The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-12-05

Mountain ana 9UullcTH Has gwen HotlNc
that it will pay, on and after December
lst, the coupons due that day On Interest
certificates, and 80 per cent. on coupons
due that day on st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain (Arkansas branch) railroad bonds
and on Cairo, Arkansas and Texas rail.
road bonds.
GRowTH OF CATHOLICISM IN IOWA.
Davenport special, December ID.
"Bish0p Ilennessey, Catholic bishop OF
Iowa, visited Davenport to-day to ad-
minister tho rite of confirmation in the
tour Catholic churches OF this city. About
nine hundred persons were confirmed.
The bishop has confirmed in the state
during the last two or three weeks some
eight or ten thousand commandments.
This shows the increase in the church
during the last five years"
THE JET1IEs.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 2.-Capt. Brown,
Y. 8, A., inspecting officer at the jetties,
has officially notified the secretary oil
war that on the iirst OF December there
was practicable channel through the
jetties twenty.one and three>tenths feet
deep at average flood tide; that the only
interruption to practicable channel
twenty two feet deep was ninety feet in
length, and that line OF soundings with
twenty-five and fourNtenths feet least
depth extends through the bar to deep
water.
A MAN WHOM RANDE WANTED TO KILL.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 2.-Shcrill
Hitchcock of Peoria, H., writes TO this
city that Randc, known here as Van
Zandt, visited Fort Wayne shortly before
his arrest for the sole purpose Of assas.
Mayor Zollinger, who was sheriff
when he was taken to the penitontiary in
1872. At that time Rande tried to escape
A. Plymouth, but was used by Zollingar
with much violence, for which he has
ever since cherished a plan OF revenge.
Rande says that when here recently he
was within few feet OF ZOllinger and
could easily have killed him, but refrain
I'd, knowing that his escape would BE
impossible.
BUSINESS.
Springfield special to the St. Louis Re.
publican: The recent blockade which
has Tor more than month kept business
In this state locked up Is broken by the
''hard weather. OF the past few days, and
the roads are rapidly becoming practical
bic. Within the next ten days large lots
OF grain and hogs will 60 forward and
the farmers will soon be able to gather the
corn which has been standing in inacces-
sible fields OF mud since 1t was gathered.
Of the very large crops raised in this
state this year, 1t Is believed that not 20
per cent. has yet been marketed; but the
indications are that great quantities of
produce will be sold as soon as possible,
and il appears certain that these large
sales will be a great stimulus TO business
all over the state.
TRAMPs GOING SOUTH.
1t. Louis Republican
The tramps, like the migrating birds,
are moving south, and are pouring into
the river towns OF Louisiana. They are
a curiosity there, and are not welcomed
with as much cordially as they could
wish. They do not 20 south to work;
they are as averse to labor in Louisiana
as in Missouri. They evidently have no
other purpose than to keep moving and
escape the rigors of our northern winter.
The Louisiana people are asking the
conundrum, which has been asked Il
thousand times before: What shall we
do with them? but are receiving no an.
swer. They are par icularly troublesome
at Donaldsonville, Shreveport and Nor.
gan City. AT Donaldsonvlle number
OF them were arrested and locked I'D in
the town prison, but the negro inmates OF
the institution took such a dislike to
them that they united In a petition to the
authorities praying to be released from
their society. The mayor granted the
request and turned the tramps loose,
win the order 10 move on" But NOV.
Ing on does not solve tho difficulty, and
the Louisiana people are still asking
themselves what they can do with their
cosmopolitan visitors.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
tAiurphysboro ull) independent
Last Friday morning serious accident
occurred TO William Ludwig, a young
man Of this town, at Mr.. 4. Browns,
He was assisting some men who were
saving wood by power, taking away the
wood from the saw, and turned around
for something and the saw plncheu ana
turned over, tho blade striking youry
Ludwig on tho back of the head saving
lhrough the skull for about five inches In
length. The wound was dressed by DR..
Parsons who took away nearly 4 tea,
spoonful OF brains from the cut. lud.
wig was living at last accounts.
A GRrESDAcK PArER,
The greenback people Of Jackson
county, are about to start a new paper at