The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-23

young men. MT. LennlnR senior, a'"'
many years of close application to business
will "take rest" and "give the boys
chance" The young men are we'll quail
fled to succeed their father ia his hereto
fore prosperous business.
Mrs. S. Williamson's establishment
was visited by large crowds of lvdies yes
terday, to inspect the new stock Of fnerles
of every descriptions, presented there in
gorgeous array. The opening continues
to-day. Attend it, 1t
The division superintendent of the
Wabash system, thirteen in all, held meet
ing with full attendance al the office the
company at st. Louis Wednesday afternoon
and prepared for their spring campaign but
did nothing of special interest. Superin-
tendent ID. G. Moore, of this division was
in attendance and returned Thursday
night,
The officers of the steamer Fowler re-
ported yesterday evening that as the boat
passed Terrell's landing, in Kentucky, about
nine miles above here, the body Of a wom'
an was seen floating in the river near the
shore, among quantity of drift-wood. NO
efforts were made pick to up the body, but
the proper officers of the county were
doubtless notified on the steamers return.
The two Wabash railroad men, Frank
Keys and James Mckay, who were arrested
by Constable Sheehan some time ago for
breaking open and robbing freight car at
Carmi, of quantity of clothing, were
tried at Carmi Wednesday, and though, IN
the opinion of the officer, the evidence was
direct and sufficient, the jury found YER
dict of acquittal.
The Washington avenue, or ladies' en-
trance to the postoffice building needs some
attention. The door, when closed, catches
at the bottom SO that children and often
ladies find 1t very difficult to open it and
thinking that the door Is locked, 90
around to the gentlemens entrance rgo
home. The evil has existed for some time
and ought to be remeded without further
delay,
Judge Bross and DR.. Paul g. Schulz
returned a few days ago from atrip through
Arkansas. While in one of the towns in
which DR.. Schulz has a good trade and
where his "Rattlesnake Oil" has obtained
special favor, wild looking stranger
hunted him up and insisted upon selling
him large nest of rattlesnakes. The
stranger had heard of the Dr's., famous oil,
had used it and found it to be as represen-
ted, had concluded that it was pure rattle
snake juice and expected to make a profit
able business of furnishing the DR.. with
the raw material for the manufacture of the
article But the DR., respectfully declined
the offer to the very evident displeasure of
the stranger.
The weather which THE BULLETIN Of
of Tuesday predicted came on Wednesday
in the form of snow, etc. Encouraged by
this prompt ful6llment of its prediction, it
will venture the remark now that there
will be considerably more weather within
the next four days, but not quite so much
as there was during the last five days.
"Forewarned is forearmed;" so keep your
linen busters and your buffalo robes, your
white vests and your knit jackets, your
silk parasols and your hal.proof umbrellas,
always handy for immediate use, and do
not rush out the front door before you have
reconoitered about the psrlor window and
shifted at the key-hole a bit.
The rumor that the Cairo division of
the Wabash system will probably revert to
the old Cairo and Vincennes company very
likely has its origin in Carmi, where sever
al rumors unfavorabe to the present man
agement have originated. And the reason
for Carmi's evident purpose to defame the
Wabash is, that the Wabash is about to re-
move its yards from there to Mt.
Carmel, and will perhaps also remove its
Carmi machine shops to the same point
A force Of men began the work of laying
tracks at Mt. Carmel last Wednesday. The
reasons Of the removal Of the yards from
Carmi are that the company has not and
cannot get sufficient room there, and also
that Mt. Carmel is more centrally situated
on the line and affords much better facii.
ties in various ways than Carmi does, for
the handling Of freight and doing other
business, Those who are in a position to
know deny that there is any good reason
for the report above referred to.
Tuesday night the colored sgitators
met in Bishop Rix's church at the corner of
Fourteenth and Walnut streets, for the pur-
pose of increasing the fund necessary to en-
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