The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-18


spending week last year,
Particular attention is called to the
collection of oil paintings and chromos
now open tor the inspection of visitors at
Louis Hcrbert's new store on Eighth street,
between Commercial and Washington ave-
nue.. The entire collection will be offered
and sold at public auction, commencing
Friday evening, May Goth, at o'clock
without reserve.
Late last night Officers Kinnear and
bunker arrested negro named John Jen-
kins, alias Charleston, who had few days
before been ordered by Chief of Police
Myers to leave the city. jenkins is gam
bier of the worst kind--one of Bill SCOTS IA
vorites, and ought to be severely dealt with
if the evidence against him will justify 1t.
He will be tried to-day.
Chief of Police Myers has commenced
the mpounding Of dogs. Up to last even
ing he had captured seven and It IS his IN
tention to destroy all upon which the
tax is not paid. He will also, in a few days,
begin to impound all horses found running
at large in the city. He has been urged to
do so by many citizens who have suffered
much from the depredatons committed by
these animals upon gardens, fences etc.
The laborcr named Graham, who fell
from the elevator some time ago, is nearly
well again and will soon be on duty once
more. He was but slightly injured and
was up and around the day after the fall.
He fell from the top of the first story,
which is twenty five feet high, onto the first
floor and from this into the water about
twelve feet below; consequently he could
not have fallen over thirty-seven or forty
feet
A young colored girl named Lizzie
Gilden was brought before Esquire Osborn
by Officer bunker yesterday afternoon,
charged with abusing her mother. The cir
cumstances were somewhat interest
ing. Elizabeth has made several
attempts to abscond from home, but she
was always brought back Ivy her mother
and kept under strict surveillance. A few
days ago she reached her sixteenth year
and yesterday she concluded to take adj
vantage of her majority and leave her
mothers home never to return. She got on
board Of steamboat and hid; but her
mother sought and discovered her and
took her off the boat While this was
being done the girl uttered the curses for
which she was arrested. Esquire Osborn
fined her five dollars and costs and she went
to Jail for about ten days.
Several prominent citizens of Free
port, Ills, have made application to the
secretary of state for the necessary papers
to organize stock company for the pur-
pose constructing water works in that city.
Cairo has now number of gigantic
schemes OF Improvements under way-its
citizens have shown more than ordinary
energy in the Inauguration of new and i'm
portant enterprises 1t may be well to
have all these pushed to successful issue
before others are begun. But that Cairo
ought to have and, perhaps, soon will have
water works is not to be questioned. The
benefits derived from water works are
many; chief among them being the uni
versal supply of water for household pur-
poses, ready water in cases of fire, and wa
ter power that could and would be used in
many instances (THE BULLETIN office for
One) as Il motor instead of steam. Moth
ing would be more generally beneficial or
more profitable than water works in
Cairo.
"A brilliant affair was the Carnival Of
Authors at Hartman's hall last evening.
It was one of the grandest entertainments
ever given in this city and yet it was no
grander than to-night's or tomorrow nights
will be. The hall was comfortably full of
Cairo's best society people, all full of en-
thusiasm and satisfied that they were to be
royalty entertained. And they were, as
any one who was there will testify. The
costumes worn by those who took part in the
tableaux were elegant and appropriate; the
music, vocal and instrumental, was rem
dered by Cairo's favorite musicians, the
recitations, etc, were given IN manner as
near perfect as could be and everything
else was done up to the highest expectations
Of the intelligent audience. We regret that
we have not space in this issue to particu.
larze more infinitely, for every feature
deserves to be highly complimented.
The programme for this evening appears
elsewhere in this issue Of THE BULLETIN
and is fully as interesting as that OF last
night.