The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-02

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have been published, showing the waste
and extravaganza Of the Republican admin
istratlon are aware that reform can only be
established by beating the Republican par
ty at the polls. We can carly the state if
we will, and five fail to do it Illinois will
be found tagging and hating while other
states and the nation are progressing. Now
for Illinois! Let the Democrats make
rally in every township school district,
fence corner and cross roads of the state for
the next thirty days and the state is won.
Mr.. d. A. Norris, of New Haven, Con
nectcut, connected with the Standard Man
ufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pennsylva-
MIA, is in the city on few days visit to
relatives. He has lately travelled through
the eastern and western states, and is just
returning home from trip through the
SOUTH He reports business as booming in
every section Of the country; says the pros
perity is Enthusiastically real, and that he
finds the volume of business transacted
greater than at any time since 1872. He is
apparently shrewd business man, close
observer, and a Republican who has one
hundred dollars to bet that-well, 1t don't
make bit of difference what he is willing
to bet.
The meeting of the Reform club last
night called out fair crowd of both sexes,
both young and old. Mr.. Wood Rltten-
house, who had been elected president of
the club, and Rev. w. II. Whitaker, who
had been elected second vice-president,
declined to serve. Mr.. NJ, yesterday was
then elected president and Mr.. Fred Smith
lst vice .president. The other Off
GERS are: Second wee president, Mr.. n B.
Thlstlewood; third vice-president, Mr.. VI.
Kilburn; secretary, Mr.. Geo. S. Fisher
chaplain Rev. W. II. Whitaker; treasurer,
Mr.. c. r. Stuart; financial secretary, Mr., G.
NJ. Alden. The finance and executive com
mittees will be appointed some time before
the next meeting and the names Of the gen.
tlemen composing them will appear in our
next issue. Rev. B. Y. George will address
the club next Friday.
On last Wednesday the steamer Gus
Fowler, having been delayed, started out
from the Cairo and Vincennes railroad
wharf after dark, and when about three
miles above the city, collided with skitf
containing two colored men and one white
man, cutting it in two, and precipitating the
occupants into the water. The men had
been at work on the Champion at Mound
City, and were on their way to Cairo in one
of the Champions life-boats, 1t was quite
dark and they were talking and laughing
so that they neither heard nor saw the
steam boat until it was too late to avoid
the catastrophe. The negroes were sitting
one IN each end of the boat and the white
man was in the middle, rowing. When
their boat was struck it severed in the
center and the negroes chung each to one
half of 1t, and were saved, but the white
man, whose name is Edwin Woods, went
under with a cry Of pain, which gives
ground for the belief that he was injured
by the collision. Search was made for his
body, but in vain. Mr.. Woods is step
son of Mr.. L. p. Wilcox, of Anna, Illinois,
who was last last night informed OF the dis
aster by letter from Mr.. Walton Wright.