The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-09
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS

bic Life Assurance Company.
WANTED "A boy to learn type setting
must be over lG years old, Apply at THE
BULLETIN Office.
Mrs. Shoemaker will accompany Miss
Minnie Weston to-day, on the Gus Fowler
to spend few days visiting at the Iatter's
home in Paducah.
A regular business meeting Of the
Young Mems Social Club will be held to-
night at the rooms on Commercial Avenue
All members should attend.
"A negro named Peter Howell com
planned to the officers that he had been
robbed the night before of $40 in the board
ing house of negro named Merryman, on
Fifth Street, and he accused "Tricky Sam
OF stealing the money.
-Messrs Fred White, Geo. Wooster, Z.
7. Jackson and j. s. Jackson have gone to
Dixon Springs. Postal cards from them
say, "Tbis is THE place; nothing like it;
send US papers; going to have a nice time, "
etc.
Governor Hamilton has issued q proc
lamaton offering a reward of $500 for the
apprehension of the murderer of Frank NJ.
Crooks, who was found murdered on the
morning of the 18th of June, near Shelby
vile.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
Company has begun operation. They have
secured wire to Texarkana via St. Louis
along the St. Louis and Cairo road. Mr..
Bohannon, Of Anna, is running the Office
for the company here.
Saturdays storm in various parts Of this
section of the country came in order that
|: might be fulfilled as it is written IN
Tees almanac for 1884, namely, "Gln to
9Th, heavy storms, generally threatening"
We will pit Tice against the field and bet
cool million that he could leave the Argus
prophet on the ragged edge before the iies
of August.
If you know of a hidden cess pool any.
where in the city, or of an out house or
stable that emits strong odors, or Of any.
thing whatsoever that may breed germs of
disease, do not hesitate to bring the matter
promptly to the notice of Health officer
Schutter, whose duty it is to abate the
nuisance without delay and who will doubt
less perform that duty irrespective of per-
sons.
Two hack drivers, Henry Jefferson and
Charles johnson, fought q bad fight on
Ohio Levee near one of the wharfboat
stages yesterday afternoon, just as the
steamer Gus Fowler landed. The cause of
the fight YVES a quarrel about passengers,
no doubt. Johnson struck Jefferson on the
back of the head with the leaden butt of
MS whip, which caused the claret to flow,
and after that scufile ensued which was
Interrupted by Officer Tyler and others.
Both com batants we're fined.
1t is fact worthy of notice that the
Republican platform expresses, with about
IS much directness as 1t touches upon any
thing, its disapproval Of the tariff reduction
on wool. 1t Is also fact, somewhat re-
under the circumstances, that this
reduction was made by a Republican Con
gress, "protectionists' if you please, and
by Republican President,
"protectonist' if you choose. It must have
occurred to our readers before, then, that
when party assemblies to dcnounce its
own work it ought not be surprised that its
actions create in its own ranks disgust and
revolt
A double team attached to a buggy.
belonging to Mrs, George Parsons, from
Missouri, ran away on Commercial Avenue
yesterday morning, doing considerable
damage. They ran from near Sixth Street,
struck hitching.post in front of Gus Bot
to's Opera House Saloon, ran against Mike
Glynns dray standing near Mr.. Gates
saloon, then crossed over and collided with
the delivery wagon of Mr.. John McNulty,
wrecking it considerably, after which they
continued up the avenue with only the
shaft, having scattered the buggy in frag-
ments along the street. There was no one
In the buggy and no one was hurt. The
horses were stopped near Twelfth Street
Some Russian naval officers are the
orlSlnators of a new plan for Poplar ex |
petition. They contend that it is impossi. !
BILE to reach the North Pole by sea on ac-
count of the islands that surround the po-
lar region, and, according to the scheme
which they are about to submit the Govern
ment, they propose to start an expedition
in sledges from the New Siberian Islands,
which are nine hundred nautical miles dis |