The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-25

and stole a quantity of valuable silver
plate. County Clerk Boyt's house wa:
also entered, but the thieves failed to Sc
cure valuable booty.
Yesterday afternoon between three ant
| four O'Clock, little Jim Boone, boy
fourteen years old, while playing with {
pistol, near the corner of Thirteenth and
| Poplar streets, was shot through tn,
hand by the accidental discharge of the
weapon.
In view OF the action of the "Sweepers'
few nights ago, the paragraph about
the Townes men and Oberly was
very mean. Its publication was forbid
den by Mr. Oberly, but-thc young man
who presides over the forms-says it got
in by accident. The excuse Is ''thin, =
| and all the swearing we could do about
the matter in religious way we have
done.
Golconda now publishes newspaper
called the Pope County Rcfoyp.er, which
advocates strict reform in the politics oil
the country, favors the election of Tilden
and Hendricks. and the success of the
Democratic ticket entire. Long may the
Reto1nsr live, say we. Mr.. Abbott
treasurer of Pope county, and Daniel +
Clark, one of the editors, were in Cairo
and pajd the BJ-IIFTIS a call
/ he contest for local offices in John
son county is animated. For the office
| OF sheriff there are five or six candidates.
| among them the present sheriff, Mr..
Carter, and eX-Sheriff Gray. 1t is
thought Carter will be reelected. For
circuit clerk there are six cahdidates-all
popular young men. The Democrats
and independents are uni on Steward
for governor, The Independents vii,
90 for Mccartney, Independent candi-
date for the legislature.
Among the arrivals at the Planters
were John L. Guyre, Memphis; George
NJ. Dugan, r. W. Dugan, Memphis: F.
+. Jewett. ST. Louis; o. A. Harker. Vi
emma; A Ficholas. Stone Fort; A. Wall
ing, Vincennes; A. Davidson, Metropolis;
Mrs. NJ. Rusche, Metropolis; NJ. l..
Hight, Vienna; james A. Wall, Harris
burg, Mrs. James Shrly, Matford. Cana
da; John Mcdonald. Paducah: Harry II .
Newman, st. Louis: b. w. James, Du
,luoin; c. II. Comstock. Chicago: Ed. p.
Hargus. Kentucky: F. NJ Gillespie, Vi
emma: Max kirchner, Poplar Bluff: W. w.
Boyt. Vienna.
At the st. Charles yesterday were Ii.
Balm, Pinkneyville j. G. Brown. New
York; ii. Mosler, CINCINNATI; j. B.
Hinkle, New Orleans; Miss Annie Ar
derson, New Madrid W d. Heath, Chi
cago: {. W. Calwell, Canton, Ohio
Mrs. n. Stafford, ST. Louis: w. Il.
Stakely. New Orleans; August F. Cam
eron, st. Louis (; {. 5. Odiane, Bos-
ton John Carcom, Friers Point: F. C..
Barnes. Cincinnati: Isaac Black, Lewis
burg. Ark; NJ. d. Sneed and J. c.
Clark. Kasciasko, Miss. Col. Luke
Mosby, St. Louis; VIM. Il. Raiterd,
Liberty, Miss; John Mckinley. son and
daughter, New Orleans; George Lee.
Chicago; NJ. +. Layman and wife, Miss
II. T.. Layman, Mrs. Sherrer and Mrs.
Sherrer, New Orleans.
From Mr.. Baker, a baggage master on
the Mississippi Central railroad, we learn
the following in regard to the terrible
disaster which happend to passenger
train on that road on the morning of the
2lst inst. When crossing trestle work
about eight miles this side of Jackson,
Miss, the train was precipitated into a
creek by the giving away Of the bridge, the
pillars OF which had been washed away
by heavy rain during the night pre-
vious. There were four persons killed,
two of whom were Canadians, one a me-
gro woman and Chineman, besides tif-
teen wounded. Mr.. AL. Arnaut of Pa
ducah and James b. Bough of New Or
leans, messengers on the train, and both
well-known here, were badly, though
not dangerously hurt. The dead and
wounded were all removed to Jackson.
where the wounded are all receiving
medical treatment at the expense of the
company. The train was badly wrecked.
From letter from Major William j :.
Sykes, president of the projected Cairo
and Tennessee River narrow gauge rail-
road, We learn that that portion of the
road which will lie between Paris and
Mayfield, Kentucky, will soon be PUT
under construction, and that he hopes 10
have trains running from Paris TO May
field within twelve months from This
time. AS soon as the road is under con-
tract in Tennessee. the engineer corps
will be set TO work on that portion of the
road between Cairo and Mayfield. Mr..
Sykes says with the assistance which he
hopes to get from capitalists In ST. LOUIS,
he thinks he can flush the road from
Cairo to Mayiield within two years. The
road, he holds, can be built for six hun
dred thousand dollars, and will pay hand
dividends. That portion OF it lying
between Paris and Mayiield, distance of
thlrly-eight miles, will not cost when
completed and equipped more than six
thousand dollars per mile, and must,
therefore. pay. Twenty.three miles of
the road from Brownsville toward Cairo.