The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-10

| sent after MIN, ne continued u uce. lie
finally escaped and has not since been
seen. 1t is not thought he was hit by any
of the shots. "These are the plain facts" as
told by the Paducah News.
There will be an excursion to Fort jeff
erson, Saturday, May 18th, the annual May
picnic of the Temperance people. A band
will be in attendance, ice cream and lemon
ade will abound, and the round trip fare
will be twenty-five cents. The boat will
leave at ga. M All are cordially invited to
lay aside care and spend day in the
woods. tt
The city marshal of Metropolis writes
to Chief Myers asking him to look out for
two fellows who burgalized several business
houses in that city recently and took large
quantity of tobacco, cigars and bacon
There is reason to believe that the fellows
came down the river and stopped here,-
but the information from Metropolis is
little behind time to enable the officers here
to do any good.
"A surprise party was given MIR. Charles
Frank at the home of his parents on Eighth
street Tuesday night. 1t was his twenty
first birth day and his young friends to the
number of about twenty five gathered at the
house, carrying with them refreshments in
the form of ice cream, cake, and fruits and
nuts. The yard back of the residence was
lighted up with chinese lanterns. The fes-
tvites consisted of music, singing, dancing
and feasting and at about eleven o'clock one
Of the company, on behalf of the rest, pre-
scented Mr.. Frank with a diamond set
scarf.pln of beautiful workmanship, and
then more music and dancing concluded
the affair.
The school boy with smiling face, who
sits on the blanket and falls between two
chairs, scrambes up with the impression
that life, on the whole, Is hardly worth liv-
ing. A similar experience will be that of
dozens of gentlemen who have made per
sistent efforts to get their names upon the
slate AS candidates for positions on the
police force. When the mayor shall finally |
lay the slate before the council, there will |
appear upon it, what to the eyes Of many of
the disappointed applicants, will seem only
tumble of errors, because their own IA
miliar cogonomens do not appear there
and they sit down with force that will |
jar their spinal columns and prove to them |
that biologists are right in claiming that
the earth is not stuffed with saw dust.
"A letter was received by Chief Myers a
day or two ago from detective of Nash
vile, asking the chief to make search for a
young colored girl named Lizzie Chapman,
who had disappeared from her home in that
city some days before and was believed to
have gone down the river. Search was
accordingly made and the young girl was
found in den kept by a negress named
Jennie Warren, on Ohio levee, in the
shadow of DR.. Clark's sanity abode. Fur
ther inquiry proved that Jennie had brought
Lizzie down here to live with her and that
Lizzie had come voluntarily. But being
threatened with prosecution under the Ten
nessee law, for abiucting Lizzie for vile
purposes Jennie consented to send Lizzie
back home yesterday.
All the members were present at the
meeting of the Ideal League last Tuesday,
including the two recently elected, Messrs.
Calhoun and Albert Gallagher. The bust
ness meeting was not of especial interest,
but any deficiency in this direction was
more than made up in the execution of the
programme. The exercises we're opened
with piano solo by Miss Phyllis Howard
that was very creditabe. DR.. Benson fol-
lowed with an essay of very humorous
character; Miss Rids Corliss rendered an in
strumental solo 10 her usually artistic man
ner; Miss Hattie Mckee gave a vocal solo
that was beautiful both in composition and
execution, and highly interesting essay from
Mrs. Mcdowell closed the exercises, except
that short, eXtemporaneous address was
made by Mr., Jno Horne, referring to mat
Ter somewhat personal to himself. The Wis.
ting members were Miss Annie Rily, Rev.
Davenport and Mrs. Geer.
-lIeeding the camors of pack of sore.
head theorists who have axes to grind, the
late and last Republican congress failed to
appropriate money for the continuance of
the work OF improvement at all but two
points on the Mississippi river. AS a con.
sequence the "p.ant" at Plum Point, among
Others which is being operated under the
direction of Captain Knight of this city,
will have to lay idle for a year or two and
be in danger of going to wrek. The work
done, being left in an unfinished state, will
also be in danger of destruction and the
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