The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-26

lily a short visit and is now on his way
home.
The first bale of cotton received at
Louisville was sold at the board of trade
Thursday for 80 cents per pound class mid
ding 1t came from Wetumpka, Ala, to
Trabue, Davis " Co., Louisville, and was
sold to j, p Farwood Il Co.
The Prohbitionists at Chicago have
adopted a platform demanding the sboli
ton of licensed sale of liquors, the aboli-
ton Of polygamy, the Acknowledgement of
women and the election of officers by the
people, as far as is possible, in place of SO
many appointments
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas,
under date of August cath says sixty
two new cases were reported to-day; two
deaths. Twenty-Five quarantine guards
were sworn in to-day at the custom house
to aid in combining the yellow fever to its
present district, Three cases Of fever de.
veloped in Fort Brown. The troops are
scattering into camps near by. In Mata-
morss there were deaths and few new
cases The weather is clear"
AT the meeting of the state board of
equalization Wednesday, Mr.. Scott offered
resolution that in the opinion OF the board
the real and personal property of the state
is assessed at 80 per cent of its cash value
for the year 1882. The resolution was made
the special order for Wednesday of next
week If the resolution, after thorough in.
vestigation by the board is adopted, then
the value of Alexander county's property is
just $4,31S,O62,
Since Dixon Springs has been taken
in charge by Mr. Lemen and thoroughly
ovcrhauled Cairoites lost all interest in
Saratoga, and Coney island and they will not
be at all interested in the fact that at the
latter place extensive changes are to be
made next Summer by the Manhattan Beach
company, by which the extensive marshes
which occupy so much of the Island near
Manhattan are to be reclaimed and trans
formed into drives, studded with cottages.
The completion of Captain John Hodges
Unity Springs will also very seriously affect
some Of the eastern watering places, land
don't you forget it,.
Articles of association of the Paducah
and Chicago Railway company were filed
at Springfield Ills. Thursday. 1t is pro-
posed to construct railroad from the
Ohio river at Brooklin, Massac county, by
way of Big Bay, Golconda and Rock Quarry
on the Ohio River in Pope county Illinois
Furnace, Martha Furnace, in Hardin coun.
ty, Ill. The capital stock is 100000,
and the first board of direc tors are Georg
S. Wilkes, Jabez NJ. Woodward, Thomas
S. Ridgeway, Robert Reid, Edward C.. Ell
lott and Frederick s. Myers. Principle
business Office in New York and an Office
also in Shawneetown.
Seven boys were arrested by Chief
Myers yesterday for persstantly, and in
spite of lis frequent warnings, going III
swimming in the Ohio river, near the stone
depot, during the daytime. When arrest
ed all gave fictitious names and thereby
only made the chief more determined to
| give them the full sxtent of the law. They
were tried and convicted in Magistrate
Cumings' court and each fined ten dollars
and costs failing to pay which they were
sent to Jail for eleven days. The young
fellows had willfuly set the law against
indecent exposure Of person of defiance tc
much to the disgust Of the public and
their punishment was well deserved.
The Mississippi river IS doing much
damage to the farm Of Mr.. NJ. DeGolder a
Clear Creek. Acre after acre has been wash
ed away in quick succession, and Mr.. DE-
Gelcer has been compelled to move hi
house two or three times in order to save
it from falling into the river. But Will,
the river is taking away the land at tina
point it is depositing it just above Cairo, il
front Of Mr.. Thomls Porter's place. 1t i
forming a sand bar at this point whicl
extends from the shore out in the river
long distance and serves as a protection Il
the bank at that point and below, which
IN former years, was subject to sever,
abrasions from the river. As yet the ba
does not interfere with navigation, bu
b there is NO telling how soon it may do 50
The Kentuckian V. b. Duvall, VIII
was drunk and disorderly in this cit,
. Wednesday night, was fined six dollars anc
I costs by Magistrate Comings yesterday
u John Stockton was fined one dollar an,
costs in the same court for drunkenness