The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-15

was determined 10 elmer SEND somebody Y
hell or 60 there himself, and with this h
drew knife from his pocket and made fo
the sonin-law, but was laid low by blow
on the head from stick Of wood in the lat
ter's hand The son-n-law had warran
' issued; Blackman was arrested and Mag
istrate Comngs fined him fifty dollars anc
costs. Labor on the streets for a month OF
so would take some of the meanness out Of
the culprit
Renters of lock drawers in the post.
Office should occasionally at least pull the
drawers entirely out and see that no mail
lies hidden under the drawer. Postmaster
Murphy did this to nearly all the drawers
yesterday and found under one number Of
letters and papers which had lain there for
long time. In pulling the drawers out a
draft passes through them, which often
catches letters lying on top when the box
is full and throws them down behind the
open drawer. When closed, the drawer
passes over such letters and hides them from
view both from within and without.
About ten days ago Mrs. II. Wardner,
of Anna, while coming down from Chester
on the steamer Belle of Shreveport, lost
fine watch and chain. She left the
watch and chain in small satchel
with other valuables, left the satchel on a
table in the cabin of the boat and went
up stairs for view of the country. When
she returned to the cabin several hours
afterwards, the watch and chain alone were
missing all the other things beng as she
| lett them. The watch is q small, blue.
enameed hunting case; No 22s45; repair
number in back of case 4l92 The cham
is composed of long, delicate, fat links
During the late high water in the up
per Mississippi, the Eau Claire lumber
compcny of Eau Claire, Wis. lost nine
| hundred thousand feet of lumber which
floated down the river in cribs of from five
| to ten thousand feet and scattered as II
went Since the water has gone down the
company has made an effort to hunt up and
recover as much of this lumber as possible
and, strange to say, has succeeded in find
| ing and securing nearly all of il at differ
ent points on the river At Greeniet's
Landing, twenty-five thousand feet was re.
covered, and between this point and Cape
Girardeau, thirteen cribs, or about one hun
bred thousand feet were found and fssten-
ed to the shore, and the remainder was
nearly all found at points above.
Up to late hour last night the Missis
sippi river commission which was 10 have
arrived here yesterday from ST. Louis on
its way south, had not appeared, but it was
confidently expected to arrive on the
o'clock train this morning. Captain Jno
G. d. Knight, engineer in charge of the
works from Cairo down, is in the city again,
and will meet the commission
here and accompany it down
TO the scene of his operation
at Plum Point. The steamer Mississippi,
the commissions boat, arrived here yester-
day morning and is lying at the government
coal feet aud she will take the commission
down the river from here. The party cou-
sists of General Comstock, president, and
Judge r. s. Taylor, Prof. Henry Mitchell
Major Suter, Major Harrod and Captain
James B. Eads.
The following statement Of facts aud
figures, carefully compiled from the returns
Of the late election and from the census re-
port, will give Barton of the Free Press
aud other Republicans who have said or
may say unkind things Of their colored
political chattles, between elections, raw
enous appetite tor "Kro" just about the
time the next election dawns, and will
cause them to whisper gentle, honeyed
words where now they roar cruel, cold
| abuse The total vote cast in this congress
sional district at the last election was
29,624. The Republican vote was 1852;
the opposition, Democratic and Prohibition,
was 1902, leaving the district anti-Repub.
lican by 440; aud the Republican plurality
$780, The colored population Of voting age
in the district was 4,1Sl in 1880. There is
no reason to believe that it decreased dur
ing the subsequent two years and there is
less reason to believe that any considerable
number Of them voted any other than the
Republican ticket. But admitting that
there was decrease and that considera-
BILE number of those who remained did vote
some other than the Republican ticket, it
would be the height OF unreason to assume
that this to such an extent as
TO make the departure of the
colored voters still remaining IN the Re.
publican party a matter OF no consequence