The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-02
NEW SERIES---NO. 3o7


the conclusion that nothing could be ac-
complished by making assertions back and
forth, and it was agreed that Mrs. McCar.
tiny keep the COW until he went home and
Drought down the man from whom he
bought her, when the case will finally be
settled, whether in court or not remains, to
be seen.
"A large number OF friends gathered at
The depot yesterday as the four o'clock
train of the Illinois Central was making
up, to say good bye" to Mrs Alvord and
her daughters, Miss Annie and Miss Kitte.
They join Professor Alvord in Chicago
where, after q few days among friends. they
w ~ somo Il ibe ooytF,csis. .5llula TO-.
tiea ~ search OF climate and air that
they hope will bring the roses of health
once more to the checks of Miss Annie
Their friends part with them with sincere
regret and underlying it is the fear that
their home hereafter will be elsewhere than
in Cairo. The professors ability may be
better appreciated, and his paths pieasanter
perhaps, but no where will he find truer
friends than he leaves behind him in Cairo.
1t appears that "our informant erred
IN his account of the manner in which Mr..
John Reeve lost his one hundred and thirty
dollars, and that some of the readers of THE
BULLETIN inferred even worse things from
the short account given in yesterdays issue
than would be justified even by the slightly
unfair account itself The truth about the
whole matter appears to be that Mr.. John
Reeve did not "handle roll of money rather
carelessly'; did not take it out of his vest
pocket, display it, and put it back again
several times, while couversiug in an ex.
cited manner; he had no purpose of put
ting up twenty dollars on bet that he Of
tered to make; but that he drew the
money out OF the watch pocket of his
paints, together with some cigar checks,
and, IN replacing it, missed the pocket
and allowed it to drop on the
floor where 1t was probably found by
some stranger and carried away,
Mr.. Tcichman, in whose establishment the
affair occurred, does not permit betting of
any kind to take place in his house, ard
Mr.. Reeve would not bet there or any
where else, for his conscience will not per.
init him to do So. IIo has suffered enough
In the loss OF the money without having to
bear the lgnomony Of being betting nan,
-s-lho great comet, which is Che centre of
interest for the scientific world, will appear
at reasonable times for observation a few
nights longer. Surprising this brilliant
visitor to be the comet of 1912, an exchange
gives its history as follows; Astronomers
have been expecting the comet of 1911 or
1872 to make its appearance about this
time. This comet was supposed by some
to have period of about seventy years 1t
has been said that it may be Harrys comet,
which came aid went in 1929, or there
aboutS, but that can hardly be possible, as
Harry's comet hNe n longer period. The
comet of Judea, known to the
Christian world as the star of
Bethlehem, has been expected.
This one has returned several times since it
appeared to light the path of the wise men,
! 800 years ago-the last time about 1850. |
Its appearance about this period has been
predicted for many years 1t was seen in
D45 and 1854 or thereabouts, in the constel-
Iatian Of Cassiopea, low down in the north
orn heavens. 1t may be that noted star
which blazed out in the heavens in the
sixteenth century with such marvellous
briliancy that it could be seen at midday.
1t was first seen in 1878, and renamed for
seventeen months, when it disappeared. 1t |
was brighter than the stars of the first |
magnitude. 1t is scarcely possible that |
stranger can be this celebrated
star.
"A white man named Jesse Hooper was
held under bond OF five hundred dollars |
by Magistrate Comings yesterday for at
tempting to rob the safe of Mr.. Henry
Brelhan, The safe is standing in
he Office Mr.. Breiban's soda factory,
close by window which opens out
% the sidewalk, and Hooper was seen by
Mr.. Hallenberg, an employee of the soda
actory, to bend in at the window, open the
ate door and draw forth the money
lrawer, which contained about three hun.
lred dollars, mostly in coin. Halcnberg
houted to the thief, who seeing that he
vas detected, became nervous, dropped the
lrawer, scattering the money all over the
loor and ran up Fourth street toward Ohio
Ievce. Mr.. Hallenberg gave chase, over
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