The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-27


Who FOLLOWED forty years the law.
And when he died,
The devil cried,
"Hai Bob give us vour paw
The Marquis Of I.orne. the husband of
Queen Victoria's daughter, has published
n poem OF three thousand lines, entitled
Guido and Lita." The New York Her.
aid reviews Ii at considerable length, a.,d
passes the verdict that it appears mucn
more like the work ola Marquis than OF
| poet.
L. a. Page. the suspected murderer
of Josie Langmaid, made another despo-
rate attempt to escape and was placed in
irons on the 23d inst, at Concord, y. II.
The impression that he Is guilty Is fast
gaining ground, and the popular feeling
is such that he will soon be brought to
trial.
AT last accounts no changes had
| been made In the Interior Department.
Secretary Chandler has gone to Michi.
gan. and the cleaning out in his depart
ment will hot commence until he returns.
1t Is predicted in Washington that he
| will invite good many of those who got
pay for doing nothing under Delano. To
| step out.
The Jacksonville Journal states that
The Odd-Fellows of Illinois are about TO
| erect a building to cost Sl25.0O0, in some
central city Of the State, to be used by
the order for the sessions OF the grand
lodge. The location is to be determined
at the Grand Lodge meeting next year.
Jacksonville is already pressing its claims
for the location.
The enlargement of the Wclland
Canal Is expected TO cost between So
900, 900 and SO, 000, 900. and to be com
plctcd in three years. 1t is hoped by the
Canadians that it will divert the greater
part vi the lake freights intended for eX-
port away from Buffalo and the Erie Ca
nal and the grounds on which that hope
| j. based are very interesting.
| Won Bulow i. described by Il writer
in the Philadelphia Bvlicth IL much
better looking man than his pictures i'm
the ,hop-windows represent him. He is
not tall or stout, but is well built and
manly. with IN animated, intellectual
face and iinely-devclopcd head. the
! points of which are seen to advantage
since time has thinned the covering ma
ture had given them.
Thomas Carlyle loses nothing OF hi.
raspiness Of manners III his old age. lie
recently dined with neighbor, and was
so annoyed at the table by loquacious
busybody, who dscoursed OH art, that
he refused to enter into conversation. and
at the end OF the dinner suddenly said TO
his host: For heavens sake. put me
in a room by my SELF and give me a
pipe
Farmers in San Joaquin valley, Cali
fornia, are raising cotton with consider
| able success. The Co,JieJ-Jourai. speak
ing of it, says: ''Ihey raised from one
quarter 10 four bales per acre, 800 pounds
to the bale. and this on land which was
not irrigated" California may be a good
state for the cultivation and raising OF
cotton. but the statement that its soil
will yield FIVE bales to the acre may be
put down rs false.
Bill King is in Washington virtu-
ously insisting upon an early trial Of the
indictment against him for perjury in
connection with his testimony before the
Ways and Means Committee as to the
Pacific Mail subsidy. King knows that,
through the negligence or design of Pres
ident Grant, the bill creating the District
jury was never signed, and consequently
the indictment is not worth anything.
Professor Wise has become as great
a bore to the American public as Ser
geant Bates, Eli Perkins and Private
Dalzelle. The professor has made con-
siderable money out OF his balloon frauds.
Some day when storm is predicted in
dangerous latitude, an cnraged and dis
gusted body of taxpayers will put the
live body Of the fraudulent nronaut
into his little basket and send him to the
clouds. lie has been fooling around too
much entirely.
-Foley's statue OF Stoncwall Jackson.
which is to be unyciled at Richmond on
Tuesday, is thus spoken OF by the Lon
don AUteneum "Of it, critically, We are
bound to say that we wish it had been Il
better work of art and we say this not
only for the reputation Of the sculptor
but tor the honor OF the heroic General
himself, as well ~ OH account of the sym.
pathy which has led many English ad
mirers of 'Stoncwall' to subscribe fund,
and present the statue 10 the State %
Virginia"
"A man named Young, "a notorious
gambler, while en- route from Louisville
by rail, committed an act that woul,
send ordinary men TO the penitentiary,
prosecuted. He claimed to be AN alder
man Of the city Of Louisville, and OWN
To this startling revelation on the part @
the villain, the conductor simply exam
incd his pass and reported him to the CON
A., pany. The Co'Tier-Joujnoi says: "Ther
:, Is no divinity in this country that dot
hedge an alderman and it matters nc
4 who had been guilty of the outrage,
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