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

" uuS given us injury fvSi''S S''"io
o that effect.
The steamer 4. r. Hillman carried
rom Evansville to Louisville one hun.
red preachers. Contemplate the post
ion Of few sinners In that crowd. No
iecessity Of % brass band on that boat.
The executive committee Of the
Democratic party OF Massachusetts de.
lied to place the nume Of John Quincy
Adtns upon the ticket, ~ o candidate for
rice General Bart
EFT, declined.
Judge Robertson, Of Ballard county.
n.y., says If Bill jenkins wsars the same
pair Of squcaking boats next term Of
court, he Will fine him Tor contempt Of
rourt and have the boots condemned M y
nuisance.
Tho National Women's Congress os.
scmblcd In the weiting opera house
Professor Maria Mitchell.
Julia Ward Howe, Rev. Phebe Hanafori,
Miss Louisa Alco,t and Mrs. Livermore.
All the professions were fairly repre-
scented.
The lat disaster on Lake Michigan is
that Of The propeller Marchent. She was
dri.cn on Racine rrefearly Monday NOR
ming. and her bottom was found to be al
most entirely dragged Of. |, was ex.
pcctcd that as soon as she should be r..
lia,n1 t,o ,xn,,lI s:,,l,
The tavriey-Joa,roi says that viii. y.
Hays finds his music IN great demand.
lie recently consuinmated the largest
contract with j. J.. Peters, Of New \ Ork,
the music publisher, ever signed by an
American composer. The sales Of his
songs outronk those Of any tive ballad
writer's in the country.
Jefferson Davis has been on q visit 10
his birthplace. in Kentucky. Ills reccp-
ton there was characteristic Of the peo-
Pile OF the State Of Kentucky, the school
Of refinement and true gentili,y. o, Win.
| nebago, that was n bad and useless
'.jump"--and wc know you feel ashamed
Of yourself.
In the debates concerning the Bible
IN the public schools, when the subject
first came up at Springfield, one member
remarked in lines more forciblc than ele.
giant: by Cd, gentlemen, the Bible
Is the book Of my mother. aud I'll be
| d---d II | don't stick to 1t till hel! freezes
over
Joseph McCarty. of West Virginia,
was robbed OF seventeen hundred dollars
on the night Of the 18th, in Louisville,
while standing Oh the platform of the
indianapolis, Bellefontaine & Western
railroad, as the train was leaving the de.
pot, by three men, who jumped on the
train. Mr.. McCarty thinks the men fol.
lowed him from West Virginia.
The following is what Will $. Wash.
burn. editor Of the Egyptian P-ess. has ,o
say about Joe RObarts, editor of the RI
notsan, In reply TO one of Joc's state
ments: "Unless you can get up some
thing more plausible than this. Joseph
you had better quit your old trade
| --lying-and take "a berth as ronstabout
in some Of those mines NJ Murphys.
boro."
Tom Neal, Of the Dyersburg (Tenn.)
Gascste. ssys: Immortal is that story
Of the king whose nalady could be cured
only by wearing the shirt Of happy
man, and the happy man
when found had no shirt" There
1t no, sufficient scope on the Gazette fol
Toms editorial genius to expand Being
| classical IN its nature, he should get up :
col ner In one Of the worlds great maya
zines.
"A section Of one OF the big trees OF
California arrived in 81. Louis on ths
18Th, on the way to Philadelphia. where
1t will be exhibited at the centennial. 1,
Ia sixteen feet long, with diameter OF
twenty feet. II was taken from TIRE.
two hundred and seventy.six feet high
with diameter ut the base OF twenty Sin
feet, and. as 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
,crte'l into q circular house aud elegantly
fitted mp.
How about this, from the Ballard
Ne,cs, as an original joke: "A young
lawyer OF this place while bathing his
plumcs in the int-enchant air aud sailing
mid the starry heavens to pluck rhetorical
flowers to lay at the feet Of the Judge
and unwilling the angels around the
throne OF the Eternal for the admiration
OF the jury, was suddenly cut short with
the information that the case before tn,
court was an action for damages against
John Jones tor shooting wills Waison's
black spotted SOW. The young man
w!lted." That joke was handed down
from the days Of Washington and Bur.
goyne. Used 10 be told around the
camp.iires Of our patriotic forciathers
and didn't amount TO much anyway.
Edward baker, Dickerson Jerome,
formerly of jacksonville, Illinois. il the
author. For months we have been in
search OF It:
"In tho middle OF the blackjack, in the city o
| the plain,
On the creek called Mauvaist,rre, where the bull
iToss' sweet refrain
iu'ls one to sleep n, evening. and wakes At mon