The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-25


Edith Martin The executive committee
for the next SIX months was appointed, it
being composed of Miss Musa Green, chair
man. and Messrs. Charles Baughman and
Elmer Comings. The next meeting will
be held two weeks from last night.
AT If 80 o'clock Sunday night, man
on a small Aatboat gorged in the ice, passed
by here, about twenty feet from the shore.
Owing to the darkness he could not be
identified. His coming was telegraphed
from the stone depot down to the wharf
boats and a tug was summoned to his aid {;
but, although he had previously been heard
Justify yelling for assistance, nothing
could be found of him. The fiat upon
which he was is supposed to have been his
own and to have broken loose near Padu-
cab.
The Missouri medical faculty is taking
steps to nd the state of quacks. With this
end in view three bills have been prepared
for the state Legislature. The first provides
| for the establishment of state board OF
health; the second for regulating the prac-
tice of medicine, and the third for the reg
istraton of births, deaths and marriages.
Owing to the enactment of stringent laws
regulating medical practice in Illinois and
Kansas, Missouri has been cursed with
an immigration of lrregulars which she now
finds it expedicnt to get rid of.
The Amatuer Irish Minstrel company
performed at the atheneum last night, to
very large audience of citizens who had
brayed the difficulties of walking over
uneven, slippery sidewalks, in order to at
tend. The performance was excellent and,
when it is remembered that every feature
of it was original and every actor and &C
tress an amatuer the success which at
tended it from beginning to end, is certain
ly fattering. The programme for the
evening was long, but interesting through
out. To Judge from the size of the audi
ence, the proceeds must have been large.
Last Sunday darkey deposited three
dollars with Mr.. Nat Prouty, proprietor of
a saloon below Sixth street. and went away.
Shortly after negro came to Mr.. Prouty
- representing himself as the depositor,
askd for the money, received it, and left.
Later the recipient of the money was
proven to have been an lmposter by the
appearance of the real depostor. Mr..
Prouty put Chief Robinson on the track of
the negro, who arrested him and took
him before Squire Olmsted. He was pac-
ed under bond of two hundred dollars, to
await the action Of the grand jury.
"A feminine writer recently broke
bread with the Garfelds, and found the
fare "plain, substantial, and well cooked,
the host and hostess helping every one;'
no wine at dessert but pleasant post-pran-
dial talk in the parlor. When forced to
tear herself away, she was accompanied to
the door by both the host and hostess; the
general ran ahead, and catchlngu up a broom
lying on the pizza, brushed aside the snow
flakes with the abandon of a boy. She
could not but remark laughngly: 81
never expected a president of the United
States to sweep the steps for me, so | fancy
some politicians will feel the force of your
broom, sir He waved the broom slightly
as he replied, possibly and good bye.''
Notwithstanding the occasional reports
to the contrary, Dan Rice's show boat is
prospering-the dreams Of those who eX-
pected most having been fully realized.
The average receipts, during the dulest
times, have not fallen below four hundred
dollars per day and the accidents which,
according to rumor, had befallcn the boat
are, we learn from the best
authority, all fcucious. Mr.. Andrew
Bird is now sole proprietor and manager
of the concern, he having purchased the
interest held by Col. Rice, for very re-
spectacle consideration. The Colonel has
purchased an interest IN a circus, now
wintcring at New Orleans
Gov. Mathews, Of West Virginia, in his
recent message, came up like a man to the
support of Mississippi and Ohio rivers i'm
provement. lie says AT the request of
the commission appointed by the governors
OF the several states and territories Of the
Mississippi valley upon the commerce and
improvement Of the Mississipps river and
its navigablc tributaries, present to you
its address. Its subject is not only mat
ter Of concern 10 the federal government,
but one of great interest to our state, whose
western border lies for many miles along
the Ohio river over which her jurisdiction
| extends. | supucst the adontion of suitu