The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-30

given during the campaign ana was 'here'
fore a fitting finale,
The transfer steamers W. b. Duncan
md Junius S. Morgan ran race irSm near
tho point to the Illinois Centralinclne yes
terday afternoon. The former wa to the
right; both were about equally lstcn with
cars, and each trled her best to beat the
other out of the landing, But tie Morgan
proved too much for the Duncan and beat
her more than full length.
A white man named Scot wlo was EN-
ployed as Waterman on the steamlr Morgan,
fell into the holdof the boat yesteday after
noon and was seriously injured il the back.
He was taken to the marine hospital station
for treatment He is the same who, it will
be remembered, was long yer, sick last
year and for whose care, and tlat of his
family kind citizens contributed Literally.
This time the expense Of his postration
falls upon the government, but hs family
will be again deprived of his support for
the time being.
-Forepaughs show will be here to. day.
twill be the wfole show and therefore
equal to two or three others combined If
you would see it all, you must &C early
and stay late, for the afnte
variety and great number even
Of only its most important features
cannot be seen IN few hours. The street
parade will be one of the attractive feat
urcs and the most attractive in his
will be the Lalla Rookh of to-day, who has
everywhere been pronounced to be the most
beautiful woman in the world. The equcs-
trian talent, the menagerie and in fact
every other feature under the great tents is
each in itself a whole show.
There are now 252 cotton mills in the
south, with an actual invested capital Of
$4l, 24l ,450, and having 1887 400 spindIss
20600 looms and ,931 sets of card. There
are several companies now being organized
one in Georgia with $l,500,0O0 capital
but these are not included in the estimate,
1t ia safe to say that by the beginning Of
another year there will be over $45,000,000
invested in cotton factories in the southern
states. Nearly every dollar of this vast
sum has been invested since the close of
the war, and more than one-third Of il since
1880. There will be 500, 900 invested
in cotton manufacturing in the south within
the next dozen years.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of da-
monds andvalusble jewelry were stolen at
the Cincinnati exposition building shortly
after the doors opened Friday morning from
the exhibit of C. Oskamp. The diamonds
were insecurity kept in show case fssten-
ed with two small padocks and the owners
had no Sne IN charge to guard the proper
". A visitor to the exposition saw two men
90 to the case and open it with such appar-
ent ease as to give the impression that they
were the owners. After selecting all they
wanted they quietly walked away. Ten
minutes afterwards the theft was discoy
cred.
Chester Tribune: "THE CAIRO Bull
LETIN says Hon, W. *. Murphy, Democrat
ic candidate for congress, is a farmer aud
raises sweet potatoes. If we are not mis-
taken Mr.. Murphy is the owner of a coal
mine, but it does not. follow. that he is a
miner However, he occasionally raises
Cain' among the miners by lowering their
wages, but the hundreds of miners in the
district will realiate this fall, and raise
Mr.. Murphy, Captain Murphy will GER
tainly feel grateful to the Tribune for this
accidental compliment. "The hundreds of
miners will retalate this fall, and raise
Mr.. Murphy" Shake, good Tribune! We
are with you. We will assist the miners to
raise Mr.. Murphy and will not desist until
we have raised him safely into the congres
sional seat.
"A committee, appointed to search the
House Journal of the Thirty-second Gen
era( Assembly of Illinois, for a record OF
the resolution Of Mr.. Chafee, providing
for the submission to the people of the
state of a constitutional amendment prohi
biting the manufacture and sale Of intoXi.
eating liquors, has concluded its laborS
and made report. Fridays BULLETIN, it
will be remembered, stated that such res
olution had been offered, but that the index
to the House Journal, for some reason
failed to give any record Of it after it had
been "laid over under the rules" But a
diligent search through the journal re-
vealed further record. 1t appears tina,
the resolution was finally put to vote, and