antedating of "bug-eyed" (1879)

[Jonathon Green]

>
> "Sister biggs told Brother Hayne he was an old =
> bible-backed, bug-eyed liar from Bitter creek," and winds up with "the =
> session closed with the doxology and benediction by Brother Myers."
>

There is a secondary, meaning of _bug-eyed_: cross-eyed. My earliest cite is
currently 1905, but I would suggest that the above might fit it.

Jonathon Green