The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-08

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The meeting of the Cairo Prcsbytery,
which il to be held at Friendsville, Wabash
county, H., next Tuesday, is to be an adj
iourned meeting and is not called for the
consideration of any matters OF general I'M
portance The chief business OF the meet
ipg will be the consideration OF the in
tended transfer of Rev. $. G. Baldridge
from the church at Friendsvile to that of
Golden, which matter is OF purely local
importance.
"A st. Louis medium has been inter
viewing Guteau since his removal. lie
seems hardly satisfied with the climate and
the pyrotechlcs. He occupies a berth near
Jesse James whom he describes as very
uppropressye spirit. lie neglected to state
whether the weather Of the last few weeks
WAS any Improvement on the climate he is
at present experiencing, The supposition
is that the difference is not sufficiently
marked to excite comment. Kansas City
Times.
The rise in the Ohio river at this point
during the twenty-four hours ending at l
o'clock yesterday was seven inches, one
inch less than during the previous twenty
four hours. At Cincinnati, during the same
time, a rise of eleven inches was reported;
at Chattanooga, the river was stationary;
at Louisville it tell one inch; at Nashville
one inch and at St. Louis seven inches, The
thermometer in the north west ranged be
tween II and 80; and rain was reported
from Davenport Dubuque Keokuk, La
Crosse, Memphis and st. Paul.
Yesterday Mr. j. H. Hehly, sheriff Of
Gibson county, Tenn, was in this city, IN
search of three negroes who had made Their
escape few days ago from the Jail at
Trenton, in his county. The negroes were
charged with series felonies of amore or
less serious character, and are thought TO
have come to Cairo THIS belief is
strengthened by the testimony OF several
excursionists from Trenton, who attended
the Fourth of July celebration here and
who claimed to have seen one OF the es-
caped negroes here on the 4th. Sheriff
Heflly, assisted by Chief Myers and some OF
the officers, made search Of the city IN
the hope of finding the unwelcome IN
trudcrs, but without avail
Will Hughes, a young man from Com
mercial Point, who was some time ago bar
keeper for Mcssrs. Smith Bros, and lately
for Mr.. John Atcher, on Commercial ave
uue, absconded Wednesday with nearly all
the proceeds of the business done on the
Fourth and also the money given him by
Mr.. Atcher for box Of cigars which he
bought on tick from Messrs. Morse " Red.
burn. When Mr.. Atchor looked for the
money taken in during the day he found the
till empty and young Hughes, when asked
for the money, said he had spent 1t all but
five dollars which he turned over to Mr..
Atcher, Hughes left during Wednesday
night, or he would probably have been ar
rested His whereabouts is unknown.
Tomorrow afternoon an interesting
match game of base ball will be played be-
tween the "Comique' and Arab clubs OF
this city. 1t will be a holly contested game
| as its result is TO determine which OF the
| two clubs is to wear the honor OF beng the
champion of this end of the State. The
boys are well trained and anxious for the
fray. The "Comiques' are now Growing
over their recent victory at Mound City,
and the Arabs are jealous and anxious
to take the starch, or the disposition TO
crow, out Of them. Next Tuesday another
match game will be played in this city by
the Arabs" of Cairo, and select nine OF
Paducah boys. Mr.. Geo. Frazer IS engaged
as umpire for both games, which is sui
iicient guarantee that there will be "tar
play"
II is to be regretted that the fire com
pauies and Mystic Krew who conducted
the late Fourth Of July celebration IN tins
city, did not realize anything like the sun
they ought to have realized considering
the amount of money, and labor, and time
cxpendcd-in fact, juding from appear
ances yesterday before any certaia knowl-
edge of what the total expenses would be
had been ascertaincd, it was believed tha
the gross proceeds would fall considerably
short of the expenses, and the companies
aud Krew would have to make raid upor
their respective treasures to meet the deficit
What the deficit, if any, will be can, Of
course, not be known until after the bust
ness has been all settled up. The chic
reason why the celebration was continued
on the 9Th was that the boys were anxious