The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-20

prlOTlty VI Clalm UT Hon-COuloTWlty Will
the conditions named, the decision shall
be referred to Prof. Asaph Hall, of the
naval observatory, Washington, D. G., and
Prof. G. A. Young, of Princeton Observable.
ry, and their decision shall be final. The
offer, unless previously renewed, will expire
January /, 1882.
The Mystic Krew has taken the in
itiatory step toward getting up grand
Mardi Gras celebration. They have ap-
pointed committee from among them
selves to cooperate with another commit
tee of citizens, composed of Mcssrs. B. F.
Blake, Herman Meyers and Capt. Shields,
wEo are to solicit subscriptions
from the business men of the city.
The committees will probably be
out to-day and it is certainly very desirable
that they meet with the greatest encourage
ment from all who are honored with call
from them That the Krew will give Gel
ebration that will be in every respect
worthy Of it and creditable to Cairo, pro-
| yided they are properly assisted by the
people, is assured. The Krews' efforts in
this respect in former years are sufficient
guarantee of that. We hope therefore that
for their own, and the city's interests gener,
ally, the merchants of Cairo will meet the
committees referred to with open purse in
hand, ready and willing to contribute liber-
ally, though according to their means to
this very worthy purpose.
AT the last meeting of the city council
Alderman Blake, with an eye to the com
fort Of the good people of the Third ward,
introduced resolution having for its object
the reconstruction of the walk around the
corner of Fourteenth and Cedar streets. A
walk around that corner is a necessity SER
iously felt by those who reside west OF
Cedar street, and has been devoutly prayed
for by them. The clnder walk on Fif-
tecpth street. which is now being used, is
colossal nuisance and disgrace to that
part of the city. The cows of the ward
have made it their headquarters.
They assemble there and occupy
it every day in the week-during all sorts
of weather-rain or shine, and at nights
rest their weary bones upon it to the dis.
comfort of pedestrians who, upon dark
nights, not unfrequently stumble over them
IN decidedly undignified manner. 1t has
caused more hearty profanity in the Third
ward than all other causes combined. 1t
has created discord in families; has sue
cessfnlly retarded the progress of religion,
and will some day indirectly be the cause
of some dire calamity happening in the
ward. The COWS have dragged the mud
Of the street upon it and have combined
with the hogs in rendering it uneaven and
generally nasty to such an extent that there
should be no question about the immediate
reconstruction Of the other walk, or the
building Of walk on the north side of
Fifteenth between Walnut and Cedar
streets.
Rev. Jonathan S. Haskell is still
preaching the gospel to the poor of New
Orleans. He conducts services in the
variety threatre and repeats the same start
ling stories which he told here. The fol-
lowing is one of the interesting incidents
which he recalled Sunday last and which
he said had come under his own observa-
ton: John Blank was a well know actor
in New Orleans, when Ludlow & Smith
ran the ST. Charles theatre. John exceled
in play whern in one of the scenes he ap-
pcared manacIed in a cell, and by his
truthful impersonation of convicted
murderer, calling on God for repentance,
moved his audience to tears. One morning
John awokc from debauch-he was
manacled chains encircled his ANGLES and
wrists. He thought he was acting, and in
the parlance of the stage, began his bust
ness, when interrupted by a friend who
through the weary hours of darkness
shared his cell. where am IN Ned he
asked Am in cell2, Yes John you are
for murder, was the reply. Then, Ned,
for God sake don't tell Lizzie, don't tell
my Wife he exclaimed, raising his ironed
and still bloody hands to his head. "Great
God, john don't you recollect you went
home drunk, and in your frenzy you brain
ed your wife, even as she, with all the ten
derness of woman, strove to wean you
from intemperance}" And then there came
cry from the murderer-a cry that came
from his very soul---and John, the popular
actor, was a maniac Now he walks the long
corridors of an asylum, and at each turn
calls for Lizzie. Lizzie, my darling, come
back to me-"
Our aldermen have so far failed to