The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-10-12

- consider and report upon the ACCESSIBILITY
Of celebrating the laying of the corner stone
of the Stafford Memorial Library; but it be.
ing suggested by one of the members that
this important matter had already been
given in charge of the Odd Fellows, the
scheme was abandoned. Altogether, the
meeting was pleasant one, as is always
the case.
For half an hour preceding yester-
days rain gas and lamps had to be resorted
to in nearly all the business houses and
many residences in the city. The sky WAS
darkened with thick clouds of an inky
blackness, that seemed TO lie upon the very
house tops.
The Paducsh News has fallen to
abusing Cairo again. 1t always does this,
either to seek relief from the oppressive
dizziness of its own village or to direct pub.
lie attention away from the disgraceful
scenes of roudyism and often blood-shed
that enliven il so frequently.
Some one who swears that he knows
positively, says that Capt. Nellis, the city
treasurer, has taken the hunting fever and
is only waiting for squirrels to ripen and
fall, when he will 90 out on hunt with
brand new pop gun he recently procured at
great trouble and expense.
Yesterday Mr. A. T. DeBaun began to
have bricks hauled for the foundation OF
his new business house on Ohio levee.
Work on the foundation will be commenced
in day or two and will be prosecuted to
point above slpewater mark, and 10 spring
the super-structure will be reared
About twenty young people OF this city
went to Mound City last evening to attend
very nice social gathering given at the
grand residence Of DR.. Casey there, by Miss
Maud Casey, in honor Of Miss Watson, of
Denver, and Miss Nellie McGrsth, Of Chi
cago, guests respectively of Miss Gordon,
Of this city, and Of Miss Casey The com
pany was brilliant aud jolly one, of
course, and the affair must have been one
of unusual moment to Mound City society.
Love and Law" the new comedy to
be presented at the Opera House tonight
by the Milton MOBILES Dramatic combina-
ton, is one of the most delightful produC- |
tons of the kind upon the boards. 1t is
replete with bright, startling incidents, just |
enough so to make them enjoyable, while
the quaint sparkling humor which devel-
opes in every scene and act, is calculated
to keep the auditor in most delightful
frame of mind.
A dispatch received last night by
Chief Myers from the new chief of St. Louis,
B. H. Taafe, asked if one Willie Newbur-
GER aged fifteen years. was still employed
at the Singer works here and, if so, why he
had sent home his clothing. Inquiry de-
veopcd the fact that Willie had gone and
the supposition is that he first intended to
60 home to st. Louis and sent his clothing
ahead, but subsequently changed his mind
and went to Memphis without telling his
folks anything about it.
The proper officers of the German in
'urancc company in which the property of
Mrs, Isaac Valdez, up in the county, lately
destroyed by fire, was insured, have signi-
fed their intention of sending man down
here this week to settle the differences that
arose between their former agent and Mrs.
Valdez, as to the amount to be paid by the
company. The building was insured for
two thousand dollars and was totally de-
stroyed. The former agent offered to pay
only twelve hundred dollars, which Mrs.
Valdez refused, requesting rather that the
house be replaced by the company, to which
proposition the agent in turn refused to
agree Thus the matter stands.
A colored man named William Davis
was 5roughtinto the city on the Texas and
st. Louis road last evening and taken to St,
Mays lnirmary 10 be cared for, having
been horribly wounded, on the road named,
at Maiden, Mo- He with a number of
other men was sitting upon fiat car going
to or coming from work, when the engine
gave sudden start, jeTked the car away
from under him causing him to fall be-
tween the cars upon the track. One of his
ieet was cut off and the other leg was cut
off close to the body. He died at the In.
Urinary a few hours after he had been
brought there. He was young man, a
resident of Pulaski county. His brother
accompanied him here and was last night
trying to collect enough money to take the
remains home tor burial.
The Paduceh News says edllorally:
vt is understood that the Mystic com.