The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-04

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from without or within.
Mr.. Roberts desires to qualify his
statement to us concerning the juror sig
natures to the Glass petition. He has the
signatures of SOME of the jurors, not all.
lie further desires us to say that he is
working like a Trojan, in the matter, and
only awaits the receipt Of the defendants
attorneys bill of exceptions to have every
thing in proper shape to lay before the
| Governor.
Miss Belle Gatfney, Of whose fine clo-
cutionary and dramatic ability we have
had occasion to speak, will visit Cairo some
time in October, when, it is expected, our
people will be furnished an 'opportunity to
Judge of her attachments, She is in posses
sion of high testimonials, and will doubt.
less surprise many Of our citizens who re-
member her only as the romping school
girl of dozen years ago.
The street superintendent, with q
suitable force of men, is distributing the
three hundred yards of Metropolis gravel,
on Levee street He will pile gravel in
the center of the street to depth Of six
inches and to a width of eight feet. With
the balance he will fill up the mud holes
and dcpressions. The central ridge will
enforce surface drainage, and, as it is worn
| down, furnish filling for the newly made
holes and gullies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph NJ. Velle lost
their little thirteen-monthS old girl, yester-
day, under circumstances at once distress
ing and shocking The little one had but
recently commenced walking, and when
unobserved by any one secured a cup of
concentrated lye, in liquid form, and taking
small quantity of the liquid in her mouth,
swallowed it, This happened about II
o'clock, and at about o'clock the little
girl was corpse. The funeral notice may
be found in another column.
We received postal card, yesterday,
asking us to state what disposition had been
made OF the Mrs Regina Earle, nee MCGEE,
case, pending in the Northern Illinois L. S.
District Court. We know nothing further
than what was contained in the kilograms
from Milwaukee, which was that Mrs Earle
was admitted to bail in the sum of three
hundred dollars, which is certainly not in
dicative of very serious case against her.
Her husband and his other accomplice were
held to security in much higher sum.
"A colored man named Allen Drake, in
a blind and ill-natured hunt, Tuesday night,
for house where he supposed he would be
welcomed, dashed in the door of the wrong
domicile, and stood face to face with Mrs |
McPheetcrs, whom he did not know |
Instead Of apologlzing for his intrusion, he
became very insolent and threatening |
Very properly Mrs McPheeters repaired to
the Office of Squire Robinson, yesterday,
and secured a warrant for Mr.. brakes |
arrest
1t doesn't require the keen eye of a
confidence chap to pick out from among the
poorer classes OF country people who come
TO the city, men who have accumulated |
money. The money seems to be constant
source Of disquet and apprehension to
them; and when they are not counting it
over to sec if its all right, they keep their
hand upon it, or disclose in some other way
the place where they have it secreted. A
pick-pocket or confidence man can tell, al
most at glance, the country visitor for
whom he may go with profit
"A resident Of Twentieth street supplied
his mich COW with very loud and sono-
rous bell, and as the mosquitoes in that To-
cality will measure out full qnart to every
foot square Of atmosphere, the manner in
which that female bovine clattercd that
bell at night time was most industrious and
energetic, to say the least of it. The bell
had the peculiarly too--as we are told--of
sounding as il'wcre shaken directly under
every open window Of the ncighborhood. All
this being true, it is work of supercroga-
ton in us, as 4 dottcr down of local hap
penings, to add that whitc-robcd form was
seen skulking about that cow-yard the 9TH
or night, and that since that time, the bell |
doesn't janglc.
A man Of straw, capped and coated,
was thrus, through the open window Of a
young mans sleeping apartment, in the
upper portion Of the city, after the young
man had retired, Tuesday night, and fixed
in u standing position in front Of the open
ing. The young man was then awakened,
espicd the supposed intruder demanded to
know what he wanted; warned him to