The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-19

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Miss Fanny BliLn is secretary oil ah
insurance company at Rockford, H. She
gets a salary of $4,000.
"A new plank walk is being laid on the
south side of Twentieth street, between
Washington avenue and Walnut street
Commencing to-day Cairo and VIM
cennes passenger train No @will arrive IN
Cairo at s 40 p. m. instead OF 94o as here
tofore.
"A negro clergyman from South Caro-
lima who testified twenty minutes in the
Whitaker court martial, received 1910
mileage.
-Messrs Smith Bros. have exten ded the
awning on the Washington avenue front Oh
their store, 80 as to more effectually protect
the show windows against the sun.
A baby boy appeared in the family OF
Mr.. Thomas Stack, the blacksmith, at ten
o'clock night before last. Ten pounds was
the weight of the infant blacksmith
Howard Willis, aged II, fell into the
water works dam at Decatur Saturday and
was drowned. He was one the editors oil
the amateur paper called the Reporter =
The awlng and front of Mr.. W. Ia
Bristol's temporary store on the north siue
of Eighth street, between the avenues, Is
being generally overhauled and painted.
"A new and very substantial stage is
being constructed for the dock OF the ferry
boat Three States. 1t is much needed as
the old one is nearly worn out A new
wharf would also add much to appearances.
~ Late last evening we learned that Mr.
C. T. Rudd, in attempting to board tram
while in motion, tell and broke an arm
DR.. j. II. Bryant set the limb. No other
injuries were sustained.
Eight Migrants were sentenced at De-
catur, Saturday, to hard labor on the streets
for two weeks, and to be locked up in the
county Jail each night. This is an example
that the authorities of Cairo have no bust
ness to ignore.
A train load of gravel came in on the
Cairo G. Vincennes railroad yesterday,
which was distributed at various points
along the track where it was needed. Most
of it was used in widening the road bed at
the Union depot.
Mr.. Kline, of the brick yard, is having
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets repaired
with offal from his brick yard, consisting
mostly of broken brick. He has this done
in order to enable his teams to haul brick
to various places in the city where houses
are to be built.
Yesterday morning, at three o'clock
the little child of Mr.. James Ross, wh'
keeps a grocery on the corner OF Tent
street and Washington avenue, died atte
an illness of number of days. The re
mans were taken to Villa Ridge in the
afternoon for in.erment.
The wind storm in this part of the
state on Saturday, blew down the wings OF
the temporary barracks in process OF con-
struction at the Southern Illinois Insane
Hospital at Anna, injering one man serious
", and did considerable damage to property
at Chester and other points.
"A dispatch received from johnson
county by Sheriff Hodges yesterday con-
veys the intelligence that the court OF that
county has ordered the release of W. W.
Wilson, johnson county prisoner, who has
been for some time confined in the Alex
ander county Jail for safe keeping. Wilson
was released.
AT Alton a few days ago man named
Samuel Myss had a cellar dug for the pur-
pose of laying foundation for house. In
doing so it was found necessary to blast a
rock, which operation resulted in opening
spring and flooding the cellar with water
Pumps were brought into requisihon anc
after much labor the water was pumped
out.
"A negro named Charles Gibson was
yesterday arrested and placed in Jail, to be
tried to-day on the charge of breaking
open freight car at CaIbondale or Colder
and taking theretrom lot of small good
suitable tor household purposes, such a
needles, thread, etc. He lives in a franz
house on Washington avenue, above Smitl
& Bros, and some OF the goods were foun'
at the house.
There is fellow named Cross, living
near Maroa, Mclean county, who is sub
ject to peculiar fits. Paintings or spasms
Whenever they overtake him he is obliged
to succumb, falls to the ground and lies a
helpless as dead man. To restore him
b;e friends have nothing 10 do but TO bepiI