The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-24


and the IIibernians feel justly proud of it.
- The cottage on Twenty first street, sold
by Tom Winter on Thursday, was pur-
chased by Mr.. Pat. q Laughlin. The price
paid was three hundred and ninety dollars.
Peter Duffy, for being intoxicated was
arrested by Officer Cain yesterday afternoon,
and was sent to Jail by Judge Bird, in de-
fault of payment of his fine, three dollars
and costs
The Mississippi Valley Transportation
company's towboat Port Eads arrived yes.
tcrday. She went to the Kentucky bank
opposite the wharf.boats and tied up. She
has no sickness of any kind on board.
Judge David J. Baker yesterday re-
signed his position as judge Of the First Ju-
dicial circuit, to accept the position con-
ferred upon him by Gov, Culom, to fill the
vacancy on the supreme court bench occa-
stoned by the death of the late Sidney
Breese.
The board of health met at their office
in Winters block yesterday and, after Il
private session of half an hour, adopted a
resolution requesting and empowering the
mayor to enforce all Of the resolutions
adopted by the board in regard to Quaran-
antine regulations.
The steamer John A. Scudder, from
st. Louis, came down the Mississippi yes
terday and went to the Kentucky shore, OPP
posite the point, without asking permission
to land at this wharf She is freghtcd to
the waters edge with stuff for Memphis
and New Orleans.
Two river men well known in these
parts, both Of whom are usually very quiet
and affable gentlemen, INDUCED in quar-
rel at the corner Of Sixth street and Ohio
levee yesterday morning, which terminated
in one of the contestants being very effect
ually "sat down on
We understand that the suggestion OF
several Of our musical people, to give an
entertainment for the benefit of the New
Orleans, Memphis and Grenada sufferers,
is being considered by some ofour bencvo-
lently inclined ladies and gentlemen, and
that such an affair will probably occur.
There was a good attendance at the
sociablc and festival given by the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, at
the Temperance Reform club rooms last
evening. The occasion was one of unusual
enjoyment. We presume the receipts of
the affair will prove very satisfactory to
those who had it in hand.
Officers Axlcy and Wilson on Thursday
night arrested and locked upa negro named
Al Buster, who is suspected of being one
of the parties who 5urglarized the house of
AID. O'Calahan on Tuesday night. Off
GERS Shcehan and Hogan also arrested a
negro yesterday, whom they charge with
being an accomplice in the burglary.
The steamer Whisper from Cincinnati,
which has been lying at Halliday &
Philips wharf boat for the past two days
receiving, is loaded TO the waters edge,
and will leave this port for Natchcz early
this morning. Her master, Captain Leo
Grain, will not 90 into New Orleans with
the boat until the yellow fever has died out
there.
By postal card received in this city
from Mound City yesterdaywe learn that the
steamer Vint Shinkle, which boat passed
this port on Thursday morning last crowded
with Memphis people, frightened away from
their homes by yellow fever, landed at that
place and put ashore eight or ten people, all
of whom obtained convcyanccs and returned
to Cairo in the afternoon.
The United States engineer corps under
Gen. Simpson has resumed work on the
bank of the Mississippi river, just back of
this city. The work did by Gen. Simpson
year ago has proven all that can be wished,
He will now continue his labors until the
the entire amount appropriated by congress
fol this purpose, forty thousand dollars, has
been expended. Already three large barges
of rock have been deposited on the lcvec,
and the government boats have gone back
after other barges.
A ripple of excitement was raised in
this city yesterday morning over the report
that man, who recently arrived in Cairo,
had been stricken down with the yellow
fever at his boarding house on Poplar street,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
DR.. Waldo, who is the attending physician,
was called on by IA BULLETIN reporter to
ascertain the particulars of the case, and
was assured by the doctor that the sickness
of the man is nothing more nor less than
bilious fever. Cairo is entirely free from
the Southern scourgc.
The corral was the scene of viciou,
and bloody wrangle on Thursday, evening
A half dozen of the colorcd sisters whc
make their homes there were the parties tC
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