The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-27

engaged, and sl5,OOOOO are offered in the
regular and special races.
Division 23l, Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, give their first ball to night
at hartmans Hall. The committee is com.
posed OF energetic men and the affair prom
ises to be the largest thing of the kind
this season. Several hundred tickets have
been taken, and the party will be attended
by the best people of our neighboring
towns.
Capt. Thos, Tarr leaves to-day for Hot
Springs. The secondary cause of his trip
is rest and recreation, but the primary
c,use is an injury received to bis leg by
bis horse crowding him against the fence or
some such obstacle while on horseback las.
fall The INJURY was at first only an appar.
ant abrasion of the skim but it ended in a
sore which has persstently refused to be
cured, until now the captain proposes to
give it trial at Hot Springs.
AT meeting of the new County Re
publican Central Committee, held mmedi.
| ately after the convention of Saturday had
| adjourned, Capt. W. NJ. Murphy was elected
| Chairman and Mr.. c. r. Woodward Secre-
tary A resolution favoring the calling Of
another County Convention for the purpose
of considering the ACCESSIBILITY OF nominal
ing county ticket for next fall, was al.
most unanimously carried by the commit
tee, and the 9th of September was fixed as
the date for said convention.
We are given to understand from re-
liable source that the 'bombshell' referred to
by the evening paper, when it exploded in
Court yesterday, simply amounted to this;
Mr.. Mulkey had simply done that which
no lawyer with the smallest spark of good
sense and forethought would fail to do-he
had interviewed those who were to testify
on his side of the case with reference to
what they would testify to on the stand,
which he had not found an opportunity to
do before. And several of the witnesses
who were present at 'the interview testi-
fed yesterday that Mr.. Mulkey had told
| them to swear to the truth and nothing
| but the truth
- "A Dixon Springs hen has imortallzed
herself and scored one more for the mani.
fold good properties of the waters emitted
by the earth there, as the following from
Saturdays Paducah News will show
"Uncle John Segenfeler, who returned
from Dixon Springs, Ill.,, last evening,
brought with him a remarkable specimen
of "hen fruit" The egg was perfect in
every respect, except that on the smaller
end was embossed on the shell as perfect a
letter 81" in sc:ipt as any one would care
} to see. This is the first instance on record
where the hens have taken to marking
their eggs with the initials of the State
where they were produced"
The Court House vas crowded yester-
day with a mixed audience, sill intent upon
hearing the testimony for the defense in
the Kate Cotton case. Nearly all the seat
ing capacity Of the Circuit Court room was
taken up. The defense examined seven
witnesses, all with view to showing that
there was not the least i'll feeling between
the defendant and the young man, Miller,
for whom the defendant is claimed by the
prosecution to have intended the poison
,, The interest was intense at times and spec
y tatOrs crowded over the railing and close
s to the jury and witness stand to hear
n what was SAID. The examination Of wit
nessus for the defense will continue TO-DAY
and perhaps tomorrow. II is thought tina
the case will not be concluded till Thurs
}. day or Friday.
/ Since throwing bomb shells is in orde
in the Kate Cotton murder trial, and sine,
, the prosecution claims to have seen" tn,
e one thrown into their camp by the defens,
b Saturday, couldn't the defense now go
|. the prosecution zone BETTER by provin!
.e by DR.. Mcdowell that the liquid analy re,
IA by him. and which the defense is ready t
e prove was the remains of the coffee fro1
which the dead man drank, was not onl
g. free from any trace Of poison of any kin(
& but was also almost entirely free from rea
natural cotfeel In these days of oleoma
gerne and of roasted peas, such thin
. should not be so very difficult. The pro
st ecu,iOn might object on the ground tn
II. would involve violation of standard polk
n. rules which do not permit better
=. raise after hs has been "called" ; but, the
w. poker rules are not. supposed to govern
ne murder tnsls.
W The Wabash passenger train whit
left the Union Depot early yesterday NOR
ID ing WAS derailed just below New Graz
Sc. Chain, about eighteen miles above hel
The engine, baggage Car and one passeng
l, 4 IL.