The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-28


office yesterday rehaDging the iron shutters
some of which had become loosened from
usage.
Oliver Mahney, of Toulon, died sud
denly few days ago leaving an estate o.
$4,000 to little nephew, boy of eight
or ten years.
Mrs. John Tyler, of Prairie Creek, Lo
gan county, while working in the garden
Friday afternoon, fell dead from heart dis
ease, it is supposed.
PLACE wANTED-By ayoung lady OF
respectable family, as saeswoman, or as
accountant in an Office, Best of references
Apply to P. o. box $50.
There is sudden lull in the move
ment of real estate, no deeds having been
left for record at the circuit clerks office
within the last three days.
The fery-boat Three States is being
dressed up in very attractive manner.
Her stove pipe, steam pipe and whistle are
all being painted brightred.
AT Springfield, Tuesday morning, q
Miss Mary fillmore was found dead in hel
room, at the residence of Mr.. VIM. Whit
ley, with whose family she was visiting.
The walls of the general office of the
Planters House have been beautifully
papercd and the wood work newly painted,
which makes the large room look quite
palatial.
Employees of the st. Louis Bolt ard Iron
Company have struck. Bolt-cutters asked
an advance of two cents hundred for cut
ting, and received it. An agreement has
not been reached in the case of the others.
George Ames, of Bloomington, now in
the sixth week of married life, is under
arrest for bastardy on complaint of Mrs.
Haveand. Ames is Chicago & Alton
bridge builder, and recently married at
Petersburg.
-Four blacksmith helpers, Moore, Huff
man, Powers and Leifhelm, out on strike
at Quincy, were bound over to the circuit
court on Saturday, to answer to the charge
of intimldating the men employed to fill
their places.
On Saturday, IN the circuit court at
Quincy, man named Avery obtained
Judgment for 1850 against the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy railroad company for
injuries received while serving the compa-
ny as brakeman.
The second suit of Louisa M. Furness
against the Mutual Life has been settled
for one-h half of the amount of the policy,
which was $4,000. The company's de-
Tense was that the insured committed
sulcide.-[N. Y. Weekly Underwater.
The employees of the Joliet water-wcrks
company, engaged in laying pipes in the
streets to the number of about one hun
bred struck for 81 per day, Saturday. The
pay has been $3.50. A compromise at
$1.75 offered by the workmen has been re-
fused by the company.
-Messrs. Rudd and Buder, committee
from the Knights of Honor, yesterday
waited on Mrs.J. W. Stewart and gave her
a check for two thousand dollars, the
amount that her late husbands member
ship in the Order entitled his heirs to re-
ceive from the beneficiary fund.
"A farm hand in the employ of Mr..
Chapman, at Risk Station, on the Wabash, |
near Fairbury, was found to have the
small. pox, few days ago. When he dis
covered the fact he took a pair of blankets
and went to corn-crib, and at latest dates
the authorities had failed to make any pro-
vision for him.
Mr.. Fred Koehler has been fortunate
enough to secure another fine steer, weigh
ing over one thousand pounds, which he
will place upon his counter for the benefit
of his customers on Saturday and Sunday
next.
Yesterday afternoon the steamer City
of Providence came shooting into port here
placarded "Columbus to Cairo, one hour
and thirty-tive minutes" She made good
enough time, but not as good as has been
made on the same stretch of water.
"A number Of men assembled at the
hall on Commercial avenue to organize a
secret society In which there is to beno dis
tinction of color. Mr.. Lewis G. Morse, of
st. Louis, Mo-, arrived in the city yester.
day and was present at the meeting, which
was very interesting one. The lodge is
to be known as the Knights of Columbia.
The people of Paducah are in great
glec over the prospect of large attendance
at their horse races, which are to come off