The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

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Contracts for twenty-five new buildings
in the village Of Csrmi have been let.
The son of Mr.. John Balm, of Vienna,
Ills, has been appointed as cadet at West
Point military school.
A county Sunday school convention is to
be held in Carbonate on next Tuesday.
Col. Pepper will be there to address the
convention.
The Jamison murder trial at Springfield
resulted on the 9th instant in the acquit-
tai of the accused. He had murdered q
colored man.
Paducah, KY, is to have new city Jail.
The council committe appointed to draw
plans and ascertain the cost of construction,
has finished it work.
Henry Tedford, residing near Sulphur
Springs, fatally stabbed his son because he
refused to abey him. This is old tesla
ment doctrine revived.
The people of Randolph county contem-
plate the enlargement Of their court house
at Chester. A second story and brown
stone front are proposed.
Mayor Ingersoll, of Carbondale, has is
sued his proclamation to abate nuisances
and give the city thorough cleaning up
before the approach of summer.
The mayor of Murphysboro vetoed an Or
dinance prohibiting the keeping open of
business houses on Sunday, on the ground
that state laws cover that point.
A futile attempt was made IN Springfield
on the Goth inst, by man impersoning
Jno. NJ. Palmer, to abduct two young girls
aged respectively seven and nine years
named Clemmie and Lizzie Carnes.
The spoke factory at Stonefort is runnin!
day and night. On the LIST of June tn
| Eldorado spoke company takes possession
of the factory and they will run it, having
bought out Ryors, Ballenbacker & Co.
At a meeting of a committee appointed
in Freeport to consider the establishment OF
water works in that city, report of com
petent attorney was read, who decided that
the city had no night to increase its indebt-
edness, which had already overreached the
constitutional limit.
On Tuesday and Wednesday last twenty
seven burial permits were issued by the
registrar of vital statistics in Chicago
Twenty.one of these were for persons who
died of zymotic, or contagious diseases
The Chicago Times is alarmed at the many
deaths from this character of disease.
The last spike on the Fort Scott, Mem
phis and Southeastern Railway, from Kan
sas City via Fort Scott to Springfield, Mo-
was driven day before yesterday, and tria
train came over the road, arriving at
o'clock night before last. The citizens
turned out en- masse to meet the train, and
expressed their enthusiasm by several can
non.
The town of London, Ontario, is II
mourning over the dread disaster that &C
Cured on the Thames river few days ago
All business is stopped and the streets arr
crowded with weeping mourners and fun
eral procession. Up to yesterday one hun
bred and seventy-five corpses had been lal'
10 rest. In all about two hundred and hit
persons fell victims to the disaster.
Fifteen negros, in Missouri, who claim
have been deprived Of the right Of frar
chise at the late annual school meeting i
district 1, T. 81, r. II, have brought ind
vidual actions against Stephen Bird, chair
= man of said meeting, claiming damages
. the sum of one thousand dollars eacl
Proceedings in the nature of quo wal
ranto have also been instituted agains
0 Charles F. Hurst, director, elected at SAT-
school meeting.
, The house sent the senate state levy bi
to third reading, reduced $2oO,OOo
amount from what il was when 1t cam
. from the senate, on the motion OF MI
Cronkrite There is now some $3l6,Oo
Q surplus cash in the state treasury, and MI
i Cronkrite, believing the people should hav
the benefit of this large amount OF none.
. instead OF having to lay idle in the treas
= ~, with commendable foresight an
). promptness moved to amend the schof
u levy of 1881, by reducing it from $1,000
. 900, to 100000, leaving the levy for 1885,
as the senate had fixed it, at 81 100000 an
o his motion prevailed. This will leave til
o amount to be expended for schools durln
% the next two years at 81 100000 per annun
n the same as agreed to by the senate, an
I and will save the people taxes in 1881,