The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-16

While The jury in this case was
out, the case of young
negro named Felix Smith was taken up.
The prisoner was charged with breaking
open an Illinois Central freight car while
10 transit over the river and stealing there
from a pair of shoes. The jury found him
guilty and fixed his punishment at one year
in the psnitentiary. Court adjourned about
$50 O'Clock to commence again this morn
ing and take up the case of Robert Lewis,
another negro, also charged with burglariz.
ing an Illinois Central car.
About 4 o'clock yesterday morning
Mr.. Joe Burnett, Waterman on the steamer
City Of Providence lying at the wharf, was
shot in the left arm by negro who board
ed the boat without any business and with
the evident intention of stealing something.
The Waterman found the negro in the rear
part of the deck aud asked his business.
The negro answered that he was bound for
St. Louis. Being asked to show his ticket,
he at first refused doggedly, but finally
showed red card that was not q passage
ticket at oil. The Waterman thersupon or
dsred him from the boat, and when the
negro refused to 60, took hold of him and
tried to force him off. During the struggle
which ensued the negro drew his pistol
and fired twice at the Waterman and then
fed. One of the shots missed, the other
struck the Waterman in the left arm, above
the elbow, and CON pletely shattered the
bone. The wound was properly dressed
by DR.. Parker, and the patient taken to the
marine hospital here for further care.
Tho Jonesboro Gazette kindly corrects
its former statement about Cairo and says,
"Cairo is high and dry with several inches
yet to spare."--"Inches," indeed! Come
again, good Gazette, aud make it feet
please-sEvERAL feet; and the longest feet,
you ever saw, too, not excepting the typical
Psducah msiden's feet, which they always
have to telescope, same's they do railroad
trains sometimes, in order to get them on
the same picture with the rest of the body.
BY the way, tibet reminds US. A Padu.
cab belle who is here ION VISIT" you
know, but who does not live in the "Psdu-
cab colony" recently started here, went to
the principal photograph gallery In the city
yesterday, to have her picture taken, and
the Photographer had to knock the brace
out from between the front legs of the
chair in order to permit the fair subjec,
to stick her heels under the chair far enough |
to bring her toes within the wide range of |
the huge Tense. By urgent request We sup
press names.
-Jonssboro Gazette "A majority Of
the white voters of this district are farmers.
and they are represented in congress by a
high tariff Republican, an extremist on
this as we'll as every other political question.
The farmers are more deeply concerned in
this tariff question than any other class of
voters. They pay more taxes and get the
least benefit. The tax they pay on the
clothes they wear and the food they buy
and the imp dement's they use, leaves them
10 margin to show for . seasons work, un-
sss it is an exceptionally prosperous sea-
100. With q reduction Of the odious war
tariff there would be an improvement
The articles It is necessary for them to
buy would be cheaper, while there could
be no reduction 10 the price of their pro-
duc,ions from this cause. Will they vote
for high tariff representative
to congress this yeari We think
uot."-The Gazette argues well. II
might have asked many more similar
questions and gwen a confident negative
answer to them all, among them, this one,
Will the voters Of the Twentieth district
elect man to represent them in the Forty
ninth congress who, when there, will vote
to collect $l33,000,000 annually from the
people, IN excess of what is needed to carry
on the government even in an extravapant
manneri We answer with the Gazette,
I'VE think not.'
The new transfer steamer that has
been in course of construction by Messrs.
Howard & Co., at Jacksonville for some
months, is now about completed. Steam
has been raised in her boilers, and kept
up, for several days and she will come
down to begin the great work for which she
was intended here as soon as the river be.
gins to fall. Capt. ]. G. Clark, who has
supsrintended her construction from the
time she was begun until she was COM
plsted, kindly furnishes US with the fol-
lowing Dimensions of this great craft:
Length of hull between perpendicular,
ss5 feet; length on deck over all, 300 feet;
breadth of beam, As feet; width over all,
70 feet 10 inches after the wheels; width |
forward OF the boilers, 81 feet; depth of |