The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-10

Additional locals on third page.

The late L. B. Petit was member of
the knights Of Honor, in which he held a
policy on his life, for $4,000 He was also
a trustee of St. Joseph's Church.
WANTED "A boy to learn type-settng,
must be over lG years old. Apply at THE
BULLETIN Office.
The shooting match that was to have
come of at St. Marys Park on the Fourth,
Is now billed for Saturday, in the commons
outside of the Mississippi Levee, near the
gas house.
-Pere Hyacinthe is believer IN Repub
lies, but he has not been able to convince
that lemon-blonde dude who calls Nine,
Hyacinthe mere that an effcte monarchy is
not the perfection Of human government
The fills appears to be something of fee.
"A negro woman named White, living
on Nlneteeth Street near Poplar complain
ed yesterday morning that she had been
poisoned by beer that had been brought TO
her last Sunday. But the fact that she
drank the beer Sunday and did not feel any
evil effects TIL yesterday seems to indicate
that she labor under delusion.
The shooting case of Bill Scott was to
have been tried in Justice Robnson's court
yesterday, but the Justice was absent and
the case was continued by Magistrate Com
ings till next Monday. The man whom
Scott shot is still unable to be out. His leo
is very sore and the ball has not yet been
extracted, though it has been found and
may work its own way out.
Superintendent Stevens, of the Wabash
road, and party of other dignataries of
the company came down on special car
Tuesday night, TO inspect some work that
is in progress here, AS they came down
they gave orders TO those having charge of
the tracks 10 at once procure steel rails for
all this division Of the road, and be ready
to begin the reconstruction of the track by
the lst of August.
The collections in this internal revenue
district during last month were as follows.
Fines and penalties, $GlGs; beer, etc, s. |
S26.64; liquors, SCI, 122.1O; cigars, $685.
As; tobacco, $4,000; special tax as dealers
in liquors and tobacco, sl,962.G9; total,
S34,7l4j9. The collections during the
fiscal year ending June Both were as fol-
lows: Fines and penalties, s3,01494 beer,
$50, 764.lS; liquors, s22l ,4243O; cigars,
$96,l9l53; tobacco, $G2,17S94; special
tax, s55,9l7.14; grand total, $4j3,4 9l 03.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnett left Yesterday
evening via Iron Mountain road for St.
Louis on business trp. From there they
will visit Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul |.
and Minneapolis and 60 some two hun
dred miles north Of St. Paul on the North
ern Pacific r. r. on a visit to relatives. The
trip will last several weeks. In the mean
time the several departments of TIE Bull
LETIN establishment are left in experienced
hands and patrons will find their fayors
will receive as good if not better attention !
than when the "Old Man" is at home, while
the local columns of the paper will be bet
ter than ever before.
The new models Of the carriage and .
pontoous Of the Eads Ship Railway have
started for London. Nearly all the capital ,
for the enterprise is being subscribed in
that city. Chief Engineer Corthcl says
one hundred men are at work and that the
first half-mile of track has been completed. ,
This, with the river course, which admits
three of the largest ships abreast com
pletes twenty-five and and half miles Of
the Tehuantepec route. The new pontoon r
system OF raising vessels from the water
upon the railway carriage is to be sub
shtuted for the hydraulic system first con
templated. 1t was conceived by London
engineers and adopted by Eads, and will :
raise ship out Of the water and upon the
carriage in twenty minutes.
Mr.. NJ. B Harrel in Chicago Sun: is S
1t worth your while to harbor resentment t
and to nurse and cherish hatredl Suppose
a fellow man has wronged you or some v
woman has played you false Whist if t
cherished friend has forsaken you, or the C
idol Of your heart has resolved it were wise
to forget you, and in the future that Won f
mutually be only as strangers. What diff
terence will it make to you a score or more |
years hence2 Human life is but short and |
transltory an evanescent breath. ONLY a | q
lew short years-only few more smiles, a
lew more tears few more moments of 2
pleasure, or hours Of glief and agony A
little more pain and heartache--a little
longer rushing mady in the hurry and t
whlrl OF liie-a few more hearty greetings f
and sad iarewells-and all Will be owe, h