The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-01

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and the price is believed to be reasonable
Mr. Sarbian will begin work on the schoo
yard as soon as he is through with his lot
on the city's levee.
Rev. B. Y. George has returned from
the central and northern part of the state
to where he went several weeks ago on
visit. He spent several days in Chicago
and met several former Cairoites there,
among them Mr.. f. s. Kent who seemed to
be enjoying his usual good health, Mr..
George will conduct services in the Pres
byterian church tomorrow.
Our readers will find in another col
umn the card OF the old established house
of Stratton & Bird. The members Of this
firm are among the Oldest residents in this
section, and are known all through the
south and southwest counties. Their bust
ness is immense, reaching out on the rivers
and on all the railroads running out Of
Cairo in all directions, and is growing
larger every year
--Messrs. j. s. Boutwell,, j. A. Lamb and
A. NJ. Bristol arrived in the city yesterday.
They are here to distribute to the subscrib'
ers here their copies of the history of Cairo,
Alexander county, and Union and Pulaski
counties. There are between one hundred
and seventy-fve and two hundred subscrib-
ers to the work here, who will be served
each in turn as rapidly as these three gen
tlemen can get around.
Some one writes to Chief Myers, from
Jonesboro, that a man has been In that
city taking orders for job printing, for
printing house in one of the large cities,
offering unreasonably low rates and in some
cases exacting a small advance in money on
the order. The goods ordered were not
sent and when the purchaser wrote to the
printing house for them answer came that
such house had no drummer out
Mr.. A. r. BeBaun has gotten up one
of the neatest things extant, in the way of a
business card for his restaurant. 1t gives,
besides some interesting details about his
restaurant, the distances between all the
stations, and the number of miles from
Birds Point of every station on the Texas
81 st. Louis road clear to Gatesville, 1899
miles Also similar tables for the Cairo
Short line and the st, Louis, Iron Noun
tain g. Southern roads,
Mr.. Thomas Conlan, of Charleston,
Mo-, who was in the city yesterday, stated
that Pat Kelly came into Charleston We'd
nesday and, while on spree, beat another
man up pretty badly This man, by way
of revenge, gathered up posse of pals,
followed Pat on his way home, attacked
him and inflicted the injuries which caused
him to lie nearly dead by the road side un
til accidentally found. The attending ply
stefan has pronounced the wounds fatal.
Mr.. L. A. Phelps returned yesterday
from Anna, having left his wife with a
private family there, recommended to him
by Dr. Wardner, and made arrangements
with tie physicians of the asylum to give
her what medical treatment she may need.
Mr.. Phelps was induced to take this step
by reason of the failure of the juries here to
send his wife to the asylum in the regular
way, and upon the authority of the follow
ing letter received by him from DR.. Ward.
ner, on the 25th ult.
HOSPITAL FOR THE SOUTHERN INSANE.
ANNA, H., August 25th, 1888.
l., Phelps, Esq., Cairo, Ills:
DR.. SIR-From what | saw OF your wife
she needs treatment, and the sooner the bet
ter. AS told you, cannot take her here
without the verdict of jury and an order
from the court She need not stay here any
longer than is necessary.
We have no desire to have any patient
sent here unless it be for their own good,
and think your wife would be benfited
by treatment and change,
Respectfully
II. WARDNER, Supt,
Now the Argus wants light upon a
subject it has been parading its views upon
before the public for months We knew
the old girl didn't know anything about
the matter and was all the while bindly
cropping about IN the swamps. She is now
asking for little information and she
needs it. She has more room for knowl
edge than any one we know of, But we
are under the impression that her cry for
knowledge is but hollow pretense; that in
reality she doesn't want knowledge. Had
she been willing to learn something about
the street filling proposition In Cairo she
might have been well posted ong ere this
from our teachings and those of Mr., Line
gar and Mayor Halliday But she is full
Of self-conceit and wllfully uniformed