The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-30
Local News.

LaeS uiRnI at the residence OF Father
Sweeney, of St. Joseph's church, Mr.. Jacob
Lind and Miss Lena Kline we're united in
marriage, Father Sweeney officiating. The
ceremony took place in the presence of but
few friends aud then the welded pair re.
pared to the Rough and Ready engine-house
where their happy union was celebrated by
feast aud dance in which many friends
took an active part. The bride received
long list OF presents from friends here and
elsewhere.
1t is understood that several of the
leading railroads. will shortly introduce
time tables which will require twenty four
hour clocks. A manufacturer in New York
city has just completed one of the clocks
the first in that city. 1t marks the hours
from one to twenty-four. The most con-
spicious innovations are in the marking of
the dial and the movements of the wheels
which drive the hands. The minute hand
instead Of making twelve revolutions to
every revolution of the hour hand, makes
twenty four revolutions, while the hour hand
passed around once. The lettering on the
disls is in Arabic instead OF Roman numer-
ais, aud the spaces between the figures are
only half as great as on the dial Of the ordi-
nary twenty-four hour clock. The minute
hand marks half minutes AMI whole mimi.
tes. This clock will do away with the a. m.
and p. m. which sometimes proves confus.
ing to railroad passengers. 1t is thought
that in a very little while these clocks will
take place OF the old.fashioned time-pieces
According to arrangements as under
stood last nighta pay car in charge of Capt.
Gagi, claim agent, and Mr.. Drake, pay.
master, accompanied by Officer McTigue,
OF this city, was to start down the Texas
s. ST. Louis railroad from Birds Point
early this morning, to pay off the striking
engineers and fremen. But it was under.
stood that the psymaster had only the
September rolls and would pay of only for
that month, leaving the October and No
vember wages unpaid. This rule was OBJ.
served In the payment of about forty OF the
employees Of the road at the compsnys Of.
fee here last evening; and some Of the
strikers said last evening tina, this would
not satisfy the demand of the "Order Of
Locomotive Engineers" which has ordered
the strike AMI that unless the psy-rolls for
September and October are paid off, mot
\ q wheel will be turned" This-order will
be enforced 50 strictly that the pay car
will not even be taken out from Birds
Point by any union engineer. 1t is evident
that the union has things pretty much
its own way aud can carry my reasonable
points it desires to make.
st. Louis Republican: eve are glad
to note the Improvements going on in
Southern Illinois, as evidenced in the ad.
vances made in stock raising, in the rapid.
ly increasing railroad facilities, the better
general farming the increase of better
class Of immigrants and the development
Of mapufactures and mines. The old style
OF scratching the surface for corn and hogs
solely, and raising knot head cattle is fast
passing, never to return. The new order
OF things indicate enterprise and energy,
and those who stand IN the way sre fast
le'ving for Dakota and other outlying
regions Lands now selling from ten to
twenty Dollars per acre, must soon COM
mand double hese prices. With a good
soil, unsurpassed facilities for market, q
MILD, healthy climate, large resources in
timbers and mines, it Seems strange that
section has been SO long Overlooked bv
farmers, and the new life aad movement
must beyond question give it relative
growth superior to other sections OF our
great sister state and show rapid advance
in wealth and population. Surely farmers
will not long continue to pass by and 20
hundreds og miles west, remote from mark.
cts, schools and churches, when good farms
can be had nearly as cheap in an old Bet.
tied country" -
Alderman c. N. Hughes returned We'd
nesday evening from Carbonate, where he
had attended a meeting Of the trustees of
the Southern Illinois Normal University, of
whom be is one. The board met immedi.