The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-06

swOre, but the clerk smoe a smile and said
only this and nothing more; PAY up"
He suffered bravely and held on firmly and
he conquered as he deserved to do The
woman owed the hotel five dollars and six
ty cents and owes Mr.. II. Thompson, the
former proprietor something over eight
dollars, having beaten HIM in the same
way she attempted to beat the present
management
Samuel Redding, the negro who killed
Mr.. zimmerman, merchant at Mounds
Junction, in the year 1877, is now confined
in the Pulaski county jail and will have his
trial at the present term of court AS was
stated in yesterdays issue epassed through
here on his way from Mississippi, where
he was captured, to Mound City day before
yesterday, in the custody of officers of the
law, and report reached here yesterday
that he has made confession The report
is reliable. He denies having done the
killing himself and says that he was only
an accomplice with two other negroes,
named respectively Porter Black and
johnson, who live near Mound City. The
former OF these is a man that is well
thought of by the community, being an
industrious man and in tolerably easy
circumstances. Redding charges that
Black did the killing and that johnson
and himself helped to do the robbng.
The story is believed to be false by nearly
all people who know the parties concerned,
and tins belief seems TO be well born out
by the fact that Black and johnson re
manned and Reddng alone left for parts
unknown. 1t is thought that he (Reddlngy
thinks by turning states evidence and
throwing the weight of the crime on other
shoulders to better his own case, and hence
his confession O., Black and johnson
have been arrested, however, and are con.
fined IN Jail to await further developments
in the case.
A Mrs. Harris, of st. Louis, Mo, ar
rived here a day or two ago and took up
quarters at the Wavcry House. Yesterday
she paid us visit and told us she had an
item, which would prove of interest to the
readers Of The BULLETIN OF course VIC
received her cordially and Immediately
plunged into the business for the transac-
tlon OF which she had braved the |
tcrrors surrounding the
'anctum sanc.orum of an editor
In answer to our question as the nature of |
the item, she handed us two letter head |
sheets, written full on both sides in toler-
ably egible hand, though somewhat dcfcc-
tive in other ways. In this letter, which |
she addresses to the public, she says that
she is in straitencd circumstances, is max |
Ing living by sewing and doing general
work and was at one time a lecturer of |
some note in the churches On the fourth
instant she was not feeling quite well and
'etircd to her room in the hotel aforesaid
'arly, She had been there but
short time and was falling into
sleep when she was aroused by noise
n her room and looking up saw-not
nan, but "oNLY a vision Of supernatural
haractcr. Though, of course, unused to
UGH sights she was not terrified as an or
lnary mortal might have been and, guess
NJ that the appariton was the spirit of the
ord, she began a familiar conversation
With 1t, or HIM, or her, which she relates
n the following manner: MY words
we're; My Lord, what wilt thou have me
0 do! And the answer was come unto me
II yc that are heavily laden, and | will
i've you rest And | said my Lord my
ondtlon will not permit. And the an.
wcr was Ego thy woy--teIl of my vista.
ion and that came to raise the fallen"
hen our conversation ceased and the
pirit took its flight. | will say to the
ubIic that this is the first time | ever ex.
ericnccd anything Of this kind. believe
is intended to turn me from sin"
The kind Of pavement decided upon
y the street committee to be put on Eighth
lrect, though not quite as good as the one
nggcsted by City Engineer Thrupp, is
cry good and will, we believe give gcner-
satisfaction. The difference IN the two
lans consists chiefly in the condition of
he material to be used. Mr.. Thrupp
iouId have the rock for the
ottom layer carefully dressed, from
our to ten inches wide and from six
0 fifteen inches long, to be set on edges in
egular straight course at right angles
With the street, the top surface to be made
wen and the intcrsticcs to be carefully
vedgcd up with smaller stone; the thick
less OF this layer to be seven inches at the