The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-13

day afternoon for placing lamp post a
the corner of Seventeenth street and Com
mercial avenue, The ground pipe was be
ing laid.
An improvement has been made b,
Mr.Patrick Fitzgerald in front of his salooI
on Commercial avenue. The sidewalk
which was originally Of cinders, has beer
covered with thick layer of gravel.
The colored people Of Kansas City arr
highly delighted over the election Of ont
of their number to the position of super
visor of registration-f first time in the
history of the city that a colored man has
been elected to any office.
"A young woman named Maud Craw
ford member of the Broadway Opera House
company, of Paducah, attempted to drown
herself in the river at Paducah on Monday
evening while undo the influence of liquor
She was saved by female friend,
Mr. Richard Fitzgerald desires us to
say that he does not countenance the
movement that has been put on foot to
bring him out as a candidate for Mayor,
He says that he does not want the office
and would not serve if he were elected.
johnson Fisher, negro, who is charg-
ed with assisting prisoner in lawful
custody to escape, and who was to have
been tried in the county court a few days
ago, took a change Of venue to Union
county, where the case will be settled
soon.
The council committee on claims met
in the Office of Alderman Blake yesterday
evening and took under consideration a
number of bills referred to it by the coun-
Gil at its previous meeting. The commit
tee reported the result of its labors to the
council last night
--LeDuc thinks that sugar can be made
cheaper in Minnesota than in Louisiana,
and in greater quantity, and tea can be
grown proftably in Georgia, and when its
culture is established we can raise for lG
cents per pound as good an article as we
now pay 80 or 60 cents at wholesale.
"A bill regulating the weight of coal
and articles of produce and provisions
generally; another, Furnishing saloon keep
ers with fine and imprisonment for persist
ing in selling their wares on Sunday; still
another making general election and decor
alton days legal holidays, are under consid-
Grafton in the Illinois legislature.
Frank Walker has gone to Blooming
ton to take a position in the job office of
the Bloomington Bulletin. We wish him
success, and in order to secure it would ad- |
wise him to be more reliable in every re-
spect in that office than he has ever been in |
this. He is capable enough, but his great
failing is to care nothing about his own or
his employers interest.
On Monday, the eleventh inst, John
T. Raymond, the actor, who is quite
favorite with Cairo theatre.golng people
because Of his talent, was married at the
Continental Hotel, in New York city, TO
Miss Courtney Barness, the daughter of
Rose Eytinge. John, whose real name
vas O'Brien, went before court and had
t changed to his stage name, John 7.
Raymond, under which he had become
amous. Miss Barnes was an intimate
'rend Of Johns first wife.
Reports Of lawlessness by tramps be-
gin coming in already, the weather having
become warm enough for this dangerous
lass to begin their annual wanderings.
It is to be hoped that all such lawlessness
will be punished swiftly and surely. There
S work enough for all in this country;
here is no excuse for idleness and vagabon-
lage and the outlaws who are making the
hitherto peaceful rural districts unsafe
must be put down, The professional tramps
are the greatest enemies honest working
men have.
"A grand success was the meeting of
citizens at the hail of the Hibernian fire
last evening for the purpose of
taking steps toward the organization of a
military company In spite of the bad
weather a large number of good sized,
healthy men were on hand, nearly all en-
Enthusiastically bent upon an immediate Or
ganization but after some deliberation it was
decided to have an enrolment, and meet
upon some future night for the purpose of |
an organization. Ftty.six
members were enrolled last night and
next Thursday evening was appointed for
the next meeting when thorough organ.
ization will be effected.
Sunday afternoon two men--a white
man named August Baker, who has been