The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-23
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hand writing ON the WALL AZ
The advertisement of Col. Shaver and
Mr.. MCGEE as joint disputants on next
Saturday is a trick OF Rev. Jake
Bradley to get big crowd Of people ut
his barbecue. Old Jake is very smart, II
lie is occasionally prosecuted tor certain
little mistakes he makes.
Among the arrivals at the Planters
yesterday were T.. #. Powell, Carbon
dale; Louis Beckwith .and Thomas
Beckwith. Wolf Island, Mo-; Faubrion
Garbish, st. Louis; w. u. Marshall and
wife, Big Lake, Mo. /; b. Huff, Texas
Bend; Phillip Stauter, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr.. Oberly makes his first campaign
speech at Ellingham, on Saturday after
noon next. On the 9TH Of September he
viii address the people of Carlinville.
He has been requested TO permit few
appointments to be made for him in
Indiana.
The Radical meeting at the court house
last night was well attende1-by negro
woman aud children. a dozen Of white
Radicals occupied the seats around the
speakers stand, while the colored men
took back seats. The speech was OF the
usual bloody-shirt order.
Reform in the post office department is
necessary. The post offices arc being
used by the civil service refOrmer Hayes.
Every citizen who goes to the Cairo post
Office is handed by "A post Office clerk a
copy of Senator Morton's late hloody-
shirt speech. No postage is paid on
these pamphlets. How is this? We
thought the ranking privilege had been
abolished.
Albert Jones. Il young colored man,
was arrested by Chief of Police Gossman
yesterday morning, charged with steal
ing fifteen dollars and pair of shoes
from darkey named Henry Childers.
Jones was given hearing before Judge
Bross in the county court yesterday, and
held to bail in the sum OF five hundred
dollars to answer the charge at the next
term Of the circuit court. He went To
Jail.
III Mr.. Noe, who met death defending
his property from burglars. had been
armed. he would now be alive. The
bravest man unarmed is not wise in at
lacking a burglar. SO people OF good
constitution do not act with prudence i'll
allowing the assaults of slight disease
without help of science. The best con-
stitution will be broken down by taking
cold repeatedly, when prompt use OF
Halls Balsam would preserve its vigOr
unimpaired. Sold by all druggists.
Price, 81 90 per bottle.
When Col. Shaver opens. his Orat0rical
batteries at the Elm grove. on Saturday
next, look out tor fearful work. He will
annihilate young McGee-if he can; but
Niece, in confident way peculiar to
youth, expresses his ability to get away
with the colonel without difficulty. A
friend OF McGee's also expresses the be-
lief that Mac can more than hold his own
with the gentleman from Canada. He
says that Shaver is a twelve FOUNDER
loaded with musket cartridge-a fire.
cracker with a hundred miles of fuse.
The arrivals at the st. Charles yester-
day we're j. f. Beck, Union City; Miss
A. VI. Connor, Wenona, Miss; V.
O'Bryan, John q. PoindeXter, Yazoo,
Miss; G. ii. Norris, Marion. Ohio; Il.
Ely. Memphis; Daniel Dolshiemer, New
Orleans; T.. l.. Briggs, st. Louis; James
Gordan and wife, Sparta; w. W. Lyons
and Frank NJ. Lock. st. Louis; John NJ,
Davis and George j. Needam, Chicago;
John Baker, New Orleans; John G.
Mann, Jackson, Tenn; w. ii. Wood
bridge, Blodget, Mo-; A. Randolph, Bos-
ton; A. L. Morehead, New Orleans.
The Republicans Of this city are circu-
lating the story that four negroes of this
city were offered $4,000 if they would
organize colored Tilden and Hendricks
club, and that the offer was Indignantly
refused. Nirtuous and incOrruptible black
men. Wealthy and corrupting Demo-
Gratis. Was there ever more unlikely
story. Why, there has not been $4,000
of Democratic money in Lower Egypt
since.the Hood; and just at this moment,
the Democratic party of this part of lii
nois, could not buy, and pay cash a cent
head for thousand colored or white
voters. Each Democrat runs his OWL
show with his own money here. The
party, AS party, is impecuniOus
Money. We have none in Egypt. Tn,
$4,000 story is decidedly gauzy.
Albert johnson is Memphis "Mack
eral," and therefore one of the "boys.'
lie has fingered about this city for the
past three months. and has made the
house of Frank Gordon's his boarding
place. He has lived very pleasantly
with Frank, only occasionally getting
ont of humOr and putting head on her
but yesterday morning he gave her g