The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-05-21

Tickets for the Temperance picnic to-
day can be had at Il. L. Comings' book
store, G. r. Stuart's dry goods store and
Barclay Bros Washington avenue drug
store.
John Sallade, one of the most proml-
nent Odd Fellows of Wheeling, w. Va,
owns up to having been stealing 23 years
from the lodge treasury. The deficit is
from $4,000 to $4,000.
AT Referm hall Rev. f. J. Adams
spoke to good audience of temperance
people last evening. His discourse was
powerful and, at times eloquent.
He speaks at Fort Jefferson to-day.
All lovers of tender, juicy beef should
call upon Mr.. Louis Koehler, Jr., on the
south side of Eighth street, who has pur-
chased and killed as fine young heifer as
was ever brought to the city. Call on Mr..
Kochler for your meat for Sunday.
A Berlin dispatch says; A bill will be
presented in the bundesrath regulating the
employment Of boys in mines, stpulating
that their hours of labor must not exceed
eight per day, and that their physical ca
pacity must be certified to by medical ex-
animation.
Cairo is represented on the Floral COM
mittee for the decoration at Mound City on
the 30th instant by the following ladies
and gentlemen: Mrs. w. r. Mccullough,
Mrs. G. N. Hughes, Mrs. Samuel Walters
and Messrs. W. d. Lippett, w. F. Mckee
and G. w. Henderson.
Charles Johnson, an ex-special police
man of Decatur, who has been in the coun-
ty Jail since February last, in default of
$4,000 bail, has been indicted by the grand
jury for the killing of Porter j. Carson,
whose skull, 1t is charged, he shattered
with heavy club in a saloon.
Large quantities of peculiar kind of
rock called phoss rock, has been
for some time passing through
here from South Carolina to Chica-
go, where it is being ground up with other
matter and sole as fertilizer. A number
of carloads pass through here every week.
Some days ago Webb Arnold, the war
den of the La Sale County ASYLUM, was
assisting to take a newly arrived insane
man into the asylum. The man was furi-
GUS, and in the operation caught Arnold's
thumb IN his mouth and bit it severely. A
few days later Arnold lost the use of his
hand, and still later the whole arm has be.
come paralyzed.
The water was yesterday let off from
the Illinois Central railroad companys
large tank, standing near the upper end of
the round house, and was allowed to take
it's course in strong current
down Eighteenth street, cutting
a deep rut the entire length of
the street and flooding the low lots, just
below Mr.. Osteroh's feed store.
Yesterday the man Louis (not Pete, as
before stately Leroy, alias dutch Pete"
was tried in the court of Magistrate Com
ings and fined fifty dollars and costs. He
was given stay until four o'clock in the
afternoon, when he left town. AT the time
Of his arrest he denied every imputation of
wrong doing, but after the trial he admit
ted that he was one of the boys who make
their living in mysterious ways.
The many friends of Captain w. M.
Williams will be pleased to learn that he
has been appointed to the position of agent
of the narrow-gauge railroad, at this point,
in the place of Mr.. Naugle, who goes
to st. Louis to assume
similar position there. During his stay
here Mr.. Naugle has made many friends
both as an officer of the road and as a gen.
tleman. Captain Williams is certainly
worthy successor to him.
Within the last week Mr.. Traber Arter
has collected about one hundred and forty
dollars as street tax in the First ward alone.
This is u remarkable showing in com
parison with former collections, which
amounted in all to only about
two hundred dollars. He isy not through
with the FIRST ward yet and it Is probable
that when he is, the amount for that ward
alone will reach nearly what it was for all
five wards before. Traber is an energetic
little fellow.
General Grant, in recent letter to
Senator Jones, of Nevada, spoke as follows
of the differences existing between Presi-
dent Garfield and the New York senators:
"Conkling and Platt are the chosen sena-
tors from the great state OF New York, and
that, too, against all the opposition of an