The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-25

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The board has not yet held meeting to
organize owing to the absence from the city
OF several of its members. But meeting
will be held Immediately after the arrival
OF the absent members and then the first
steps toward formally throwing the library
open to the general public will probably
be taken.
Yesterday Chief Myers, in the capacity
OF health officer, visited some of the back
yards in the city, discovered some things
which were not in strict accordance with
his ideas of cleanliness and healthiulness,
and gave perematory orders that such
things be fsrthwith rendered otherwise.
privy vaults had the chiefs especial at
tentiOn.
The regular amusement season will
open Sep 14th with the celebrated Jolly
Bachelors Comic Opera Company, which
hes met with such splendid success since
their organization, and are pronounced by
the eastern press to be in every way first
class. Next in line follows the Calender
Miustrels with fifty performers. The beau
tiful Mime Madden, under the manage
ment of John II. Havln, in her new play
"Foggs Terry" which will appear early in
the season for the first time at the Park
theatre, New York. She will appear here
during October with anew play beautifully
placed, and supported by splendid COM
pany, Theatrical entertainments have been
So scarce the past several months that our
play goers will welcome once more the
opening of our beautiful Opera House
which, under the management OF Capt,
Thomas w. Shields, prom Uses to prove 9
great financial success. Entertainments
Of high order will be offered to the Cairo
public as frequently as once and possibly
twice per week during the fall and winter
season.
Wednesday Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr.
Ned Jones, living up town, was taken to
the Anna insane asylum by Mr.. Guy Morse
AS deputy sheriff, Mrs. Jones was adjudged
insane about a week ago, by the county
court. She is the mother Of young Thorn
as Jones, who was killed some time ago on
the incline of the Illinois central railroad,
and her insanity was the direct result Of
continued grief over her sons horrible
death, Some time in April last, before she
had shown any signs of mental arrangement
she, in company with several other ladies,
took walk on Ohio levee, and when they,
| got opposite the incline one of the compan-
ions remarked, pointing to the incline, that
there was the place where poor Tom got
killed. Mrs. Jones looked long and steadily
OF the incline, but said not word But
| her companions noticed that she looked
troubled, they took her home, and since
the night following that day, she has rayed
about Ler son Tom, the incline, and
the railroad company. Wh,n not loudly
calling for her boy, or denouncing the in
cline and ruroad companies in generally,
she wouI sit in silence, apparently en-
gagei in deep thought, and murmur unn.
telligibly. Hers is certainly a sad case.
AT the late bankers convention at
Saratoga, which Hon. T, w. Halliday of this
city, attended c. c. B1nney, Esq, of
Chicago, read paper on bankrupt law.
Mr. Bonnoy believes that it is possible to
have brief and simple bankrupt law
whose operations would DO justice to
debtor and creditor alike. "Al( is re-
CURED for a bankrupt law says Mr.
Bonney, "s something brief, providing in
substance that person who cannot pay his
| debts may, if he has acted honestly, sur
render his estate to receiver in equity
for distribution among his creditors and be
discharged from liability, In all cases it
Is the interest Of the public and creditors
| to have the merchant or manufacturer 90
on with his business it he can. In case he
acted honestly he should be allowed to
summon his creditors, state his case to the
court, show his freedom from fraud, the
ratio of his assets to his liabilities, and
have his indebtedness reduced by an order
OF the court to such percentage as will
enable him to 90 on in business, meeting
the new obligations in full. The creditors
then would get all the debtor could pay
and nothing would be lost in expenses and
forced sales, The entire proceedings might
be completed in three weeks, or perhaps
three days, if the creditors all lived in the
vicinity Of the debtor"
A proposition has been made by Mr..
John Lockwood, Of New York, to the city
council Of Cairo, through Mayor Thistle