The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-11

of the stairs, where Mr.. Meehan found HIM
lying in sn insensible condition and bleed.
ing from a wound in the head. DR.. Parker
was Immediately summoned and Mr.. Barth
was conveyed back up stairs. Examination
proved that Mr.. Barth was bleeding from
bad cut in bis scalp just over the left ear,
and was otherwise bruised about the head.
His injuries were not serious, but it is by
the meerest accident that they were not.
He soon recovered sufficiently from the
shock to walk home.
Jack Frost yesterday sued Walter Gun
diff in Justice J, H. Robinsons court, for
800 claimed to be due him from the said
Cundlff. Plaintiff had been 10 the employ
of defendant for about year, and it ap-
pears that there has arisen q difference of
opinion between the two as to
what the former was to receive per
day for his services. One claims it was
$1.25 per day, the other that it was $1.00.
The plaintiff was represented by Mr.. Geo.
W. Hendricks, and the defendant by Mr..
W. c. Mulkey. The case was concluded,
and the courn took it under Amusement.
The very intelligent readers of THE Bull
LETIN will, of course, understand that the
plaintiff in this case was not the "Jack
Frost" who has, for ten days past com.
milted such murderous assaults upon the
thermometers of this section of the Coun-
try.
The Abe Lincoln Mutual Life and
Accident society, which takes the place of
the Widows and Orphans Mutual Aid
society, is now firmly established, with j.
II. Robinson as president and Mr.. Thomas
Lewis as secretary. The latter has been
actively engaged in bringing about the re-
organization and has succeeded in getting
nearly all the mem bers of the old society
to join the new organization, besides many
who were not members of the old society.
A very attractive feature of the new society
is the accident insurance, which entities the
holder of policy to $25 per week in case be
or she is disabled in an accident not result.
ing from the voluntary act of the insured
Secretary Lewis says that new members
have been added at the rate of about seven.
ty-fvs per day, since the new organization
has been thoroughly under way.
"A negro named Edward billiard, alias
-, alias, alias, created disturbance
in Scott's Congress about 80 O'Clock yes
terday morning and was shot in the left
breast by the bar-keeper, Charles Jones' the
ball gsnclng off and creating only flesh
wound. Both we're arrested by Officers
Cain and Boughner Immediately after the
occurrence and yesterday brough before
Magistrate Comings for examination or
trial. billiard, etc., ETC., exhonorated Jones
from all blame in the matter; saying that
he himself was the aggressor and that Jones
only did what he ought to have done.
Jones was, of course, discharged upon this
testimony. But charges of disorderly con-
luct were preferred by the officers against
zach OF the prisoners and each was fined
10 and costs. billiard was given q stay of
xecution on condition that he would leave
own.
The fire of early yesterday morning
broke out in the roof of the house occupied
)y Mr., John Koehler, after the house had
been closed for the day, and all but boy,
Who sleeps there and "opens up" in the
left, The origin was presumably
\ defective fue. The house was occupied
down stairs as a saloon and up stairs was
lnoccupled, though furnished Mr.. Koehler
was insured for $500 on his personal pos.
sessions in the house. The house was own.
ned by Mrs. Lennshan and was not insured.
The house next below which was also de-
'troyed, was occupied as butcher shop and
residence by Mr.. A. Lum ner, who saved
nearly all stock, fixtures and furnitures, and
holds insurance for what Is lost. The house
was owned by Mr.. Thomas OCallahan, and
was insured for $500 in the Wells & Kerth
agency. Mr.. Richard Welsh, who occupied
the building next below as a grocery store
and had large stock, probably lost con-
siderable by having his goods removed and
all heaped up promiscuously in the street.
One of the great eastern "Protection-
ist" dailies says, 1883 has not been re-
garded as good year. From the outset
it has had bad reputation. 1t has been
a year of universal distrust and apprehen-
sion. Business men in the United States
have ploddei or staggered along from
month to month, oppressed with the haunt.
ing thought that panic was impending.
They have been over cautious and unduly
and havo passed the year fight.