The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-30

evidently from the pen of one who has
most intclhgently studied the municipal
boss system in the great cities Whoever
has written this book, should not hide his
light under bushel. 1t is one Of the most
searching satires on municipal boss rule
that has ever been given to the public. 1t
should be read by every citizen of every
great municipality.
Among the fashionable callers at the
White house, "four handsomely-dressed
colored people attracted some attention.
The two women wore handsome black silk
costumes, one wearing Write bonnet and
the other black one. Their escorts were
correctly dressed in morning costumes.
They seemed much interested in what was
going on, yet promenaded about the east
room as if they had always been accustom-
ed to the society Of such distinguished
people"
Yesterday forenoon at about eleven
o'clock the transfer steamer Iunus $.
Morgan, having taken aboard her usual
load Of passenger cars with passengers and
baggage, started on her trip to the Iron
Mountain incline on the Missouri
shore. Everything went swim
mlngly until she reached a
point IN the Mississippi river, opposite
Birds landing, where, in trying to steer
around the heavy ice, she ran aground on
a sand bar. Every effort was made to get
her of; the assistance Of other boats was
obtained, and she was tugged at
from all sides and in every
direction all day until about eight
o'clock at night, when she succeeded in
becoming free and returned to the
Cairo wharf at about 40, without having
transferring her passengers and baggage
No damage was done beyond delaying the
passengers, one of whom went to Squire
Comings intending to sue for damages, but
changed his mind and dld not.
--I In the "puzzlc corner" of the Farmer
and Fruit Grower Of a late date, published
in Anna, the following drive" at TIE
BULLETIN and some of our honorcd con
tribuors appeared;
NUMERICAL ESGMA
- letters
l, H. (, ~ are cooking vessels
l6, 3, Il is what We must all do
., $, 70, 1sis crria.
:, 3 u, 10, T. are found in dollars
9,2, -, If cause many murdcrerz TO die.
Thcwholc are whatTnE CAIRO BULLETIN seems
to he sadly afflicted with.
EEL,
The answer to the above
as found in the next number
of the paper is, Poetic Contributors
The BULLETIN feels proud of its poetic"
contributors and 50, we have no doubt do |
all our readers who can detect and apprc
ciatc the beautiful in thought, as well as in
other things. Eel seems not to be "atliict
cd' in this way, but there is also something
else which he, she, or it, is not afflicted, |
commonly called ---, well, it is composed |
of only nine letters Of the alphabet, as fol- |
lows; 3, 6, s, I, ., is a Bird one Of the
waddling kind. s, 4, :, and 0, is noun. |
A woman arrived here on the Illinois |
Central railroad night before last, carving |
n satchcl and a small child-a boy baby |
about two weeks old She went to the
Planters house yesterday morning and re-
qucsted to be given a room, which was
done About an hour after she had
entered her room, Mrs. Thompson in pass
ing, heard the pitiful cries of the infant,
and suspcctlng that all was not right, en-
tered the room and found the woman
gone, having left the child on the bed,
handsomely dressed, and her satch-
Ell, containing more infants cloth
ing, lying in one corner. Chief
Robinson and Officer LalIue learned of the
and started out to find the
woman, which the former succeeded in do.
ing after laborious search She had
secrctcd herself on one Of the wharf boats,
from whence she was escorted back TO the
hotel. She gave her name as Hargraye,
md by way Of an explanation Of
her strange conduct, she stated
hat her husband had left her
upon their arrival here, and she thought
hat if he heard of the child as being left
alone, he would return. She was made to
AXE charge OF the babe and her baggage,
md lett for Anna, Illinois, yesterday even
ing.
The military hero makes his fame by
Staying his fellows. The more blood he
sheds the greater is his rGnown Ills con
quests and march to power are tracked by
the charrcd chimueys, smoking cities and
buzzards feeding upon his victims But
when man like Henry Bergh, the great
New York humanitarian, undertakes to