The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-07

from 81. LOUIS, where ue Hdu Oeen 10 loUh
after one of the Anchor line steamers which
had received some injury from snag in the
river near st. Louis.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Gilbert were in
attendance upon the wedding of the latter's
brother, Mr.. John d. Barry, to Miss Lillian
E. Clement, which took place at Godfrey,
Ill.,, on the 4th inst.
A little surprise party made the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Schulz lively
Thursday night. 1t was the tenth an
niversary of the wedding of Mr.. and Mrs
Schulz, and it was very fittingly celebrated
The Amana German religious society
of Iowa county, owns $4,000 acres Of land
and is in prosperous condition. This
year the members raised good crop OF
barley, which will be made into beer for
their own use by the three breweries owned
by the society. AS they sell none, they
are not liable to taxation.
1t is about time now that our mer-
chants were taking the preliminary steps
for the free excursion to Cairo of mer-
chants living along the Cairo & Texas rail-
road between here and Jonesboro, Ark, of
which mention was made some time ago.
The excursion train should be among the
| FIRST trans on the road for then the ex-
element will be the greatest along the
road and much larger crowd would be
secured.
Accidentally, a housekeeper made
discovery that may interest our readers
For cooking purposes she beat up some
eggs and sugared them She was called
suddenly to the country, and only returned
four months later. The sugar eggs had
not been touched. Expecting to find the
mess spoiled or dried up, she surprised to
find the dish, although exposed to the air,
as sweet as ever, and found it as servicea-
BILE as if freshly beaten; besides the ripen'
ing had greatly improved the color.
The railway age reports the conStruc-
ton Of 1909 miles Of main track during
the month of September, and.a total for
the nine months of the present year, S,O15
miles. 1t estimates the total for the en-
tire year at 10000 miles, an amount far
greater than ever before built in one sea-
son. Largest amount of track laying during
the past month: Iowa, 154 riies. The
other leading states were as follows: Penn
sylvania, OF miles; Georgia, "a miles; Cali
fornia SO miles; Colorado, "a miles; Texas,
"a miles; New York, n miles
A dispatch from Murphysboro, under
date of Tuesday, says: ut was thought
last week that all the mines in this district
would be running full force by this time,
but the Mt. Carbon miners held meeting
Yesterday and decided not to accept the
offer of the company (65 cents per tom and
agreed not to go to work for less than 90ss
cents per ton This settles the question as
far as the white miners are concerned, as
the company are getting colored miners
from southern districts, and will soon be
making their usual shipments"
Iron express cars have been put on the
Southern Pacific railroad. The car Is de-
scribcd as beingvery strong and bulletproof,
very important item in the Arizona coun-
try. It is made in two compartments
one for the treasure, and the other for five
or SIX expreSsmen and guards. There are
doors only on the sides, and loopholes in
the side of the car give the expressmen,
who are full armed, fine an opportunity
to pick off train-robbers. In addition to
this force of men, arms and ammunition,
there were four Siberian bloodhounds IN
the car. The hounds cost $3.50 each The
same style Of car will 60 with each tram.
The Railroad Gazette commenting on
recent accident, says; Probably the most
noticeable features in the large number OF
collisions, and especially butting collisions
The butting collision is peculiarly an acct.
dent management, A sudden storm, a
land slide, many other things which can
not well be foreseen, may cause derail-
ments;a break down, fog or some such
cause may explain rear collision, but a
butting collision in its nature pre-supposes
carelessness or mistake somewhere, and
the blame is generally supposed to rest be-
tween the train dispatcher and the two men
upon whom devolves the movement of the
train itself, the conductor and the engineer
That such accidents should increase in
number is not credltable.
The earnings Of the Chicago, st. Louis
e New Orleans RAILROAD have decreased
thus far this year about $350,O00, as COM
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