The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-20

Strode treasurer, p. W. Barclay. A com
mittee consisting Of Mr.. Crane and Rev. b.
Y. George, was appointed, whose duty it is
to prepare a constitution and bylaws to
govern the organization, and report same at
meeting to be held at the Presbyterian
church Sunday afternoon. There is a good
prospect now that the association will soon
be firmly established and accomplish much
good in various ways.
-Saloon-keepcrs who have licenses for
but fraction of the present fiscal year, and
desire to take out licenses for the remainder
OF the year at the present rate, as provided
for by the resolution passed at the council
meeting last Thursday, must do so before
next Sunday, as the resolution limits the
time in which such extensions can be made
to ten days and the ten days will expire
Saturday night
The new building on Ohio levee. below
Fourth street, occupied for little while by
the Iron Mountain railroad freight offices
and vacated after the consolidation of the
Iron Mountain and Wabash roais, is now
occupied by Superintendent Buchanan,
of the Texas and St. Louis road, with his
force of clerks The removal Of the latter
from the Illinois Central general Office
| -.
The colored driver of one of VIM. FL
liott's teams drove down the levee into the
Ohio river near the ferry landing last even.
| ing to I'LL several barrels with water. He
backed the wagon into the river and be.
fore he could stop the team, the wagon
went three feet under water and the horses
and himself were in danger of being
drowned. Some energetic work prvented
the team from going under the wharf, boat.
Services will be held at st. Joseph's
church this morning for the deceased
pastor Rev. Father O'Hara. The remains
will be carried in procession from the Hos
pital to the church at 8 o'clock where ser.
vices will begin. The corpse will be left
in church till ~ o'clock when il will be
taken to the cars at l4th street for inter-
ment at Villa Ridge His friends are in
vited.
The discovery of additional evidence
that seemed to point directly toward George
Gray as the one who took the money from
Miss Fisher of the Theatre Comique, and
also some jewelry about ten days ago from
Miss Laura Lee, induced Officer McTigue
to re-arrest George Yesterday; but after
ma'urer deliberaton it was decided to re-
lease the pris ,ner and leave him to the ten
der merces of the next grand jury.
: sura Hamilton, colored denizen of
pinch" was arrested yesterday for using
prolane and obscene language 10 the street.
Lawyer Cunningham induced her to give
him 81 to defend her, but when she was
arraigned and heard the charge made
against her, she acknowledged that she
"cussed on de street eva day OBJ dc
week" and she pleaded guilty" IN spite Of
her attorneys efforts to prevent it and his
assurances that she was as innocent as full
fledged cherubim. The court, Magistrate
Comings, assessed fine of So and costs
against the cherublm and discharged the
attorney,
Sergeant W. H, Ray returned several
days ago from st. Louis, where he went
principally TO induce the department to re-
ieve him from further service at this point
He intended to get away from here by the
10Th proyimo, but it seems that it will be
fully month before the department will be
able to relieve him, Sergeant Ray has
been with US 80 long that citizens have
come TO look upon him as a permanent
citizen and his departure will be generally
regretted. He, too, is well satisfied with
the people and h surroundings here. Per
haps the principal reason for his desire to
change is that the duties Of his Office here,
which would keep two men almost con
stlntly employed, lave devoved most Of
the time upon himself alone. Besides this,
Mrs. Ray prefers TO reside further cast.
"A grea, food is expected in the Mis-
sissppi by st, Louissns. The signal ser.
vice concurs in the belief II is thought
that the river will reach higher stage at
81. Louis than i, has done for many years.
II these expectation come true, the farmers
in the bottoms will be the principal suffer
ers' Even now many field Of rich wheat
Is threatened with inundation by the rising
waters and if the rise continues foot or
eight inches the results Of months OF hard
labor aud the hopes Of a summers profits
will be dashed to naught. As yet this
county suffers nothing from high water
and IL may not suffer much when the worst