The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-02


fall and rise being about equal. Rain OF
snow fell at Cairo, Chattanooga, Davenport
Keokuk, Leavenworth, Nashville, St
Louis, and st. Paul, aud heavy snow al
Pittsburg.
The annual festival of the Baptist
Sunday. school was held at the church on
the corner of Tenth and Poplar streets last
night and was very pleasant affair well
gotten up, and well attended. The musical
exercises were very attractive and enter
tanning. The church had been nicely
ornamented for the occasion. 1t was the
fifth annual festival and all present must
have felt that the past five years had been
full of prosperity for the congregation.
Prof, Address at Hartmans hall to-
night. He has just returned from New
York to I'll his engagement for FIVE nights,
He has also purchased some new tricks to
perform tonight and also give some hand
some prizes $50 each night; he also will
give a free tight-rope ascension in the open
air; with his trained birds, his wonderful
bird usher, he will wheel another bird
across the street on wheel-barrow. The
ascension will take place between A aud 5.
All turn out and give the Professor a
III T,nlyo far q
Bernath. 1t
MIR. J. G. Gault, second vice-presdent
of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Rail-
way company, has issued the following
circular: "Mr A. G. Bird having resigned
his position as general freight agent of
this company to take effect Jan. |, 1888,
Mr.. NJ. Knight has been promoted to fill
the vacancy, and will assume the duties OF
the position on that date, Mr.. c. L. Well
lington has been promoted to the position
Of first assistant general freight agent and
Mr.. Il. S. Mecken has been appointed
second assistant general freight agent"
The dairy kept by Lieut.. belong,
which was found beside his dead body on
the bank Of the Lena, has been made
public. 1t gives terrible picture Of the
trials and suffeIings to which the unfortu-
nate crew of the Inflated Jeanette were
subjected during the twelve months in
which the vessel drifted in the ice. The
last record bears date Dec. 81, 1880, and is
a summary of the history of the ship, which
in sixteen months dril'ted 300 miles, but
only gained one-sixth of that distance.
Even at that writing belong had not
abandoned hope, and still expressed the
belief that the vessel might yet be able to
accomplish something worthy of the flag
it carried.
Probably the last notable event in this
city Of the old year was ire which oc-
Cured few minutes before twelve O'Clock
Sunday night and totally destroyed the
cooper shop Of Mr.. j. II Parks, near the
gas works The building was small frame
structure belonging to Col. Taylor and
worth but few hundred dollars. It's con-
tents, which consisted of soma stock and
the tools belonged to Mr.. Parks and ere
valued BY him at between four and i've
hundred dollars. All was destroyed, al
though the fire department WAS prompt to
turn out, not being misled as many were,
by the thought that the alarm was but
signal that the old year was waning The
only insurance there was on the property
destroyed was $500, held by Mr.. Parks IN
a company represented by Messrs. Wells d
Kerth.
One of the pleasant little incidents Of
the holidays just passed, transpired at the
boarding house of Mrs Sites, on Seventh
Street, yesterday at noon, II was the pre-
sentation OF pair of fine gold spectacles,
by the guests Of the house, to Mrs. Sites,
the genial and able hostess, in appreciation
of her constant and successful efforts to
please the pallates of her hungry boarders.
At the dinner hour the guests and ladies of
the house, to the number of about thirty,
gathered 10 the sitting room, and there
Mrs. Sites was induced to appear and with
brief ceremony was specialized" Mrs.
Sites expressed her thanks in few, ear
nest words, and then invited the company
to partake of one Of her characteristic din
ners, which all did with their usual alacar-
ity but but with more than usual pleasure.
The Rough and Ready fire company
opened its hall to the public last night by
fancy ball, their regular New Years ball.
A real nice company of people, seventy
five or hundred young and middle aged,
was present, there was the finest string
music, and at II o'clock splendid feast