The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-05

all Investigation, which reveals the exis'
tence Of number of cases in both Perry
and Jackson counties. Dr. Parren, State
Veterinarian, found four glandered horses
on farms on Paradise Prairie, near Du Quoin,
and ordered them shot Eight others have
been put in quarantine and thorough disin-
lection ordered on all the suspected prem
ises.
james Walsh, who fell from the side.
walk on Ohio levee Wednesday night and
received such injuries that he had to be
taken to St. Mary's Infrmary for care, died
there early yesterday morning and was IN
tered at the Seven-mile graveyard at the
citys expense. 1t appears that besides
severe injury about the shoulders and back
he had received some internal harm which
proved fatal.
Captain G, W, Bradley and wife, and
several other ladies and gentlemen, composed
a party that left on Wednesday for Cncin-
natl, to attend the musical festival. Upon
his arrival at the wharf Captain Bradley
was met by Lawrence Barnett, Jno Nc
Cullougb, Nat Goodwin and Miss Mary An
derson, who received him snd his party
and conducted them to the hotel, where
they Toasted right royalty.
1t is gratifying to learn that work has
been resumed on the Washington monu-
ment, which decorates the Potomac marsh
es south of the treasury department in
Washington city, and that the reports OF
the foundation sinking under the increasing
weight of stone are wholly untrue. There
is growing prospect that this monument
| of national indifference will be completed
before the end of the present century.
Col. j. w. Paramore, president of the
Texas and St. Louis, returned to st. Louis
Thursday from his Arkansas and Texas
trip. He, like all the officials who pre-
coded him, is said to be jubilant at the
prospect. He feels certain the Red river
draw'will swing on Saturday and three or
four days thereafter the road will be open
from Gatesville, Texas, to Pine Bluff, Ark
ansas, a distance of five hundred miles He
hopes to have the entire line in operation by
June Is.
The fast freight system of the Wabash
road is attracting attention. An instance
of rapid transit under this system is told,
that suggests the old story of the boastful
Yankee who told the wondering BrtisEer
that in this country they had to abandon
railroad whistles, because trains ran SO fast
that they reached stations quicker tran the
sound of the engine whistle. The Wabash
can produce the documents to show that
two carloads of imported goods consigned
to st. Joe, were rushed through from New
YORK so rapidly that the manifess, which
were sent by express, did not arrive in St.
Joe till nine hours after the goods.
If you want to know Just where TO 90
to find cool retreat for few weeks or
months, during the cheated term" OF SO,
and laugh at the dolorous predictions OF
weather prophets, send your full address,
and six cents in postage stamps to A. V. Ii.
Carpenter, General Passenger Agent CLi-
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, at
Milwaukee, YVES, and he will furnish you
a list Of just such places, together with a
copy OF new and beautifully illustrated
book, entitled "a Reconnaissance OF the
Golden Northwest" A limited supply of
these books are now for free distribution at
the ticket office of j. Fl. Jones in this city.
Please call early.
Mr., ]. Wagiey Hill, of this city, is
the inventor and patentee of little nursery
fixture that has attracted considerable at
tention from various sources 1t Is COM
blned cradle and see-saw, in which one,
two or more. children can be seated com
fortaby and amuse themselves in manner
most popular with them. The seats can be
adjusted so as to avoid such motion OF the
bodies of the occupants as produces sickness,
and springs are attached to make the mo-
ton easy and steady. Mr., Hill has recey-
ed offers Of large sums of moncy.for the pa
tent, from some of the principal manutac'
turing establishments of the east, and his
invention has been illustrated and favora-
bly, commented upon by the Scientific
American
"A white man made considerable noise
yesterday about an outrage that be alleged
had been perpetrated upon him by two
other white men named Jno. Murphy and
Charles Smith whom he charged
with enticing him into 40 Ohio
levee eating stand and there forcibly
going through his pockets and "liftiug"