The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Upper Mississippi river is iull OF
ice.
The bishop-elect Of the Episcopal
diocese of Illinois will be consccrated
early in this month.
Secretary Chandler can find no one
who is willing to accept the commission
ership of Indian affairs.
Frederick Douglass was one of the
pall-bearers at the public funeral OF Vice
President Wilson in Boston.
State Treasurer Isaac Welsh, of Ohio.
died 1T his home near St. Clairsvile in
that State on the Goth ult.
Robert Tyler, of Alabama, son of
President Tyler, is a candidate for clerk
of the House OF Representatives.
Pork packing in Kansas City is pro
crossing in very lively manner. From
three hundred to a thousand head Of
hogs per day are killed.
The cold weather of the past few
days prccpitated battle Of the coal
dealers in Springfield. prices fell, and the
poor people reapcd the benefit of the
quarrel. 'A
| -Vice-Prcsident Wilson was only
dead fifteen minutes when the, doctors
began to cut him up. This indecent haste
of the doctors i. severely denounced by
the press
The whisky ring at New Orleans is
in an uncomfortable state of expectation
and is endeavoring to put its house in or
der, preparatory to an investigation by
the government. -
-Jamcs r. Slade, of Bellevillc, one of the
trustees of the Illinois Industrial Uniyer-
sity. has resigned, and Coy. Beverage
has appointed the Hon. willard &. Flagg
TO ill the vacancy.
The telegraph was little premature
when it announced day before yesterday
the death of Charles O'Conor, the emf
nent New York lawyer. lie is recover
ing from his late severe illness.
"A smallpox patient in Evansville,
' few nights ago, got up in her dclirium,
and going from house To house, rang
! nearly every door bell in one portion of
the town. And now the door bells in
that locality shine as they never shonc
before.
: Hon. u. A. Ncalc. president of the
l Cairo and Tennessee River railroad, no.
: titles the directors Of the road that a
!. meeting to consider business of impor-
: lance TO the road will be held in May
C field. Kentucky. Oh the 4th inst,
: Captain Preston Baxter, OF jackson
: county, died very suddenly while out
: hunting with a party Of friends on an is-
n land below Grand Tower, last week.
G Captain Baxter had been a pilot on the
o river from his early manhood until
n within the last few years.
h The Memphis Aeatanehe: "rhc Aus
: Tin (TcXas) Statesman, Of recent NUN
J. Der. brings out, a Democratic leaders fol
II 1876, Sunset Cox and John Cowdon. tn
If first especially distinguished as a tree
ir trader, and the last AS the advocate d
v cheap and rapid water transportation
Ic the two securing 10 the people OF thu
4. Mississippi valley commercial and poiiti
=, cal freedom.
20 Charles Nodhof, in the New Norl
H. IferaId says Of Moody, the reyivalist, tia
~ he sis not a fanatic, but cool, clear
OF "'"''' "@.'ness man, who opens n rcvi
l. val meeting Just a, a Dank officer woul,
ID, open meeting vi Stockholders. "A. I
or. not as noisy aud vehement rs the note
by eVan9el's's OF twenty years ago, nor i. |,
are more Than ordinarily emotional. Iii
he great influence is mainly owing to ia
!. simplicity OF his manner and the direc
ness ana t'rscness of his appeals. Pr,
IN ''und'y Impressed viii, the importan,
ora ehahge OF life, lac utters his convi
-" IONS III a deep and earnest way viii,
~ can hardly fail to DC effective on Il
per- minds of his audience, aud therein Ii
VIA his power"