The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-08


this point and has succeeded In establish
ing an association. Mr.. and Mrs. Crane
will be at their home on Washington ave-
nue. after the 25th instant.
For several days Miss Katie Howard,
cashier and book-keeper for N. B. Thistle
wood & Bro, has been of duty by reason
of being overcome with heat, on the 4th.
This is the first case of the kind that has
transpired here since the cheated term fair
ly set in. Miss Howard will probably be
out again tomorrow.
The German Lutheran church on
Thirteenth street has been in the hands of
Mr. B. f. Blake for a week or longer un-
dergoing general repairs. A force of paint
ers outside, a force of paper-hangers inside
and force of carpenters on top and all
around, are makingit one ofthe handsomest
structures OF its kind in this city.
The Christian church on Eighteenth
street has recently been given general
overhauling and will be thrown open TO
the congregation to-day for the first time in
number of months. Services will be
conducted morning and night by Ed. II, S.
Haynes, state evangelist, and will be very
interesting. Everybody is invited.
George Washington Grossback, the
young runaway from Grand Chain, for
whom crippled mother and young
brother have been vainly searching in this
city for several days, living in the street
most of the time on crackers and water,
was found yesterday in company with ne
gro supposed to be the one with whom he
left home. But George Washington's
mother and brother could not be found yes
terday and it Is supposed they went back
home, having given up hope of finding the
young truant.
johnson County Journal: "a medi-
cal journal tells Of a young man in Yer
mont whose brains have dried until they
rattle like shot in a gourd every time he
shakes his head. Two to one he will vote
the Democratic Free Trade Tariff for Rev
enue, for the Exigcncies of the Govern
ment only ticket."-In which case the
young man of Vermont would manifest
blamed sight more sense than some men
who profess to have big, healthy brains,
and who cry for the burdens imposed upon
them and hepubic by the war tariff as
infants are said always to cry for pap.
Services at the Methodist church prom
Use to be of unusual interest to-day. Prof.
Sherwin, of Cincinnati is expected to be
present and conduct them both morning
and night. AT the morning service, which
begins at II o'clock, the Prof. will take for
his subject Interpretation and Misinter-
probation Of Scripture by the manner Of
reading" At 4 o'clock p. m. mass meet.
ing of Sunday Schools will be held, and
and the children will be addressed by the
Prof. 1t is understood that the evening
service will be a union service of the Pres
byterian and Baptist congregations. The
service will consist of song and scriptural
readings and an address by Prof. Sherwln.
A general invitation Is extended to the pub
lie to attend all the services.
The Johnson County Journal is not en-
tirely correct when it says: "After putting
them (the Trade dollars) in
circulation at 100 cents, the bank.
ers refused to take them for more than IS.
This sharp practice the bankers are en-.
gazing in that ought to be set down on by
congress. 1t stands next to robbery. THE
Journal should substitute "the Republican
party" for "the bankers" in the above. The
Republican party in congress is guilty of
the "sharp practice" referred to and the
bankers were, in many instances, as much
the victims of it as were the people gen
orally. 1t seems to us that the people I'm.
derstood this when they sat heavily down
upon those who had perpetrated the fraud,
and elected Democratic congress. The
Democratic congress will now doubtless
soon "sit down on" the fraud itself.
The excitement among the colored peo-
pie at Mound City,spoken of in yesterdays
BULLETIN, did not manifest itself in any
physical violence, but threats were very
freely made and the whites were in fear of
momentary outbreak of some kind. The
negroes flocked into the city to the number
of about three hundred and moved about
the streets and public places 10 squads un-
til dark when they all suddenly disappear
ed which was taken as proof OF an intended
outbreak. But all renamed quiet. Threats
were freely made against Tailor Painter,
Marshal Ross, young man named Kittle,
an empoye of the Wabash road, a man
named Marsh, section boss on the roa and
A. b. Gibson, conductor on the train on