The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-28

upset paradox and obtain sense from non
sense.
The ringing of the fire bells last night,
about o'clock, was because of the out
break of the flames in the debris of the Bal
frey building. The fire companies turned
out, and the Rough and Readico, being equal
to the task, put the fire out without assis-
lance
Owing to the insutiiciency of the notice
and other causes, there was no meeting OF
the Taxpayers association last night. The
Committee Of Ten are ready to report, and
with the view of receiving and considering
the report, meeting is called for Monday
night.
We are sorry to hear that Mr..
Mcknight, of the tug Ariadne, met with an
accident night before last, that will unfit
him for duty for couple of weeks or more,
BY some means his foot was caught in the
tugs machinery and was badly crushed,
two of his toes being completely destroyed
In these times there is no surer or quick
er method Of making money than to invest
few hundred dollars in stock speculation
Alex. Gorthlngham & Co. brokers, II Wall
Street, Now York, are reliable and expert
enccd brokers and have been the meuns Of re
alizing lprge amounts fer maLy of their CTS
toners, Their Weekly Financial Report is
sent free.
Charles Seaman, the individual who
burglarized Farnbakers clothing store, was
tried before Bird, yesterday, and sent to
Jail, in default of 5000 bail. Taking whisky
in, the night before, he let his wits out and
the police being around, nabbed him. A
portion of the stolen goods were on his per-
son, and the proof of his guilt otherwise, is
conclusive.
Col. L, 3. Watkins was in Cairo yes
tcrday, and being reader OF THE BULLE-
TIN his eye had caught the intimation we
repeated as coming from the johnson
County Journal, that the Colonel is Re
publican The only reply he ventured,
was this: Repeating anything that ap-
pears in the Journal may be tolerated in
Cairo; but men who do it in johnson
county are heavily fined and sometimes I'M
pri,oncd.'
Horace Harmon came into rhe city,
Thursday evening, with the debris Of his
delivery wagon piled up on the sleigh upon
which he was riding. The animal attach.
to the wagon had runaway and smashed
things to "smtheens' Horace beng an
ingenious man, may get the pieces together
again. so as to give the result Of his effort
the seeming Of a wagon; but it would be
quite hopeless case in the hands of any
body else The wreck was not dissimilar
in appearance to a badly demoralized brush
heap
Chief AFTER gets more elephants on his
hands than craze in the parks of the Afghan
Amer. He had scarcely disposed OF his
"Old Columbus" before Hannibal step
ped into headquarters and insisted upon be-
ing cared for. Most of his elephants are of
the sick, tramping kind. He isn't able to
supply them with food, fires and medicines
he hasn't the heart to kick em out, and they
won't 90 without kicking. He desires to
be informed, therefore, how, without outrag.
ing his humanity, he can rid himself Of his
elephants.
The packing operations Of Messrs.
Hinkle, Thistlewood and Moore were arrest.
ed several days ago by the cold weather. In
few hours the carcasses of the slaughter
ed hogs froze as hard as rock, rendering the
cutting up and trimming processes 50 la
borious that Il suspension Of that work was
enforced. The price at which pork is sell
ing would furnish but an indifferent profit
above the cost Of cutting and curing-a half
dozen frozen hogs being about all that one
man could dispose of, The appearance of
the weather yesterday evening, however, in
! dicated an early resumption.
Upon the authority Of a gentleman who
was present at the exhumation OF our yell
low fever dead, we stated a few days ago,
that some of the bodies were unrecogniz-
able because of the inroads of rats Another
gentleman, who also claims to have been
present, informed US yesterday, that the
natural process Of decay had been mistaken
for the work of the voracous rodent This
last gentleman says that he made careful
inspection and that there were not only no
holes in the collins through which rats
could have effected IN entrances but that
there was no bumowing in the earth that
filled the graves, to indicate the presence OF
such pests. One or two of the bodies had
dccaycd with unexpected rapidity; but the
greater number were in rs tar condition
rs could have been reasonably looked for
after the lapse Of three months, during at