The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-23

| nef Vi Eleventh. dtfeet ana COmmerClal
avenue, which has been recently fitted up
tor him. Messrs. Morris Bros, SUCCESSORS
to the late A.. Fraser, have become settled
in their new quarters which they have
transformed from an unsightly old barrack
into respectable looking house. In the
Western Union telegraph office some chan
ges aud Improvements have been made,
chief among which is the removal of the
batteries into q little room by themselves,
| having water-tight floor. Formerly the
bursting of ar would drench the floor
and the fluid running through, dscolo red
and ruined the ceiling of the City National
Bank. This objection is now removed
Mr.. Phil: Saup has his new $3.50 generator
now in good working order and he has in
course of construction over it "a to be con-
tinued in our Lext,
In the circuit cout yesterday the case
of G. Howard & Son VS.. the Illinois Cen
trail railroad company occupied all the
day. Howard & Son are stone quarry oper-
ators at Rose Claire, Ills, and they allege
that while the Illinois Central railroad was
building the elevator here, 1t contracted
for two thousand cubic yards of stone
which it afterwards refused to take or pay
for. Complainants now sue the company
| for breach of contract At the adjourn
ment of court last evening the defense had
begun Offering testimony Messrs. Lans-
den and Leek represent the complainants
and Messrs. Green and Gilbert the defend
ants. The case of Thomas Lewis vs.. Henry
Wells, which Was on trial before the court
on Monday, was decided in favor CT the
complainant
About five o'clock last evening Chief
Myers came upon young negro named
Mcfarland, near the corner of Tenth street
and Washington avenue, in the act OF point
ing a cooked and loaded pistol at the face
of young white fellow. Mcfarland
caught sight of the chief, dropped his weap-
on and made tracks for obscurity toward
Walnut street. A lively chase eusued in
which the chief came out victor and ne
turned the young would-be shootist into
the county Jail to await the ctionof County
Judge Robinson to-day. 1t seems that the
white boy had offended Mcfarland in some
way, when the latter requested him to put
up a knife with which he was whiting. The
white boy did so when Mcfarland at once
whipped out his weapon ready for business.
Mcfarland is only about fourteen years of
age, but seems to be a fit candidate for
Pontiac.
For several days Chief Myers force of
scavengers have been hard at work in the
upper portion of the city and they have
done some fine work. The streets through
which they have gone, which we're former.
ly strewn thickly with boot-shafs, tin cans
rags, paper collars, old hats, sticks OF
wood, barrel hoops and other hoops, now
look as clear as ten-pin alleys. From some
squares cart load after cart load of this
sort of dry rubbish has been hauled away
and dumped into low places in the com.
mons and those who live in these neigh
borhoods must be in doubt at times if the
street they live upon now is the same of a
few days ago, 80 marked is the change for
the better. But there is still much work
to do and the chief makes daily round Of
the city only to find new places that need
attention, but he has the work we'll in
hand and when he is through the city will
probably be in better sanitary condition
and her streets more free from offensive
matter of every description, than has been
the case for years. But it devolves to a
great extent upon citizens to keep the
streets and their premises in good condition;
all should join with the authorities in this
effort to keep the city neat, for If they do
not it will be but few weeks or months
when rubbish will again be scattered along
the streets and alleys as before and the
work 50 far done will have been almost in
vain
A big mOuthed boy at Gray's Peak.