The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-16

COHtIHuc ds TepoTteIs, WIN OtIcIs,
An important transfer of land within
the limits Of the city Of Cairo has recently
been made, which has not been recorded at
the circuit clerks Office of Alexander
County. The Cairo City Property Compa-
ny has sold to the Mobile g. OHIO Railroad
Company, for railroad purposes, a tract OF
land from the point up along the inside OF
Mississippi levee to where the powder
magazines stand. City Engineer Charles
Thrupp was yesterday engaged in laying it
out.
Might before last white man named
Fisher, who was employed on barge near
Halliday Brothers coal-dump, while en-
deavoring to haul in line, fell overheard
and went under the barge. Other men
were on hand and with poles and ropes
stood ready TO lend him every assistance as
soon as he should appear upon the surface.
But the poor fellow did not appear upon
the surface, and poles were thrust down at
various points below where he
had fallen in, one Of
which came id contact with his body by
the merest accident and he grasped it.
He was drawn out ofthe water and proper
ly cared for, and at last accounts was
nearly all right again.
The meetings OF the temperance peo-
pie yesterday-in the afternoon and even
ing, were largely attended. There seems
to be no decrease in the interest manifested
by the members of the club nor by the
speakers. for the attendance is as large and
the exercises are as interesting when the
meetings are held twice day as
when they are held only once,
Rev. P. C. Bush addressed
the assembled throngs both afternoon and
evening, making it highly interesting for
all who heard him There will be another
meeting at half-past three o'clock this
afternoon and the evening meeting will
take place at eight o'clock, instead of seven
as usual. Rev p. G. Bush is still on hand,
and will speak at both meetings.
Mr. George G.. Wichert, the cigar
manufacturer, near the corner of Fourteenth
street and Washington avenue, is now bet
ter than ever, prepared to furnish the best
cigars, in any quantity, in the city. Owing
to the scarcity of skilled cigar makers in
the past he was not able to supply his
trade as rapidly as was desired, but he has
now renedied this evil by employing eight
cigar rs-all artists IN their particular
line, and can now accommodate his many
customers on the shortest notice. He has
on hand large quantity Of the finest raw
material, also fine tobacco Of
very kind, which he offers
to sell as low as any in the city
His trade has already increased percep!i-
bly,, which has induced him to make a
number Of improvements In his business.
His shop is one Of the most elegant in the
city, and he is the only one that has thus
far met the demand of the times by sup
plying himself with telephone. His num-
Der is 119 and all orders sent by telephone
will have prompt attention.
The petition of the people Of the state
OF Illinois asking that the Illinois legisla-
ture submit to them the question whether
or not the manufacture and sale of liquors
shall be prohibited, has met-not deaf ear
but a violent rebuke from the republican
Legislature. The petition asked for what
every people have right TO have asked
for the least possible recognition, by the
representatives Of the people, Of the tenn
perence element IN the state
but the solons scorned the petition
and consigned the petitioners to
utter hopefulncss Whatever may have
been the objections to the question that
was to be propounded to the people land
there were probably many serious obiec-
tons to it,, that ought to have been left
with them to decide. 1t was for the legis-
lature to say whether the people should be
heard in the matter or not, and nothing
else. The peoples representatives have not
acted fairly with them.
Pursuant to call from the mayor the
city council met in special meeting at the
council chamber last night. The mayor
and six aldermen were present. The Or
dinance, amending section twenty-three of
chapter five so as to permit the erection of
lamp-posts at nearer distances than
two hundred feet, was adop-
ted. The report Of the committee appoint
cd to appraise railroad strip lots was laid
on the table The report of the committee
on streets was accepted, and several recon-
mendations made by it concurred In. A
resolution offered by Alderman Blake, in.