The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-19

from Tur BULLETIN Bindcry, YESTERDAY |
to fine address of the Librarian, twenty-sevcn
LARGE and heavily bound volumes of Har
pcr Scribncr New Dominion, Popular
Science and the Atlantic neutrality-suspicious.
tions deserving place IN any library in the
land. and such as serve us an indication that
the gcttcrs-up of the Villa Ridge library
know how to cater to cultivated tastes,
The approaching aldermanic contest
in the Fourth Ward is exciting attention IN
all parts OF the city 1t possesses an i'm.
portanccin this, thatitwill determine wheth-
er, in the decision of number Of questions,
the Mayo shall hold the balance of power
! We have heard the names OF several gen
tlcmcn spoken Of as probable candidates
among Others those of Mr.. SAINT Wilson,
Mr.. Samuel Walters, Mr., Adolph Swoboda,
Mr., L. S, Marshall, James Kynoston, D. j.
Galligan, Samuel +. Wilson. 1t is highly
probable that the majority of these name,
have been used without authority,
The bills of fare of the Occidental IIo
tel, in indianapolis, over which our friend
and late fellow.citizcn, +. r. Egncw pre-
sides, speak Of such an abundance of good
things, that we unconsciously work our
jaws in the ccstacy of the expectation that,
some Of these days, "thcm vittcs' will be
placed within our reach, Salmon, Ia
Maitrc d'Hotcl;" "Calvcs brains, brown,
butter sauce, tim, MIR Egnew, if
you have any care for our peace Of mind,
don't send any more of such distractng
missives. To tantali2c man that way,
at distance of four hundred miles is
mean,
Some time ago tornado swept
through the bottoms and hills OF Alexander
county, prostrating trees, stripping other
trees of their limbs and casting the whole
into heaps and tanglcs that defed the pas
sage Of teams or even animals French
Jones visited Cairo shortly after the storm
and recounting the experience he then had
l he declared that at intervals of half mile
: or 50 he found the road INSTRUCTED with the
G bodies and limbs of trees, SO bound and
l. tangled up and twisted together that even
t a mule could not force u passage, "and con
, sequently," added French with great com
f posture of countenance--"a consequently
| had to go roundn
Old Aunt Mary Smith, to whose phys
! ica sutlcnngs we have heretofore made ref
I, ercncc, died at her home, on Twcnty-eightl
\ street, on Thursday morning. She was ,
y colorcd woman, probably forty-fye year,
of age, exceedingly neat in her person and
habits, Her physical suderngs, protracted
through an interval OF four or five months
were certainly all that haman nature could
endure; and her friends, remembering her
; continued agony; how, day after day and
night after night her shrieks and screams
were silcnced only when she was overcome
by actual physical exhaustion, are Glad that
death finally came to the poor creatures re-
lief The family being wholly destitute of
means, the aid Of friends and acquaintance
was solicited to give the body burial
When running at good rate Of speed
near Ulin, yesterday afternoon, the down
passenger train Of the Illinois Central rail.
road struck man who appears to have
been sitting on the end of tie, and
knocked him distance of tittceno or twenty
feet. The train was instantly stopped, and
the man picked up, placed on the cars and
brought to Cairo. He was very seriously
hurt; but whether fatally so or not could
not at once predetermined. The poor fc-
low was placed in a wagon and conveyed
to the hospital, where he received the at.
tention of Dr. Parker, who is, we believe,
the roads local physician. The wounded
man is German, stranger in the coun-
try, and believed 70 be timer
> The ladies OF Cairo, and especially
those connected with the Social Science AS.
soclation and the Library and Women
club, with whom she was intimately asso.
ciatcd during her residence in Cairo, will
share in the pride that Madame Charlton
Edholm must feel over the compliment
: paid to her in the following notice, which
u we clip from the Omaha Ncws--thc Mad
J, ames husband having been thoughtful
enough to supply us with the copy of the
1 paper containing it, The News says
5 MADAME Charlton Edholm OF this city
$ who is recognized as one Of me Leading
$ journalists Of the country, has an abb,
article in the March number o.
C the National Prohibitonst in which sh,
u points out what she considers the true lint
:, Of duty for the Legislative bodies through
u out the country to follow. The Prohibition
g list says of her contributions "The fact,