The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-14

If the Sun man thinks Judge Aliens
glory has departed, why don't he call his
candidate out of the shade and coax him t.
challenge Allen, as he promised
Tomorrow we shall publish an advcr
tisement of the Widows and Orphans
Mutual Aid Society, with list Of the new
officials and managers of that iourishing
institution.
Little Hattie Wheeler, daughter of Mr.
S, p. Wheeler Of this city, is lying at the
point of death, at Green Lake Wisconsin
where she went with her parents to spend
the summer.
Lee Grant, a young colored man, was
arrested by Officer John Shechan, yesterday,
for using offensive language to Richard
Robinson, at the barbecue Saturday night
He was fined ten dollars and costs.
A sneak thief went into the residence
of Mr.. w. c. Hughes, corner of Twenty
Eighth street and Washington avenue,about
ten o'clock yesterday morning, and stole a
coat vest, and lot of ammunition.
Officer Sheehan had Jim Woods, the
notorious negro, before Justice Robinson,
charged with numerically beating his wife,
or the woman that ought to be his wife, on
Monday. Woods was fined five dollars and
costs, and was sent to Jail for eight days in
default of payment.
-Paducah has no quarantine, and does
not intend TO establish on. Should the
yellow fever break out in Paducah Cairo
will be under the necessity of quarantining
both ways. We have no apprehcnsions as
regards the health OF Paducah, but there is
danger other being injected by the careless
ness of southern steamboats,.
The young woman, Amanda Sparks,
who made application some three weeks
ago to the officials Of this county for adj
mission to the poor farm. being afflicted
with fits, through the efforts of Mrs. DR..
Warlner, has been admitted TO the indus
trial school of Indiana, OF which state she
was resident.
The Excelsior Social Club and Literary
Societymet at the residence of Mr. and Mrs
5. D. Ayers last evening, to install the
officers elected at a previous meeting. held
at the st. Charles Hotel, The officers in
stalled are Mr.. 4. 5. Robinson, president;
Miss Anna Pitcher, vice-prcsident; Mr.. Chas.
Baker. secretary; Miss Emma Riley, assist
ant secretary.
A young German, named August
mke,while at work at the Narrow Gauge
depot unloading telegraph poles from car,
was badly bruised, a day or two ago. bv
one Of the poles falling on his left leg. He
had no place TO go and was taken to the
courthouse, where County Clerk Sam
Humm has been doing what he could for
him. County Physician Wood yesterday
concluded TO help the sufferer. lie is about
twenty years old.
"A meeting was held last evening at
the Temperance club looms for the purpose
Of organizing a militia company in Cairo.
There were about INVENTIVE persons present.
a committee Of four to select and solic,r
recruits was appointed, consisting Of DR..
Jocelyn, L. a. Burnett Phil. Barclay. Jr.
and Charley Saup. As soon as the requisite
number Of names has been secured, another
meeting will be held, for the purpose
Of completing the organization.
Dispatches received in this city from
Grenada last evening, give a terrible state
Of affairs in that city. The disease is in.
creasing at the rate Of twenty cases per day.
The number Of deaths on Monday and yes
terday were twenty-five. Grenada is
place of abont two thousand inhabitants
and men, women and children are
leaving the city on foot, and making their
way to surrounding towns to escape the
disease. All trains on the Chicago, ST
Louis and New Orleans road have been
ordered TO run through the town without !
stopping. The stricken city Is asking aid
from other c'tics. Grenada is about two
hundred and four miles from Cairo.
Hon. Oscar Turner, Of Ballard county,
Kentucky, is again pushing his claims for
congress as an Independent Democrat. He
refused to submit to the action Of the COM
mittec which called convention to meet |
at Paducah on the fourth of September, to
Il candidate for the position he |
seeks. Mr. Turner iavors a primary cleo
ton as the best method Of ascertaining the |
sense Of the Democracy of the district, but
his proposition was voted down by the
lie is now out in circular
his Independent candidacy, and |
as he is popular man among the people of
his district, he promises to make the con.
test a very lively one.
The towboat Grand Lake, with q tow
Of three model barges and a fuel barge, ar.