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

er was frec-for-all running race, half
mile heat, three entries Cairo stock, purse
$25. "Sorrell john" owned by Mr.. Fisher
"Belle of the West" owned by Mr.. VIM
Elliott, and another horse also owned by
Mr.. Elliott, were the contestants. The last
mentioned horse few the track before he
got half way around and "Belle of the
West" won the stakes.
Sergeant w II. Rays weather report
for June shows that the mean maximum
temperature was only 1875, showing that
it was the coolest month of June we have
had since 1871 when the signal station was
established here. The highest temperature
during the month was 81 degrees above zero,
on the nth, and the lowest was 81, on the
LIST. The total rain fall was eli inches,
the heaviest on one day was 2.53 inches, on
the 10th. The number of days of strong
wind, that is wind reaching a velocity OF
over twenty-five miles, was eight, viz the
9th, 9Th, 10th, 18th, 18th, 2lst, 22d and
Gath.
"A crippled white woman and little
boy about two years old, have been wan
dering about the streets for several days, IN
search of another white boy, son of the
woman, about ten years old, who was en-
ticed to leave home at Grand Chain by
young negro last Tuesday and came down
here. The woman's name is Grassback and
the lost boy is George Washington Grass
back. The boy was seen here by different
parties yesterday. He wears a blue checked
shirt and pants Of an uncertain color, held
up by one suspender. Mrs. Glassback In
tends to stay here until she meets with the
boy.
One of the three towbostmen who
raised a disturbance in front of Mr.. Leo.
Klebs saloon on Ohio levee Thursday, and
who escaped arrest then, was itching for
fight again yesterday morning and proceed
ed to manufacture the occasion for one
among the inhabitants of "Pinch." He had
a 42-calibre English Bulldog, which he
hourished freely and dangerously, and
with many curses and foul
epethets, to use it upon several of the ter
IorIzed African demi-monde When Officer
McTigue came up with him he and his
Bulldog had full possession of one Of the
,o-called restaurants below Fifth street.
while the proprietress and about two dozen
leighbors stood outdoors gesticulating
wildly, but not venturing to interfere with
he "tough.'' The officer wentin, however,
ook the ugly pistol away from Mr..
Tough" and put him in Jail to sober up
md get his back do wn."
The new postal money-order law pass
ID by the last congress went into effect July |
|. Postal notes can now be obtained at any |
postoffice in sums of s. and |
under by paying a fee of 3 cents. These
notes will be made payable to bearer with
1ut any corresponding advices. They will |
De payable at any money. order Office with.
n three months of the date of Issue. After
he lapse of that time the holder can obtain |
he par value only by applying to the post.
,ffice department at Washington. Another
lew arrangement also now goes into effect, |
You can obtain postal money order for as
arge a sum as 800. The limit has been
$50 The fees for orders we're published in
hese columns sometime ago. The postal
notes will 20 doubt be found more conven-
ent in one respect than the fractional paper
currency was, since they can be obtained |
or any number of cents under 8 dollars. 1t
will be observed furthermore that, after the |
LIST of October the cost of sending any sum |
under IS by postal note will be 5 cents-2 |
cents postage and cents fee. But we again |
call attention to the TACT that the &c. letter
postage does not go into effect until October
LIST.
Sheriff Crane, OF Pulaski county, was
in the city a great part OF yesterday look
ing tor the men connected with the lynch
ing OF Howard. While there is no doubt
that a portion of the men went up from
here, it is equally certain that other parties
came from elsewhere from Mounds juno.
ton and from Kentucky. Kane was very
popular among the laboring railroad and
river men, a class of men who are, as a
rule, more apt to commit violence than
some Others. They are roaming set OF
men moving constantly from point to point
and it will be difficult to learn who among
them here, If any, took part in the affair.
There is not much excitement in Mound
City, the white people especially, with some
exceptions, are not loud in denunciation OF
the affair, many believing it to have been
to a great extent justifabe. But the col.
ored people in the county are said to be
much excited and are hocking to the city