The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-04

being "rather aggressive, and has attacked
the administration in genera and Corkhlll
| in particular She is confident her brother
will be saved
Tuesday nights council meeting was
the first of this fiscal year which began
May 1st, The meeting is usually one
of the most important Of the year as ap-
pointments for the several city offices are
then usually made and confirmed; but at
this meeting there WAS too much other
business of importance aud nominations
were deferred until the next regular meet
ing which will be next Tuesday, Doubt
less Mayor Thistlewood has tho slate
already prepared, and, also no doubt, his
nominations will be good ones,
Elsewhere, in special locals, appears a
call for a meeting Of the Hibcrniap Fire
company to be held at the council chamber
this evening. The important business
referred to in the notice is q resolution Of
| fered at previous meeting, to the effect
that the rule exempting members from
dues and fines after seven years service be
abrogated. The principal reason offered
in support Of this resolution is, that the
members to whom the rule applies, though
heretofore among the most active, are grad
ually becoming less so.
Yesterday three more cases of varioloid
were reported to the authorities from diff
ierent parts of the city. Theyswere all
negroes; one, child living on Thirteenth
street, back of Cedar; another, a woman
living next to the Hibernian engine house,
on Washington avenue, and the third,
woman living in that filthy neighborhood,
known as "Cat Fish Row." on Ohio lovee,
between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets.
The cases were all properly aud promptly
attended to by Mayor Thistlewood and
Chief Myers.
The base ball club which was to have
been organized at Harry Walkers last Sun
day afternoon was not organized because
no one among all the young men present
was an adept at pitching. The object was
to organize a good club, one which would
make name for itself in contest with 9TH
er similar organization picked nine, as
it were. But the undertaking has not been
abandoned. Mr. Walker has sent to st.
Louis for good ball pitcher who will prob
ably arrive this week or next and then the
organization will be effected. Mr.. VIM.
Page, the champion catcher, is still IN the
city and will join in the sport
GRANDMOTHER Argus says she "fnds no
fault with the character of work done in
digging the canal but only shows up the
folly Of digging it at all"-So far as THE
BULLETIN has been able to see the old lady
has 'shown up" nothing. Her dissertations
concerning Clutch Gap" and the canal have
been nothing but silly criticisms and preju
diced misstatements, unsupported by sin
gle fact. Her lame attempt to justify her
unjustifable course, now that the gap and
canal have accomplished their work salts
factorily, proves that she is at least con-
cious of having made damphool of herself
AT the council meeting Tuesday night
among the bills presented for reference to
the committee on claims were two for labor
on Dutch Gap" and the canal, one of
which called for 1901 so, and theother
100000, making a total of $99252. This
is about all that the work so far done has
cost, and all that remains to be done is to
close the canal, which will not cost a hun
dred dollars. The total cost Of opening
and closing the gap and canal will not ex
coed twelve hundred dollars which will fall
considerably short of three thousand which
was estimated by Grandmother Argus and
Others to be the cost OF the work,
"A man named Richard Needham was
fined five dollars aud costs by Justice
Robinson yesterday for being disorderly.
Charles Smith and John Dousc we're fined
one dollar and costs each for drunkenness.
Forren Conway was held to bail in the sum
of one hundred dollars for larceny He
had partner named Henry Bigle with
whom he went to bed night before last.
Early in the morning he arose, took his
partners pants out from under his pillow,
extracted therefrom two and half dol
lars and then sought to make himself scarce.
But Bigle notified Officers Martin and
Mahanny Of the incident and these brought
the thief to grief
The refusal of the st. Louis & Cairo
railroad company to accept or even notice.
the last proposition Of the subcommittee
of five does not surprise TIE BULLETIN one