The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-09
Ep,roRuAL NorEs.


IN New York CITY in few days.
Smith & Co.. paper mills, at Rock
ford, Illinois, wen totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. The loss is csti-
mated at 100000 insured for about S25,-
600.
james II. Cochran. u resident of Ua-
ion county for sxty-six years. died Of
consumption, IN irand Tower, on the
10th ult.
--Murphyshorc hfspendsai Jack son
will. this spring. rave the largest dele
cation at Joliet, i has ever had since ii
has been county
Stokes, who ,iled Fisk, wants his
time Of imprisonment cut short. because
he served ten months before rcceiv-
Ing his final sent,lct.
"A dispatch dtd at London on the
9Th says that reports received from st.
Etienne says two hundred miners were
killed by ,lle;cxploson In Jahsr Colliery.
The piano and organ manufacturers
Of New York have formed a protective
association against the sale of bogus in
struments made Of Inferior material.
---Of the one hundred and seventeen
women now studying IN the Michigan
University. four lave chosen law, forty.
seven medicine and fifty-six literature
and science.
During tie services IN the First
Baptist chur'h at Peoria last sunday
evening. al old lady named Mrs. Murray
was ATTACKED with heart disease, and
died before .hc could he moved from
the building.
Peter Myers, banker at Carthage.
Mo-, who is charged with having peck.
eted $4,000 Of the dcpositor's money.
and leaving the county, was arrested at
Council Bluif, Iowa. on Sunday after.
noon. lie was formerly United States
pension agent at Des Moins.
"A special dispatch to the Chicago
Tines from Danville, Illinois. says dis
ease similar TO the dptheria is prevailing
there TO considerable extent, and PROV
ing fatal in many instances. Considera-
bic alarm is felt among the people for
fear II will become epidemic.
An establishment at Passati, Ger
many. dries eggs, the whites and the
relks separately. for household and all
other uses. and the experiment is said to
De entirely successful. the dried content.
If the eggs answering ali the purposes oi
fresh eggs.
During the burning Of the farm house
If man named George Heindle, IN
Bureau county. recently, Heindle his
wife and two children persisted in the
lanes. An older daughter. aged nine
cen years, saved herself by jumping
rom the roof Of a low portion of the house
n her night clothes.
Jennie June's late fashion letter:
Never were black silks so CHEAP not
wen before the war. in "gOld" times
Oh that those times would come again
and one would imagine that every old
lady in the country would rush OF and
get that desire Of most of their hearts-a
new black silk. Soft, rich silks Of pure
quality, that formerly sold for 81 aud So
per yard. now sell for 50 50 and So, and
1 very good handmade cashmere silk, an
excellent quality and texture for conbi-
nation with cashmere, can be purchased
Tor ii so per yard. This is the price,
also. Of very handsome evening silks, in
the newest shades, twenty-one inches
wide, which Is the usual width for this
class of fabrics, and warranted pure.
"A four-handed game Of billiards. for
$1,000, has been agreed upon in New
York, and will be played at Tammany
hall Oh the 18th, nth, 18th and 10th of
March. This game will be 1000 points.
divided into four parts OF 500 points each.
The Dion brothers on one side, William
Sexton and A. GARNER on the other. Sup
posing that Cyrille Dion and GARNER
open the series, they will play until one
or the other reaches 800 points, the player
will continue his run to its completion,
then the balls will be correctly aligned.
The second evening Sexton and j. Dion
Will take hold, and score on from the
points already made by their respective
sides, 800 points more, under the same
provision, that the player wnen making
bis 500 shall play his hand out. In this
manner the game goes on until one or the
other side reaches the 1900 points. when
they take the money.