The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-19

The Hlbernlans Dali, winch was 10
have come of last Friday, was postponed
until tomorrow.
The foreman of a tailoring establish
ment in Toronto having spent his last cent
in jamboree, pawned himself to bar
keeper for IS. His employer released him
the next morning.
The track of the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific road, near the Singer Manuiac-
turing company's buildings, is under wa
ter. Yesterday morning, freight train
came into the city,it came in contact with
some wood which had drifted over the
track at this point, and four box cars con.
tanning potatoes, etc. were ;hown from the
track in heap, two of them being badly
wrecked. Two swi,chmen were thrown
into the water, but were not injured, Po-
tatoes were scattered in every direction a
large number Of negroes were at work in
the water gathering them up.
Nearly i've thousand valentines were
handled in the CAiro postOtfce, on i+'h
inst I, is surprising, out it is true. The
Cairo pos:oifice is no One.horse concern snd
the little folks OF Cairo believe in the ;Tsdi-
tiOnsl customs Of their fishers.
Geo. 5. McGrew, with Geo. D,
Barnard & Co., St. Louis will be a, The
Halliday" on Saturday and Monday, Feb.
s,h and Goth. II you need any blank books
or Lithographing notify him by telephone
or otherwise and he will take pleasure in
calling on you. 81
In accordance with the plan Of Gov.
ernor Cullom for the reorganization Of the
militia, the infantry regiments Of Chicago,
were assembled st their arm0ries Thurs
day evening. The lst regiment was in
spected by Lieutenant Mcneil, of the 5th
infantry, snd paraded $50 men. Major
J. W. Vance inspected PSI men OF the p,
and Inspector General Hamilton reviewed
2j9 men of the 9Th.
A New York car driver, who neglected
to pay any attention to small boy who
threw a chunk of coal through the window,
explained to surprised passenger; "Oiten
dem boys make dot foolishness. But
bodders not mineselluf nit dot Neifsr
gan see dot boy vat makes him. Vot for
shall II Ven see him l lose me bal
luf day goin' by de court. De company
pays me noting for dot Maybe it was
bad for de passengers dot dheir eyes got
knock owit by dem boys but don't can
afford TO bodder mineselIuf by dot"
"A high place in Washington society is
attended with some pretty severe exactions.
4 woman, familiar with them, must be
either ambitious or self.sacriticing who
would care to see her husband filling a
cabinet position. Al reception, the other
day, Mrs Lincoln said to a friend: "Do
not wait for me to return your call, but
come every Wednesday 1t is physical
impossibiity for me &c return all my calls
in person. have paid more than five hun
dred visits thus far this season, and have a
thousand more staring me relentessly in the
face. The spirit is willing to do all that is
expected oft, but the flesh is too mortal to
bear the strain
-ReT. Barnes, Of Louisville, says Of
Robert g. Ingersoll: "There is too much
theology in your religion as preached in the
churches these days, and this theological
doctrine is the cause Of Robert Iugcrsoll
being an inGde to-day. Ny heart bed for
that man when read bis lecture in the
Courier-Journal would like TO tell him
what God is. He is not fighting the God
Of the bible he is fighting the God Of
theology. If God sees the misery that is
going on in this world and can help it and
will not ! am with Robert Ingersoll. You
will never catch me worshiping Him
God Himself stands helpless in unbclief-
the God that loves us. If Robert Ingersol
knew that tonight, who knows but that b,
might be preacher Of the gospel YETI HI
has got the instinct af the gospel in hi,
soul"
- Rev. DR.. Tamage touched upon prize
lighting in one Of his recent sermons, ant
this is what he said: "a
many Of the newspapers had for two or tire,
days, he said, been largely occupied will
reporters Of the pugiistic encounter, lht
whole country had been either willingly o
unwIlingly looking on. 1t was shockin,
spectacle, but not so bad as war on a larg
scale. 0fthe two he preferrei the prize
fight 1t was bad thing to break one Az
but how mach worse was it to break lei
thousand jawsi Why should not Disrseli