The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-23

self Although the Wonan bore no marks
OF consequence, the evidence 81 very will
ing witnesses made it appear t!&' she was
sadly abused woman, Cain confessed
that he had slapped her chops Tor heb
but insisted that the aglTavatlo1 was great
His amiabe spouse had Sworn, he said, by
all the gods at once, that she would chop
his head OFF the ilst time SIZE c"Ggh, hin
asleep, and for this and other threats, he
boxed her cars for her The testimony
was too strong against the husband, how
ever, and lie WAS fined five dollars and costs.
When the figures are aggregated and
footed up il will he found that the damage
wrought by the ice, in the destruction and
injury OF steamboats,, barges and t"teoa,s,
and their cargocs, will, in the Oh'o river
alone, approximate Two millions Of dollars
Evidence of the ruin wrough, within =
short distance of Cairo was seen ., short in
tervals, yesterday, in the sunken and dam
aged barges IND fatboats, that hurried 10y
the city in the floating ice. As many ar
ten or twelve vessel, of the character indi-
Gated, passed the city during The twenty
hours ending yesterday evening.
Joseph Kennedy is much given to his
cups, and nearly always takes two or three
drinks as soon as possible after discovering
that h. has too much. He was before Judge
Bird, yesterday, to answer 10 charge of
drunkenness. The day previous he took
on bigger cargo than he could carry. ana
then added :. full quart On top Of that. 4,
{ 4 result he was about the druGkest man
ever carted to the caiaboose He is not a
vicious or disorlcrly man, bat he gets so
terribly, 80 ineXcusablv drunk that the
Judge thought it best 10 give him term
of confinement of sufficient length to com
plctely sober him He was. therefore, sent
over for thirteen days. in lieu of the cas-,
payment Of Judgment against him for thir-
teen dollars.
A cripple, named Brown, WAS brought
into the police court, yesterday, 10 plead TO
a charge OF drunkenness. He had come
/ from Chicago. where the people were no.
sticklers for suhriety in the urdtg-clrrent
/ population. and urged. therefore, that his
offence was without the element nj inteD-
! ton. Being, as We have SAID. i cripple
and stranger, and his drunk being of the
moderate type, he was at the suggestion OF
the officer who arrested him, permitted, as
the lawyers are wont to say, TO go hence
without day" There is nothing IN the
words that warrants the meaning attached
to them, but they are construed 10 mean
that the prisoner was not punished under
the charge preferred agains. him. He
went acQuit.'
We point 10 the iull-sheet, colored
poster that gives notice of the bal
Masque' on Mardi Gras day, no, as the
most artistic work THE BULLETIN Job
Office can turn ont, but as very conclusive
proof tina; the Office can, under is present
management, supply all demands for pos
ter work in manner that cannot he excel
led by any Of the metropolitan offices. We
have the type, the presses, the ink, the
paper. and the men who know how to use
them to the best advantage. Hence it is
hazarling nothing in saying that We can
/ perform Job work Of any character, in rs
good style and as chcaply and as cNpcdi.
tiously as any other Office in the Northwest
or South. We have, therefore, a claim
upon public patronage that no one should
tail to recognize.