The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-05

not transfer any cars and it is probable
that she will make no trips until the track
is repaired, which will be in day or two
The passengers and baggage for the road
will be transferred by the ferry boat Three
States.
Mr.. Brown, the house mover, has put
Messrs. Swoboda Il Schultze's small store
house on wheels and, from yesterday morn.
ing up to noon, had moved it from its old
site near the corner Of Eighteenth and
Poplar streets, around by way of Washing
ton avenue TO point on Nineteenth street,
between Washington avenue and Walnut
street.
The commissioners appointed by the
city council to revise the assessed value OF
the railroad strip lots, met yesterday and
accomplished their work. The previous
valuation was made when railroad strip
there was only twenty. hve-foot alley, but
since then the alley has been changed into
sixty foot street which would, of course,
alter the value of the lots abuttirg it.
Messrs. D. b. and b. +. Thistewood
finding 1t necessary to increase their room
to accommodate their large business, yes
terday bought the stable of Lee Boicourt
and will use 1t in connection with their
other stable They have several new bug
gies in store, waiting for spring business to
open and on the first of April will bring
on a number Of entirely new carriages and
buggies for the driving season that will
make their stock the best ever seen in
Southern Illinois. They are enterprisng
men, and justly entitled to the success that
has attended them.
The train which took the Boston Lances
and Charleston Guards back TO Chicago,
coming through here day before Yesterday
evening, met with an accident when it
arrived at CentralIa yesterday. A mis-
placed switch caused the engine to run off
the track, but without doing any damage.
A heavy rope with an iron hook was used
in the attempt to get the
engine back on the track.
The passengers alighted from the cars and
stood around watching the work and when
the strain was put upon the rope and hook
the latter broke, and flying around struck
one of the Lancers in the forehead, kill
ing HIM almost instantly.
The Shreveport CLa) Daily Standard
in an article concerning Capt A. J. Birds |
Floating Opera house, which has been at
that city for some days giving performances,
after speaking of the enterprise as meeting |
with great success there, touches thus upon |
the captains late trouble with Dan Rice |
SIN the purchase there was lot of bills
and posters with Dan Rice's zane upon
them which, by the understanding, Captain |
Bird was allowed to use until Others could |
be procured. 1t is on account of the use of |
these bills that Dan Rice brings suit, claim
ing $1,000 damages, we believe, for using
his name. If our information is correct, it
seems to be matter of spite on the part of
Rice more than anything else
About s,xtyfve men are yet constant
y at work on the foundation of the new
elevator. Some are breaking rock; some
are preparing mortar; some are wheeling
material to others who are building the
and thus the great mass of
'ohd masonry grows slowly but surely day
by day, and before many of our citizens
know of its completion, the
will be begun
treat piles of heavy, plancd lumber
about thirty-tive IN number--are piled
along the railroad track, and number OF
men are yet constantly at work unloading
more. The sight is certainly an interest
ne one, The Ohio river is now about four
Get up against the outer side Of the fouD-
patton.
The News says that had the rcpub
lean nominee for sheriff in the last county
election chad an interest in several saloons
n the county" and had the nominees for
he other offices distributed liquor by the
the republican ticket would
rave been elected, and claims that the
epublcan party carried the temperance
,ause into the election. If temperance was
1t all spoken of in connection with any
If the republican candidates it was done in
whisper so low that the whsperer himself
Gould not hear it. The intimation that
democratic whisky" secured republican
'cfeat is certainly a sad commentary on
he republican voters Of the county; for 1t
IS plainly charging them with being not
only whisky guzzlerS, but so utterly de-
Draved in nature that they sacrificed the
most glorious privilege Of their citizenship