The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-04-12
NEWS AND NOTES.


A Mississippi Judge was just saying
that no one hut coward would carry q
pistol, when his own fell from his pocket,
WAS discharged, and the bullet hit @
lawyer In the leg.-Detrolt Free Press.
Mr. Henry Borgh. who says there Is no
such thing as hydrophobia, still declines
to accept the offer OF an eminent New
York city physician to inoculate him
with the saliva OF rabd dog tor the pur.
pose OF deciding the controversy.
MIR. William d. Howells. the editor OF
the Atlantic made this neat little
speech at the Bayard Taylor banquet
Gan that 1 can do ia to wish our guest
God-speed, and beg him to remember
that while he cannot remain too long in
Germany to honor Us, he cannot come
home too soon to please u.s."
Kate Sanborn wants TO know why so
many men Of genius are unmarried but
we dind't know there were so many men
of genius, anyway. There are several
hard workers who might bs pointed out,
but men OF genius-welI, there may hare
been one. say, years aud years ago, and
yet he was married, II we remember
Alright. to girl named Annie Hathaway.
Secretary Eyarts is still in the far Yves.
with his sick son; Secretary Sherman Is
attending TO matters OF government
finance ia New York city; Attorney Gen
eral Dcyens is visiting in Massachu sets,
and Postmaster General Key has not vet
returned from Florida. Ouly Secretaries
McCrary. Thomp.oH 1ri Schurz gossip
around the cabinet tat ia Washington.
The prinsticld (ii.y journal says
tllot Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. who resides
in the romantic little tiyy o, pau, nenr
the bose Of thu Pyrcnecs, in Southern
France, Is in almost weekly cordial and
Intelligent correspondence with her
friends ia Springfield. The paper re.
CARDS the report that the lady is afraid to
return to America lest she may asWn
bo placed IN l1natr asylum as without
just foundation.
The house cleansing Season makes
business brisk for all branches OF con-.
merce. 1t Is time when window.glass is
broken. bureaus smashed, chair>legs
twisted out of joint. tub.han lies yanke(l
OIL, mirrors fractured, plaster gougcd
out, stoves cracked, ratings knocked
down, crockery pulverized, aud the house
Itself wrenched from its moorings. All
these have to be replaced or righted, and
this accounts for the present sudden re.
vlval In trade.
Miss Dickey adds new chapter to the
great social scandal OF Cincinnati. by
a card saying to Mr.. John b.
Titus, her tra1ucer, and his friends that
t she Is to be further pursued by tn G
publication Of books, and by letters aud
,ards from the head of the church of
which she was member, she may be
In self>deiense to make public
etters which at various times have been
written to her by the famlly of Mr.. Titus,
which, II published, would In some re-
'pects give that FAMILY a taste OF that
lgony which their conduct has given
heir victim, Miss Dickey herself.
Talking about jokers getting bit, a Chi.
ago wholesale firm made nice little vic
i'm OF itself the first day Of this month.
With great gravity member OF the house
old one OF the messengers OF the establis.
nent to 60 to manufacturing establish.
nsnt and order "twenty dozen rubber.
teel corsets." The, youth started of on
lis errand, while the clerk che he'd" But
lie laughs best who laugh last, and the
10Y who had been "April fooled" had the
atis.action Of seeing wagon drive up to
he door In an hour or two and deliver
xactly "twenty dozen rubber-steel cor.
ets"-tor there Is such ali invention.