The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-11

last night. Good or bad, they always do
things to the stop NOTCH" and the process
sion last night was simply-horriblel
Mr., Geo. w. Bane, a noted temper
ance orator of the central portion Of the
state, will be here in the course of week
or ten days, and deliver series of lectures
for the Cairo Temperance Reform Club at
the Presbyterian church.
The Ohio river stood at forty-fve feet
eleven inches on the guage last night at 6
o'clock, which was a fall of five inches du-
ring the previous twenty-four hours. At
Louisville it was stationary, but at Cincn-
matt it rose four feet four inches since pre-
vious report.
AT the meeting of the reform club last
night committee was appointed to draft
resolutions of respect for the late Rev. w.
H. Whitaker, who was an active temper
ance worker. A sketch was read from the
Signal by Mrs. G. NJ. Alden, another by
Miss. Jennie Wright and a short address
was delivered by Rev. ]. A. Scarrett.
Being requested to give our opinion
upon the matter, based upon actual sight,
we do not hesitate to say that the beef now
on sale at the butcher shop of Mr.. Fred
Koeher, on the south side of eighth street,
is fully as fine as herepresents it to be, or
as was ever offered in this city. 1t.
The proceedings of the city council at
its meeting last night, appear in full in
this issue Of The BULLETIN. Some
matters of great interest were disposed of,
among them the proposition of the Wom-
ans Club and Library Association to
donate to the city, upon certaifcondition
the present stock of the association, which
proposition was favorably reported upon by
the committee to which it had been refer
red, and was accepted by the city council,
This will be good news to the ladies of the
Library association, and also to the reading
public.
"A slight fire, caused by the turning
over of coal oil lamp in second story
hall of the Hotel deWinter, was the cause
of some alarm in that institution yesterday
morning. The oil from the lamp spread
over the floor and to the door of room num-
Der fifteen setting the door and its casing
on fire. Mr. Henry Winter, the proprietor
of the hotel, discovered the flames about
the time the door casing caught and, with
more than ordinary presence of mind, took
immediate steps to put it out without Civ
ing any alarm outside. Not much damage
was done.
The ball season has now reached its
height, There are charity balls, firemen's
balls, association balls, juvenile balls. Be-
tween now and Lent the fun will be fast
and furious, and it will not all stop at mardi
gras. Not till the pleasures and the pre-
occupations of Christmas and New Years
day are past do the great annual public
balls find full and free scope, and now they
are at their climax. The season of gayety
and frolic is the one to which many people
bring the chief harvest of the year. In the
of the ball room, the costumes
the extra apparel, the flowers, the suppers
the gifts, the decorations, thousands upon
thousands find little profit, so that what
seemsa special epoch of extravaganza, real
ly disburses good deal Of money from
those who have an abundance to those who
struggle for a livelihood.
"A young negro boy named "Dink"
Taylor, about seventeen years of age, who is
proud of being a citizen of Cairo, is avery
hard case generally speaking. But
he is particularly Objectionable as a
gambler. He has been caught several
times while engaged in gambling in differ
ent, secluded portions Of the city and was
known to habitually frequent several
places of business of doubtful regularity
in the lower portion of the city-Bill
SCOTS and George Robinsons saloons. He
was fined several times Tor gambling in Sc
cluded places of the city and was ordered
by Chief Myers to remain away from the
places of business alluded to; but neither
the fines nor the warning have had the
desired eflect-he persistently and entirely
ignored both. Yesterday Chief Myers and
Officer Martin arrested him ard took him
before Magistrate Comings, who fined him
twenty five dollars and costs for vagrancy
and fifty dollars and costs for follow
Ing gambling as an occupation.
The last patient will be discharged
from the pest-house to-day. He is the man
Jackson, whose life was despaired of about