The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-03
1t is unnecessary to state that the goods
we're delivered to tho Fisk.

1t is unnecessary to state that the goods
we're delivered to tho Fisk.
ACCIDENT.
-Yesterdsy morning between two and
three o'clock, Mr.. John Cannon, who
lives on Tenth street, near Washington
avenue, met with an accident by which ho
lost the fore finger OF his right hand.
Mr.. Cannon at the time the accident hap.
psned was coupling cars and got his fin
ger caught between the bumpers. DR.,
Groden amputa.ed tho finger.
GENERAL THUMB.
Cen. Tom Thumb and wife, Commo-
dore Mutt and Miss Minnie Warren, the
celebrated little people, will give an CD
tertainment at the Atheneum this even
ing. Every one who can spare the time
and raise the admission .fee-should DO
there. The sight will be one worth See
ing, and not soon forgotten. If any Of
our readers wish for a short respite from
tho "blues," duns, debts or dyspepsia lot
him 30 to the Atheneum tonight.
THOSE POSTAL CARDS.
On Sunday morning q number of
persons who sell liquor received postal
cards through the post office informing
them that on Tuesday, March 10th, n
number OF tho praying women Of Cairo
would visit them and "pray with and for
them" But the cards did not frighten
anybody much, for tho very cards them
selves told where they came from. The
person who wrote them made q very poor
out at tho attempt TO disguise his hand
writing; and wo suggest that he either do
whom Lo has another job Of the kind to
put up. II
CAPTURED.
Two years ago man named Thomas
Anderson, who was incarcerated in the
Jackson county Jail on a charge of horse
stealing, broke out and made good his
escape. A short time ago Sheriff Hanks
of jackson county heard of Anderson,
and tracked him to noar Metropolis, Mas.
sac county, and on Saturday morning sue
ceeded in iecapturing him. On Sunday
evening tho Sheriff and his prisoner came
to Cairo by tho Fisk, and left on Mon
day mornings tram for .Murphysboro.
Sheriff Hanks is an excellent officer, and
has, in tho short time he has held the Of
fee, succeeded in bringing to justice n
number of well-known criminals.
ANTI.TEMPERANCE.
And now comes Elsie Mordaunt, a lady,
who, on Thursday evening next, proposes
to deliver lecture in the Atheneum in
this city, in opposition to the temperance
movement that is now raging in various
parts of the country. Madame Mordaunt
believes in the right Of every man, or wo.
man, TO do as he or she plesses in the mat
ter Of whiskey drinking; and avows her
determination TO go int the hottest of the
fight and there preach her doctrine. No
matter what the temperance people may
think or say of tho stand she takes with
reference to this ,subjoct, she is certsinly
an intelligent woman, and argues woll for
the side she has taken.
heading ROOM oRNAMENTATioNs.
Among the recent improvements in
the st. Charles hotel we notice that very
elegant and Substantial writing table has
been introduced into the reading room
under patent granted to Col
j. S. Morgan, of Brooklyn, New
York. The table is made of walnut
beautifully panelled with roso wood and
finished with oiled walnut. 1t is doubl
decked and supplied with patent ink
stand from which the ink cannot b.
spilled. Along the centre, between tn,
two sides, runs an elevated frame worl
which is furnished with advertisements o
our loading firms. The cards which ar
on glass, cleverly painted in gold ant
other bright colors, occupy various spaces
| some large and some small, Among tn