The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-16

IKE quaHtliy Vi carefully uiScs'V", ''No''
: and captivating editerial
---Chiof.Police LaI1ue was called t
vincennes, Indiana, on business, Tuesda.
morning, and will return the latter part 0
the week. Health officer Wooten, is rem
dering active service on the police force
we understand, during the chiefs absence
Capt. Tom Shields, the atmospheric
agitator of the Anchor Line, G. Parsons
Miller and family and other prominent cit
liens of Cairo, left on the Fisk, yesterday
evening, for the Paducah fair. G. Parsons
family will sojourn there several days
We give place again this morning 10 the
advertisement of the Great Shows, aggre
gated into one stupendous concern, that is
| to spread canvass in Cairo next Saturday
Big thing, and only quarter.
We have masked battery that opens
on every Republican who comes within
ear shot of the BULLETIN office, and COM
mences to talk about the Ohio election.
Until "this fitful fever" subsidies, Repub-
| lean customers will be waited upon by
one of our deaf-mute employees.
Where is Bill Devlin' Is he in
troubled Has he spit himself to death,
or Joined minstrel show A harum-
scarum, boy, is Bill; but there are many
left here yet, who would be pleased to hear
that he is all right-and a few who want to
hear from him, in any event.
Cunningham, the Charles O'Conner OF
the Pulaski county bar, informed us yes
terday, that his forensic triumphs" have
been numerous of late. He finds, too, that
the next thing to knowing all about the
law, is to have people think you know it
SITS all the same" as Charley Baker
used to say.
Heads of families should 60 or send tC
either of Barclay Bros. stores aud get q tria'
bottle free of Coallne, the new Lightning
cleaner for paint, grease spots and the battle
Equally good>in the wash house, the kitchen
or for the toilet. The greatest of new dis
coveries. Try it and see for yourself wha
it will do. Trial bottlesfree to every family
We have the authority of three gen
tlemen for saying that the 5 to ~ clul
will meet in the st. Charles hotel to-mor
row friday evening, at the hour of
o'clock precisely. The first dance under
the auspices of this club will come of in
the dining hall of the St. Charles on
Friday evening, October cath instant.
Capt Bill Dougherty, of Mound City,
is in Cairo with train load of stave
clippings, conveniently bound for hand.
ling. One dollars worth of these clip
pings supplies an ordinary family with an
abundance Of kindling for whole year
1t also serves well for light fires.
Dougherty can be seen at the cars, above
Twentieth street.
There is an unsual amount of sickness
among the residents of the Cache bottoms
just now, the principal ailments being bill
Gus and typhoidmalarial fevers. 1t is
argued that the Mississippi being very low,
the wells Of that locality are supplied with
water from Cache, which stream being
filled with decaying timber and vegetation
its whole length, is about the color of strong
coffee, and, of course, very unhealthy.
Frank Dresser and his brother who
were mercilessly mastered by the Ute In
dlans when they sacked the White river
agency and murdered old father Meeker,
are said to have been late residents of the
neighboring town Of Anna. Frank body
was found in a coal cave, where the poor
fellow had crawled to die, after he received
his death wound, The others we're found
lying on the commons, stark naked. and
horribly mutilated by the red devils who
had dispatched them.
The case Of the People VS.. Mrs. Me.
cham and Morris Howard. tor the murder
OF James Mecham, was called during the
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present term of the Pulaski Circuit Court
but was laid over by agreement until tn.
February term. Both the accused are in
jail, and no attempt was made by their at.
tornys to effect their release on bail. We
doubt if they could furnish the bail, If tbc,r
case were bailabc one. The murder was
blood-thirsty, shocking affair in the cy.
IRENE.
Ills name is withheld in obedience 70
a request, and because it was the first Of.
fence; but he was drunk to the point of o..
liviousness. He didn't wander in green
pastures beside still waters, but he did wan.
der into strange garden and didn't know
where he was and couldn't give an inteli.
gibie account of himself, and he wa,
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