The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-28

III. yesterday yesterday, aiucu ny M
gineer Smith, hit upon novel plan to cross
with the train an unsafe bridge over the
Lamine river, some Is miles this side of
Sedalia. A section foreman notified the
officials at Sedala that if the braces of the
bridge we're gone 1t would be unsafe for
trains to cross over. When the train above
mentioned reached the place the train was
stopped and the braces found to be washed
away. Here was predcamcnt The fire.
man, passengers and conductor went ahead
and crossed the bridge all right; the en-
gineer started the engine and coaches
across, and then Jumped off onto the ground.
The fireman caught the engine ON the fly
and soon brought it to halt The en-
gineer crossed over and the train went
bowling along as usual, arriving in the city
forty minutes late. y Hannibal Journal.
On Saturday last party of men from
the Iron Mountain railroad at Birds Point
came to the city and reported great distress
among the people Of that port of Missouri,
Y by the late food. This party WAS composed
of Mr. Will Ketchum, Mr.. Mahaffy, Nose
Quinyan, w. II. Johnson, L. N. Reaser,
Mr.. Taylor and jim Haley. They have a
nest of hunks on top of the boiler of the
pile-drver and have spent their time in
rescuing people from the water. They had
then saved eighteen, and all the cars, floats
and RATS in the yards filled with rescued
stock, Among the persons saved was Rev.
Biggerstatf, wife and two children They
lost everything they had even to the hats
of the boys, and had one old blanket as bed
clothing for the whole family. He had
one dollar in money, and wanted to be sent
to his friends in Tennessee. When we saw
the rescuing party, they had just heard Of
family that were on their house top still
waiting for assistance, and they intended to
60 to them as soon as they returned to the
point. The water is higher than the tops of
the fiat cars on the fill Of the railroad at
Birds Point Argus.
Gov. Porter, at the late meeting of the
Indiana State Grange, among many other
sensible and progressive things, said
"Women are admitted MS members Of yonr
order, and am glad to see so many ladies
here to day Those who are consulted so
much at home in regard to the conduct of
the farm and household, are counted worthy
to be consulted with and to take part in
discussions in your counsels with regard
to the most important questions that con-
Germ you. The time has gone by when it
is considered unteminine for women to I'M
derstand business; and the farmer, who
must place reliance, in case of death, upon
his wife ifupon anybody, to preserve his
estate until his children shall have attained
an age and capacity to manage it, likes now
to make sure that she is instructed in bust
ness, and will not have to lean upon some
unknown and incompetent or fraudulent
person for advice ana assistance.
The sunfower brigade Of Louisville,
says spectator, turned out a solid phalanx
: to hear Oscar Wilde. They got flea in
the ear for their trouble, and there was sor-
row accordingly in the camp because Os-
car, the gentle, disappointed the whole Ca
poodle of the surface worshippers of the
beautiful" Most Of them expected to see
rhapsodical buffoon and clown, who
would cut up monkeyshines and play the
fool to excite a claque of cackle and guf-
: flaws. But they we're sadly disappointed,
4 and considered themselves victims of in
: jured innocence and cheated out of their
u just dues A very watch fob ical, shirt
stud icnl, blue cravat ica, higher. aesthet.
y ical, super-emetical young man said he
was too too utterly Disguised with the
y whole lecture, because there was nothing
funny IN it, Instead of playing the clown
u Mr.. Wilde was simply modest, well be-
J. haved cultured young gentleman. 1t was
IS too, too bad to disappoint the CHASTITY, flap
IS doodle sunhower brigade in that summary
u manner.
u On Saturday morning about 2 O'Clock
d in St. Louis, the walls Of the great fve.story
L building at the corner of Second stree
Is and christy avenue caved in bricks, tim
d bers and boxes flying in every direction
and following the crash, smoke immediate.
81 ly begun to issue from the debris and fir,
Il broke out aud threatened to be serious
rs affair, A fire alarm was sounded and tn,
ID flames were put out with but very littl,
D. trouble. The building was occupied b,
al Kraft, Holmes & Co., wholesale grocers
II and theio establishment extended from
is Second street to the alley eastward. Th,
ut north half of the building. fronting on Sec
Y ond street, fell, making clean cut Of the
OF building in the middle. fla mason ha,
b. undertaken the job he could hardly hav
It. made neater work of it. The rest of tn
ly building does not appear to be harmed
" What caused the disaster il not known