The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-17

even heat Her cabin is after new style,
somewhat, and is very neat with good sized
staterooms nicely furnishcd the doors and
ornamental parts of the cabin being dark
and inland with gold, with monogram in
Mails Of the boats name carved on the
doors and laid in gilt, The cabin Is hand,
somely furnished and she has the most com
Portable and roomy boiler deck arrange
ment forward OF the cabin that we have
seen on boat Of her size, the skylights be-
Tag extended forward full length She is
named for Capt John S. Hopkins, Of
Evansville, who Is president of the line, and
is boat that no man should be ashamed to
have bear his name. Capt jim Damron,
the Dextcr's popular commander, was
selected to introduce the new boat into her
trade this week, and it's not yet known
here who will be her permanent command
er. Charley c. Pennington, formerly first
in the Office of the Arkansas Belle is her
first clerk with Ed. Groves late OF the c.
n. Davis, as second.
The item in yesterdays BULLETIN, to
to the effect that Miss Katie Putnam had
lost cluster diamond ring, led to the
recovery of the same. The day before, Mr..
Egbert Smith, of the firm Of Smith Bros,
had abserved a negro about his store try
ing to sell ring, and yesterday morning
upon reading the account OF the lost ring,
he felt shure that it was the very
ring which the negro had attempted to
sell, and accordingly notified Dr. DunSlng
and Officer SchuCkers OF the fact. The Of
iicer Investigated the matter and soon
learned that the negro had sold the ring to
one Of his colored acquaintance in the
lower portion of the city, for ten dollars.
Finding the man who had bought it, 1t
proved to be the very ring lost,
AT the last meeting Of the council Al
dcrman Paticr introduced a resolution
which recommends raising the Mayors
salary to fifteen hundred dollars per year
and further states that the Mayor shall be
chairman Of all committees and have regu-
lar office hours and shall be at the city
clerks office two hours each day. On mo-
ton of Alderman Howley this resolution
was referred to the ordinance committee,
with I instructions to report an or
dinance as they may deem best at the next
regular meeting. An ordinance covering
the above points would, in all probability,
be regarded with favor by the public
since it is very troublesome to our people
as well as strangers, who have business
with the mayor 10 be compelled to seek for
him all over town, and it is hardly to be
expected that he should remain in his of.
flee for so many hours each day, without
receiving a reasonable compensation there
for.
The habit Of ringing the fire bells so
persstently after the engines are all out
and, in fact on their way back, has been
often and very generally denounced by our
people as an intoerablc nuisance. AS q
rule the alarms are not correctly gwen,
even by men who ought to know the sig
nails, and after the first alarm has been
given and the companies are all on the
ground, boys takes possession of tire bell
ropes and keep up a continuous and up
roarious clatter, just for the amusement it
affords them and without any regard to the
feelings of the residents in the vicinity of
the engine houses or of the fact that the
cause of the alarm is only burning huc,
or that there never was any real cause, or
that it has already passed 1t seems to us
that there should be change in this state
of affairs either by placing the ropes be-
You'd the reach Of boys after the alarm has
been sufficiently given, or by requiring one
fireman to remain behind to attend to the
ringing of the bell.
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THE seasons entertainments have been
notably free from ANNOYANCE by coughing.