The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-28

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The discharged jurymen in the Guiteau
case must feel good deal like souls just
out of Purgatoy. Their lives have not OF
late been cast in pleasant places.
George Gist and Samuel Cooper both
arrested by Officers Martin and Ma hanny
| for drunkenness, we're each fined one dollar
and costs by Magistrate Comings yesterday.
Mr.. Charles G. Mason, for long time
one of the clerks in the Illinois Central
railroad office, was promoted to the chief
clerkship in that office a few days ago.
The rattle of the fancy buffalo horn
chair of Mr.. j. W. Everly took place at Mr..
0'Hara's drug store, on Tuesday Of this
week. Number twenty-five proved to be
the lucky number, and it was held by Mr..
VIM. Wolfe, of the New York store.
The ferryboat, Three States, will make
a grand excursion trip to Wickliffe Sunday
afternoon, leaving the wharf at two o'clock
and remaining at Wcklifle long enough for
excursionists to view the town. Round trip
25 cents. ct.
Number one of volume one of the
WicklifTe Tribune has reached this office.
1t is six column folio, published week
ly by Mr.. II. +, Thurman. 1t has much
better appearance than country papers usu-
ally have 1t is welcomed to THE BULLETINS
exchange table and deserves to prosper.
The sewer crossing Fourteenth street,
on the east side of Poplar, has caved in, causss
ing hole near the centre of the street of
about three feet deep and four feet in di-
ameter. 1t has been baricaded, however, to
avoid accidents and will doubtless be filed
up and the sewer repaired as soon as the
weather will permit
"A lady named Mrs. Dennis O'Brien,
living in the Clark block, on Ohio levee,
died yesterday about noon, and will be
taken to Grand Chain for burial to-day.
She was the mother of a numerous family
of children, one Of whom is employed as
"devil" in THE BULLETIN composing-room.
A white man named Jacob McEwen
and a negro were out in canoe on the back
water, just below Belmont, on Wednesday,
and, in an unguarded moment they lost
their balance, turned the canoe over, and
the white man was drowned. The negro
saved himself by clinging to the overturned
canoe until help came to him.
One thousand dollars worth Of mules,
belonging to Mr.. Frank Crossno, a Mississip-
picounty, Mo-, farmer, died from the effects
Of being driven through cold back water a
day or two ago. They were on a ridge
surrounded by water, and Mr.. Crossno drove
them through the water to his stables with
the result as stated
The Illinois Central railroad has large
force of men constantly at work in the
railroad yards, repairing the company's
tracks, Continued wet weather has had an
injurious effect upon the ties and much
traffic has done the same for the rails, hence
the urgent necessity for extensive repairs.
An item is going the rounds to the
effect that fortune-teller drove woman
crazy in Buffalo, N. Y, the other day.
Not for the sake of the fortune-teller pro-
fession, but for the sake of truth, we feel
like starting the suspicion that the woman
was crazy before she went to the clairvoy-
ants house. She must have been.
The steamer John B. Maude attempted
to cross over the made land on the Missis
slppi side Of Cairo yesterday morning into
the channel, but when she reached point
about opposite the slaughter houses, she
ran aground rightin corn field. All the
power of her mighty engines was not equal
to the task ofpulling her off again, and the
Port Eads went to her assistance and drew
her off.
"A school master near Red Bud, sta
ton on the Cairo & st. Louis narrow gauge
railroad, last week attempted to administer
bodily punishment to pupil, eighteen
years of age, The boy resisted and in the
struggle which ensued stabbed the teacher
with sharply pointed lead pencil. Tie
teacher died within few minutes, death
being caused by the excessive bleeding Of
the wound.
The Vienna Times speaks thus sensibly
of the duty of the press in places where
small -pox exists: wherever the smallpox
breaks out, it is the duty of the people of
that vicinity to publish it, that the public
may guard against it. In some places the
fact is kept back from the fear of injuring
trade. We value one life more than all the