The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-20


w. j. Ferguson, as "Sir Chauncy
Tips makes an attractive and amusing
"dude."
Card of the Banner Hair Store will be
in another column. Their stock comprises
everything needed in hair-dressing, styles
colors, etc, and prices are even lower than
same goods can be purchased in s.. LOUIS
Mr.. w. E. Spear, for some time clerk
in the internal revenue Office under Major
Eubanks here, left yesterday afternoon for
Normal, His, to spend brief vacation
among friends and relatives there.
Several hundred pounds OF newspa-
pers FOR sale at THE BULLETIN at DC
pound for the lot. tp
Mr.. 0. A. Phelps went over to the
Kentucky hills on hunt Monday and
while enreute saw house occupied by
colored people torn from its foundation
near East Cairo and floating down stream.
Five or six of the slaughter bouses
standing outside the Mississippi levee, were
blown down by the heavy wind storm Of
last evening. Among them was that OF
Jesse Hinkle & Son, which had been but
recently erected.
Our river column is temporarily nom
est. Mr.. Lambdin went to Paducah several
days ago to look after his family and per-
sonal effects there. He will probably not
return until the water goes down and the
Fowler resumes her trips.
"A bill has been offered in congress APP
propriating an additional $4,000 for the
establishment of extra signal stations along
the western rivers and their tributaries, to
give more general and reliable warnings to
the people, OF approaching floods.
Capt Paul Boyton, the famous swim
mer, who gave an exhibition of his skill in
that line in the river at this point several
years ago, is to be married TO Miss Mag
gle Connolly, of Chicago, next Thursday,
He NAV swim n a SEA of trouble hereafter.
Frank Petit, brother of Mr.. &. B.
Petit, of this city, and well known here,
was to have been married yesterday at
Denison, Tex, to the daughter OF weil-to-
do citizen there. Frank has a very uice
little tin shop in splendid working order
there
The report was circulated here several
times Yesterday that the Mound City levee
had broken and that the town was deuged
but reliable advices last evening cQntrsdic-
ted it. Major E. W. Halliday who came
down from there last evening reported
the levee there all right.
The supreme court of Illinois has rem
dered o decision declaring the so.called
Harper high license Law constitutional; but
probably the supreme court did not take
the trouble to find out what Mr.. John A.
Reeve, late clerk of the late Thirty-thlrd
Illinois general assembly, knew about the
manner in which the bill was passed.
AT the last regular meeting of X. NJ.
K, c., held last Sunday night, the follow
ing officer. were elected for the ensuing
year: T. VI. Lovett, G. G. NJ; P. II, Schulz,
G. G, L. II. s.; Claude Winter, GIG, r. II,
s.. (; Chas. Gilhofer, g. g. NJ. T.; F, s. Hass,
g. G. L. s.; W. B. Pettis, G. G. I. c.; jeff
NJ. Clark, G. GIT; VIM. Winter, G. G, c.;
Ben Werner, G. G. 5. installations will
take place on the 9Th proyjmo.
The American express company's
wagon broke down at the Illinois Central
passenger depot yesterday about
noon. One of the hind wheels
was caught between the rail
and plank at the crossing and as the wag n
turned the wheel was twisted around and
when into smithereens, letting the heavy
wagon down upon theplanked crossing with
the duilest thud ever imagined and inflicted
upon long-suffsrng public by the sad
eyed h9rror.mongers on the metropolitan
daiEes.
Information has reachd the local off
GERS Of the Texas aud St. Louis road here,
from the headquarters at st, Louis, that IL
very few days now the compenys pay
car will b3 here to pay off all employees for
the month Of January. Also that in very
short time after that the employees Of the
road will receive all arrearagss due them.
The supreme court has granted Receiver
Woodward permission to issue debentures,
| or certificates of Indebtedness bearing
seven per centum interest per aunum, for
| SlS4,000, to be applied to the payment Of
the debts Of the road, contracted before the
receiver was appointed. The amount due
employees tor the months of November,
! December and twenty-five DAYS in January.