The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-16

road are taking up the business IN way
that threatens to make the exchange and
nonexchange dealers combine for self
preservation.
DIR. Mary Walker has secured posi-
ton in Washington. She has beer appoint
ed clerk of the special committee on wom-
ans suffrage, of which Senator Lapham is
chairman, and is to receive six dollars day.
The grand jury was discharged yester-
day, partly because there was no money in
the fund with which to pay them, and
partly because there was no further I'M
portant business to transact. 1t found
seven or eight indictments.
-Paducah Enterprise: "The effects of
good opera hause are very evident, when
it is known that about seventy-6ve of our
best citizens went down to Cairo yesterday
to see the Emma Abbott opera company,
troupe that would not come TO Paducah,
because we nave suCu u ulseiaplc u"il'
Its said that Oscar Wilde, while in
Washington being invited to 90 TO the
table, remarked, 81 have dined and do not
dawncc; those who dawnce do not dine"
This wonderful ebulltion of wit has passed
into universal currency. Everybody answers
everybody with This phrase.
Geo. s. M,Grew, with Geo. d.
Barnard & Co., st. Louis will be at The
Halliday" on Saturday and Monday, Feb.
9Th and Goth. fyou need any blank books
or Lithographing notify him by telephone
or otherwise and he will take pleasure in
calling on YOU. st.
1t is probable that the old Wilcox block
near the junction of Washington avenue
and Poplar street, will soon give place to
a handsome two story Ibrick structure,
stores on the first floor aad one large hall
on the second The change is certainly de-
sirable and will be hailed with pleasure by
citizens generally,
The man Settle, who was arrested in
this city few days ago by Chief Myers
for being vagrant, and whose trial was
postponed day or two, has left the city.
He and Sol" Buckner, two of Paducah's
favorite "bums." have found things too
warm for them in Cairo and have gone in
search Of more agreeable atmosphere
where officers of the lsw are less trouble.
some.
The Ohio river is still on fall at this
point. 1t fell three inches during the
twenty.four hours ending at l IL o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at which time it stood
forty -four feet two inches on the
guage. The rivers also fell at Chattanooga,
Cincinnati and Nashville, and at st. Louis
I'll was stationary. No rains reported
anywhere, but the thermometer was
climbing.
General Hancock had genial but not
quiet time at Little Rock He was BAN
quoted and compelled to make a speech,
in which he said: 81 am really an old
Arkansas gentleman. first came to this
state thrty.eight years ago, although !
may not like to acknowledge it. At which
time crossed the Ozark mountains to at
tend the wedding of Gen. Abe Buford
who, see has joined the church and re.
tired from the turf
Yesterday morning was consumed in
the circuit court in argument upon motions.
After dinner the case Of Luella Walker, a
negress who was tried at previous term Of
the court for having burglarized the house
OF Mrs. p X. Howard, but discharged be-
cause Of an error in the Indictment, was
again taken up. The trial lasted
nearly all afternoon and the case
was given to the jury about five O'Clock.
After being out about an hour, the jury
found verdict Of guilty under the second
count-of entering an open house and TAX
ing property thercfrom. Court then adj
journed until this morning.
Remember the IIibernian sociable to-
night. 1t.
"A team of horses, drawing one Of
Messrs Halliday Bros's heavy transfer
wagons with the driver and three little boys
aboard, came near being drowned in hole
filed with water at the corner Of Seven.
teen,h and Poplar streets about five o'clock
Tuesday evening, The driver attempted
to drive through the water to wash of the
horses and the wagon, when the horses lost
their footing and swan. The veins became
entangled with the harness in u manner that
prevented the driver from guiding the
team properly, and the result was that the
horses drew the wagon into deep water
endangering the little fellows, who had