The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-12

party machinery.
Billy and Lou Milton, two of the &C.
tors of Louis Herbert's show, were yester-
day morning found in an intoxicated con-
dition by Officer Schuckers. When the
officer came upon them they were engaged
in running Mr.. Jake Walters hand cart up
and down Eighth street and doing such
other improper things as drunken men gen.
orally do. The officer took them before
Justice Olmsted who, finding them guilty,
dealt with them in the manner of Just
judge.
While the census takers are at work in
this city our people should be good to
them. They should be "good" to them for
several reasons, but especially because the
law says that all persons who shall refuse
to furnish the information required by the
supervisors of enumeration shall forfeit and
pay sum not exceeding one hundred dol.
lars, to be recovered IN an action of debt.
Presidents, directors, or other officials of
private corporations, who refuse to furnish
information required Of them are made
liable to penalty not to exceed ten thous-
and dollars.
"A number of commercial travellers
representing Cairo, Paducah, st. Louis
Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Mem
phis and Richmond met at Jackson, Miss,
on the LIST of June, and organized South
ern Commercial Travellers association, with
Horace Hand, New Orleans, president; N.
Gentry, New Orleans, vice president; G.
ID. Bustamente, Mississippi, secretary and
treasurer Committees were appointed to
draft constitution and bylaws, and issue
a call for genera! meeting September 9th
The object is to form cooperative associ-
alton to relieve distress in the family of
any member and negotiate hotel and rail
road fares, insuring them equal rates.
Died = AT six o'clock yesterday even
ing, and at his residence on Sixteenth street
between Cedar and Locust streets, Mr..
Henry Sticher. Services will be held at the
residence at 2 o'clock and the remains taken
to the train at the foot of Fourteenth street,
at 8 o'clock and buried at Villa Ridge.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral Mr.. Sticher
was an old citizen and was known as an
honest, hard working man. He had been
an invalid for sometime previous to his
death. He was about seventy years old
and leaves a wife and three sons to mourn
his departure for the unknown realm.
Masters Chas. O'Brien and Thomas
Sanders, two youthful colored scape-goats,
pretened to have become enamored with two
youthful damsels, also of their complexion.
named respectively Mary johnson and
Cora Preton, and induced them 10 consent
to an elopement. The arrangements were
made, and at the appointed hour the quar-
tette of lovers set out upon the path of
roses i.e., the wagon road. They got as
far as Grand Chain, when the youths sud
denly lost all admiration for their fair
companions, and leaving them there re-
turned home. Mrs. Johnson, the mother of
Mary, learned of the affair and started for
Grand Chain with team and brought the
two girls back home. Warrants were is
sued for the arrest Of the boys.
The following from the Argus is a cor
rect statement of facts as we yesterday
learned them "Wm. Butler Dunken, ex-
mayor of New York, president of the No
bile and Ohio railroad, Is in the city, and
this forenoon met here Mr. Joseph DuPoy-
ster, Mr.. jenkins and Norton Bros. of
Louisville, owners of the land between here
and Fort Jefferson, and purchased Of them
the right of way over their land for the
track, depots. etc, of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad The track will be laid between
the Cairo, ST. Louis and New Orleans track
and the river, and the incline will be locat.
ed opposite Sixth street, A depot, side
track and substantial buildings will be
located at Wlckliffe, the new county seat of
Ballard county. The extension is to be
in six months" We may add
to the above that during Mr.. Dunken's
stay in the city he is the guest Of Capt. w.
P. Halliday.
1t was hoped by the many friends of
Mr.. Oberly here and elsewhere, that the
Springfield convention would recognize his
qualifications and his popularity,
by placing him at the head of the state
ticket. But in their wisdom they have
thought best to do otherwise. They have
given him place "betwixt and between"
which may suit him quite as well, since he
neither by word or deed sought any place