The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-14


the regular December session commenced.
Illinois turns out 100000 gallons of
whisky daily. Last year the daily turn out
of this popular beverage was only 10000
gallons. Did high license cause the in
creasel
"A tramp named Newton Rude COM
mitted some depreciation at the store of Mr..
VIM. Kluge Wednesday. He was captured
by Chief Myers and Constable Martin and
sumarily disposed OF by Magistrate Com
ings yesterday.
Mr.. Sebastian Berth will set a grand
free lunch at his new saloon opposite post
office, tomorrow Saturday. night, at 0
o'clock. Roast pig will be one of the de-
licacies of the feast. Everybody is in
vited ct
The town of Osceoa, in Florida, in
the vicinity of which several Cairo fami-
lies reside, was visited by agreat confagra-
ton some days ago, destroying twenty
four business houses and resldences-in
fact almost wiping the town out Of exiS-
tence.
The twenty annual meeting of
the Illinois State Horticultural Society will
be held in Maennerchor hall, Bloomington,
commencing on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1888,
and continuing three days. The railroads
generally will sell return tickets to dele
gates at one.third fare.
But for yesterdays rain the walls of
the Library building would have been
finished by yesterday noon and work would
then have begun on the roof. The incest
part of the brick work remains yet to be
done, however. This will be in the several
gables and will be nearly all fancy terra
Gotta work.
Patrick Hughes is back home again
after an absence of some months in Chi
cago and on the lakes Yesterday be was
arrested by Officer McTigue and fined IS
and costs by Magistrate Comiugs for "cut-
ting up" little too much among "the
boys" He was granted stay of execution
of one hour, on condition that he would
60 to work within that time.
You make mistake if you buy furni-
ture without first examining the large and
elegant stock now on exhibition corner 18th
and Washington avenue, next door above
pOstoffice The line of bed room and par
lor sets, reed, cane and folding chairs, is the
finest ever shown on this side of Chicago,
Cincinnati or St. Louis, and is offered for
sale at low prices Sales now open until Q |
O'Clock p. IN. WIN. EIcHHoFg.
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An exchange gives the following in
formation which may be useful to re travel
Ter on railroads: Telegraph poles are ex-
actly ten rods apart, and thirty-tw of these
poles consequently make mile. In order
70 find out how fast train is going, all
that is necessary is to record the time, and
when you have counted thirty-two poles
you have gone mile, and your watch will
tell you the time taken to cover that dis
lance.
The MISUNDERSTANDING case was
on trial all day yesterday in the circuit
court. The evidence for the prosecution
was all in and that for the defence was still
in progress OF being heard when court ad
journed last evening. The attorneys for
the prosecution are Messrs. Linegar, Lans
den and Leek; for the defence, Messrs.
Green and Gilbert, of this city, and Messrs.
Craudal and Lnegar, of Mound City. 1t
is thought that the case will 60 to the jury
tomorrow.
Mr.. Louis Stout, son Of Alderman
Henry Stout received severe fall Satur
day, from the effects of which he has been
confined in bed ever since. He was at
work up stairs in the Library building,
with his father, and the breaking Of
plank caused him to fall clear to the floor
of the basement, distance of about thirty |
feet. His lower jaw was fractured and he
received several bad cuts about the head. |
Since then erYsipelss set in and his condi-
ton was quite critical for while, but I'M
del. the care of Dr. Dunning he is now re-
covering.
For two weeks past the western horizon
at sunset has presented peculiar6ery color
that has attracted much attention through
out the country. There are several theories
advanced to explain the phenomenon.
The most plausible one is that the peculiar
red light is due to meteoric dust from the
millions of meteors with which the earth at
this season of the year is daily and nightly
pelted, the vast majority of which are al
most instantly consumed by the intense
heat developed, as thew dash into our at |