The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-27

for to dress the limb and, we believe re-
spondcd to the call,
Andy Cane, who is in st. Louis for his
health and who il was expected would ar
rive at the close Of last week. has not yet
put in an appearance and will probably not
arrive until the close of the present week
The cause Of his protracted stay is probably
that he is not yet rs well as we would like
to see him or as he would like to see himself
During his absence Officer Wooten has
charge of the city JAIL
Il will, Of course, greatly surprise our
readers and the surprise may shock some Of
them and cause them to sustain injuries,
but, Notwithstanding, as a chronicler of
events We feel that it is q duty we
owe to the public at large, to
give publicity to the fact that jim Summer,
well was yesterday actually making prep
arations for the erection of Uncle Sans
flag pole in the custom house yard.
AT the last meeting Of the city council
Alderman Petit, of the Fourth ward intro.
duced resolution, whereby the street SUI
perintendent, Mr. German, was autho. zed
and instructed to have Commercial avenue,
between Twentieth and Twenty eighth
streets filed to the established grade of the
city, This being the case, Mr. German,
with the assistance of several teams, has
accordingly gone and done it" and done it
up brown too, as well as up to the grade
aforesaid.
The Chicago Times thinks that "the
presidential campaign may yet turn on the
question Who slit Cadet Whittaker's ears ="
The Times thinks that an effort will be
made by the stalwarts to show that the out
rage was committed by party Of congress
sional brigadicrs, The row about Cadet
Whittaker's ears is certainly assuming
threatening proportions 1t ovcrshadows
the third term question and Tildcn's presi.
Dental aspirations.
The other day--a day or two ago
there arrived in this city from Little Rock
an ancient dame accompanied by four mo-
dern ones and a great deal of household fur
niture and fixtures, 1t was the intention
Of these creatures to open "a house" in this
city, and they were industriousy at work
with that aim in view when one OF our Off
GERS rightly believing that we had enough
"Aouscs,' ordered them 10 move on, which
they accordingly did--going TO Evansville.
-Blrton's Free Press, after a. suspension
Of three months is again on our exchange
table From it we clip the following: ave
met Hon. john H. Obcrly at Cairo last
week, We propoundcd TO him the follow
ingcouundrum; Are you a candidate for
GOVERNOR His solution was about as fol.
lows, i have not declared myself TO be a
candidate, | should dearly love to be gov.
crnor Of Illinois If the chances for cleo.
tioO were very promising, should strive
for nomination. As it is, my friends
must decide the matter for me We be-.
llayc Mr.. Obcrly is the strongest man the
Democracy Of Illinois can bring to the
front"
The Youths Temperance army--which
we are told is actually assuming the pro.
portions Of an "urmy"--met in the Reform
hall Sunday at the usual hour in the after
noon, and, with the Army, there met in the
hall quite number Of ladies and gentle.
men who are Interested in the temperance
work IN this city. Besides listening to
the usual interesting exercises the audience
was treated to a stirring address by Mr. ".
F. liabcrton, Of Mt. Carmel which, al.
though short was well calculated to set his
listeners TO thinking about that temperance
which Is "the silken string running through
the pearl chain OF all virtues"
No doubt that inventive Boston Yam.
koc, who, the other day deliberately erect.
ed aguiIotinc and chopped oil his head,
thought he would head the list of suicide
tools, But he was doomed to disappoint.
mcnt rs he will learn when he meets in the
next world the suicide tool from Texas.
This entcrprising Texan sqicidist Jumped
into u well Of hundred feet depth, but
this failed in It's Object and rope was low.
cred which, instead Of hoing used as
means Of escape from horrible death, was
placed by the lool.h9rdy man about hi.
own neck and made TO answer the purpose
Of u hangm0n's rope instead of being used
MS friendly life preserver This with the
aid of several sclf-innicte gashcs in the
neck, which severed two or three of the
vital arteries, successfully accomplished the
desired end In horrible methods of self