The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.


Plum trees are in full bloom in Cald
well county, Texas.
Mott. the Memphis. Mo-, medium
is coming to the front again.
A Centennial boat crew, made up o
the Wards and Biglins, is talked of.
Charles Hale the actor. died at Nor
iisonia on Friday. aged 81 years.
Gabriel Andral, the distinguished
physician of Paris, is dead.
Active search is being made in Hol
land for winslow, the Boston forger.
Chicago will have two race meetings
at Dexter park during the month OF
July.
Henry Clews has been unanimously
re-admitted to the membership OF the
Stocks and Gold Exchange of New York.
Louis Marcein, Compile de Carne,
the eminent publicist and member OF the
French academy, Is dead.
The rife shooting mania has reached
Springfield, and club is to be formed
there.
-Beecher preached to congregation
at Plymouth church on Sunday morning.
bis subjec, being attaining High Moral
State
Paul Boynton. the famous swimmer.
is in New Orleans, and will soon give the
people OF that city an exhibition of hi.
skill.
Henry wattersOn, of the Louisville
Cowi>r-JoHnal, who was reported con.
valescent sometime ago. is still lying very
low at his residence in Louisville.
And now it is said there are reasons
for believing that indictments have been
found against James +. Casey and j.
Hale Sypher. at New Orleans, for con.
nection with the whisky ring.
An explosion occurred in the Exeter
mines belonging to the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, located at West Pittson,
Pa, on Saturday afternoon, killing four
men and terribly mangling and burning
eight others.
General Gid. j. Pillow has filed a
petition in bankruptcy, assigning among
other causes in his petition, that he is
held responsible, personally, for acts as a
Major General during the late war.
Prince Bismarck has thanked the
United States cabinet and the American
minister at Peking, for supporting the
German claims for furnishing Chinese pi.
rates who plundered and destroyed the
German schooner Hannah.
The latest files Of the London sport
Ing journals contain the letter of accept
ance OF Daniel O'Leary, the great Chi
cago pedestrian, to the challenge of Per-
kins, the English walker Of London.
An attempt was made to rob train
ON the Pan Handle road, at a place called
Brush Water station, sixteen miles from
Columbus, Ohio. on Sunday night, but
the thieves failed TO accomplish their
ends, they being barely allowed to es-
cape with their lives.
The students of Amherst college
have concluded not to send crew TO
Saratoga the coming summer The col
lego cannot raise sufficient money to sup.
port a boat crew and base ball club both.
and it has decided to give its entire sup
port to base ball.
Newton llilcman, a youth seventeen
years old, and Frank Kecier, aged twelve
years, became mixed up in a quarrel a
short distance from Bloomington last
Saturday, when Hilcman struck Keeter
between the eyes with club and killed
| him.
The remains OF Reverdy johnson
were inferred at Green Mountain Gene.
terry, Baltimore, on Monday afternoon.
Seven thousand people We're assembled
In the cemetery to pay the last tributes OF
respect to the deceased. The bells
throughout the city was tOlled from ia
8 O'Clock p. m, and flags were displayed
at half-mast.
--One hundred aud forty-onc churches
Of the II? invited by Plymouth church's
advisory council have sent replies, and
| III OF this number have accepted. About
twelve churches urged as their reason fol
declining that the state OF religious inter
ests In the church forbade the absence
OF the pastor. Nine assigned no reason
and three declined because OF the unsat
isiactory character Of the council. DR.,
Leonard Bacon has accepted, and there
Is an expectation that he will be the mod
orator Of the council. DIR. Noah Porter
has not yet responded to his invitation
The majority Of twenty ministers with
out churches have, 1t Is said, accepted
the invitation. There will probably BE-
not over 270 all told.