The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-02

tended by the music lovers CT the city
The scholars ali went through with their
parts very nicely, some of them exhibiting
marked talent and all showing plainly that
they had received instructions from one who
was not only master in music, but pos
sessed in high degree the tact to instruct
others. The entertainment Melted neat
sum for the church and reflected credita-
bly, upon Miss James as teacher and mu-
steal manager.
A Lsnsingburg, New York, firm has
almost completed q paper steamboat for
Pittsburg company. Its length is 20 feet
and It has seating capacity of 25 persons
with carrying capacity Of three tens. The
sheating is a solid body OF paper three
eighths of an inch thick. A bullet from
revolver fired against the sheating four feet
distant neither penetrated it nor caused an
abrasion.
Mr.. Harry F. Hays, of New Castle-on-
Tyne, England, has been in the city a
week or ten days, stopping at the resi-
dence of his uncle, Mr.. George w. COrliss.
He is young man in search of such pleas
ure and knowledge as the new world affords
and he has found much of both 81 nce his
arrival here. He will probably leave to-
day or tomorrow to continue his tour of
this country, stopping few days at Me
tropolis to pay his respects to relatives there.
The jury in the case of Parrott and
Reeves va. Freeze stood eight for complain
ants and four for defendant, as will be seen
by the following certificate from the eight
jurymen:
We the jury sat upon the case
wherein Thomas Reeves and John Parrot,
we're plaintiffs and George w. Freeze de-
fendant. We the jury do believe from the
testimony given In the case that Geo. W.
Freeze did bring an unjust reproach upon the
character of Thomas Reeves without any
Just cause. J. II. Peterson, w. e. Newsom,
o. Boughner, Peter Kobler, Philip laurent,
j. G. Barnett, Henry 5mithey.
"A resolution to prohibit corporal
punishment in the public schools Of St.
Louis, failed to receive the endorsement of
the board Of education of that city. A sim
liar movement was talked of here and is
still contemplated by the board if we were
correctly informed, with fair prospect of
abolishing it in the Cairo schools. Corporal
punishment in the public schools is always
obnoxious and ought to be abolished. If a
good teacher can not control scholar by
other rules more CONSTANT with the civil
cation of our day, expulsion ought to be re
sorted to aud this should be the extent Of a
teachers power over his pupils.
The extraordinary demand Tor informa
ton relative to the Summer Resorts of the
Northwestern States, including Wis consn
Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota territory, has
induced the Chicago, Milwaukee g. ST.
Paul Railway to issue large edition Of til
illustrated book, entitled "a Reconnais
sance of the Golden Northwest copy OF
which will be sent to any address upon
forwarding six cents in postage stamps to
A. V. H. Carpenter, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. Copies of this
took, together with list OF Summer hotels
and boarding places, can be obtained at
the ticket Office Of ]. II. Jones, in this city
where Excursion tickets can also be OBJ
: tanned at reasonable rates.
Police business at Mound City is sale
to have been lively on Memorial Day. Th
victims of the law were, in most cases. car
y riers OF concealed weapons, who were spot
ted by boys in the employ OF the officer
= and then "pulled" and fined the customar
$25 and costs. While number of fellow
; were thus "taken in" there were several
i one that we know Of, who were missed bu
who ought not to have been. Just as tn
next to last train started from the Mounc
g City depot for up the road, commotion oc
d cured on the train, caused by two me
: rushing through the cars, one chasing tn
70 other with drawn and cooked revolve
d and with imprecatons loud and deep. TIL
e chase continued through the entire tra
y until the last platform Of the last car wa
a reached when the pursued leaped from tn
platform just as bis pursuer reached il
/. Furnishing his pistol in the air, cursin
It eloquently and struggling hard to rel,ev
e himself from those who held him back
t. But the train was going fast and soon Cal