The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-19
A SKELETON.

~" SALooN CLERK FOUND A FUNERAL
IN cELLAB.--wHosE BONES ARE
THEsE7
yesterday morning the bartender in
Mrs Myers saloon, at the corner of Wash
ington avenue and Twelfth street. in
formed number of his customers who
hid dropped in after breakfast 10 read
THE BULLETIN, that he was going 10 the
cellar to dig sink hole for the reception
of the waste water from the bar and ice
chest. Procuring candle and spade he
descended the stairs. When he had been alb.
sent from the saloon about FIVE minutes he
was heard TO utto- an exclamation of alarm.
and cry "Come down come down;
HAVE FOUND A FUNERALi"
The persons in the saloon Immediately
responded to the young mans invitation,
and descended into the cellar, whore they
found him gazing in evident alarm at
HUMAN RIB
which he had thrown up with his spade.
A gentleman present took the spade and
turned out of the hole, about foot under
the surface
HUMAN SKULL,
several ribs and pieces Of cloth, which
upon examination were pronounced to be
parts of a soldiers blouse. Tho skull
contained perfect teeth, not one being
even touched by decay, and was to all
appearances that Of young man. Small
fragments of flesh were found on the
npper jaw.
And now the question arises:
WHOSE BONES ARE THEsE2
We have no doubt they are those of o
Union soldier but who buried them in this
CELLAR 1t has been suggested that the
body may have been buried before the
house was built, but we are informed that
all Of the soldiers who died in the hos
pitfalls of the city were buried in the old
burial ground, and that no soldier could
have been buried under proper authority
in this particular place. 1t has also been
suggested that one Of the doctors who &C.
cupied the building before Myers, who
rented it about two years and six
months ago, might have thus
disposed of one Of his sub
jects for dissection but this is not proba.
Bile. Doctors do not very carefully clothe
dissected subjects for burial, or very often
provide them with comfortable collins "a
lie in, and "these bones" have about them
the fragments Of a soldiers uniform and
after life's atful fever sleep in box or
coffin.
Then the question still remains {:
"Whose bones? ?" and who can answer
Mrs. Myers says that for considerable
time after her husband took the house she
noticed and frequently called to Mr.. My.
er's attention, a disagreeable odor as OF
decaying flesh, rising from the cellar into
their bed room, which was Immediately
above the grave of the deceased unknown.
This would indicate that the death of the
owner of the bones occurred long after the
close Of the war; but Mrs. Myers imagi-
nation may have deceived her sense Of
smell and the question: "Whose Bones?
remains unanswered.
The remains have rot all been disin
TERED yet; and, it is probable, that {
further investigation might throw SOM
light upon this ghastly subject Who's
duty is 1t to make the investigation
Where is the corcner2
CARD OF THANKs.-The Thala Asso
citation of Cairo, desires TO return thanks
through THE BULLETIN, to the ladies and
| gentlemen who rendered them SO much
and such valuable assistance in making
the recent peace celebration, given under
the auspices of the association, a marked
social and pecuniary success. To Mrs
Pruess Mrs. Meehner, Miss Lonisa Kaha
and Miss Smitzdorff, whose skill and in
dustry produced the tableaux, to Mr.. Jno
II. Oberly, Mr.. Jacket and Mr.. Scheles-
niger, the speakers Of the occasion and to
Messrs. Schulz, Wirsching * Co.. who sang
the Watch on tho Rhine in fine style
also, to the silver cornet band, and, last bu,
not least, to William Boge, the superin'
tending cannoneer of the day, who thun.
dered from morning till night without an
accident of any kind, the thanks of the asso.
citation are especially rendered.
ITALIA ASSOCIATION.
Cairo, July ls, 1871.