The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-19

and several races splendid programme
is arranged for each day,
The board of county commissioners
was in session Monday and part of yester-
day. Only routine business of minor I'M
portance was transacted. The board adj
journed yesterday morning until Monday.
Kentucky Thoroughbreds. S. II. Bar
rett & Co.'S mammoth railroad circus, which
will exhibit here has with il the finest
trained horses in the world. They are
Kentucky thoroughbreds and very beauti-
full. 1t is worth the price of admission to
see them,
The Harrisburg Seminal SAYS truthful
y, "the levees at Cairo are being raised
more than two feet above the highest water
ever known, and widened and strengthened
If every levee town on the river would dis
play the energy that Cairo has lately shown
in the matter, large appropriations from the
state treasury would be rendered needless
The Armstrong Brothers Ministries
gave very fair show at the Opera House
last night They had good audience aud
pleasedeverybody, The songs were all finely
rendered, and there we're several new feat
ures which were especially attractive.
Everybody in the audience had several
hours hearty laughing, which did them
good,
Circuit court convened yesterday morn
ing with Judge ID. NJ. Browning on the
bench. The case of Joseph Stevens, charged
with larceny, was taken up. The witnes-
ses on both sides were examined, and MIR.
Warder, states attorney pro. TEN. for the
| crut court, had made the opening argu
ment for the prosecution when court ad.
journcd last evening. 1t will meet again
this morning, and Mr.. w, G. Mukey will
make the opening argument for the defense,
Misses Katie Hewitt and Nellie Rob
iusOu Ncul Wy lulo wv SOuhty w 'PSHH
Sunday with the family of Mr., Nick Humid
sacker Mr. II. returned them yesterday in
buggy drawn by two sprightly young
mules and when not far from the bridge,
the animals became frightened and ran
away. Mr.. H. found it impossible to stop
them with the reins, aud he drove them
into tree with the desired result. Ex
cepting the tree nothing was damaged.
The extremely low water has necessita
ted changes in and additions to nearly all
the railroad inclines in the neighborhood
The pling on the East Cairo incline OF the
Mobile and Ohio road had to be heightened,
and now the lower Wabash incline is
undergoing the same operation. The era
dies had reached the end OF THE inclined track
and were foot or more too high for the
boats, which made 1t necessary to build
shorter and lower cradles, and substitute
them for the old ones.
Charleston, Mo, also has "a mysterious
disappearance" as may be seen from the
following item which is from the Courier
of last week "Our little city is stirred up
somewhat in regard to the actions Of
daughter of one Of our leading citizens
The young lady left rather unceremonious-
ly, on last Tuesday evening, for Columbus,
KY, but since then nothing has been heard
of her, except that she was seen in Column
bus the other day, but is not in the city
now. Thesuppostion is that she is in st.
Louis
An ugly disturbance was created on
Thirteenth street Monday night by a brace
of festive young men, some of whom are
generally supposed to have too much self
respect to make a disgraceful public ex
hibition of themselves. They bombarded a
castle of iniamy with bricks and other
missels, and were fired at by the prophet
ress Of the institution. They were yester-
day summoned to appear before Magistrate
Comings, but failed to do 3d. They will
probably be made to do so to-day.
1t is understood that if the river falls
any more, the steamer Fowler will have to
quit running because, she draws too much
water to get over the chain. Last week she
scratched the bottom every time she crossed
and several times was hung for several
hours, Since then the current washed the
bottom out little, and yesterday there
were three and half feet Of water at the
deepest point in the channel. The Fowler
draws three feet and she got through "like
a grease Of streaked lightning"
Mr.. j, W. Leonard, of Memphis, was
at The Halliday yesterday, having come up
for the express purpose Of concluding con.
tract with Freight Agent N. S, pcnning,
ton, Of the Wabash and Iron Mountain
roads, for two hundred carloads Of slaves
to be taken from this city by the Wabash