The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-21

ant and was made more so by one OF Cairo'i
popular brass bands.
The Jefferson avenue Boulevard, from
"Carey Beach" west. is very fashionable
resort lately. Skiifs, boats, bargcs and
boxes, with rowers of all colors, age, sex
and conditions throng the placid basin OF
its water day and night.
The counting room of THE BULLETIN
is, for the present, in the office Of Messrs.
Cunningham & Smith, on Ohio levee, from
8 a. III. to 8 p. m. Orders should be left;
during other times, favors should be sent
to the Office on Commercial avenue, over
Frazier's shop. IT,
The secretary of war estimates that
about $4,000 persons have been rendered
destitute by the overflow Of the Mississippi
and its tributaries. OF these 30, 900 are ac-
credited to the state of Mississippi, 10000
to Arkansas, and $4,000 to Louisiana. 1t
is believed that the necessity for relief will
continue from thirty to sixty days.
Invitations to the marriage of Miss
Jennie L. Cash and Mr.. Charles Z. Baugh-
man were sent out yesterday. The happy
event will take place at the Presbyterian
church. in this city, at 8 o'clock Thursday
evening, March ESD. The great popularity
of these young people will insure one of
the most brilliant affairs of its kind ever Gel
ebrated here.
Moved by the complaints of manufact-
urors and shippers against the revised
schedule Of freight rates which went into
effect January /, the Illinois railroad com
.nissioners have made some changes in
classification on minor articles. The reduc-
tons made are not great and apply mainly
to the lighter articles of merchandise. The
new schedule will 90 into effect April 10.
Among the associated press dispatches
Of Friday appeared the following from
Cairo: 1.-THE United States senatorial fight
has commenced in earnest in Southern Hi
nois. A lengthy article will be published
this week, advocating the claims of Green
q. Raum." Until now the "lengthy arti-
Gle" has not been forthcoming, neither has
there been much of senatorial fight in this
part of the state.
Yesterdays news from the hospital re-
veals the following: Kelly, the man who
was shot while resisting an officer, was not
in as good condition as could have
been desired, though his recovery
is not entirely despaired of. Houston,
the last negro small ox patient, was also
in very bad condition and may not recov-
er. Jackson, another smallpox case, was
also very low, and another man, O'Brien,
who is under treatment for an ulcer, is also
in dangerous condition. The other pa
tients, among,hemanother small pox patient,
are all doing we'll and will recover.
The negro Samuel Joseph, who shot at
another negro named Frank Foggy few
days ago, and whose preliminary
examination was set in Justice
]. II. Robinson's court for yesterday after
noon, took change OF venue to Justice 0.
A. Osborne, where the examination was had.
A number of witnesses to the fracas were
present and both sides were represented
by counsel. The examination
the greater portion Of the after.
noon and ended in q commital to Jail of the
prisoner under bond of four hundred
dollars.
There is demand at the hospital for
mems clothing of almost every description.
The poor fellows who find their way there
are mostly possessed of but one suit, or
more correctly still, a part Of one suit, and
this is often in very dilapidated condition.
In cases of smallpox tie city has been
furnishing new clothing when the patients
were discharged and had the old clothing
destroyed; but in many other cases the sis
tiers have had to supply the need. 1t is d
sireable, therefore, that citizens who have
any old clothing to spare send it up to the
hospital, where il will be thankfully re-
ceived and put to good use.
The remains Of VIM. Mahaffy, who
was killed on the Wabash road near Edo
RADIO last Saturday, were brought,down on
that road last Sunday afternoon. lie was
a brakeman on the road named and citi-
zen Of Cairo, living on Eighth street, and
leaves young wife, to whom he was but
recently married, and his parents, who re.
side up town. The caboose of his train
jumped the track near Eldorado and in
cndeavoring to stop the train by putting on
the brakes he made nisstep, fell across
the track between the cars and was cut in