The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-12
Southern News.

| ine Alabama legislature has legal
Meu inc publication Of legal notices In
Sunday papers.
Near Panola. Miss, recently. n white
woman gave birth to tripleis Who had
tceth, but the unfortunate little trio ali
died. WV "''
Mrs. Kirby, OF Caldwell county. n.
-, recently lost eight children by dip
liberia In such quc', succession thai four
were buried together.
"A meeting of the State Executive
! committee of the Democratic and Con.
| sentative party Of Alabama Is 10 be held
IA Montgomery on Wednesday. the 23d
| inst.
In Mississippi Miss pin,y forsythr
I sets type IN the office ct the Liberty to
| .?edfe. Miss Mollie Bet Bcacam and Mis-,
Matthews set type for the summit Tlnss.
aud Mics Ida Roberts hns ,1sc4 In th,
/ Nc, omb City HtciHgcBcer.
Memphis Appcoi The ease If II.
VI. Kite, alias Dick Iurpin, charged with
stealing from Chinaman. l. on trial IN
criminal court. The Interpreter and two
Chinese were sworn in q manner some
! thing according 10 the custom OF their
country. two saucer being smashed and
''N'A ii'N'' H'i'llNl UbNNlh lllN llltIi-
ncr Of oath caused good deal OF mrfri-
mcnt among the spectators.
Atlanta Constitution, There are two
Lee memorial movements before our pco-
pie. ard they should not be COMPOUNDED.
The movement OF Hon. X. VI. +. Hunter
! looks 60 adjoining the capitol square ut
Richmond with a noble equestrian statue
10 Tie memory OF Ice. The purpose of
The other il 10 place a mau.oleum over
Ms grave at Lexington. This j. to con-
tam Valentines rccumbont statue of
ten. Ice. The statue Itself l. con plctcd
aud is cost. $4,000. l. now secured.
Ten thousand dollar. more are needed TO
erect suitable structure over the grave.
In review OF the Texas affairs Gov.
hohe said AZ Dallas the other day: Tax
alton has been reduced from ~ to 30
cents on SlOO aud done. too. while
SlOO,UOO interest on the public deb, was
being paid. Ia III, message 10 The
twelfth legislature, Davis announced
That Texas j. free from deb. and has
e3UO,OOO In the treasury.' and the Jour
mails OF that body viii show that the
statement was correct. TIL. wa. at the
beginning of Radical rule. When he and
his fellows went out OF Office the treas
llry was empty. aud four and half mil.
liohs OF dollars worse than empty. And
this enormous debt WAS contracted While
HE people were paying i've times IA
much taxes a. are no" levied.
Charleston Is. CD Neiog: Il /, r.
marked ~ "A singular coincidence that
John Lilly. late president OF the Union
League, and representative Of the Radical
party in Chester county. who was re-.
Gently sent by Judge Mackcy 10 nine
years imprisonment Ia the pcnitcnfi4rv.
wa- the scll-nomiIltcd reform candidate
for senator in the last general election.
running In opposition TO Dublin j.
walker, the present senator, who was
the regular Radical nominee. In little
more than one year after the election
b,M had found their level within the
wall, ~ the pcnitcntiary. From re-.
form platform 10 reform school the
transition would seem 10 be- naturally AN
easy one, but Oh, in.atlite Archer,
would not one suffice:
Cumming (Ga.) Clarion. Tuesday
morning last, Grace Strickland. co!orcd.
who lives one mile aud half west of
town lcit her four children al home
while she went to Mrs. Robinson, TO
do some work. The eldest child was six
years old. the next tour and a half. the
next three, ana the next nearly two. The
Oldest one put the two youngest 10 led,
aud then put fire To some broom straw In
the back part of the house, from which
II must have caught on fire. Il ran ont
doors, all il clothing was burned oil. and
and IL skin. also, except on Il. back.
lie two youngest were burned into
crisps. being identified by small Dor
ton OF their bodies taken from the debris