The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-30

but while it would have prevented trains
from running through, it could not have
stopped all Of them entirely if there had
been no other hinJrance. The damage is
being repaired rapidly, aud the tracks will
be ali right probably before the other him
drance the strlke-will be removed.
THE Bad Boy Cigar
Is better by Tar
Than the majority.
1t smokes very free,
And good it must be-,
For its enemies re in the minority.
For five its the best
Create and behest,
Our patrons cry with seniority.
This piece of poetry was written by our
special poet. He has since died.
IN. Bit wasn't the cigar, but the po-
etry, that killed him. II
"A party of prominent railroad men ar
rived here by a special car on the Illinois
Central road about 2 o'clock yesterday al
ternoon. Foremost among them was Presi.
dent II. ]. Jewett, of the New York & Erie
road, who was accompanied by President
W. B. Duncan, of the Mobile & Ohio road,
and Messrs. A. s. Hay, A. B. Duncan and
DR.. Edison. The party we're taken in their
car from the upper incline by transfer
steamer to the lower Wabash incline and
landed at the Union depot. They put up
at The Halliday and will leave this morn.
ing tor Belmont, via the Iron Mountain
road, to return by the Mobile & Ohio.
Last night the party accompanied Capt.
W. P. Halliday and Mayor Halliday to the
Opera House to witness the Lights o. Lon.
don performance.
The man, Noah High, shot by young
Jones at Hodges Park several days ago,
died Tuesday night from the effects of the
wounds. Sheriff Hodges, who was there at
the time, arrested young Jones and brought
him down here for safe-keeping. Wedues-
day he took his prisoner back to attend a
coroners inquest conducted by Coroner
Fitzgerald. The inquest was in progress
all day Wednesday until noon, when the
iury retired to find a verdict. DR.. Nowotney
performed the surgical work for the jury,
in its inquest for the cause of death. The
body of deceased was turned over to his
brother for interment at Commercial Point.
What the verdict of the jury was had not
been conveyed here last night, but the gen.
eraimpression of those who attended the in
quest and who knew the circumstances, is
that no blame can BIZ attached to young
Jones.
Considerable commotion prevailed
along the Texas and St. Louis road yester-
day on account of a general strike among
theengineers and firemen. Every engineer
and fireman on the road refused to work
and all trains stopped running. The passen
ger that was to have left here at 6 80 yes.
terdsy morning was still here last night and
the other that was to have arrived here at 2
a. m. was stopped at Jonesboro. The reason
of the strike was that the company had not
paid off for three months, its promises to do
so from time to time having proved unreia-
Bile, Word was sent by telegraph, from the
officials of the road at St. Louis, that the
pay car would he sent down Immediately to
pay off for one month, bu. the spokesman
for the strikers replied that the company
must pay for two, or they would
not work. At last accounts the company
had acceeded to the demand aud the pay.
master was preparing to start over the road
from tins point.
Shook & Golfers Lights o. London
combination drew one of the largest and
finest audiences to the Opera House last
night. The audience was not composed
exclusively of Cairo people. There were
large delegations Of the elite Of cur neigh.
boring towns, Mound City, Paducsh, Met.
tropois aud others. The curtain rose
promptly at s o'clock, which is necessary
10 order that the performance, which is
long one, may conclude at reasonable
hour. The performance was also some.
thing extraordinary to those who had not
seen it before aud in many who had seen it
1t must have excited a new interest. The
stage scenery belonging to the opera house,
though ell new aud Of the latest patterns,
was all removed, and the company's own
scenery Of which it had q whole carload,
put up instead. The play was probably
one Of the most intensely interesting ever
presented here, and it was given with all
the power of company of experienced
artists fully equipped. The various scenes
of the great city of London seemed strange.
ly real TO the audience in all parts of the
house, and the incidents connected there.
with excited the deepest interest of all.
The company repeats the performance to.
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