The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-29


every pound of it.
Among other game brought to tn
Cairo market from the surrounding woods
we notice good supply of coons and pos
sums. We are willing to take the ass'ir
ance of Others, without gaining an expert
mental knowledge of the fact, that they
arc delicious eating.
The afternoon passenger train brought
to the city, yesterday, a pair of welded
pairs, in the persons Of Harry Schultzc and
bride and Albert Lewis and bride. They
were warmly received by their friends, and
will, no doubt, as soon as may be, settle
down into the sober realities of married
blessedness.
Should the weather be favorable, an
immense crowd will witness the great
horse race tomorrow. The Butcher Boy
was brought here last week, and has been
kept constantly under the careful eye OF
his groom. Kynaston's animal Is duly
looked after, and seems to be the favoritc
among Cairo people.
MIR. George Burnside, known to many
of our old residents, as a printe-rartist OF
great skill, and goodman generally, sends
out the announcement that he will, on the
9Oth of November next, in connection with
one Mr.. Campbell, commence the publica-
ton of the Fernandina, Fla, Mirror. The
firm is well supplied with new material,
will drive their machinery by steam, and
will, at least in typographical sense, give
the people of Fernandina, the best paper
ever published in Florida.
Thanksgiving morning found James
Dougherty, far down the thither side OF
life "a prisoner in the Cairo calaboose. He
had been drunk the night beforehand paid
out his last farthing for means Of rendering
himself beast, and in hiscondition of beast
illness was arrested. As he was "bad" only to
himself, Judge Bird imposed only the light
fine of two dollars, and gave him stay OF
execution that he might leave the city. He
availed himself of the privilege granted
and crossed over to Missouri.
Cairo business men should bear in
mind that the publication of the Cairo Semi
Weekly Market Report will be resumed
next Monday that it will be a carefully
prepared and reliable market report, print
ed on good paper from clear type, and will
be furnished at the low price of one and a
half cents per copy. In case of orders for
| fifty copies or more of each issue, the name
of the purchaser, the character Of his bust
ness and the location of his business house
will be printed on the head of the Report.
The Report will give the condition Of the
market up to the very hour of going to
press.
Capt. w. P. Wright's name will go be-
fore the President and Senate with such an
endorsement from his fellow-citizens as is
morally certain to command respectful at
tention His petition, asking for the pa
pers" that will authorize him to take con-
troll of the Cairo post-office, is signed by
the leading business men, officials and pro-
fessonsls of Cairo. We don't mention this
fact with the view Of prejudicing the
claims of other applicants, for we do not
know that any one of them would have
failed in obtaining a like endorsement,
had he made an equally early and In
dustrious an effort. We merely mention il
as fact of 'local import" and will add,
las a tub to the other whales" that there is
not one among them who would not make
| very efficient, affable and obliging, post.
master.
A white woman, named Mary E. Nun
grum, resident OF neighboring country
precinct, was the plaintiff in case before
Judge Bird, yesterday, wherein colored
man, named Leander Wright, was the de-
PENDANT. The woman swore that on the
10th day of March last, at certain house
where she was then living, the said Leandei
/
Wright, by force and violence, ravished her
sacred person. She was very positive as to
the time and place and all the details
Wright proved in answer, by credible wit.
nesses, that Mary did not take up quarters
in the house in question, until on or about
the Goth day of April, and that, as conse.
quence, the crime could not have been com.
mtted at the time and place designated. /,
came out in the trial, also, that Mary had
been willing victim to Leander's violence
and that she had been instigated to the
prosecution of Wright, by man whom
Wright had beaten in law suit. OF course
the defendant was discharged, and Mary
amid the outlaws of curious crowd, left
the court room, the angriest creature we
have seen in many day.
To the Reform movement in Cairo quite
a number Of young men owe their deliver
ance from the debasing habit of an over-in.
diligence in intoxicating drinks; but fol
the apparent prosperity of some of thes,