The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-24

| paper makes record Of the same incident
City MARSHAL After is improving very
slowly, lie was attacked yesterday with Il
slight hcmorrhagc of the lungs.
Three or four females Of Rev. Mr.
Mx's flock were abroad, yesterday, solicit.
ing contributions for the festival to be
given in his church, tomorrow evening
a new dress pattern to the most successful
solicitor, was the prize for which the
aforesaid females were conlcnding.
-"lie called for his boots. and wanted to
take them away without paying for them.
! held on to them, and he pulled me out in
the hall and shot me-" Such is the story
ola Memphis shoemaker, who begins to
think that of all the places in creation for a
shoemaker, Memphis is the d--cst
A stranger in the city, named John
Boyle, was brought before Judge Bird, yes
terday evening charged with an attempt 10
engage companion in bout at fisticutis.
The affair happened under the eye of Off
Ger Hogan, who promptly arrested him.
Boyle entered very emphatic denial, de.
clared that the officer had pulled the
wrong man, and that he was innocent OF
offence as an unborn babe. Being consid-
cred an interested party, his denial was
given but little weight, and he went to Jail
TOR seven days in default of payment of a
fine of five dollars and costs of the trial.
A local notice published elsewhere,
gives the details of the Reform Club ball, to
be held next Tuesday evening. The gentle
men having the arrangement of prelimin-
aries in hand assure lis that it is their
purpose TO render the affair an occasion that
everybody old and young, can visit with
pleasure and profit. The price of admission
is fixed at 81 90, and upon that dollar ticket
the holder can take whole regiment of
females, if he can persuade that many to
accompany him. But 30, There will be
no lack Of ladies, or gentlemen. or anything
else that can add to the success and enjoy
ment Of the occasion.
Few cities in the west are supplied
with more wide-awakc or enterprising
butchers than Cairo, and among Cairo
butchers We have none that have more get
up and go-ahead IN their composition than
Fred. Koehlcr& Brother. These gentlemen
have been in the business great many
Years. Men who are now voters, fed upon
koehler> choice cuts, when BOYS. and every
one OF them has good teeth, good appe-
lite, and vigorous constitution. At this
time Mcssrs koehler Il Brother are dcyOt-
ing their especial attention to the steam
boat trade, and Of their ability to supply
any and every demand for fresh meats
from that quarter, no one who has visited
their lcvee establishment can entertain any
doubt. They kill the finest cattle they can
buy; and in order to secure the best they
don't "higgle" about a half cent or a
whole cent on the pound; but buy, and
take the chances.
About noon, yesterday, we cspied an
individual dressed in the garb of labor
ing man, sitting on the inner edge of the
sidewalk. between 10th and 18th streets,
sound asleep. Although it was fully seven
teen feet to the ground below, there he sat
nodding, snatching himself back to cen
trail equipoise when it seemed certain that
he could not recover himself, but would
pitch hcad-lOng to the ground, and des-
truction. Charitably inclined to save the
county the expense Of coroncr's inquest,
we aroused the noddng chap, and got
soundly abused for our humanity "IIe
would thank me-" he said, ito attend 70 my
own business. He knew what he was about
he was no galoot-he was breaking no
laws, he hoped, and asked no odds of no.
body We left him, with the barest sus-
picion Of a hope in our breast that he
he would tBkc the tumble from which we
had striven to rescue him.
The body of the little negro girl, of
whose horrible death we gave an account in
Yesterdays paper, was taken to the seven
mile graveyard for burial, about two o'clock
yesterday afternoon The mother of the
child declares that there was no fire in the
house when she left it. but this statement
is not borne out by the facts. When the
doors were bursted open, there was full,
roaring fire in the stove that could not have
been kindled by the child All her conjec-
lures that the building was set on fire. are
the mcrest nonsense, as the building was
not even scorched outside of the room
where the little girl persisted. For the
space Of fifteen minutes or more, the cries
Of the little sufferer were heard by several
children playing on the ground not twenty
five feet away; but as outcrics from coored
children can be heard at any time in any
part of the city, the agonizing calls of the
little creature fell upon dull ears, and
passed UNDECIDED.