The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The coal shaft at Pontiac, which has
been closed for two years and half, has
been reopened.
IAN interesting religious revival is
nowin progress at Jerseyville, in which
the Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist
churches arc united.
"A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states
that the Argentine torpedo ship Fulmin-
ate exploded in the harbor of Buenos
Ayres, killing eleven persons.
James Crow was scalded to death, at
Louisville, Ky, 18th. A tank full of hot
lard, about which he was at work, was
accidentally discharged upon him.
lin the United States district court, at
Cheyenne, on the l4th. Tom Rines, one
OF the recently captured road agents, was
found guilty and sentenced to fourteen
years In the pcnitentiary.
The Peoria city seyo.nn,ent is re-
Ported to be IN bad way. There are
$4,000 Of bills payable outstanding, and
money must be borrowed during the cur
rent year for routine expenses.
--One hundred patients were removed
from the Insane Asylum, at Jacksonville,
a few days since, to the institution at An
ma, on account OF the crowded condition
of the Institution at Jacksonville.
On the 18th, q four hundred pound
coal bucket tell one hundred and thirty
feet upon John Pound, In the Sterling
ore bed, nerr Antwerp, Jefferson county,
N. r., and crushed him to jelly.
Mrs. Ella Henderson, OIL Flint. Mich,
for many years o slave to the habit Of
morphine taking, died on the 18th very
suddenly. An inquest showed that she
drank Aye ounces of laudauum on Sum
day.
(. -Dr. J. ". Folk, manager OF the street
railway 1t Joliet. had the small bones Of
hs Lex broken. on tho llG,, by horse
which he was riding catching hi, loot II
the car track and falling with the doc
tors limb under him.
Tho incendiary. John Duncan. who
cot hre 10 Wright Bros drug store. at
Franklin, Morgan county, on the 10th,
was 70 badly burned by the explosion OF
powder and coal oil that he may not re.
cover and meet just punishment at the
hands OF the law.
Robert L. Case, president Of the Secur
ity Life and Annuity insurance COM.
pany, was convicted at New York, on
the l4th, Of perjury, In swearing to the
annual statement Of the company fol-
1876, and was remanded for sentence.
-Tramps now band together and
watch farm houses, In Michigan, and Il
the family come to town the house Is
cleared OF every thing which can be car.
ried away. No matter how many are
arrested, others come and take their pla.
ces.
Vet. Weston. . brutal and repulsiye
negro. forty.fve years Of age. and Elmira
Cannon. . beautiful white girl Of eigh,
team. were convicted, In the circuit court
o. Pan Pan, Mich, on the 18th, of lewd
and laselvious cohabitatlon, and both
were roman led to jail for sentence. Misi
Canron had yellow child Of Weston,
u court during the trial.
On the 18th fire broke out in tbs
Blue Mountains. near Reading, Pa, and
the hEs u raging nerceiy. There.ars now
over i've hundred acres Of good wood
iand Destroyed, and fears are spprehsnd.
g that The nrs may reach the small town
OF Hsnburg. ills supposed the noun.
taAns were nrsd BY tramps. The coun,
4 Iys mneh mclestsd By tramps commit.
~ ~ kinds Of pspredstlcns. especially
anlsaGlfAs fArnsrs. The loss By the fIrs
2Sss fnr Nh reach many thousanis Of dol.
JUDGE BLACkT REPLY.
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