The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-02

Hattie s. an elegant small Havana
cigar, at Schuh's.
Household furniture at private sale, on
Tenth street; see advertisement.
The Cole charter passed the senate
of Georgia, Wednesday, by a vote of 80 to
4. This insures a competing line to Geor'
gia from the West.
The official circular, announcing the
resignation of Col. A. w. Soper, General
Manager of the Iron Mountain, and the ap-
pointment of Col. II. M. Hoxie, to fill the
vacancy, was issued yesterday.
The visitors at Dixon Springs last
week composed and sung new song: at
amt going to rain, 1t amt going to ram,
1t amt going to rain any more" This is
the first verse; the song contains ninety
nine more, all just like this.
The repairs on the City of Helena, at
St. Louis, will be completed on Saturday,
when she will be turned out as good as
new. Every defective plank has been TAX
en- out OF her, and Capt. Elem Calvert says
he will make the fellows with new boats
sick.
A Dixon young lady of the mature age
of six, as the story of the creation and the
fall had been related and the young lady
had been meditating for some time on the
moral of it, suddenly broke out: "Aunty,
after Adam and Eve disobeyed God, why
didn't he kill 'em and begin over again9"
Mr.. John Campbell, father of Mrs. s.
Y. Perez, died yesterday morning at the age
Of lightweight years. He leaves a large
family of children, grandchildren and
great grand children in this city to mourn
his departure for the other world. Many
friends of the family, here as well as else
where, will join In sympathy for the be-
reaved
In conversation with Col. II. M. Hoax.
lie, the new General Manager of the Iron
Mountain, a st. Louis reporter learned We'd
nesday that no change whatever would be
made In the force OF the road. Mr.. Dudley,
Assistant General Superintendent, will re-
main in his present position, as will Mr..
Merrill, as private secretary to the General
Manager. The General Passenger Agent,
the General Freight Agent, Auditor, CASH
Ter, Secretary, ETC., will all be retained,
--Guiteau has written another letter to
District Attorney Corkhill, in which he
claims protection from the mob. AT the
conclusion of the letter he plainly shows
that he is we'll acquainted with the Presi-
dents condition, for he says: "While the
President is in this precarious condition /
have confidence in no one. look to you.
Sec that l am securely protected here"
Guiteau hes also indicated desire to mar
ry some wealthy Christian lady of good
standing.
There appears to be prospect of an
amicable understanding between the coop
ers and their employees in this city. The
shops are still idle to some extent, many of
the men having left the city in search of
employment elsewhere, yet few Of those
who remained here have gone to work
again, though under protest There have
been no concessions from either side, and
it is not likely that there will be any on
the part Of the mills, as they feel neither
justified nor compelled to pay more for bar.
rels than they have been paying.
The maximum temperature for six
teen hours preceding three o'clock p. m
yesterday, washington time) were as fol
lows: Chattanooga Tenn, 49, Cincinnati
Ohio, SO; Davenport, Iowa, 49, Dubuque
iowa, 49, Keokuk, Iowa, so; Lacrosse
Wis, SO; Leavenworth, Kss, SO; Louis
vile, Ky SO; Memphis, Tenn, 02; Nash
vile, Tenn, rs; Omaha, Neb., So; Pitts
burg, Pa, So; Shreveport, La, OF; St
LOUIS, Mo-, Of; st. Paul, MINI, -;Vicks.
burg, Miss, o.; North Platte, Neb, S5
Yankton, OAK, 80; Bismarck, Oak, -;
Dodge City, Kan, 0S.
Wednesday brought very refreshing
rains to various portions of Illinois. Among
the places so far heard from are
Vandalia, Salem, Springfield Mount
Vernon, Decatur, Pana, McLeansboro,
NATION and Litchfeld In the last named
the amount Of water that fell was very
light, but at all the other places it was suf.
6cient to refresh the crops materially. Yes
terdsy 3 threatened rain here was very light
--immeasurably small, in fact,--within the
ievees, but beyond the cross levees and at
the seven mile grave yard, 1t
was considerable turning the dust
INTO mud several inches deep.
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