The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-05

which the remaining portions of the walls
appear to stand, has compelled Mr., De
Baum to close his place Of business
entirely until the agents Of the insurance
companies in which he holds'policies shall
have adjusted his losses, and the adjoining
wall shall have been rendered firm. A pc.
tition asking that the wall be removed will
probably be presented to the council to
day.
Mayor N. b. Thstlewood and Mr.. L.
B. Church will probably leave to-day for
Robinson, Ills, to attend reunion of the
noted Wilder's Brigade, which is to take
place there on the 9th 9th and 18th of this
month. Mr., Thistlewood was member
of the 0Slh Illinois and Mr.. Church of the
18th Indiana, Wilder's regiment was one
of the best in the army, being we'll mounted
and armed with Spencer rifles. Its exploits
were many and brilliant. 1t will be re.
membered by nearly every soldier in the
country.
AT point about half mile above
Goose pond on the new county road there
are ponds of water on either side, created
10y the cavities made in casting up the en-
bankment and subsequent high rivers.
When the water went down innumerable
small fish were left in the ponds. The
water became stale and the fish all died
and now lie along the edges of the ponds,
emitting an awful stencil, The woods
around about are full of cranes and buz-
yards and other voracious birds, but
they all seem to have sckened
of the odorous food which is
so thick and so cloud" near by them.
! They sit like so many statues on the bare,
stubby limbs of dead trees, cycling one la,
1 lilly and allowing the fish to stink and
t shine, and shine and stink, to the great
l. displeasure of all paSsers.by. The county
board should Immediately import a new
flock of buzzards.
i The fire companies feel somewhat
sighted because Of the Argus seemingly
studied failure to make any mention rele
tive of their good work at Sunday morn
ing's fire, and its particular mention of the
4 work of one of the transfer boats which
:. was not at the scene of the confagration at
y all. The fire companies have reason to be
offended, because every one of them and
T nearly every member of every one of
them, worked nobly for several hours against
e many disadvantages was lack of good
) hose which in these times of Obstructive
conilagrations the city council should i'm.
mediately remove. The steamer Morgan,
o the ferry boat, Three States, aud Messrs.
Halliday's pump boat and tugs did good
work Engineer Cassidy was on the terry
boat and had steam up very shortly after
' the fire alarm had been given and was
, among the first to have water on the fame.
Our floating voluntary fire department
is an important thing and deserves much
praise for I've prompt and effective work
it always does At fires that can be reached
by it, but it must not, and we arc sure it
p docs not wish to, monopolize the praise of
the city's press,
On Saturday Maurice Clancy aud John
Shannessy, two "pals" whose names, by
;, reason OF their association, upon various
occasions with matters of doubtful moral.
ity do not excite very great respect in
L the minds Of those who know them best,
espied countryman on the street whom
they thought they could vc.imize They
made tie mans acquaintance, entlced him
t intoa saloon, made him little tipsy, and
" then proposed"a game" The couutryman
1t consented the party sat down at table near
r. a window at which outside, unknown
10 to the party within, Officer Wins stood and
a watched the whole proceedings. Clancy
n pretended to be the countryman's friend
h his Iong'los brother, as ii were, and he
was selected as stake holder. Shawnessy
= welded the pictures and both winked anc
ii grinned, and grnned and winked at each
r other, as they robbed the countryman of his
is hard earned dollars one by one. Clancy
rs constantly urging the man to bet higher
IT, assuring him that he would win, and a
1s the same time conveying to his unscrupu
Ious "pal" information relative to the
n character of his victims "hand,
,. Yesterday the two "black legs" were
ly brought before Magistrate Comings for
g. trial. Their victim and the officer appeared
As against them. The officer swore to seeing
" the proceedings and the victim swore thai
.e he didn't know how he lost all his money
lie knew no had been drinking; he remem
r. bered playing cards and betting everywhere
,s between fifty cents and dollar and half