The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-30
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passengers. For several weeks to COM the
trains and steamboats, going Sout or
making southern connections, will bewell
!. filled with returning refugees. Marty
forty thousand are to find their WY to
: Memphis and vicinity, and large numbers
of the better-to-do classes to all pats of
Dixie.
The Ouachita Belle, received from
Paducah, Smithland and the ncighboring
country, quite number of returning refu
gees. Not few of them were driven to
desperate straights to obtain money enough
to pay their return passages. Thousands
return to their homes utterly bankrupted in
purse; and not few OF them are burdcned
by debts that the labor of year Will scarce
ly enable them to cancel. :.
Sophia Reed was arrested on vlew for
drunkenness yesterday, and taken before
Squire Comings for trial. In the absence
of the City Attorney the eminent criminal
lawyer Justus r. Cunningham prosecuted.
The Squire holding that the offence was
committed within the jurisdiction of the
court was fatal omission, and the prisoner
was discharged. Charles O'Conner Or" any
other man. might be guilty Of identically
the same oversight.
We have been requested to state, as a
fact upon which the public can rely, that
the Reform club will be addressed, to-mor-
row night, by Mr.. Wallace, of Du Quoin,
and John Lincgar, Esq, of Mound City.
With Mr.. Wallace we are not acquainted;
but we know Linegar and have the assur-
ance that while his physical development
was going on his mental organism was not
at stand still In other words, We are
told that John has developed into a first
class orator Turn out and give the gentle
men good hearing.
The ferryboat Three States ran up to
a good mooring at the foot of Twelfth
street, yesterday afternoon, TIED herself to
the shore and permitted her fires to 90 out
1t is the purpose of the ferry company, we
understand, to take her to Mound City and
subject her to thorough overhauling-in-
GLIDING a caulking, a new wheel and new
coat OF paint. Meanwhile or for the time
being, at least, the tug Laurel with fiat,
will do terry duty-not quite as eXpedi-
tiously as the Three States, perhaps but
stiliin manner that will conveniently an
swer all the needs of the trade.
Tom Winter who has been sojournine
in ST. Lohis since the middle Of July last,
returned home yesterday evening, beaming
in the robustness of his health, and as
genial and light hearted as ever, He has
accepted employment, he tells us, from the
Rhora, Christian Manufacturing Company,
and will canvass the South in an effort to
introduce the Charm baking powder, in the
manufacture of which his employers are
engaged He will start ont to-day; but as
he will make Cairo his headquarters, he
will be with us, at short intervals, right
straight along,
Elder Shores was tried before Squire
Comings, yesterday on the charge that he
he had inclted colored boys attending his
school to an attack upon white boy. 1t
was shown, however that lot Of mules
had collected about the shade trees in front
of or near the Elders school room, and
that he, experimenting the animals
would bark the trees, sent out the boys to
drive EN- oh-the mules off. The boys
performed this service, and included
small white boy in the drive, resorting, it is
said to harsh and rude measures. The
Elder relieving himself Of all responsible.
ity in that behalf, was, Of course, dis
charged.
The stout whiskercd individual who
called upon Jennie Colwell, near the Dickcy
farm, and claimed the skif and trunk and
the other articles the skif contained, prom
sed Jennie on the surrender of the property
to him, that he would compensate her for
, her trouble by leaving at The BULLETIN
Office for her special use and behoof a pair
Of shoes that had never been worn but once
and that were absolutely as good as new.
, The stout whiskcrcd individual proved
| himself II conspicuous failure as a eaver of
{ good shoes at printing Offices, and Jennie
, having realized the fact by calling for the
I shoes, she is, perhaps, the unhoppicst tc-
{ male in Alexander county,
l. Jim Biggs, who is dubbed Col. Biggs
by his Kentucky acquaintance, is making
o an effort to direct the travel Texasward over
j. the Iron Mountain and Southern railroad
c Len FaAon speaks Of the effort as follows:
n "Col. jim Diggs, passenger agent of the