The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-02

did so before the alarm was given for thu
fire department. The house is occupied by
Mr.. Driscol and family. The damage wa'
slight.
The MaLle Norton Opera Company
numbering eighteen members, passed
through the city yesterday for Pine Bluff
Mo-, on the Texas narrow.gauge. They
had thirty-two trunks for baggage.
The late Henry Breihan's business goes
on the same as before his death. Mr..
Christ Young, cousin of Mrs. Brehan, is
managing it. The agency of the Best
Brewing company is retained by the new
management
Diver Hiram Hill was called to Smith.
land, Ky, last evening, by . telegram to
raise the steamer Joseph V. Troupe bound
from Evansville for Cairo, which sunk a
few miles above Smithland yesterday some
time No particulars were given. Mr..
Hill went.
Services will be held this morning in
the Presbyterian church by Rev. B. Y.
George. Sunday School also at the usual
hour in the afternoon. The evening SER
vice will probably be dispensed WITH ac-
count of the mass meeting at the Metho-
dist church.
Capt. c. w. Bradley returned yester-
day from his visit up the Ohio river. He
snd Mrs. Bradley visited the great Southern
Exposition at Louisville and went from
there to Evansville where Mrs. Bradley re-
mains, visiting friends. The report that
Capt Bradley was kidnapped proves to have
been a solsiIcerism.
Mr.. Matthew Metzgar, of the Hall.
dsy Guards, was sent down from Spring.
field by the adjutant general, with author
ity to bring eleven members of the guards
who had refused to 90 with the rest of the
boys. Mr.. Metzgar hsd authority to srres
the eleven if they refused to come Willingly.
Only actual prostration by sickness was to
deter him from compelling any one of them
to attend.
"A mass meeting will be held at the
Methodist church tonight under the au.
spices OF the County Sunday School con-
vention. Mr. Jacobs will address the meet
Ing. To morrow morning at 8 O'Clock an
other meeting will be held; at o'clock p.
IN. chiIirens meeting, and at night an.
other mass meeting-all at the same
church. Everybody interested IN Sunday
School work is invited.
The Argus tries to prove, in an edito-
rial nearly a column long, that business
will not climb hill" The Argus has
very short memory. 1t is not much over
q year ago since there was some very lively
climbing done in all parts Of the city and
the Argus man wasn't very backward about
i, himself. Butt if he has forgotten the in
teresting incident, peIussl of the files Of
his paper, from February 18th to March
10th, 1892, and the same dates in 1888,
will perhaps revive them 10 his mind.
The St. Louis & Cairo X. r. is to begin
active work on the Mississippi levee during
this week. Stakes marking the amount OF
filing to be done have already been driven
by Engineer Charles Thrupp and
the line of the side track has
also been laid out. The dirt for
the filing will be taken from the fragments
which still remain Of the old Mississippi
levee. The work is no, inconsiderable; it will
engage force OF from twenty-five TO fifty
men, and a dirt train and engine, for a
month or longer.
The negro, Vim. Gardner, who was
confined in the county Jail under bond Of
800 for stealing watch and an oyercoat
from a negro named Reed, up town, es.
capped from his cell Friday night about II
o'clock, by means Of q hole which he made
through the brick wall with some iron or
steel instrument. How he got the instru.
ment, or what il was, is not known. An
other negro, Lucky Bill who was in the
same cell, remained, preferring confinement
to liberty as a fugitive. He says Gardner
tried to set the jail on FIRE before leaving,
and that the smoke awoke him and be put
the fire out before it had done any damage
While business generally has been
probably as dull here as anywhere the ho-
tel business in particular has been very
fair, as is apparent from the register Of The
Halliday, which shows the following tran.
sient arrivals dunHg the week ending last
night;
Sunday .....2S Monday ..,,....,50
Tuesday ......50 Wednesday,, "a
Thursday ,.....57 Friday ......,...5 81
Saturday, up to 10 O'Clock last night ...53
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