The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-04-06
NEWS BREVITIEs.

NE Wo Oh kIAco'
Tie Colored Citizen is the name oil q
new paper started at Fl. Scott, Kan.
A Michigan reform club has, It Is said /,
tried man for taking wine at communN
ion.
Charleston Hnd., is to have breach OF
promise suit with damages placed at
$4,000.
Beechcr was presented with a hand
some floral star at the conclusion of his
lecture at Fort Wayne.
The late postmaster at MOulton, APP.
pannoose county, Iowa, is delaulter 10
the amount OF nearly $500.
A Kansas man has been fined S. under
II compulsory education act for not send
Ing his daughter TO school.
a mare belonging 10 John Shields, of
Houston county, Minnesota, foaled n
| double. headed colt the other day.
A Saginaw City. Mich, man has tray
eled about 100000 miles ona street car.
He has been conductor on one Tor eight
years.
An Indian got drunk at Elk Rapids,
Mich, saloon, was turned cut doors
when his money was all gone. and irOze
to death.
Eau Claire, Wis, has been sued for
$40, 900 by man named Gormley, whose
hoi SEES were killed by bad streets, and
who sustained injuries.
Adrian, Mich, has its first colored
| official. On motion OF Aid. Lawrence,
Democrat, Levi. Coleman, colored
man, was appointed poundmaster.
: Some temperance stutistician has loot
| ed up s9,025 names which the labors
OF Francis Murphy In New England have
put upon the temperance pledges.
The bishop OF the Saskatchewan has
left Winnepeg for England 10 raise funds
to endow training college and other
church institutions in the tar northwest.
The Rev. DR.. Collins, pastor OF the
Church OF the Disciples. Grand Rapids,
Mich. charged with immortality has
confessed bis guilt, and will be deposed.
On Friday the work of laying the con-
federate monument at Macon, Ca, was
commenced. 1t will be ready to lay the
corner stone on the 2G.h OF April.
A Georgia cow has given birth to q
singular creature. The offspring seems
t. be something between calf and a
camel, having the hump and form Of the
latter.
In an assault aud battery case at Ann
Arbor, Mich, objection was made to two
OF the jury Lvoausc ui0y uUio reu-rIu-
boners, and the judge sustained the OBJ
lection.
Miss Lou NJ. Reed, instructor in the
microscopic laboratory at the Michigan
university, Is the only lady teacher ever
employed in the institution, and Is Civ
ing satisfaction.
The pocket gopher business opens out
brlskly in Minnesota this spring. In one
county, from the 18th to the 26th Of
March, there were brought to the aud>
tors Office All scalps.
Cedar Springs, Mich, has been impos>
ed upon by squad of Kalamazoo colored
individuals who passed themselves of
as the only original and genuine Tenncs-
see jubilee singers.
A man'while digging we'll at Roscoe,
Dodge county, MIMI, found mineral
substance of q yellowish color that res
sembled gold, which he has sent TO New
OTk IOT eSatlllnattUH.
A young man in Sprague, Conn, who
carries pistol cartridges in his pocket with
his tobacco, happened to get one in his
pipe the other day. and did not know It
until a piece Of his nose was blown Of.
The Baptist status in Indiana, as shown
by the convention minutes, is as follows:
Associations, 30; churches, 557; baptlsms
the past year, 2.7l6; total membership,
4l,7S5; ordained ministers, AIS.
A woman in Isabella county, Mich,
accused her husband Of having murdered
his father tor $500 and thrown the body
into well, but an investigation shows
that the latter is alive and well known in
Kansas.
The school lands In Kansas amour
to about three million acres, a body o
land considerable larger than the states
Of Rhode Island and Delaware put to,
Rether, and as large as tho entire state Of
Connecticut. ~ .''i
The annoyance opcasloned by the con.
tlnusl crying Of the baby, at once ceases