The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-13


take such other action as may be necessary.
Another company of Wizard oil
sellers arrived here from Paducah on
the steamer Fowler yesterday afternoon.
The company consists of Mr.. Hamln's
general manager, Dr. G. s. Ritz, and the
following other persons: MISS Lee War
rem, soprano; Prof. G. +. Utermochlen, or.
ganist and violinist; Al. W. Fulson, tenor
Fred NJ. Winans, baritone, and ]. B. Taylor
master of transportation. They are stop.
ping at the Planters house and will remain
q few days.
AT Reform Club hall last night Rev
Mr.. Chaplin delivered an able and power
full discourse on the subject announced the
previous evening, viz: "The Claims of the
Christian Religion" which was listened to
with the closest attention by the audience
At the close of the services it was an
nounccd that, owing to the occupation OF
the hall by the Reform Club tonight, Mr.
Chaplin would, by invitation, take part in
the temperance exercises. Preaching at
the hall again tomorrow night.
--Messrs Summerwel and Baird, who
have the contract for moving the house re-
Gently bought by Mr.. Peter Saup from Mr.
w. f. Russell, yesterday got the building
out on Washington avenue. They are
moving it up the avenue and
will leave II on the vacant
lots situated on the westerly side of Wash
lngton avenue, between Mr. Frank Healy' s
drug store and Judge Bakers residences,
where it will be reconstructed into an elc.
giant residence. Mr. Saup will build a
handsome brick residence upon the lots
from which this building was removed, on
the west side of Washington avenue, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets.
Day before yesterday Sheriff Hodges
received dispatch from Dongoa stating
that horse had been stolen from Mr.. Ben
jamin Wilburn, of Hodges Park, and that
the thief had come TO Dongola to dispose of
the animal. The sheriff Immediately start
ed tor Dongola, reaching there about ten
o'clock at night and made inquiries con-
corning the horse thief. He learned that
the man had offered the horse for sale there
at mere trife, but had not succeeded in
disposing of him. After little diligent
search the thief and the horse were found,
taken possession of and the horse turned
over to its owner, Mr.. Wilburn, who had
also followed the thief to Dongoa. The
thief, whose name is Hanks, was brought
here by Sheriff Hodges and is confined in
the county Jail.
Day before yesterday a negro named
Richard jenkins, living on Twenty-first
street, began quarrel with his wife,
which ended in rough fight Mrs. Jen.
kins was the heavier and stronger of the
two and, IN fair fight with
natures weapons only, was very much
her husbands better half. He saw and
felt that she was giving him very much the
worst of the fracas and, actuated by the
first law of nature, he drew knife and
proceeded to cut around him very reckless.
ly. He inflicted several wounds in his
wife's arms and hands, which bled proiuse-
ly, but are not serious. He then fled to-
ward Mound City, followed a short time
after by Deputy Sheriff, Guy Morse on
horseback, who was notified of the affair
aud who pursued him until he reached the
trestle on the Cairo & Vincennes railroad
Here Deputy Morse had to halt and thus
the negro escaped. He will be watched
for, however, and the warrant served upon
him the moment he again makes his APP
pearance.
Yesterday afternoon, about three
o'clock, terrific runaway occurred on
Commercial by which one of Mr.. Patrick
Fitzgerald's fancy spring wagons was bad
ly demolished; Mr.. w. Webcr's delivery
wagon somewhat torn out of shape and Mr..
Boot Penn's team also sent scampering
down the avenue, probably damaged to
some extent; but yet the damage was not
as great as it might have been, fer
there were no lives lost and
no human injured. The occurrence
came about after the manner following:
MIR. Patrick Fitzgerald, assisted by two of
his hostlers, was hitching span of spirited
horses to the spring wagon aforesaid; they
were in the entrance to the livery stable,
facing towards the street, and they had
nearly finished hitching up when Mr.. Fitz.
gerald had occasion to leave, instructing
one of the men to hold the horses heads.
He was gone but about two minutes and
when he returned he found one of the men
across the street and the horses and vvooon