The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-30


better vacate forthwith or take drubbng.
With this warning the merchants and
clerks may guard against the little scoun-
dre.
The mysterious disappearance of Mr.,
Ed Reno, clerk Of The Halliday, sometime
during Sunday night was the subject Of
comment at the hotel yesterday. Mr..
Reno retired at the usual hour and was to
nave gone on watch at 1 O'Clock Sunday
night but did not appear and all search for
him proved fruitless. Corjcctures as to
the manner and cause of the strange dis
appearance are many; some or them wild
In theory. Foul play Is even limited at.
Certain it is that his departure was not
planned by himself, for his rooms and per.
sonal effects arc undisturbed and all in
their accustomed places. A suspicious
circumstance in connection with the mat.
ter IS that drummer, who was at the
hotel Saturday, also disappeared at the
same time and in like manner. AS a rule
1t may be true that "Der drummer is der
most innocent man on der roat, Rebacca,"
out there are probably exceptions to this
rule as to all others; designing scoundrels
are always prone to take refuge in the garb
OF innocence and naturally seek that occu-
nnflDn "a off tba,
tunilies for fraud. 1t is therefore not i'm.
possible that Mr. Reno was made the
victim OF some foul scheme by the drum.
mer. But the most probable conclusion of
all is that he was kidnapped The steamer
Sherlock was at the wharf Sunday with a
large excursion party on board, bound for
New Orleans. Among the excursionists |
we're number of handsome young ladies.
as daring as they were handsome If one
may judge from the calmness with which |
they crossed unaided over Eighth street on |
Ohio leyee. 1t is known that Mr.. Reno |
was anxious to pay the boat visit; it is |
supposed that he went, that several of the |
Mardi Gras girls were struck with his per.
sonal good looks, and concocted and sue.
cessfu.ly executed plan for his capture.
We may hear OF him from Memphis.
The plan for the new building of the
Widows and Orphans Mutual Aid Society
Is ready and may be seen at the Office OF
Secretary Thomas Lewis. 1t was 10 the
main, suggested by Mr. Lewis himself aud
was drawn by Architect W. E. Hendricks.
As before stated the building
will be fifty feet long by
twenty wide, and two stories or, from the
level of the sidewalk to the cornice, about
forty feet high. The first door will be all
one room, to be used for Office purposes by
the officers of the society named, and will
be furnished with desks, cabinets, ETC., of
handsome make. Ten feet of the rear end
Of this floor will be taken up by the vault
which will be fire and burglar proof. The
walls of the vault will be double, the outer
nine inches thick and the inner four inches
thick, and will have an in
tervening space or air chamber of
two inches. The ceiling of the vault will
he composed of railroad T iron aud the
whole will be lined with heavy sheet iron
10 al bn. s.
posite boxes will be constructed, each
with double lock, which will be rented
out to citizens who may wish to deposite
valuables in a place TO which they
alone can have access whenever they
desire. A stairway at the rear of the
building will lead to the upper floor which
ls divided into four neat rooms OF nearly
equal sizes, all opening into hall. AS a
whole 1t will be nice, substantial little
building, with as handsome an iron front
as there ID in the city. A large centre
door with great single-pane window on
either side will constitute the lower front;
aud above, four two.pane windows will be
set in ornamental castings The safe de-
post boxes will be an important feature of
the new bui ding. 1t is 10 vogue 10 all
large cities aud is quite convenience. II
will increase by one more the number of
enterprises Of convenience TO the public Of
which Mr.. Lewis has been the author
Every daJ the fact becomes moreclearly
apparent that Cairo lies in too close proxi.
nifty TO Paducah aud Mound City, La Pa
ducah ctlm. con. cases have been so com.
mon that they no longer create ripple
upon the popular mind. The latest is the
desertion of good wife by her husband
named Fleck, who hickered with fifteen dol.
lars ofMrs. Flecks money. Generally such
fellows have been content with taking some
other fellows taithless wives, but it is un-
dcrstood that Fleck, the ambitious cuss,
eloped with fine nag, Cairo has held out
long and brsvely against the baleful in.