The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

| Information from Rotterdam says
that Winslow. the Boston forgcr, is not
visible IN Holland.
And now Bcechcr. IN the presence OF
| God and the judgement day, denohhces
Bowen as a liar, scoundrci ana other
things.
The Spanish government has pur-
chased six krupp guns and six thousand
rounds of ammunition, to be sent to
Cuba.
Owen Lindsey, who killed Francis
A. Colvin, near the village of Baldwins-
vile. Onondaga county, New York, on
the 10Th day of December, 1873, was hung
at Syracuse last Friday.
briggs. the leader of the briggs
gang OF countcrfeiters, was sentenced to
fifteen years in the pcnitentiary and fined
$500, in the United States court at
Springfield last Friday.
A young lady named. Amanda Me-
Glory, living at Ada. Ohio, while sitting
near fire place in the room Ola sick rel
alive, was burned to death, by spark
which ignitcd her clothes, while she was
asleep.
Carroll Jones. who shot and killed
an intimate friend and companion at OF
tumwa, Iowa, about ten days ago, plead
guilty to charge OF manslaughter, and
was sentenced to four years in the pcni-
Tertiary, last Friday.
Z Nf..t a ,.wAatiYattf LII
of Last Saginaw, Michigan, who was un-
| der bonds In the SUN of sixteen hundred
dollars for perjury, false pretenses and as
sault and battery, has skipped of on the
breeze and left his bond.men TO settle his
affairs at home.
-Eads gains gradually. Thirteen feet
OF water on the bar at the south pass of
the Mississippi, below New Orleans, is
the result of his jct,y plan. When the
water is dccpcned seven feet more Eads
will draw the first installment Of pay
from the government.
Upon rcquisition from the governor
OF New Jersey. 10 Governor Hayes, OF
Ohio. John Cunningham, who has been
confined in the work house at Cleveland,
was delivered TO officers on last Friday,
who will take him to Phillipstown. y. D.,
where he will be tried tor murder. Gun.
ningham is charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Mary Rays, at Stewardsvllle, y. j.,
nine years ago.
Clara Louise Kellogg, the fair song
stress, has brought suit against party
named Rufus Hopkins, of De kalb, Il
foreclose trust deed for seven thousand
dollars. which she loaned him, and foi
which he executed to her his note, pay
able in five years, with zen per cent. in
tcrcst. payable semi-annually. IIopkin
deiaulted in the payment OF the interes
due June ., 1876, and the prima.donnt
proposes TO foreclosc the trust deed,
The Kansas senate has passed
res olution asking congress to max
an appropriation for the re-suryey
of the State line from Kansas City south
II l. said that tho early settlers of Kansa
bribed the surveyors TO locate the Stat
line where il now is, and If the rumor
true, Kansas City. or the greater part c
I il, will be found 10 belong to Kansas in
stead of Missouri, as Mr.. Cook of Wyar
: dotte, who introduced the resolution
claims To have the evidence of old settler
that in 1870, when Missouri was admitted
: the mouth of the kaw river was full
half a mile east of where ii now is.
! --Revcrdy johnson would have bee
eighty years old next May, and duIn
5 life had filled many exalted stations. II
: served In the United States senate irou
!, 1910 to 1915 and also from 1863 to lSGi
: He was attorney general under Preslder
Taylor. and his last public services q
u minister TO England under Presidel
i johnson, are still fresh In the minds {
our readers. 1t may be said of the IL
~ ceased that caunot be OF many who hay
v been identified with the politics OF on
!, country, the records of his pul
n lie and private life are without blcm
n isles.
. Washington Dispatch TO the Chicag
h Essniag Jom7mi: "rwo gentlemen VIII
= visited the White House on Thursda,
d tell of an interesting and significant col
n yersatlon with Colonel Fred Grant oil til