The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-02
GENE BAL ITEMS.

--,.ExS,ecretary Belknap and ramiiy
have lett Washington never 10 return, y
says New York paper.
The death of two centenarisns is an
nounced-- Brady, in New York,
aged 1903. and Henry Johnson, u life con.
Wet at Sing Sing, also 1903.
On Wednesday last eX-Goy. VAR
moth OF Louisiana, was married ~
Miss Sarah Durand Of Newark, New
Jersey.
There is trouble among the Republi'
cans in ONO. Ii Is the opinion of old
politicians there that the disaf1ection Vi
well-knOwn leaders, who are opposed ~
Hayes administration, will Result in the
defeat OF the party this fall.
The Ohio Republicans, believing
that they cannot elect their state ticket
this fall, will move heaven and earth In
their efforts 10 secure The Legislature.
They cannot afiorl 10 lose the United
States senator.
Those burning with a desire 10 ceie-
brate the centennial Of something may
CRAFTY themselves on the fourteenth Of
june by observing the one hundredth
anniversary " the adoption OF the stars
and stripes A. the national iiag.
A farmer in Springfield township,
Noble county, Indiana, has been eXper-
imen'ing with the product OF one head
OF wheat OF rare variety. Last years
sowing the fourth yielded one hundred
and twenty bushels, At the rate OF thirty
bushels to the acre.
--JUlah ?. BENJAMIN, formerly secre-
tary OF state 10 JEFF Davis, is now one
OF the mos! popular lawyers OF England,
being the quecn'e counsel. His law
practice 10 worth over one hundred
thousand dollars per year.
An election was held in Georgia on
the lat of May 20 ratiiy the amendment to
the constitution forbidding the Legislature
ever to pay the fraudulent Bullock
bonds. The returns 80 lar as received
show n light vote, but the amendment
was ratified by majority Of ten 10 one.
The Roman Catholics have recently
opened forty mission schools in Alabam;
and Mississippi, and colored chlldrel
will be educated in them free. The pro
testant societies, we believe, are still
taking up collections 10 educate IN
heather on the west coast OF Africa, an,
the southeast corner of China.
Ben Butler having denied that h
either owned or expected to own an
land in Colorado, has induced some or
to investigate the records OF Puebl
county, which show that in April, Isl
in consideration Of the sum of $1,000
William Craig decided to b. l.. Butt,
II 1913 acres OF land, and the records f.
: to chow that tine title to this land HI
p''S7or ""' % i'utIer hands p,,,
: will have 10 ~ "s-'--' ""ios' hntl
9 The pn~,.oiaLs OF Burke count
connecticut, have passed this resol
toin: "Resolved, That we assure Il
colored race that they have been mac
} citizens of the state; that we have n
purpose TO make war on them or the
legal rights that in the hands of Il
Democrats they receive q protectio
that they cannot get from any party
this country, and that we will stand b
this assurance, whether they vote with
or against u.s."
-General alarm prevails througho,
California at the prospective ruin of tn
farmers and stock.raisers OF the state b
the drouth. The San Joaquin anu 9th,
great agricultural valleys are utterI
bleak and desolate, In the foothills an
valleys there are thousands of dead an
dying sheep, and the bones OF sheep an
cattle whiten the fields. MIR. Hollistel
the famed sheep king, who owns fit
thousand sheep in California, told lrien
that If five thousand remain alive nes
spring he will consider himself very fol-
tunate. Friedlander, widely known q
the grain king, who controlled all th
shipments OF wheat from San francisco
failed recently by reason of loans mad
70 farmers. He used to pay six hun
dred:dollars per month for acco,nmoda.
tons for himself and family in the Palac,
hotei' San Francisco. In The noitherl
part OF the state, where rains never TAI
entirely, the prospect is better.