The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-24

~ dissipatcd, as veil as to the many rcla'
tiycs who have ben deeply gricvcd, we ex.
tend our cordial ympathies,
One of our Cairo business houses, not
only preserves c'pies of all tie letters sent
out, but puts all the business letters re-
ceived in halfle.ther binding, first arrang-
ing them in alphabetical ordlr. These let
tiers form large volume cvey ten or fifteen
days, and being we'll bound Ind handsome.
ly lcttered in gilt, they are pade a thing
of beauty aud an object Of inerest, instead
of becoming an "unsecml pile of old
papers"
The last meeting Of the Council with
Mayor Winter in the chair WILDE held on
Tuesday evening, the eth infant Three
of the present aldermen, viz Lancaster,
Wood and Rittcnhouse will then
retire with the hayor and
clerk-very good men, all Il them. The
new Mayor will then take hod of the rens,
and that he may handle then with good
Judgment and great skill, is tie wish of all
good citizens,
Quite number Of the Southern STAN
peders' as they are called, have reached
Cairo, and cannot, unassisted 90 forward.
The Golden Rule brought upquite crowd
of them, a large per cent, being women and
children. In crowd of numbering about
twenty-i that collected on Commercial
avenue, yesterday, there were nine small
and helpless children. If Cairo, like St
Louis, should happen to become an entire
pot for these deluded people, what shall We
do with them' The problem presented in
the outlook is perplexing,
The Hodges Park negro, who was Gala
boosed for threatening to cut all the blact
Threats on Nineteenth street, and especial,
the throat of his wife, is playing "the insane
gag His wife, who is in the city, says h
is given to tricks of that kind; that he i
never does anything that lie is ashamed O
unless he pretends that he is crazy. Sh
says she is used to it; and it never alarm
her let him scratch the door jams and slot
| Der spitte over his shirt front as much q
he's mind to- John IRWIN, which it i
his name, is black fraud.
The colored people OF Cairo will NEE
in Phillis ball tomorrow evening to selec
delegate to the National Conference c
colored men that is to meet in Nashville
Tennessee. on the 9th day Of May. judy
Bird will, most likely, be selected as til
delegate. The matters to be canvassed en-
brace everything that affects the mora
social, educational, industrial and politca
status Of the negrD; and the indications ar
that the conference will be the larges
gathering of representative colored mel
ever held in America.
&c Mr., James hrk, the plastcrer, was at
tackled by u vitious dog, while passing
along Poplar, near Nineteenth street, YES
terday, and despite Mr.. BIS efforts to keey
the furious brute at bay, he was not en-
tirely successful. Not until lie had 'sam
pied" the calf of Mr.. BIS leg would the de
termined canine deslst Officer Hogan
happened to be in the neighborhood, and
the dangerous dog being pointed out, was
shot and killed on the spot The neigh.
borhood is full ofchldrcn, and it will be a
relief to parents to know that the danger OF
attacks from this log, which seems to have
been feared, is iinllyremoycd While Mr..
Burk nurses his sore leg he'll have the con.
ISOLATION of knowing that he is martyr to
the general good.
From Messrs Pettis and Bird we re.
ceived the following note, contradictory o.
a rumor we published to the effect that
go" was about to be added to their firm
name:
EDITOR Notwithstanding noticed you
mention of our intention to add GO" t
our firm name, We think it would be only
Just that you publish these lines in contra
diction Of the statement. We do not Intend
to add SEQ" to the firm name; and you,
information could have been no more thar
an inference drawn from no responsible
source. But having completed the invoice
to which you alluded, we find that on some
goods we can considerably reduce the prices
Respectfully Yours, etc,
PETTIs Il BIRD.
William Brady and Dennis Carraher
neither Of them citizens, played some kind
OF acontidence game upon a stranger, Tues
day night by which they obtained SIS or SEQ
The stranger made the facts known to the
police, and Brady and Carrahcr were
promptly arrested. When taken before
Squire Robinson for trial yesterday, it was
found that the victimo their scoundrclly
devices had left the city. But charge OF
disorderly conduct was lodged against