The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-24

10 70 to St. Louis on the Fourth Of next
month, a rare chance Is offered them.
There will be an excursion train on the
narrow gauge road leave the depot In
this city on the evening Of the third,
carrying parties to the Future Great at
four dollars for the round trip, tickets
being good for four days. The excurs-
lon is being gotten up by a number Of
colored people In this city, who propose
a car for the accommodation
OF white persons, provided enough Of
them make the trip to warrant them In
going to the extra expense.
Mr.. Miller came to the city yesterday
morning and at once started out to SOL
icit orders for shirt mandatory. He
succeeded In securing quiIea number Of
orders. and would have taken a good
many more II he had not fallen Into the
hands of chief of Police After. who ar
rested him on a charge VI soliciting or
ders without license. MIR. Miller was
taken before Judge Bird, VINO assessed
n fine OF ten dollars and
costs against him. Mr.. Miller said he
did not have the money to pay the fine,
and the last seen oil him he was still in
the hands of the officer in search Of
some one who could get him out OF the
dilemma into which he had fallen.
There following were the arrivals at
the St. Charles Hotel yesterday VIC.
Grey, Pittsburg; JAS L. Sedlie.
Pittsburg; J. A. Williams, Salem, Ill.
John L. Williams and sister, jackson
Tenn. Geo. Bsrringer, Jonesboro, H.;
A. d. Duff, Carbondale H.; d. w. DAY.
export, Memphis Tenn; W. A. McLeen,
Chicago; E. F. Byers, st. Louis NO.;
G. B. Weldon, Centralia; Geo. Canghan.
ser, Centralia; Mrs. Belle Nash. Michi-
gan; B. NJ, Rankin, st. Louis; JAS T.
Rcgerson, East st. Louis; Robert C..
Owen, New Orleans; s. j. Sheel, New
Orleans; Il. j. Snow, New Orleans; F..
A. Wheelock, city; S. Corning Judd,
Chicago; Frank kroft, st. Louis;
J. A. Wentz, st. Louis; JAS II.
Brownlee and wife, Carbondale;
c. E. Carson, Penn: +. j. Dillon and
Samuel Razon; Paducah; John A. Truce,
David SlmonS, New York: John Smith,
Paducah; s. T. Norton, Alton; Mrs. E.
A. Simpson, Goodwin Bluff, Ill.,; Mrs.
n. Ketchum and two daughters, st.
Louis; s. K. Hedges, Centralia, ILL.,; Fred
d. Goslen, Evansville.
For some time past some person, or
persons, have been maxim grads on
Jake Lattner's cabbage patch, on Jefier-
son avenue, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, to such an extent that
the owner, Mr.. Lattner, came to the
conclusion to watch for the thieves, and
If possible. bring. them to grief. Accord.
ingly, on Friday night, Mr.. Lattner, in
company with Phillip Helm, went to the
garden, secreted themselves and waited
for whatever might turn up. They
had been in their places but short time,
when they discovered man in the gar.
den. Helm and Lattner had armed them
selves with gun, and put In it blank
load, which they discharged at him,
when he fell to the ground. Helm ran to
him, and fight ensued, IN which the
former received a severe cut in the arm
with knife Helm then called
for assistance, when Lattner seized
a club and beat the man severely. when
he started to run, and Hem and Lattner
went to their homes. Yesterday morn.
ing, an old negro, seventy years old,
named Joe Brown, was found lying IN
the road near the cabbage
patch, senseless and almost dead, and il
il supposed that ne Is the man with
whom Hiem and Laltner had the trouble.
Brown was taken to the hospital and
DR.. Wood examined his wounds. 1t
was found that both his arms were bro
ken, and his skull broken TO pieces. His
Injuries are said to be- ftral.