The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-06

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About 10 o'clock on the night Of the
4th. while freight train was on the Iron
Mountain incline, the link that held four
of the cars to the train, gave way, and the
four cars. thus detached rushed down the
incline. across the transfer steamer Morgan,
ard striking the strong bumper, tore it
away and came to halt The damage IN
hlcted was not serious, as all the cars re-
NAMED in place on the boat.
One McKingsly was brought before
Squire Comings, yesterday, to answer
| charge OF drunkenness. 1t proved TO be
very modest drupk--a patriotic excess,
| partially provoked by the noise of eApIos'
ives and the display of bunting on the 4th
- and hence the light fine of only one
dollar and the customary incidentals, The
payment of the penalty being secured Mr..
McKingsly returned to the pursuit Of his
| usual avocation.
About o'clock Friday night, while
Sid Taylor, of Kentucky, was sitting in
front of Leyee business house, two clever
strangers beguiled him into walk up the
Levee. The clever men proved to be
thieves, for they had not proceeded far un-
til they were in possession OF Taylor's
money-somcthing over hundred dollars,
and his watch and chain, worth probably
S75 more. II is quite likely that Sid had
been flooding his lower level
Several ladies and gentlemen from
Cairo were in attendance at the picnic and
dance given by DR.. Wardner to the in
mates Of the asylum, on the 4th. One of
the rules was that no one should decline
any lunatics invitation to dance. One Of
our Cairo misses was in decided request
among the poor fellows, but she bravely re
sponded. The affair passed off very pleas
antly, it is said, the inmates demeaning
themselves in an unexceptionable manner
throughout
That sarcastic man Of the Sun, who
witheringly denominates US mister Har-
rell, )" reproduces Chicago Tribune tele-
gram to prove beyond cavil that Mr.. Oberly
HAS connected himself with the Springfield
Register. While such an arrangement may
be one of the consummations of the early
| future the Register of the 4th denies that
it has already been consummated-closing
with the remark that "whatever may be the
changes OF the future, the Register will
always be found with money enough to
pay its debts; brains enough to conceive
the truth and courage enough to express
it."
In the Eckert crowd, on the 4th, was
q congressman, who probably avaled HIM
self Of excursion rates to reach home.
Having partaken somewhat Of the liquid
| excitant so accessible in Cairo, he tell
asleep before the boat had been under way
| half hour. It was now thought that he
was disposed of for the balance Of the trip;
but subsequent developments enforced a
different conclusion. Waking from his
slumber he hurried to Phil Saup's provis-
ion stand, and Selling the coffee pot COM
menced emptying its contents into the
river, and would have s9nt the boiler after the
contents, had he not been prevented,
Fooled in this, however he seized the hot
furnace upon which the coffee had been
heated, and tried to tumble that into the
river His purpose being again foiled, he
desisted from further acts of fooishness.
The fellow was not angered, nor was he
noisy He declared that he was awakened
by voice commanding him to $50 at once
and tumble them coffee traps overheard.
He had tried to obey the voice, and if he'd
damaged anything, he'd pay tor it." Ex-
hibitng a spirit Of this kind, the matter
was amicably adjusted, and during the
balance OF the trip the fellow was on his
good behavior
"A Mr.. Geo. A. Shaw III furnishing the
New Haven, Connecticut Register budget
of railroad "reminiscences, draws quite
heavily, we are disposed to think, on his
imagination. He says among other things,
"when we were building the Illinois Cen
trail road between Caro- and Jonesboro, We
had one hundred and fifty men, The
Egyptians refused to sell us anything on
any terms. We got out Of provisions. The
cholera struck U.s. and we would have
starved if we hadn't raided the country and
got LOT of bacon. We told them they could
get their pay, or not, just as
they pleased about It," If Mr. Shaw's men
raided the country, it was because they
chose to adopt that method for gathering
edibles. The people Of the country had
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