The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-29
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices In these columns, ten cents per ina
zach insertion. Marked

ball will be by the Halliday GUARDS a.
Hartmans elegant hall on Easter Monday
Get ready to take your rations on the
head of salt barrel, either in the WOOD
house or out in the back yard, for house
cleaning time is near at hand.
The Halliday guards are having night
ly drills in the old Reform Club hall, pre-
pairing for the coming of the inspecting
officer who will arrive in Cairo next Monday
Fifteen convicts were received at the
Chester penitentiary last week. TWO came
from Union county, seven from st. Clair,
four from Fayet.e and two from Randolph
Two convicts were discharged.
"A man and woman, George and
Frances Marquard, who came here from the
south and were making the rounds of the
city, begging, were arrested by officer Haz'
Mortin yesterday, ana fined five dollars and
costs each by Justice Robinson and given
until six o'clock to leave the town.
Columbus, like Mound City, has ban
ished its sipe water by cutting the levee
and allowing it to run out; bat Columbus
did not, like Mound City, first spend
four or five hundred dollars for a little
pump with which to experiment. Columbus
has evidently profted by Mound City's ex-
perience.
The right Rev. Geo. F. Seymour,
bishop of Springfield, will preach at ST.
Marks Episcopal church in Chester next
Friday. A class of eight will be confirmed
IN the evening. Rev. A. Z. Wells, pastor
of the church, will preach his farewell ser
mon on Sunday, April ?. He hiss accepted
call to take charge Of congregation st
Kansas City, No.
The Illinois supreme coIrs co reAetf-
ing has decided tia, probate ccarti n the
state of Illinois are legal. II il - tree
much unpleasant complexities II probate
matters will be obEis,ei. TIE sies; al abs
decision is 10 reverse TIE 6adi1g 81 The CaoE
county court, settles tie validity Of the pro
bate court and prevents legal Chaos which
was imminent in the county.
AT the meeting of the Builders and
Losn association. held at the Office Of Mag
istra,e Comings Monday night, the follow
ing directors were elected: Vim. Schoa'I,
J. r. Mcclure and A. Comings, for three
years P. A. Conant, for two wears, and l..
II. Lohr, for one year; the two last named
were elected to fill vacancies, one of which
was created by the departure from the city
of Mr.. F. S. Kent.
The average stage Of the thermometer
in the northwest yesterday, as reported
from twenty different places, was tifty-six
degrees above zero. The lowest was forty
four at Pittsburgh, and the highest, sixty
eight, at Omaha; at Cairo it was fifty-three.
The barometer was lower than usual. No
rain was reported from any point, and the
sky was generally clear and fair.
Mfr. F. NJ. Ward offers for sale his neat
and commodions cottage on Commercial
avenue, near the corner of Eighteenth street.
The place embraces two lots, out-houscs,
ETC., and stands high and dry above the
sipe water. The lots, in the near future,
will be very valuable for business houses.
He also offers his teams, wagons, etc, for
sale, having been captivated by the pros.
poets offered him in Kansas City, from
which he returned yesterday, and proposes
to make his future home in that place. 1t
Daniel Harper of Golden, was COM
mitted to Jail at Springfield Monday by
United States Commissioner Bradford in
default of 81 900 bail. His offence is, it is
alleged, that he ran witness out of the
country by giving him a pair of mules,
wagon and harness, to prevent him from
testifying against Rcndleman, an illicit
distillcd,in that part of the state. There
are probably several more "Daniel Harpers
in Southern Illinois whose offense in the
way of running witnesses out of tho coun.
try" extends to more serious cases than il.
lcit distilling. The proper punishment OF
q few Of these witness supprcssors would
have healthy effect upon criminal pros
ecutiou, generally.
AT this point no change was visible In
the Ohio river during the twenty-four hours
ending at one o'clock yesterday afternoon
at which time it marked forty-one feet -four
inches on the guage. At points above
changes were reported as follows: Chat
tanooga, rise of one foot five inches; Nash
Vile, rise of two inches; Cincinnati, fall o.
four feet four inches; Louisville, fall of two
feet eight inches; St. Louis, fall Of foul
inches. AS stated in yesterdays BULLETIN
the total rise at Louisville was eleven fec