The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-17

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Throckmorton has supplied the hunks of
the city jail with new mattresses, made
strong and compact, for the roughusagc they
are likely to be subjected to. The insiltu-
ton had been innocent Of any prctcncc Of a
mattress for many weeks.
Two steamboat hands engaged in
terrific rough and rumble, at the corner OF
Eighth, and levee yesterday forenoon, and
being adrolt hiders both of them escaped
arrest. One OF them caught the other by
the shoulders and making cataput Of his
head, fairly smashed his antagonists whole
facial arrangement.
The slop barrels, planted here and
there about the city, serve as a great con
yenience to the hogs The Stops are thus
brought together, and the hogs don't have
to hunt around after them. About every
third slop barrel is lying on its side with
the frisky tail of hog protruding show
ING that il is all right-with the hog.
The latest news from Memphis was
that brought by yesterday evenings pa
pers. During the "a hours ending o'clock
Yesterday morning, only nine new cases
were reported, SIX Of which were colored,
There were six intern ,nts This is a great
falling off Of new cases, but it is scarcely
safe to augur favorably from it.
We publish Mr.. Wrights communi-
cation because if the facts are rs he states
them, they should notbe withheld from the
public. If they are not as he declares them
to exist. he is responsible gentleman who
will not hesitate to correct any error or
misrepresentation into which he may have
| fallen or been led,
Three colored men entered Sam Myers
clothing store, Friday night, and while two
of them we're telling the shop boy cugag'
ing stories in the back part Of the store the
other succeeded in stealing several siik
handkerchefs Yesterday one otthc gang
was seen on the levee trying to effect sale
Of his share of the "swag," which was
worth about sixty.fve cents.
Strange loafers seem to be multiplying
more rapidly than is consistent with con
tinued good order. Unless they are thin
ned ont, soon. we shall not be surprised tc
hear of numerous burclaries, before the
end of another week. There are at least {
half hundred rough-hewed fellows, loafng
about our levee and elsewhere, who carry
countenances to which money drawers will
open, almos. unhidden,
Col. Lowery's route Of trave! through
Southern Illinois can now he followed by
the guide posts he has established in the
way of Reform clubs. His latest efforts
were expended in Belknap, where he or
gained club of ia members and in
Burnside, where he organized another club
104 strong, As both villages are small
the shaking up" evidently involved nearly
the entire population
If anybody cares to hear unstudied
profanity-thc kind that neither nature nor
education has softened or refined let him
attend the landing of the ferry boat, and
wait until the teams, loaded with wheat,
attempt to make the passage up the levec,
over the loose boulders and broken rock.
Asingle UNI generated drive vi Civ ut er,
ance, on such an occasion, to a greater vol.
ume of the article than any one would sup.
pose that any body had stored away for the
uses OF whole life time.
Mr. George Lower, who recently re-
turned from the Hot Springs, says the yell
low fever panic has completely prostrated
business in that locality. As no fever has
appeared in any part Of the State Of Ark,
ansas and as refugees from smitten local..
tics are seeking places Of refuge every
where, one would suppose the prevailing
panic would have directly the opposite cf.
feet on the springs and all other health re,
| sorts.
The council of sanitarians. here Friday,
resolved, among other things, to make
Caro- permanent supply depot; and to
provide, for present and future needs, a
larger and better boat than the Vansant
which is really unfit for the service in.
tended The No. station will be main.
tanned every year, from May until frost
whether there is any epidemic sickness IN
the country or not The next meeting of
the board will be held in Washington, dur.
Ing the present week
The Johnson County Journal, Of Fri.
day, says: at is rumored that suit is
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