The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-01

prosperous life.
The report that dog in the shop of
Messrs. Iinke & Son severely bit man
Suday is not true. The man was not bitten
at all. He only received slight scratch
on the leg from the dogs claw.
In giving the list of candidates for
the appellate clerkshp Sunday we failed
10 mention the names of Messrs Robert
Ross, circuit clerk, at Vandalia; Richard
Burns, county clerk of Clay county, and
Henry Hail. of Madison county. The two
first named and Hon. R. A. D. Wilbanks
are the three most prominent and general
| ly most popular candidates for the office in
the district.
Friday evening white man named
Foster, at Thebes, in this county, accident
ally shot himself in the leg, the ball enter
ing near the middle of the thigh and
lodging in the knee. Dr. Gibbswas called
to attend, but at last accounts had been
unable to extract the ball Foster had
been around Thebes for few DAYS, and just
before tAe accident occurred, had been in
quarrel. He held his pistol in his pants
pocket preparatory to using it in case op.
portunity offered, and it was discharged
with the effect stated.
Persons interested in the working OF a
beautiful piece Of mechanism, are invited
to call at THE BULLETIN Job rooms aud see
our little Baxter engine run. 1t is really
worth seeing. 1t takes up no more room
than base burner stove, and will runs all
| day on less wood than it takes to run an
ordinary cooking stove, while in power 1t
is little giant. We had been doing our
work with ten horse power engine using
eight to twelve tons Of coal month, and
| the Baxter does the same work with fifty
pounds of STEAM Gts tuIl working power Is
at 100 pounds, and an srmful of wood a
day, making as little noise about it as a light
running Domestic sewing machine.
Mr.. w. G. Davis, manager OF the Cairo
Oil company, who has been travelling very
extensively through the cetton fields of
| the south during the last week or two,
returned Sunday He found the cotton
crop generally in good condition, and the
people very hopeful of aprosperous future.
| He brought with him cotton tree bearing
one hundred aud fifty three boles of cotton
in various stages of development The
tree stood about six feet high and It's spread
was fully BALI again az much. 1t was fair
sample, which proves that the cotton
growers will have bonanza this year 1t
is a curiosity here and ornaments The
BULLETIN editorial room.
By the failure of E. A. Willard at
Jonesboro one hundred and fifty depositors
lost all they had in the bank The smallest
deposit was three dollars, by Eva Schore;
the largest individual deposit was &c.
! 39215, by Thos Hleman; the next largest
was Sc, 39073, by Joseph Rendleman; the
next, $5,22695, by Mrs, n Mowery. The
total amount Of deposits, including sl4,-
5000 by Sheriff Henry Rendeman for the
county, was $lOs,141.61. The Jonesboro
Gazette published a full list of the. de.
positors and says there are but few business
men among them. Up to last Sunday no
news as to the whereabouts of Willard had
| been received.
The members of the State Democratic
Central committee, residing in this judicial
district, l. G. Hon. D. B. Gillian, chairman
of the committee. and Hons. +. NJ. Young
blood, $. L. Dwight, T. F. Bouton and NJ.
NJ. Pool, will meet at East St. Louis on
Thursday, this week, August 4th, for the
purpose of fixing the time and place Of
holding the Democratic judicial conven.
ton to nominate candidate for appellate
clerk, II is believed that the 10th day Of
August will be the day agreed upon, at
any rate it is likely that an early day will
be fixed. The candidates have already
been very busy attending conventions and
buttonholing the delegates that have SO far
been selected. All are good men for the
place, each has his hangers-on, Of course,
| who believe him to be the best of the lot
And where all are good no mistake can be
made. The convention will not fail to
select r man who will nave the confidence
and good will Of the entire party, and who
will reflect credit upon the party.
The sipe water committee will proba.
bly, make a report to the city council at
its next regular meeting. 1t has been very
active within the past few days and has
learned enough to permit the formation Of
an intelligent opinion with reference a,
least to the principal inlets Of the sipe wa
ter proper. II has found that while sipe