The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-04

fnpluly rs possible. What better recon-
mendation than this can Cairo ask, for facil-
tiles to furnish chcaply and expcdiciously
the building material, oven to the far
noriheasth What other city can make a
better ora similar showingl
Word was received here yesterday,
from DIR. Wardner, at Anna, that the old
man, Stanislaus McQuasky, who has been
In st. Marys Iniirmary here for six or eight
month"; at the expense OF the city and
county, beng cured of injuries received at
Birds Point on the Texas Il ST. Louis rail-
road, could now be received at the Anna
asylum to be treated for insanity. Deputy
Sheriff Morse Will probably take tho pa.
tent to Anna;
Two thugs chorogormed Mr.. G. NJ.
Aldcns son at the Anna railroad depot
Tuesday night and robbed him of watch
and chain and SO. in money, Young Alden
was on his way here and was waiting for
the down train. He fell asleep, when the
drug was administered by the two fellows
who had pretended to be also waiting for
the train, and the deed was done. When the
victim awoke he was alone, and dispatches
and things sent ont in all directions in pur-
suit of the thieves we're ofro avail 10 trac-
ing them,
Yesterdays weather bulletin reported
fall OF fifteen degrees in the temperature
at Bismarck, putting il fourteen degrees be.
low zero there, The other heavy falls re-
ported were 20 degrees at Yank,on, leav-
Ing it | above zero; IA at St. Paul, leav-
Ing it . below zsro % at Omaha leaving
it & abeve zero; 10 at North Platte, 10
above zero; - at Lacrosse, 3 above zero.
Rain was reported at Cairo ll.l00;
Memphis, 2Ol00; Nashville, S2-l00;
aud Shreveport %. At all but nine of the
twenty points reported from the thermomo.
ter was far below the freeziug,point
The demand for passes over tue river
at this poiut, which had nearly abated dur
ing the holidays, is gradually gaining its
former proportions Among two crowds
of eight, who came TO the Mayors office
just after dinner yesterday, there was one
woman, whowith her husband and boy, had
walked over two hundred miles on railroad
tracks, she said, walking all the way from
Toledo, Ohio. They arrived here without
money, though in apparent good health
and comfortably clad. They were for.
eigners aud were bound for the sunny
south to find employment.
Even soothing syrup ought to be well
shaken before taken. At ST. Louis two
babes, twin children of q Mr.. August j.
Krousbn, were on Saturday night given a
dose of Soothing syrup On Sunday
morning both were dead. Either an over
dose OF the drug had been administered, or
the opium had risen to the top of the mix
ture and the prescribed quantity had thus
become more dangerous than if the stuff
had been previously shaken thoroughly
Whatever the cause Of the accident, one
fact is clear that the soothing syrup poi
soned the babes.
Twelve car loads of gravel for Eighth
street have already been brought over and
unloaded by the Mobile AMI Ohio railroad;
aud more will follow as it is needed. But
some who have examined the gravel and
who are good judges say that it is not of
the best quality-not as good as that used
on Commercial avenue and the cross streets
leading to the levee Case should be TAX
en- that only good gravel be used, for we
had some sad experience with the other
kind on the lower end Of Commercial ave.
uue Itmay be- that this first installment
Of gravel was but from the surface of the
bed and that future lots will be better
Prof. O. s. Fowler now nearly score
years old and 90 years before the public
as chronological author, lecturer and eX-
aminer, is paying our city rather flying
visit. He opensa course OF 3 lectures at
Temperance hall, (the only available one to
be had on SO short notice, but though small
| is neat and attractive), the first takes place
this evening at p, III. aud will be FREE
A part of the seats will be reserved at 10 cts
each, Subjects Of the following lectures
will be announced in our daily columns.
| Each lecture TO close with PUBLIC TEST cX-
aminations of some person selected from
the audience. He stops at The Halliday,
where he will tell persons all about them
selves from the shape of their heads, and
to what they are best fitted to succeed in
life.
Prof. Address drew good audience to
Hartman's hall los, night to witness his
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