The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-20
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 90 1879

walk" that he might lhsPeo' "N
things beyond the gas house anu MISSISSIPPI
Iovee There are intcrlopers in Cairo, who
are IN the constant lookout for just such
stroncers as the one in question, and it
doesn't always happen that the police IS
equal to the strangers protection
Con O'Callahan was not reelected
Clerk of the village of Anna, at the recent
election. We regret this or, rather, we re-
gret the cause of the defeat. Like many
good fellow before him, in his contest
with the wine cup, Con achieves no victo-
les. But for this, he could have asked of
his ncigbors any public favor under their
control and it would have been granted
and granted cheertully-
Miss Anna Amellcd, the female trampt to
whom we recently alluded, conceiying that
one Josephine Howard, who happened to pass
her on the stcct, was putting on too much
style, turned upon that innocent female and
puNc ncT Iulloun anu loul-Hioulntu ours
ing. Anna was taken before Judge Bird and
fined On a promise that she would leave
the city short stay of execution was
granted to enable her to do 50.
The last contest for the Mayoralty be.
tween Wilson and Oberly, in 1870, brought
out III votes. In the Spring of 1871, the
blacks having been entranchiSed, the votes
cast for Lansden and Winter, was 1,10S
In the contest between Lansden and Iar-
rcll, in 1872, 1892 votes were cast. Wood
and Winter, 1873, 1,?S6; Winter and Morris
in 1875, 1873; Winter and Smith, in 1877,
1867; Thlstlewood and Winter, 1868.
A trading boat from some point in
West Virginia was at our landing yestcr-
day, its stock in trade consisting Of articles
manufactured from peculiar stone, Che
calls it emery" whichmineral it rcscmbles)
recently discovered by him at some point
in West Virginia He has shaped it into
the form of table tops, ink.stands, paper
weights homes, etc. which have the rec
commedston of being odd, as well as
pretty.
Friday evening, just before sunset, q
negro woman who lives on Twentieth street
not far from Commercial, was walking
about her door yard, and fell fat to the
ground, utterly paralyzed, in every portion
Of her limbs and body. But for the fac
that she was breathing, she might readily
have been mistaken for = dead woman. Sht
was carried in doors and put to bed Thu
only name our reporter could obtain wa
that of "Crctia probably Lucrctia.
-Farnbaker, the clothicr, the oldcs
man in the business, with facilities for buy
ing possessed by few other houses in the
West talks to our readers this morning, N
a double column, and deliberately displayed
advertisement Call on him, and he will
demonstrate his ability to do all he prom
Uses. He understands the Cairo market
knows what the people need, has the goods
on hand to supply the need, and is going to
sell them. If you would know what bot
tom prices means" call on Farnbakcr
The man struck by engine 3?, at a
point above UlIin, Friday afternoon, was
lying on the track, drunk. He was cvl-
IDENTITY tramp tinker. The engineer saw
him across the area of the curve and con-
cluded that the fellow was lying on the
fence. IIurrying around the curve the en-
ginccr didn't discover his mistake until he
was so close that it was impossible to check
up. The steps struck the fellow on the
head and but for his drunken condition
the blow would most likely have killed
him outright,
The official canvass Of the vote OF last
Tuesdays election effected no change II
the result. Thistcwood's majority was
found to be 81 votes. Foley received Al
votes instead OF 4G1; Schuckcrs received
lGG instead IA; Fred Smith received l61
instead of 10. Hendricks majority owe
Bush was 20? instead OF $50, and J. K
Cunningham received l2l votes instead o
90, AS was reported Wednesday morning
The total number of votes thrown wa
$3.50 or 200 more than was ever polled a
any previous election. A healthy increase
but not rapid one,
We call attention to the double col
umn advertisement Of Mr., A. Marx in th
, mornings BULLETIN During period o
=, nearly fifteen years Mr. Marx has been in
the clothing business in Cairo, and not on,
of all his customers can say that he eve
held out inducements or made promise
that were not carried out to the utmost
His business never went by fits and starts.
His moral status il fixed. and his integrity
unqucstioned. His stock is the largest and