The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-17


portion of the bonds of the Missouri Pa
cIlc railroad, and propose to commence
foreclosure proceedings.
Association articles Of the Memphis
and International Railroad Company
were filed in the secretary of States, Office
at Little Rock, on Tuesday. The road is
to run from Memphis to point in South.
western Arkansas, its length being three
hundred miles.
Bowen don't exactly understand the
charges preferred against him by Ply.
mouth church, and he asks the cxamin
ing committee that they be given more
definitely; and he intimatcs that II they
refuse, something may turn up that they
wouldn't like.
MIR. Combs. ir., was sentenced to III
teen years in the penitentlary at Mem
phis last Tuesday, for defrauding the gov
eminent in county claims, and II. G.
Brewer. who was convicted as an accom-
plice, was sentenced to the Nashville pen
itentlary for two and a half years.
The late Reverdy johnson leaves {
family of twelve children. about fifty
grandchildren and several great grand
children. lie was married in 1919 tC
Miss Mary Ma ,kall Bowie, daughter o
Robert Bowie, n former governor of Mary
land.
Rev. -. J. Cogan. a Catholic priest
OF Mason City, Illinois, is having trouble
lie has been healing the afflicted OF hi,
district for months past. and now, In or.
der TO get his pay, he has been Obliged
to leave his accounts with the squire FOL
collection. The Mason Cityitcs surely
have no thought of the hereafter.
The House Mississippi Levce Com
mittee, headed by Mr.. Ellis, will leave
Washington on the 9th inst, to pay a
visit to the lower Mississippi river, with
a view of examining the crcvasscs in the
levecs, and maturing some practicable
scheme whereby the system may be i'm
proved and permanent relief obtained.
"A dispatch from Berlin says the jour
mails there have published the following
rs a warning against emigration: "The
German minister at Washington was
recently asked to interfere in behalf of
Germans living in Louisiana, who. it was
alleged, were annoyed by ku-kluX. The
minister could do nothing"
The lady pedestrians Of Chicago,
Mrs. Mary Marshall and Miss Bertha
Won IIilern. will begin walking con-
test of five hundred miles, Tor five hun
drcd dollars II side, on the 2Sth inst. Mrs.
Marshall defeated Miss Won Hillcrn in a
like contest recently, and Miss Won I'LL
lern has challenged her for another race,
In the belief that better success awaits
her next time.
"A telegram from the Hague states
that Winslow, the Boston forger, has
certainly arrived in Holland. lie has
not been arrested because no cXtradition
treaty exists with the United States. II
appears, however, that an order has
been given for the delivery to the Amer.
lean consul at Rotterdam of all valuablcs
found in Winslows possession.
"A young desperate who has made
a hero of hin4e OFF VI, Viic % Two occasions
by breaking up the schools in the vicinity
of Wayland, Michigan, came to grief a
the hands of teacher named Owen ;
few days since. Hook attempted to re
peat the school-breaking. when Over
| lit on him with the leg of table, and
now Hook is lying terribly praised, ant
ii is probable will turn his toes up to tn,
daisies.
Chicago Times Antiquarians vii
be deeply interested in discovery which
has just been made in the environs o
Marseillcs. In the valley Of st. Clail
they have found settlement of the pre-
historic age. 1t is cave which opens
into cleft of calcerous rock, with tn,
places of habitation and of burial dis
tinctly..marked. TAT the bottom there is
a heap OF bones of men and women, ant
number of stones dressed to be used al
tools and arms, together with a quantity
of rough pottery. Some of the relics, In.
Guiding peculiarly shaped skull, are on
their way to Paris, and scientific mcr
who have seen them are of the opinion
that there is sufficient evidence to show
that the race to which the remains be
longcd was an inferior one.
On Monday evening, between and
$ O'Clock, two men named Wilson and
Holland, made bold attempt to murder
negro woman by throwing her from
the st. Louis bridge into the river. The
woman was rescued, and upon being in.
tervicwed said that Wilson and Holland
were the men who robbed the UniteC
States express car on the st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Northern railroad few
miles from st. Louis about six week ago
The negro woman had attended to theil
room, aud when she went there on Mon.
day morning, found them looking Ovel
some Of the stolen articles and papers
They seized aud chloroiormcd her
dressed her Ia mems clothes, and tried tC
murder her, in the belief that they were
in danger while she lived.
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An Empress queen.
tfrom the Philadelphia Press