The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-19

privilege Of a "catch" in the matter OF a
rider.
The packing house Of lllnklc, THIS
tlewood L. Moore is now in full blast The
firm, taking advantage Of the pleasant
weather, are slaughtering and packing
from one hundred to one hundred and fifty
hogs daily.
1t is argued that Logan's election to
the United States Senate insurcs the reten-
ton of Col. McKeaig in the Cairo post
Office. We don't view the matter through
that kind of a sterreoptican; but il may
turn out just SO.
Mr.. Charley Lancaster has had more
than due allotment of domestic ailiction.
Four of his children were victims OF the
diptheria, one of them dying, and finally
his wife was taken down with the same dan
gerous allment.
- One half tariff rates for the round trip
is the fare fixed by the Cairo and ST. Louis
railroad for persons who may use that thor
oughfarc in reaching Cairo to attend the
testimonial entertainment given to Miss
Evenlyn Spyer.
Among the recitations to be given byEve-
lyn Spyer at the Atheneum next Thursday
night is one entitled: "a Vision of Intem-
perance, written expressly for her by Mr..
F. Weber Benton, well known to the peo-
pie of Cairo, who has dedicated it to the
Cairo Temperance Reform Club.
1T is estimated that the recent cold
spell, by stopping trains, splitting rails,
etc, injured the railroad interests and bust
ness of the North to the extent of at least
thirty millions of dollars Very few Of the
roads were heavier sufferers than those that
find termini in Cairo.
Sheriff Hodges leaves for Chester to-
day with his gang of convicts. Burrell
Brooks, convicted of an assault to murder,
goes up for ten years; Charles Stewart for
larceny, IS months; Charles johnson, bur-
glary and larceny, one year, and John Mas
sey, for an assault to murder, three years
and six months.
AT the Episcopal church the rector
will commence this morning, course of
lectures on the Lords Prayer. In the even
ing he will begin series of practical SER
mons for the times. The subject this even
ing will be "Jeshurun waxed fat and
kicked" Services at II a. m. and 1:30 p.
NJ Sunday school at 9: a. IN.
A Sufferer" occupies an undue por-
ton of our local space to-day; but as the
subject upon which she treats is one in
which every housekeeper of the city feels a
| lively interest, we should not, most likely,
have filed the space in q manner more ac-
ceptable to our readers had the writer left
it subject to our disposition.
There was a decided commotion at
the landing yesterday evening, occasioned
by the reported approach ola broken gorge
of ice. Steamboats, got up steam and
seized upon the wharf. boats, barges and
coal flats moored at the landings and towed
them to place of safety. Before night-fall
the landing was cleared of boats and floats of
every character that was liable to damage
from the on-coming ice.fields.
1t is mentioned as an atmospheric phe-
nomenon that during the late cold snap,
while the thermometers at the base of the
hills at Golden, scored from fourteen to
twenty degrees below zero. the thcrmome-
tiers Of the hilltop marked only from four
to six degrees below. We can furnish
satisfactory explanation of this seeming
phenomenon; but We never permit our.
selves to explain anything on Sunday.
A Moderate Drinker" asked the editor
Of the Henderson Reporter, if the extraordi-
nary abundance of ice oughnt to cut down
the price of lager beer. To this apparently
legitimate inquiry the unpublished Ken
lucky editor grunted in reply that the man
who wants more. than one schooner OF lager
beer for nickel Is cussed hog That
editor has not been encouraged since that
time, to open department in his paper un-
der the head of Answers to Questions"
He's considered rather rough spoken"
George Coyer was brought before
Judge Bird, yesterday, to answer for his
neglect, after notification, in paying his
street tax. The fine and cost imposed up
on him amounted to seven dollars and nine
ty-tive cents. As upon the top of this, he
must still pay his three dollars street tax
q little delay in his case proved unproft.
able if not dangerous Street Supervisor
Schutter avows purpose to enforce collect
ions against all delinquents, and as they vet
number about one hundred and fifty we