The daily Cairo bulletin., 1882-10-06

good and gone into business at Mendoza
III. Messrs. Louis G. Herbert and James
Kelch have formed co partnership and will
carry ON the gas.ftting and plumber
business, as successors to Mr.. Geroud and
Mr.. Chas p. Newland. We take plesure
in calling the attention of the reade of THE
BULLETIN to the new firms advertisement
elsewhere in this issue.
Captain H. V. Thompson's new trans
fer boat for the Texas & Cairo railroad,
has not yet arrived. But the incline at
Birds Point will be about finished next
Monday, and then the boat must be on
hand before the company can transfer its
freight. 1t is likely, therefore, that the
boat will be ready and on hand here the
first days of next week, 1t is understood
now that the boat will be the "Pacifc, "
now in use at st. Louis.
Capt. Mark Cole who has government
contract for building dikes on grand chain,
is in town and reports having fifty men at
wo rk on the dam on the cham, but the
rise in the Ohio may in day or two inter-
fere and stop all future operations. The
work upon the chain, which began three
years ago, has been sofreauently interrupted
by high water thatbut fourteen weeks actual
labor has been performed during that peri
cd.
The Wabash railroad officials have
been testing the operations of their Mogul
engines, and the service they perform COM
pared with lighter engines. The Mattoon
Gazette says they are divided in opinion,
although majority consider the Moguls
most economical in fuel and train hands.
Trackmen are unanimously of opinion
that the damage to roadbed by such heavy
engines and cars more than equals the saw
ings effected by discatding ligher engines
and trains.
"A lady named Mrs, Abernathy walk
ing with her child in her arms, along Fifth
street back of Washington avenue yester-
day, fell and bruised herself and child con
siderably. She was in a hurry to board
train, and the side walk being very bad,
she made misstep and fell. The sidwalks
on both sides of the street there are in very
bad condition. One side ought by all
means to be reconstructed as Alderman
McHale proposed In the council at its last
meeting. A hundred dollars spent for re-
construction may prevent suit for DANA
ges to a much greater amount.
The old German named Floto, who
arrived on the steamer Gus Fowler Wednes-
day afternoon in dangerously sick con-
dition, died yesterday morning early at his
home in Mrs Eagan's house, on CONNER
cial avenue, near Fourteenth street. He
was buried, at the expense of the county, at
the Seven Mile graveyard. He was en-
ployed Of late in perfecting a patent ex-
tension table, with model of which he
went to Cincinnati to enter it at the ex-
position there. He and his wife (who
constitutes the family were In destitute
circumstances, as he applied much Of his
time in pcrfccting his patent and trying to
bring it to the notice of the proper depart
ment at Washington.
Alexander county has been fortunate
in the selection of nearly all its officers du
ing several years back With one or two
exceptions (who were Republicans), all her
officers have been scrupulously honest and
faithful; and these faithless ones had not
the opportunity to do very much harm,
comparatively speaking. Other counties
in this end of the state have not been so
fortunate Pope county had its extravagant
and dishonest Republican board of COM
missoners and sheriff; Jefferson county hae
its defaulting Republican collector; John.
son county has its crooked Republican
county clerk, if the Republican Journal is
to be believed, and Pulaski
county-well, Pulaski county has
its Republican candidate for
the state Legislature, Dan Hogan who was
once upon time collector of that county,
but who is so no more and has unto this
day refused to surrender the books of the
county which contain record of his public
transactions with the peoples money.
Alexander county has indeed been fortunate
in the selection oflts county officers.
--"The millinery of the approaching
winter" says the Bloomington Bulletin,
which isgood authority, $50 far as heard
FROM will consist of two extremes, the
small capotes and the large capotes and
the large round hats in Reubens and Rem
brandt shapes. There will be for quiet
tastes, few medium sized pokes, but it is