The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-28

in-law were IN a skiff day before yesterday,
on the way from their farm six miles above
Cairo, coming to town to purchase supplies.
By some means the skif was upset and the
two men were drowned. The woman saved
herself and children by clinging with them
to the boat until rescued by the Storm No.
3, Capt. Hiram Davis.
-Logans little billfor putting Grant on
the retired list of the army has at last
passed the senate by thirty.five yeas to sew
enteen nays. 1t authorizes the president
to- nominate Grant to the rank of general of
the army, and then place him upon the re-
tired list. Its purpose is to enable the man
on horseback to continue there instead of
getting on foot, since he has an income of
only about $4,000 year.
In Chicago two youngscoundresnamed
O'Rourke, who assaulted and robbed an old
man on the ccrncr of Clinton and Randolph
streets, were found guilty by the jury in the
criminal court last week, and their punish
ment fixed at 81 years each in the peniten-
tiary. This isnoDe too much for the offense
committed, but it is about three times as
great as is usually awarded to those who
kill their man instead of simply pounding
him.
If the bill to retire in August all In
ternal Revenue Collectors who have served
more than four years becomes law, Will.
lis, of this district will go glimmerng
along with Merriman, of the Springfield
district, and if the additional clause of the
bill, limiting the term of all collectors to
four years, becomes law, Rowel, of the
Quincy district, will sing:
"If SO quickly am done for
what on earth was begun fort"
Few people know what really IA
nous day the ED of February is. On that
day, $50 years ago, George Washington wa
born; just 100 years later the greatest flood
of the century reached its highest point at
the Falls of the Ohio; and just fifty years
from that rise another great food in the
Ohio climbed to its climax there. Perhaps
a mention of these condolences will enable
a great number of people to remember the
day that the banks celebrate with so much
enthusiasm.
The ladies need not be ashamed of
their fear of a mouse. The New Haven
Register says: ut is one of the PECULIAR.
ties of an elephant that the sight of a
mouse or rat, and to less degree kitten,
throws him into great fright. In India
there is a small animal about the size Of a
mouse, which has apropensity for crawling
into elephants trunks and making i. very
uncomfortable for them, fact which is
thought to account for the terror with
which the sight of a mouse inspires the an
finals after they leave their native haunis.
philidelphias Citizens Reform Com
mittee few weeks ago offered $4,000
reward for the arrest and conviction of per
sons found violating the election laws at the
municipal election which occurred Tuesday
The citizens have been plundered so out
rageously by the rings that they have become
desperate and determined to secure al
honest Council and city officers. The Wig
liant and aggressive work of honest tax
paying citizens are the only means by which
{ any city can be saved from plundering bum
: mers Ca Tuesday last the Philadelphia
ring was annihiated.
G New York City does not seem read
4 to give up the project Of great fair i
Z 1888. The American Agricultural Socet
at its recent convention decided that a
9 American exposition should be held at a
+ early date under the auspices Of the assc
h citation, and an exposition committee wa
!. appointed to confer with the representative
% of various industries as to the propriety {
i. holding the affair in that city. On the 1t
aprvate meeting was held in parlor {
the Grand Central Hotel, New York, a
tended by about fifty men from variov
;. parts Of the country, all of whom Shove
great enthusiasm over the proposed fair.
First Assistant Postmaster. Gencr,
: Hatton has issued the following ordei
"Postmss era will not allow non subscriber
to take from the boxes, nor will they han
to them, newspapers addressed to subrcril
81 ers refold and return them into the gener
' delivery without verbal or written perm
10 from such subscriber A violation of tn
v regulation will be considered rs sufiice
y ground for the removal Of the offendr
IN postmaster" This means that you cam
go to the postofticc, take out your neig
r. boris paper read it and hand it back. LA
ns tons head is level Now if we could on
g get regulation to prevent the borrowir