The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-10

but the meeting will be called to order a
little later than usual--about half-past
eight o'cock-in order that the Baptist
prayer meeting, which will be held up
stars in the same building, may not be
disturbed,
Mrs. Wood Rlttenhouse and Mrs
Jones, the committee appointed by the
Womens' Christian Temperance Union to
visit the jails of the city and distribute
some reading matter ola healthy charac-
ter among the prisoners, to furnish them
with wholesome ENTERTAINMENT were out
upon their errand yesterday with a great
quantity Of tracts and magazines and ether
good reading matter and accomplished
their noble work. Other ladies, we pre-
sumo, also visited the several depots and
trains with temperance tracts, etc
The city lumber yard is about as I'M
protected against pilfering as is a hatless
bald head against the industrious fly, and
and 1t is possible that it is as much subject
to bold invaslons. We do not mean to in
sinuate that any of the people Of Cairo
would be guilty Of appropriating anything
that don't belong to them oh no, perish the
thought. But there is Paducah and Mound
City, you know, and Ohio, which claim:
everything and takes everything IN clan.
destinc manner, is not very far away either
The city lumber yard ought to be fenced
in
"A great many strangers were in the
city yesterday, mostlycountry people, many
of whom were wandering aimlessly and
shamblngly about with their hands in
their pockets apparently without any par.
ticular object in view but to see and be
secn--by sharpers. Among the strangers
who arrived by boat was family from the
north somewhere, bound for Little Rock,
Arkansas, intending to open second hand
store there to Judge from the truck they
had scattered around on the levee. They
had everything, from an old horse that
looked more like walking hat rack than
anything we ever saw, down to boot.iack
made out of forked stick.
yesterday morning about four O'Clock
Mr. Thomas Clark, the levee saloon keeper,
retired to his room back of his saloon to 90
to rest for the night. He locked the door
of the room carefully and laid his watch
and chain on bureau and his pocket book
on a chair near by. When he got up after
his nights rest he found his pocket book
with the money where he had left it but
his watch and chain were gone, Some
scoundrels had taken the latch from the
door and taken the watch
away, but evidently failed to
discover the money, which would, OF
course, been much more acceptable. The
watch and chain were gold and worth
about sixty dollars. No clue to the thieves
had been discovered up to late hour last
night.
Perhaps the ugllest habit, which a
number Of our negro residents Of tenement
houses have acquired and which they are
allowed to indulge apparently without any
molcstation from anybody, is that of using
the sidewalk railing as a clothes line upon
which TO hang ali manner Of old rags,
from an old delapldated quilt down to an
old sock open on both ends and in the
middle, either to dry or for an airing.
Sometimes clothes line is stretched near
to and parallel with the sidewalk, and as
one passes along, deeply engaged in study,
the strong smell of soap .suds and dirty
linen drives away all thoughts and one is
suddenly slapped over the mouth by the
leg Of an old pair Of wet drawers, Topping
about in the breGzes. Protest is useless, for
there is no one to complain to; revenge on
the drawers affords no satisfaction To
remedy this evil would give great satisfac,
ton to many citizens.
"A correspondent OF the Chicago Tnb.
unc from the south, writing about the
condition Of the old Andersonvlle stockade,
suggests that some one who has enough
patriotism about him purchase the tract of
land, which is still partially surrounded by
by the once formidable wall Of pine trees.
The man shows lack Of the very article
that he calls for in others-patrotlsm The
old darkey who has, through years of labor
succeeded in gathering enough money t.
purchase part Of the spot that was once
the scene Of wars horrors and has cleared
1t OF the rapidly growing shrubbery and
powcd it up with the intention Of convert
ing it into u cotton field, displays infnitel,
more generosity and patriotism than doe
the man who would have 1t preserved il
commcmoraton Of the ghastly scenes tina
took place there, and as a constant remn