Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-03


The gas works are progressing finely. The
Ida Handy landed at our levee yesterday
large amount of the main pipes which are to be
laid in our streets. By the first of January next
we shall be gassy city.
The Post Office Department has issued an
der that all persons found carrying letters out
side the mail, except in stamped envelopes,
will be arrested and dealt with according to
law. This is an important item to steamboat
men and express agents.
Brevet Maj. Gen. JEFF. G. Davis has bee n
assigned to the command of the First Division,
Department of Kentucky, with headquarters
temporarily at Louisville.
DeHaven's Circus performed in Evansville
on Friday last. 1t is highly spoken of by the
Journal. Mile Louisa's perilous trip to the
clouds drew out large crowd of all ages:
sexes and 'colors.
The editor Of the Mound City Journal has
been the happy recipient of boquets and a
lunch from some young ladies of that town.
As an evidence of the enterprise Of special
correspondents, one of them telegraphs to the
Boston Journal that Mr.. Seward has got the
diarrhoa. The correspondent must have had
constipation of ideas.
On Wednesday last the train on the N. O. &
O. Railroad, when returning from Union City,
met with a serious accident at Bayou Desha
between Moss Station and Fulton, by which
the fireman named Milton Kemp, of Paducah,
was killed, and Ben. Adams, the engineer, a
brakeman named Job, and several others Sc
veverely injured. Tie accident was caused
by the washing out of a fill. Kemp lived
about twelve hours; Adams and Job will
probably recover, though severely injured. 1t
will require some eight or ten days to repair
the damages to the road.
Speaking of Peterson's luck at hunting over
the river, the other day, we made slight
error in our Sunday morning item. 1t was 200
pair, instead of 200, turkeys he ''bagged'' on
that occasion.
There was surfeit of amusements in Cairo
last evening: The lecture of John G.. SAKE,
the Atheneum and Canterbury tho Oyster Fes-
tival of the Good Templars, and last, though
not least, the City Council. They were all
well patronized.
George Thompson, the English abolitionist,
is getting rich out of lucifer match factory.
We are out of lucifer match factory, but are
not getting very rich.
Josh Billings says that when a mans dog
deserts him on account Of his poverty, he
can't get any lower down in this word-not
by land.
A rabid and emphatic recital Of the follow
ing is said to be an infallible cure for lisping
Try it: Hobbs met Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs
bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs nobs with
Snobbs, and robs Nobbs' fob. THAT is all, y
says Nobbs, ''the worst for Hobbs jobs, y and
Snobbs sobs.
| The richest woman in the United States is
said to be Miss Hester Robinson, young and
beautiful girl, lately of New Bradford, Mass
but now resident of New York city. Hel
! and the life income of five million more, ant
her aunt also died leaving her another million
How accommodating the young folks were tt
their young relative.
Drulep, an inventor in France, has designed
new umbrella, which is a simple walking
stick, without any covering, from which thu
rain spreads out in the form of ao umbrella
The principal is as ycta secret, but is suppose
to be a new application of electricity.
The Emerson Etheridge case is still IN state
quo. The court is not yet organized and i
may take some time to select officers for tina
purpose, as most all the material for military
courts have been mustered out and gone home
The prisoner is still at Columbus, Ky, and il
reported in good health.
The editor of a French paper, in speaking 0
the dedication Of a new cemetery, near Lyons
says that M. Gascogne had the pleasure O
beng the first individual who was buried i,
this delightful retreat ~
Gen. Michael K. Lawler, formerly of Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, has bought at sheriff sale, fo
So, 900, the Arlington Plantation, near Batol
Rouge formerly valued at 5000, 900, and is go
ing to settle in Louisiana as a planter.