The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-31

) lhcre VIII pei meeting at the saloon G
Mr.. Thomas Clark, on OHIO lcvee, on tn
night OF Thursday, March 9lst which al
candidates are requested to attend.
Yesterdays work in the sheritfs ofic
was again very heavy. large number o
Cairo's small taxpayers calling to have
their Indebtedness to the county cancelled
The receipts yesterday were about twenty
five hundred dollars, which speak we'll fo
our citizens and gave Sheriff Hodges all tn,
work he could do. At this rate the pros
pectivc delinquent list is being rapidly re
duccd in size.
TO strangers who come to Cairo the
public buildings seem to be objects of con
siderable interest. The custom house and
posoffcc in particular is almost daily visit,
ed by company of ladies and gentlemen
who are invariably taken in tow by one of
the polite officials in the building. Mr.
Geo. s. Fisher seems to have become ia
voritc with them because of hls-vell,
good looks, we suppose.
Day before yesterday the ferryboat,
Three States, while attempting to land at
East Cairo, was caught by the strong wind
and forced to the shore under some trees
that were standing close by the shore and
her jack staff brokeA off close to the base.
Otherwise she was not damaged. On the
same day the steamer Morgan, in coming
down the river attempted to land at her
wharf, but was prevented from doing so by
the strong wind which took her clear down
to the point. No damage was done to her,
however.
We have before us handsome little
volume from the publishing house Of J.
w. Marsh, st. Louis, entitled memoirs and
Prophecies Of Mother Shipton,' prepared
from MSS, in the British Museum, with
picture Of the ancient dame The aston
lshing notifications that have followed the
prophecies of this celebrated seeress have
aroused almost universal curiosity as to the |
events that surrounded her life. And here |
we have her history and prophecies for Is |
cents. For sale by news dealers, or sent
by the publisher direct
During the present session Of this gen
cral assembly, about thirty bills have been
introduced which provide for the registra.
ton of somebody elses business. Among
hem is one to regulate the business OF the |
Union Stock Yards Company Of Chicago
me to regulate the snide butter business,
me to regulate the express business, four or
i've to straighten out the insurance cOmpa. ,
lies one to moderate the telegraph com.
'anies one to restrict the betting and pool
business, one to indicate to tooth carpen. ,
ers what will be required Of them, one to
ay down rules for the Pullman Palace Car :
company, one to regulate the banks one 10 !
urtail the cheek Of patentrght agents and s
ne to regulate the pharmacy business :
his may be termed the regulating general q
ssemby. Every member assumes to be a
'gulator, and fancies that for this purpose r
g was made solon.
The extraordinary fall Of snow in the o
'rthwest during the past season has in 81
'red the gravest fears of damaging floods it
roughout the whole valley drained by e.
c Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Just n
w the frghtful devastation of the fresh. n
S IN Nebraska has augmented the alarm CT
ID caused predictions Of a repetition of the ii
rnbe flood Of 1S44-''l'annee DIES grandes 70
a steamboat actually steamed n,
ross the bottom opposite st. Louis and br
ID up at the bluff. 1t should not be for fe
tten, however, that the early coming of ri
Yellowstone and Platte valley floods in
~ constitute the very safety of the lower tn
er. If these floods pass off one by one tn
fore the sun has climbed high enough to 20
1T the SHOWS about the headwaters of the ad
ssoui, the danger is TAR less than as be
'ugh late spring delayed the thaw in alb
sc lower valleys until the myriad tor we
It's OF the main mountain ranges should heI
d their mighty volume and all the win ne,
S SHOWS come rushing on together. The dis
'hest water is rarely earlier than June. ma
,sent indications favor an unusually mo
& season OF high water, but not neces- Ma
lily repetition of the amazing rise of fer
IA. ,ho
In Its last issue the Cairo News saws for
hen it was known that after careful in.
~ into the matter the courts had decid. ~
that there was but one house of uues IA
lable reputation in the city, and that the
'ss of that denied the charge, there were
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