The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-09

nearly ali the largest business houses in
the city,
A solitary drunk in our town yesterday
/ ard that was Paducahite. If 'twere not
for the close proximity of Mound City and
Paducah how happy we could be. Ne
drunks,no robberies, no burglares, no gam
blers no murders, no police courts, no
iails, no lawyers and no crazy women, who
leave their babies in payment for board
and lodging. In short Cairo would be as
good paradise as we could wish for.
The board of commissioners appointed
by the city council to assess the value of
the railroad strip lots, met at the office OF
Alderman Howley Yesterday afternoon and
came toa final conclusion as to their value
and signed a report, which was submitted
to the city council last night. The COM
mittee was composed of Messrs. L. II.
Meyers and NJ. yesterday for the people
and Aldermen Blake and TIowley for the
city.
One of the pleasantest affairs of the
season was the anniversary celebration Of
the Knights of Honor at the Odd Fellows
hall last night. A good crowd was there,
nearly all the members Of the organization
and number of invited guests, all Of
whom took an active part and lively in
terest in everything that was done and said
and partaken of them. The event will
live long in the memories of all who were
present.
On last Sunday number Of the small
paper contribution boxes spoken of in The
BULLETIN some time ago were distributed
among the children; the balance will be
given out next Sunday, and on Monday,
the 2Sth of March, they will be called in,
and nice little entertainment gwen for
the benefit of the children exclusively and
the boxes will be opened There IS a
great deal of fun in this arrangement for
the children
A large party of excursonists from
Cairo will visit the "Crescent City" about
the first of next month, making the round
trip on one of the fine passenger steamers
of the Anchor line. Among those who
will compose the party, we mention; Prof.
Alvord and several of the teachers of the
public schools, DR.. Dunning and family
G. r. Woodward and family, Mrs. Henry
Wells, the mother of Mr.. Wells, and Miss
Annie Pitcher.
The grand hotel in Chicago, known as
the Gardner House, which was under the
management of our former fellow citizen,
Jewett Wilcox, has been sold to Messrs.
A. Cobb and A. Bradley, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and will hereafter be known as the
Leland House, after Warren f. Leland its
future manager and son-in-law OF the first
named purchaser. The price paid for the
building alone was quarter of million
and the fixtures are said to be worth half
as much more.
The down passenger train on the Hi
nois Central railroad yesterday evening
ran over man somewhere between Du.
bois and Tamaroa. 1t is not known wheth-
er the man was alive when run over or not,
tor it is possible that he was killed and
. then placed upon the track to be mutilated
by the train in order to divert suspicion.
When found the head was lying on one
/ side OF the rail and the body on the other.
The coroner Of the county was notified Of
| the circumstance.
J Mr.. j. II. EVERY, the assistant signal
, service officer here, brought with him,
| when he came here from Dodge City, Ark,
a large cat, of peculiar gray color, which
he priced very highly-having refused an
offer of twenty dollars for her. She was
allowed to run about the custom-housc at
will and always appeared on hand when
looked for, but since noon, day before yes
tcrday she was seen for the last time. 1t
is believed that she straycd away from the
building and was stolen,
Three young boys were day before
yesterday caught IN the act of perpetrating
a rather serious crime. 1t was nothing
less than forgery tor the purpose of obtain
ing money. They had written orders on
several Of our prominent business men and
signed to them the name OF another prom.
inent merchant and obtained the money
upon one of them. The other was not
paid, The parties TO whom it was ad-
dressed suspected wrong and instituted an
investigation and learned that their sus-
picions were well founded. This order
read as follows: "Messrs. -, please let
the bearer have twenty dollars. need
the money to pay draft. Respectfully,
| -. - The youthful criminal, ,yo.o =, ~,