The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-10


necessitated temporary cessation of ac-
tivity there. All was ready for work again
yesterday, however
The w. G. T. U. will give an oyster
supper in Temperance hall on Sth street
on Friday, Dee. 18th beginging at six
o'clock. Every one invited Do not for
get it.
Hon. Thos. NJ. Ridgeway, OF Shawnee
town, formely state treasurer and now one OF
the trustees OF the Carbonate university,
is the latest announced candidate for
the United States senate, to succeed David
Davis.
Several of the many hard-looking
idels, who infest our streets now, are being
sent cut of the city by the officers nearly
every day, This is one of the cheapest
and best ways to get rid of these trouble
some fellows,
Services of more than usual interest
will be held this evening at 7 o'clock at St.
Patrick's Catholic church. Rev, Damen, of
Chicago, an able gentleman of the cloth,
will officiate. The services will be con-
tinued daily throughout this week
Mrs. B. Y Georges paper on House
hold Gods" read before the Womau's Club
and Library Association at.its last meeting,
appears on the first page of this issue. 1t
will be read with interest and profit by all,
for it is beautiful, both in diction and IL
sentiment,
Cairo had a small but handsome dele
cation at the opening fall of the "Allons'
dancing club, OF Mound City, given at the
Opera House in that place Friday night,
There were about fifty couples present and
the falrer portion of them were las fair as
| fair could ben--so said the Cairo delega-
ton and we are not inclined to dispute
them.
Seven men are now registered on the
county jailors docket, charged with crimes
for which they are to be tried by the coun-
ty or circuit courts Their names are
Stephen Parker, Ed Higgins Thos. Jasper,
Joseph Stevens, Joseph Dennis, Commodore
Perry and VIM. Mosby, All but Jasper
are charged either with burglary or larceny,
or both. Jasper is in for assault with in
tent to murder. They are all in Jail, but
Joseph Stevens who Is out on bail.
A mob at Marshall, Ia, thought that
DR., Cohee deserved whipping, but he as
sured them that they were mistaken, as he
was not guilty of the offense of which they
accused him, He asked them to defer the
punishment for few days, promising to
prove his innocence. They would not con.
sent to this, but signed an agreement that
in case he exculpated himself they would all
apologize. Dr., Cohee was thereupon Sc.
verely whipped. He is now suing the lynch
ers for damages, and the proof of their
identity is clear in their own handwriting
The city council meets again in regu
lar session next Tuesday. 1t is probable
that the business of most interest that viii
come up before it will be the reConsiders
ton of the vote by which the railroad ord
nance was passed. A warm discussion vii
probably ensue aud the outcome Of it al
will probably he that newordiance will b.
introduced and put through the first stages
of its passage, which will differ very ms
terially from the one vetoed by the mayo
certainly, unless it does, there is NJ
probability that it will pass and become a
law in theory and in practice.
-TAe senate continued its debate Of tn
equity bankrupt bill Friday and adope,
an am endment which, if there was an
chance of its becoming law, would raise
HOWL. lUls mdheb IL al 'dCI VI DdnhlupN
cy," probably meaning thereby an &C
which shall render it possible or oblgator
to throw into bankruptcy any person com
hitting it, to deal in futures in articles O
prime necessity, such as corn and cotton
There is nat the ghost OF q chance tina
this provision will be enacted, though pos
sibly 1t would be we'll for the country if
could be.
Several new passenger cars for th
Texas and st, Louis railroad, which stoo
in the Illinois Central yards yesterday
were admired by all who saw them The
were real beauties in style and finish. Dot
bic tracks have been recently laid by th
Illinois Central company on its sewers
tracks down Ohio levee toward the passen
ger depot, and it Is likely that very soon tn
passenger trains Of the new Narow.guag
will be brought over from Birds Point an
run down to the Illinois Central depC