The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-12

work was paid for by the property owners
along there, in compliance with special
assessment made pursuant to law, about one
year ago, and the matter had been buried
under lot of other municipal legislation,
until the street committee at its recent ses-
sion of half day brought it to hight again
and called the councils attention to it.
"A nice little party was given to Miss
La Crone last evening, by Miss Maud Rit,
tenhouse, at the fine residence of the latter's
parents on the corner of Seventh and Wal
nut streets. Miss LaCrone is one of the
newly selected teachers for our public
schools and during her former abors in the
shoots here, became very popular,
The seventeen year-old son of Mr..
Cohler, living with his parents on CONNER
cial avenue between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, died yesterday afternoon
after severe illness of several weeks. He
had been in the employ of Mr.. Samuel
Burger for some months and was a bright
young fellow. Funeral will take place to-
morrow.
Charles Carver, the negro who tapped
the till in the saloon of Michael Calvin on
Twenty-sevcnth street several days ago,
was examined before Justice Bird and held
to bail in the sum of $500. But while the
court was making out the bond, the
prisoner went out of the back door and
hasn't been seen since. Constable Sidney
Robinson was the officer in charge.
; Mrs. Capt. Jno. g. D. Knight and two
daughters, are at Dixon Springs to remain
a couple of months. They are very mnch
pleased with the place; the air is 80 cool,
pure and breezy. Yesterday was hotter IN
Cairo than has been experienced at the
springs for the last week. The nights were
especially cool; at no time was it necessary
to sleep with windows open.
Several citizens of Cairo have been
subpenaed to appear before the coroner's
jury sworn to inquire into the cause of
death in the case of Nelson Howard, at
Mound City, and state what they may
know Of the matter The jury is to meet
next Saturday morning. We were under
the impression that the jury had found a
verdict aud adjourned, but it seems we were
mistaken.
- The pal-bearers at the funeral of Litta,
the famous songstress, who scored such a
great triumph in this city some time ago,
have organized themselves into committee
to solicit subscriptions from the people Of
Bloomington for the erection Of monu-
ment to the memory of the dead favorite,
with Hon. James Ewing as president and
Hon. Geo. r. Vending as secretary. The
is to meet Saturday to take the
next step forward in the movement.
In compliance with resolution of the
city council of Mound City, Mayor George
Meriz, Of that city, has issued a proclama-
ton offering 5000 reward "for the arrest
and conviction of the leaders of said mob
One-hslf OF the above reward will be paid
to any person who will give such informa.
ton as will lead to the arrest and conviction
of any of the guilty parties" and calls
upon all law abiding citizens to assist the
officers of the law in bringing the guilty
parties to justice"
-Messrs. McHenry & Miller, of Asher
vile, Kansas, write to Chief Myers asking
whether or not tool chest and valise bear
ing the duplicates to two checks found by
them upon the person Of man who was
murdered in Madison county, Mo-, in 1881
were found in this city anywhere The
trunk Of the murdered man was found in
this city soon after the murder was commit
ted but the tool chest and valise we're not
found The checks are described as being
OF brass, supposed to have been issued by
hotel. One is circular, with the letters
80, p" over, and the letter a." under
meath, the number, 1929" The other is
shield shaped, with the letter "B." just be-
low the mortise, over the number 49,"
Several of our citizens made some very
good investments in the louisiana lottery
last month. Mr. A. T. DeBaun holds a
fifth Of number 37,34S which drew the
capital prize of $4,000. He would seem
therefore to be entitled to $4,000; but by
an arrangement in purchasing the tickets.
Messrs G, II, Jackson and T. NJ. Lovett
share with him in the pile, each taking
$4,000. Mr.. Gus Botto and Conductor A.
b. Gibson on the Wabash road, jointly hold
another fifth OF the same number and draw
each S7,500.-That is il the kilograms sent
here yesterday signed by the manager of
the louisiana lottery company, were not
sent by some pratical joker. Number
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