The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-26

:. press, the fire bells rang out loud and per
sistcnt alarm, locating the fire in the FIT
: ward, AS quite everybody was in his frs
:, sound nap, the response to the call wa
3. slow. The fire was in two.story franz
= building on Commercial near Twenty
eighth, and was, therefore, too far advance
when the engines arrived, to be brough
into subsection. 1t destroyed the building
:, in which it originated and small frame
Y adjoining subiecting the owner, Mr.. Jacol
r Morelock, to loss of five or six hundred
!. dollars. As the fire was first discovered in
the hall, it was clearly the work of an in
cendiary. Mr.. Morelock's insurance
amounted to only $500.
We mentioned, the other day the lind.
ing ola skiff in the river near the Dickey
farm The skifi contained trunk and va.
rlous cooking utensils, and we coniectured
that the owner had tumbled overheard and
drowned, or had been disposed of otherwise.
The conjecturcs were not well grounded,
Tor yesterday afternoon healthy, whiskered
individual called at the Office to obtain fur
thcr information, etc. In descending the
river he had stopped at Commerce, about
o'clock on Sunday night last, and returning
to the landing place about 10 o'clock. found
his skif gone. As it was fastened in a
manner that precludcd the idea that il
could have broken loose, he feels confident
that it was stolen. A portion Of the con
tents Of the trunk was very valuable. to the
owner.
There is not a man in Cairo whom the
public suspect of good common sense. who
Is not ready to agree that wagon .ua. ,Aa,
will keep Cairo in constant communication
with all parts of Alexander and Pulaski
counties. is Z thing that is much TO bc de-
sired Everybody agrees that such road
Is one Of Cairo's present needs, Why, then
docs anybody oppose the construction OF
the road: The distant reader will scarcely
believe it possible but it is true, neyerthc-
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mcnt might be utilized and form part Of
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