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A column of brief personal notices from July 1873 tracking the doings of notable figures of the day — from Jefferson Davis to a scandalous murderer awaiting his cell at Sing Sing.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Page 2
1 min readJeff Davis lingers in New York.
Orville Grant now lives in St. Louis.
Vice-President Wilson is reported as a paralytic invalid.
Henry Collins, Jr., is now in jail in Springfield, for attempting to run away with a horse and buggy.
Surgeon H. Semig, who lost a leg at the massacre of the Thomas command, is coming home, nearly recovered.
Professor Agassiz' school of natural history was opened at Penikese Island, New Bedford Harbor, on the eighth.
Many persons are uncertain as to the wisdom of Wise's contemplated balloon voyage across the Atlantic, but they cannot deny that it is a wise undertaking.
The Shah of Persia, before leaving London, made many presents, including $3,500 to the servants of Buckingham Palace, and $12,000 to the policemen stationed there.
Col. E. Barnwell Rhett, the survivor of the late duel, comes from a family accustomed to that sort of amusement. Two or more of his brothers each 'killed his man' in duels.
Gov. Carpenter, of Iowa, has been invited to attend the grand festival of the United German-American Society, at New York, July 20, to celebrate the union of the Saxon races, but he is obliged to decline.
Walworth's friends objected to his being placed in a cell in Murderer's Row, and are now bringing pressure to bear to keep him out of Sing Sing as long as may be. It does seem hard that such a high-toned murderer as Walworth should occupy one of the cells in the row designated by so low-sounding a name as the Murderers'.
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