The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-01

Steve Brady was not fined for handing
the refugee negro jolt in the mouth, for
the reason that it was proven that the refu-
gee was the aggressor.
We have files of THE DAILY BULLETIN,
commencing May 1st, 1878, and ending
April 3Oth, 1879, which we will sell, bind
ing and all, complete, for $500.
We see Prof. Ed, Wittig on our streets
again. Ed has been eminently successful
as brass band teacher, and devotes great
deal of his time to that line of duty.
We are under obligations to Hon. W.
II, Barnum, Representative from New Jer-
sey, for copy the Potter committees re-
port concerning the great fraud of lS76,and
for other favors.
A white man, reeling drunk, in charge of
his distressed wife who was trying to pilot
him home, was spectacle presented on
Poplar street, near Tenth, yesterday even
ing.
A counterfeit twenty dollar note Of
the new legal tender issue, has just been
discovered at the L. S. Sub-Treasury, at
New Orleans, after passing through one of
the banks of that city.
Mr. W. F. Russell having converted
the old Hibernian engine house into very
comfortable residence property, is now
erecting another dwelling house alongside
Of it. He is persevcring builder.
Rosa, infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Schick died
about 10 o'clock Tuesday evening, of one
of the ailments peculiar to infants. The
remains were conveyed to Villa Ridge,
Yesterday morning by hack, and inferred
there in the Cairo cemetery.
The man who pays out his last quarter
in the purchase of a pocket book is quite as
| iudcious an investor as is the man who
never gets five dollars ahead, yet pays out
two or three dollars to learn how to detect
counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills.
One of County Treasurer Aldens chill.
dren (his son Roy was taken down yester.
day morning with the measels. As it is
not known that there is another case in
that part of the city, it is difficult to deter.
mine how or where the child contracted
them.
We hear it stated that there is family
consisting of husband,w wife and several chill
dren, living in the vicinity of Fifth and
Walnut, that is, and has been, for some
time, suffering for want of the commonest
necessities. II would be we'll tor our char.
itably inclined to investigate the matter.
The gossips of the town--the street
corner takers and spectators as to future
events, fix up new man for the Marshal's
office, every morning. 1t having gone
abroad that Capt Williams would not ex-
ccpt the position if rendered, it was gener-
ally agreed, yesterday, that Mr. John Nc
Even was the man. He is certainly gen
tleman to whom there can be no valid OBJ
| lection.
John Tanner recovered the body of his
little boy, drowned last week, yesterday, at
the point below Cairo. The body was
brought to Cairo and will be taken at
o'clock this afternoon from St. Patrick's
Catholic Church to Villa Ridge by spec
ial funeral train, for burial. Friends and
acquaintance of the family are invited to
meet at thechurch at O'Clock and attend
the funeral.
Ella Cherry, light colored girl ap,
piled obnoxious names and exasperating
epithets to one Hattie Fuller, colored, and
Squire Robinson fined her therefor the sum
of$5 and trimmings. And Ella having her
grievance sued Hatty before Squire Com
ings. Hattie had taken her by the throat,
smacked her with meat saw and threat
ened to saw her head off. And so IIatty,
too, was fined s. land the trimmings"
-Eunice Key complained to Squire
Robinson, yesterday, that one Charles Hun
, ton (both colored) had lodged with her for
months. He had now come back to town,
his wife had married another man, and he,
himself, had taken up with loose Niger
wench whom she spised as she did pizen
Wherefore she desired that Squire Robin
son would take that hateful Hunton and
smack him in jail and keep him thar until
she got her satisfaction. When appraised
that the law invested magistrate with nj
such power, it is difficult to tell whether sh,
felt more contempt for the law or the mag
istrate.
"A young gentleman named Steward
furnished the pair of boots, and q small
boot black and u large one, both coloret
boys took Il boot each, made their bets
il and set in to see which one of them woul
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