The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-11-19


the letter will not meet the public gaze. w
say this for the benefit Of the writel
thereof.
--"Misery loves company" 1t is will
pleasure we announce that Mayor Harrison
has sued the Chicago Tribune for $4,000
Tor lilel, and John V. Farwell, the grea
dry goods man, has commenced action
against the Chicago Daily News, laying hi
damages atthe same figure, $4,000. Ours
is only $4,000, and hence we don't com
plain.
The pork packing house of Messrs
Hinkle Moore & Hinkle is now in full
operation and will, during the present win
ter, again furnish employment to from
twenty-five to fifty men. Besides confer
ring this blessing on the community, the
firm will again offer spare ribs for sale at
the old stand at prices which will put them
within the reach of the most poverty
stricken.
"A large number Of sleighs were called
out by the beautiful snow yesterday, from
morn till late at night, and the occupants
appeared to be delighted, and enjoying the
rather sharp air which prevailed all day.
1t is a matter of wonder, even among our
Oldest citizens, that we should have snow
enough for sleigh riding, and that it should
be as cold as it has been, at this time of
the year
A bolt Of flannel was yesterday fore
noon stolen from the dry goods house of
Mr.. Chas. Stuart, Officer LaHue being
notified of the theft, soon discovered that a
colored man, named Bill Wilson, was the
thief and arrested him-recovering the
goods at the same time. Wilson had pre-
liminary examination before Judge Ohm
sted in the afternoon and was held in bond
of two hundred dollars to await his trial at
the next session of the circuit COURT.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Unions Of the seventeenth congressional
district, will meet in convention at Ed
wsrdsville, November 18th, 18th and 18th.
All temperance women are invited Lsdies
expecting to attend will please send their
names at once to Mrs. J. G. Irwin, Of Ed
An interesting programme has
been arranged On Thursday the question
How far are physicians responsible for
the prevalence of incompetence will be
opened by Mrs D. r. Sparks, Of Alton.
The work Of erecting the telephone |
wire has begun and will be pushed as |
vigorously as possible until the system is in
'ull operation. About seventy-fve or a
hundred wires will be stretched in different
directions all over the city. A trunk line
If forty wires will be run up Commercial
venue to Twentieth street, from whence
hey will scatter in different directions.
Sixty instruments have been subscribed for,
which have already been ordered and the
prospects are that before the wires are UP
he number will swell to one hundred
"A states warrant has been sworn out
gainst Thos. Clarkson, the negro who, on
he forenoon of day before yesterday as.
aulted negro woman on Eighth street,
etween the avenues, as we stated in yes
,rday's Issue. He has already been fined for
his otfense, but the offended parties beiev-
~ that the Eighth street supreme court
id not mete out to him sufficient amount
justice, propose to give him larger
ice of that article if possible. The mat.
n will come up in Judge Olmsted's court
,.day, and will be heard by Jury OF SIX
tizens.
Chicago now manages her police by an
ntirely new plan, which, though severely
bjectcd to at first, has proven after a fair
'ial to be emincntlv successful. The city
as a system Of telephones in one Of the
dice districts, which connects with the
istrict station, and policemen are kept
lady at all hours with wagons and horses
, respond at moments warning to call
mt from any of the telephone boxes in
ne district. This they can do with the
,me promptness displayed by the salvage
orps ON occasions of fire alarms. The
ystcm has worked so we'll in one district,
mt it is soon TO be extended over the
'hole city.
A dispatch from Charleston Mo, to
he st, Louis Republican says "John
Philips. farmer who lives near this place,
{ about o'clock this morning, shot and
lmost instantly killed John Smith, son
4 a widowed lady Of this place. The facts
n brief seem TO be about rs follows:
'mith and Phillips had a difficulty in
which some words and blows
we're passed. They were separated when
Phillips went and bought pistol and re-
urned 10 the place of the first difficulty.