The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-20

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main track Of the Illinois Central railroad
near Mounds Junction, which was acclden-
tally discovered by the conductor Of the
early Yesterday morning freight train and
removed The discovery very likely pre-
vented the on coming passenger train from
being totally wrecked.
A meeting of the Presbyterian church
and congregation was held on Monday
evening to consider the question of repair
inc the church and parsonage, The only
thing determined upon was that the organ
should be moved to the front Of the audi
ence room and placed 50 MS 10 project part
" in the lecture ROOM To make the other
needed repairs would require the borrow
inc of some money. The few in attendance
were not willing to assume that RESPONSE
bility and adjourned to next Monday even
ing,
John Morgan, white man, was arrest
ed yesterday up in the fifth ward, for dsor'
derly conduct and carrying concealed
weapons. He had obtained permission
from Mayor Thistlcwood to bear arms be-
cause he had charge Of force Of railroad
laborers at night, Of whom he seemed to be
afraid; but he got little alcohol from
somewhere yesterday and made some dan
gcrous demonstrations for which he was
taken under arrest and brought before
ESQUIRE Osborn for trial. BY some arrange
ment, however, that was satisfactory to all
concerned, the prisoner was permitted to 90
tree.
Early yesterday morning dispatch to
Mayor Thistlewood from Anna, Ills, stated
that the right wing of the insane asylum
had caught fire about one o'clock in the
morning and requested that our fire depart
mcnt be sent up to assist in quelling the
flames. The steamer and Ocean and a
number of tiremen were taken up by spe-
cial train, which was placed at their dispo-
sal free of charge by Mr.. Beck, division
superintendent of the Illinois Central rail
road. The engines and tiremen got there
in time to do some good, although the
north wing OF the building, which comprises
nearly one half of the entire asylum, hat
already been nearly destroyed. There were
from five to six hundred inmates in the asy-
lum,all but one Of whom were rescued and
corrailcd some distance away from the
building. Two others, 1t is SAID, barely
escaped. 4 dispatch received here at ele-
ven O'Clock a. m. stated that the fire was
out The building was about mile away
from the city Of Anna; was built OF iron
and stone. with the exception of the door
and window frames, the floors, elevators,
etc, .ich were of wood. The loss will be
considerable.
About thirty of our tiremen answered
to the call night before last to attend the
fire at Anna. A good delegation each
from the Arab and Rough and Ready fire
companies. They got to the scene of the
confagrtion in time to do very effective
work, bat had they not been delayed here
by switch engine that was off the track
at the Illinois Central railroad yards, they
would have been in time to prevent
damage to the amount OF about twenty-five
thousand dollars more than they did as it
was. They worked about two hours and a
half, the steamer throwing two streams and
the Ocean one, besides number OF other
streams that belonged to the building It
self. The actual origin Of the fire is not
known, but the supposltion is that 1t re-
suited from spontaneous combustion. The
damage done to the building is some
| thing over one hundred and seventy-tiye
| thousand dollars and there was no
insurance. Some fifteen Of the inmates,
among them Purccllc, from this city, it was
rumored had escaped, but this is probably
untrue. Our iiremcn returned with their
engines about 2 80 o'clock yesterday after
noon pretty well worked up. In taking
the steamer from the fiat car here she
turned over, of from the planks upon
which she was being run down, and broke
her smoke stack, lamps and sustained 9TH
cr slight injuries, winch need to be imme-
diatcly repaired.
50 suits, all wool Scotch Case at,
$l9 5O-sold everywhere at $500 at A.
Marx, the Boss Clothier.
We have heard anumbcr OF complaints
against several Of our merchants, who have
gotten into the habit Of handling what is
known rs olcomargarine instead Of butter.
We presume that there are but few il any
professionally reliable merchants in the
city now who handle the miserable stuff
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