The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-25

I The steamer Lcssie d., WIN caiBo
OF 200 bales of cotton, was burned near
Shreveport, La. Thursday.
MI. Phelps, the Eighth street photo
grapher, has been taking views of different
parts Of the city within the last few days.
Mr.. M. r. Gomez, of Paducah, con-
nected for some time with the News OF that
city, 10 in Cairo, and will take charge OF the
bindery Of Messrs. Baughman & Ellis.
The wife Of Sergeant Mason arrived in
Washington Thursday, and was handed
nearly $4,000 which had been contributed
for her benefit.
AL persons holding claims against the
| city which were allowed at the last two
meetings Of the city council, can now re-
ceive vouchers for them by applying to
City Clerk Foley.
A negro named Henry Moore, rouster
on the Steamer Cons. Miller, fell from the
boat into the river near Hickman Thurs
day and was drowned. Efforts were made
to rescue him, but they were futile.
The counting room Of The BULLETIN
is, for the present, in the office of Messrs.
Cunningham g. Smith, on Ohio levee, where,
from s a. m. to p. IN. orders should be left,
during other times favors should be sent
to the Office ON Commercial avenue, over
Frazicr's shop. II.
The body Of negro supposed to be
one of two who were drowned near the Wa
bash incline about q month ago, was dis.
covered Thursday evening not far from
where they went in. Coroner Fitzgerald
was notified and he held an inquest and
had the remains buried at the county's -ex-
pense.
The quarterly meeting that was to
have been held at Mound City by Rev.
Scarrctt, has been postponed one week, at
the special request Of the Pastor, Rev. II.
A. Doty. This will allow the Cairo Pastor
to be in his place tomorrow (though other
wise announced) and the regular services
will be held in the Methodist church
morning ard evening as usual.
No punishment was ever meted out to
the principal offenders in the matter of the
publication of the Morey letter forgery.
The rascals were not hunted down. But
Joseph Hart, who was responsible for its
publication, has just been elected mem
Der of the republican central committee for
New York City. In matters Of this kind
the public hasn't long memory. Agar ago
Hart couldn't have been elected hog reeve.
The negro VIM. Jackson, who has
been in the marine hospital station for some
time past with an injury of the abdomen,
received by a violent thud from a skid on
the steamer Baton Rouge, and was subse-
quenty taken down with smallpox, the
germs of which he had contracted before
arriving here, is still in precarious con-
dition, aud may succomb. Yesterday he
was in an almost hopeless condition. All
the otlrer patients of the marine station,
and in fact Of the hospital, are in good con
dition and will recover.
The cOlored voters Of Springfield have
rebelled against the republican party and
nominated colored candidates for every
city Office except attorney. The colored
voters of Cairo have also rebelled, in years
gone by, against the republican party; but
they have never been able to muster up
the courage to act independently. In the
matter of truly independent spirit and
courage to throw off the CALLING humiliat-
ing party yoke by means of which they are
made every few years to draw on to vic
tory the republican chariot containing only
the favored few of their white republican
masters, the Cairo and Alexander county
negroes are certainly sadly efficient.
AT this point the Ohio river stood at
forty-two feet three inches at one O'Clock,
and at forty-two feet one and quarter
inches at six, yesterday evening. The fall,
during the twenty. -four hours ending at the
first named hour, was ten inches. The
changes at the other points during the
same period of time were as follows: Chat
tanooga, fall of one inch; Cincinnati, rise of
two feet two inches; Louisville, rise of one
foot; st. Louis, fall Of four inches. The
total rise at Cincinnati, since the beginning
Of the present swell, was twenty five feet
up to yesterday noon. II is likely that
decline will be reported from there and
from Louisville by tomorrow.
"A general fall characterized the tenn
peroture of the northwest during the
twenty.four hours ending at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The average tenn
perature nj twenty different nnints includ-