The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-19
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN: TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 10 1888

and forty bottles of Hosfords yeast powder
were sold, yielding $50. From this it
would appear that biscuits and yeast pow
der must have gone like hot wailles are
said usually togo Hosford's yeast powder
is for sale at the New York Store.
The excursions on the steamers Ella
Kimbrough and Three States Sunday, the
former 10 Paducah and the latter to Fort
Jefferson, were fairly attended. The
weather was fine for boat ride and those
who went enjoyed themselves nicely.
Street Supervisor N. A. Devore and
Deputy VIZ Axley, have so far collected
1861 as street tax. Notices have been sent
out to nine hundred persons in all, some OF
whom are, however, exempt for various
reasons. The Fourth ward is being can
vassed now
"A darkey named Jno. Harris living on
Walnut street, between Twelfth and Thir.
teenlh streets, amused himself Sunday
night 10y roughly beating his wife and
niece. Both the latter swore out warrants
for his arrest yesterday, but John had left
town and, therefore, for the time being at
least, remains unpublished,
1t took five coaches to convey the re-
mains and friends of the late Bernard
smyth to Villa Ridge Sunday afternoon
The remains were taken from the residence
on Ohio levee to St. Patrick's church where
a short service was held over them by Faith
er Murphy. From the church the process
sion went to the train at the foot of Eighth
street, Prof. Storers band headed the
cortege both to and from the church.
George Gray the negro charged with
the theft OF money from one of the
Comique actresses was examined yesterday
before Magistrate Comings and acquitted.
The principal evidence against him was the
IS bill that he had paid for pair Of
shoes. The only means by which the vic
tim of the theft claimed to be able to rec
ognize the bill was by the manner in which
il bad been folded. The court held this to
be insufficient and discharged the defen
dant
The State Journal charges the city
council of Peoria with "verdancy" for per-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. whoseI licenses had
regularly expired to renew them for another
year before the lst Of July. The Journal
would have Permitted the saloon. keepers
to do business without license for severa
weeks, or refused TO issue license and closed
them all up, until it could have demanded
the increased price established by the Hsr.
per bill.
There are probably many cisterns in the
city that have sipewater in them, the use
of which causes more sickness than any
other cause. The Purifying Pump sold by
Lancaster & Rice is warranted to purify
the water inside of ten days, or money re.
funded. Also all heart shaved cypress
shingles, making roof last longer than any
other kind of shingles sold in this country.
The Asbestos Roofing is conceded to be
the best for flat roofs, preferable to either
tin or iron; constantly kept in stock by the
above named firm. 2t
"A negro named Marsh Brown, general
ly known AS an undesirable citizen, who
has been guilty of several little freaks of
lawlessness for which he was never brought
to justice, was arrested yesterday by Chief
Myers aud charged with being vagrant.
He was brought before Magistrate Comings,
but swore that he didn't believe be could
get justice there and took change of venue
to Justice Robinson's court. Here eight or
ten witnesses were examined and the result
was that be was proven guilty of having no
Legitimate business, loafing about the streets
in idleness, irequentng ordinares and bad
houses, was a horse jockey, fiddler
and thief by turns in
short that he was vagrant
of the most Objectionable kind. He
was fined S25 and costs and given stay of
execution for twenty-iour hours on condi-
ton that he shake Cairo's dus. from off his
feet and skip. But owing to the fact, no
doubt, that he has been dealt with very
lightly in his several little feonies, he
is no. afraid Of the law and has determined
to fight the officers. He has therefore given
notice that he intends to take an appeal to
the circuit court or county court.
Last Friday week ago Hon. VIM. A..
spann, of Johnson county, was given his
seat in the lover house Of the Illinois gen
erAl assembly, held through the remainder
Of the session by DR.. Lodge, through the
fraudulent count of the Pulaski county re-
turning board. We minated s,me time
ago that DR., Lodge probably furnished