks Ia the business portion
of Sherman, Texas, were destroyed by
are Monday. The telegraph wires were
reported burned on each side of The Of
flee, and the block, II is supposed, was
consumed. In this block were two banks,
the principal hotel and several of the
largest business houses In the city. Most
OF the buildings in this block were brick,
though the best Of the town was gencr-
ally Of wood. and old.
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