The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-18


O'Shew composition entitled, "Christmas,"
Miss Annie Morse; piano duet, Misses
Clara Robbins and Maud Rittenhouse;
select reading Three Black Crows
Michal O'Shew, and composition by Miss
Phoebe Potter, on "Some Large Cities
closed the exercises
AS was stated IN yesterdays BULLETIN,
the satchel OF the man, Fletcher, VIII o was
arrested for passing bogus coin, upon being
examined by the officers, proved him to be
guilty OF other crimes equally as bad as
If not worse than that for which he was
arrested Among other things found in the
satchel was some articles that were identi-
fed as having been recently stolen from
Messrs. Meyer and Fricke, of Mound City;
but the plasterparis coin-mouds
were not found, After these
discoveries the sheriff, accompanied by
United States Marshal Saup, visited the
prisoner in his cell yesterday and found a
fine steel saw sewed in the front of
his coat and induced him to confess that
he was the principal actor in the Mound
City robbery. He was taken in charge
by the United States marshal and will
probably be tried by Commissioner Candee
for manufacturing and passing counterfeit
coins to-day.
Mr.. Phocion Howard, of Danville,
whose presence in Cairo we chronlclcd sew.
eral days ago and who came here to meet
NJ. Duncan, of New York, president of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, while here
wrote a communication to the Chicago
Tribune in which he touched upon our cltys
prosperity. From 1t we clip the following
Of interest to our readers: Returning to
the subject of Cairos prosperity, have to
record the progress Of one of the most ne.
cessary enterprises now in rapid process of
completion under charge Of
a leading Chicago architect,
the new st. Charles hotel. Next to
the old Astor in New York, perhaps, the
st. Charles of Cairo has as wonderful
history. Within its walls Stanton and
Grant, Halleck, Thomas, Sherman, Charles
F. Smith, Pope, Logan, Palmer, McCler
hand, and scores eflike gallant men met and
counseled, plotted and planned, during the
dark days of the rebellion, when Bishop
General Polk, Kirby, Smith and jeff
Thompson held the right and left banks of
the Mississippi even under their shadows.
Realizing the want Of good hotel, and
desiring to preserve the historic landmark,
the Halliday Brothers not long since pur-
chased it, and are now spairing neither
pains nor expense to make of it the grand
est hotel outside Chicago in the west. The
architect has added a handsome mansard
fifth story, and the exterior and interior are
being remodeled in the most sumptuous and
elegant manner. The site of the hotel,
every one who has been in Cairo will re-
member, Is commanding and healthy, and
in the good time coming when the tonnage
of the gulf and lakes shall blend in one
common stream not the least interesting
landmark will be the st. Charles hotel of
Cairo" The same writer further says: an
late editorial upon the subject of the Hi
nois and Michigan canal, The Tribune said
the Southern Illinois people had opposed
and would oppose its enlargement into
ship-canal, questioned the senior men,
Der Of the celebrated Halliday Brothers, of
this city, upon that point. SAID Capt. w.
P; II cannot imagine that there is the
slightest foundation for this sus-
plcion, The future prosperity Of Cairo is
necessarily bound up in an improvement Of
the Mississippi river. We regard the jet
ties as an assured success, and the great in
terests Of the Northwest as well as Of the
Mississippi Valley demand such an i'm
provement Of the river as to justify the i'm
mense expenditure on account ofthe ietties
Believing in the necessity of this river i'm
provement, why should not its friends con-
cede the necessity of lateral feeders' My
opinion Is that the making ola ship-canal
between Chicago and the Mississippi river
would result in untold commercial advan-
tages, and, as great part of the increased
Tonnage must necessarily pass by
Cairo, she could not help be-
ing benefited" Railway Commissioner
Obcrly, who resides here, desires to recall
to The Tribune the fact that when mem
Der of the Twenty-eighth general assembly
he favored the copperas creek dam appro.
priation, and believed then that the canal
and river should be taken in hand by the
federal government and made into ship
canal Of sufficient size to pass Mississippi
river steamers of the largest class Other
prominent Southern Illinois gentlemen en-.