The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-04

and place as may be designated by Brig
General j. N. Reece, commanding, who
will issue all necessary orders, All officers
are enlisted men at this encampment will
be transported, subsisted and paid as con-
templated by article VII, of Military
Code.'-lt is understood that the encamp-
ment will be held at Springfield about last
of the present week.
In addition to the fine display OF "sl-
yer, gold and precious stones" in the win
dow OF Jno. A. Miller's jewelry store, there
are a number of photographs of the beautl-
full scenery round about Dixon Springs
that are worth studying. If
AT meeting of the Anchor fire com
pany Thursday night Officer Henry Dunk
er was elected president; Mr.. A. j. Steele,
vice president; Mr.. John Zanone, secretary;
Mr.. VIM Roller, treasurer; Mr.. VIM.
Kecne, captain; and Messrs. James Carroll,
Robert DeCoe and VIM. Keene, board Of
directors. The installation will occur next
Thursday night,
"A negro named James Owens allowed
himself to be "roped into" den on Ohio
levee Thursday, and claims to have been
robbed of thirty dollars by one of the
inmates named Ellen Thompson. Ellen
was arrested and after rich, rare and racy
preliminary examination in Justice Robin
sons court yesterday, was held to bail in
the sum of one hundred dollars.
To day the last spike is to be driven in
the tracks over the Arkansas river bridge Of
the Texas e. St. Louis road, Trains will
begin running through to St, Louis by Au-
gust 18th, tomorrow week. They will
arrive here about 8 o'clock every morning
and depart about 4 O'Clock p. m. The new
time cards are already prepared ana are be-
ing distributed along the line.
The upper incline of the Wabash road
is undergoing extensive repairs-ncw
cradle and tracks being constructed.
Trans are all received and sent out on the
lower incline, which accounts for the IN
crease of switching on the lower end with
in the last week or two. The work on the
upper incline is approaching completion,
when much of the switching will again be
done uptown.
Col. Thomas Lewis returned few
days ago from business trip to Spring
field. While In that city,he made some effort
to work up boom for the Widows and
Orphans Mutual Aid society and succeeded
in getting $l21 900 insurance for the order
and establishing branch organization num-
bering among its members as directors
twenty-one of the most prominent citizens
Of the place.
1t seems that the report that the pur-
chase of the Mound City marine ways from
Captain w. p. Halliday, by President Haar-
stick of the St. Louis Miss. v T. Co., was
premature. 1t was circulated upon what
purported to be the best authority and
thereupon found its way into print. The
truth is that the negotiations between Capt.
Halliday, President Haarstick and the
Mound City council are still pending.
Thursday dispatch came here from
Maiden, Mo-, addressed to Mr.. Thomas
Pope, care of VIM. Steagala, announcing
the dangerous illness of Mr.. Pope's wife
Yesterday Mr.. Steagala received letter
from the same town addressed to the same
party. Mr.. Steagala does not know Thos.
Pope and requested that we make the
above facts known, in the hope that the
party for whom the dispatch and the letter
are intended may read and understand.
Several of the good farmers in the
vicinity of Goose Island, this county, have
"puled up stakcs' within the last week
or ten days aud intend TO emigrate to
Florida. Those mentioned to us yesterday
were Messrs Lafayette Russell, Jno. w. Mar
tin and Enoch Metcalf. The last named is
a brother to our former fellow citizen, Mr..
j. II. Metcalf, who established himself in
Florida some years ago and probably, sent
back asttering reports Of bis property past
and prospective, which induced the gentle
men named TO follow in bis tracks.
The steamer Ella Kimbrough has gone
down the river with cargo of ice from the
Distilled Water Ice Manufacturing Co,
She goes to Hickman, KY, aud will return
to-day with an excursion party of colored
folks, who will come to help their brethren
here celebrate Emancipation Day to-day.
The colored folks here have made very ex-
tensive preparations in the commons up
town. They have erected cottonwood
bowers prepared meats for grand feast
and will have also speeches, music and
dancing,