The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-14

cassidy tracked sni they left no traces. The
sane s,sAt some fellows were tooling
t-aaaa the residence OF Mr. H. B. Ellis,
tacges Eleventh snd Walnut Streets, but
NJ, Ellis WAS awakened and fired bullet
:, ;wo sitter the rsscsls SIS they sclmpered
sway.
Yesterday afternoon Alderman Pa tier,
/ Chairman Of the Committee on Police,
Jail and Fire Department, called the COM
wi,,ee together for the purpose of consider
in, several matters referred to it by the
| City Council. Chief among the business
wss the order of the Mayor suspendlng
Officer Tyler from the police force, for al
leSei gross neglect Of duty, in that he not
only failed to prevent the quarrel between
Officer Taylor and Alderman Stout Satur-
day night, but urged it on to some extent,
The committee examined Alderman Stout,
Officer Tyler, Constable 81 des, Mr.. Taylor
and Mr.. Hazard Wilson, and then ad
journed till to-day TO hear further test
mony.
Forty or fifty gentleman met at Tenn
perance Hall Wednesday night and organ
ICED club-"Young Mems Social Club"
They organized temporarily by electing
Mr.. II. E, Spauldlng President and Mr..
VIM. Butler Secretary. They also appoint
ed committee of three whose duty it was
to be to select a room in which the club OF
any number Of its members may meet at
any time for various social amusements;
and also to draft a constitution and by
laws for the government of the club. A
small innicistion fee will be charged and
the monthly dues will be regulated to suit
the wants of the club. The mem bership is
already large and it will probably be lin
tied to sixty or seventy-tive. Another
meeting will be held at Temperance Hall
tonight.
The members OF the Cairo Polemic
Literary Society enjoyed an ice cream sup
per at the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton rooms last night, of which
about thirty young men par.
took. The supper came to be set
in this wise; For several months mock
murder trial had been pen ling in the club
at each meeting. 1t was case in which
Walter Bristol was charged with the muir
der of Mr.. NJ. F. Craine. Mr. Reed Green
was Judge; Messrs. R, P. Scott and L. NJ.
Tar were Attorneys for the defense, and
Messrs. George Christman and David Lsns-
den, Attorneys for the prosecution. Only
circumstsntia evidence could be intro
duced. The trial ended Tuesday, the jury
finding the defendant guilty and imposing
upon his attorneys the penalty Of setting
the supper of last night, which they did
with good grace and in splendid style.
On the l,t of July Miss Lydia Pitcher
will leave Cairo for pleasure trip to New
Jersey, where she will remain perhaps a
month or longer, visiting relatives Re-
turning, she will 60 to Springfield, Mo,
where her father, Mr.. W. F. Pitcher, is now
permanently settled, aud will make her
future home with him. She
will, however, stop over here
on her return trip and spend a few
days, saying adieu to her many friends
who will regret her departure and keep
her in kindly remembrance always The
ntim alton in last evenings Argus, that she
| will permanently sever her connections
here to form associations of closer, strong
| err and sweeter nature elsewhere, is unwar.
ranted. At least, Miss Pitcher says 80 her
self, and, Of course, she ought to know, you
know. Certainly, none of Miss Pitchers
many friends here would be much surpris
ed if some Adonls hould, in obedience tc
the imperative command OF Eros, lay hi'
heart and hi, all at her feet and, refus
ing to be comforted win. We are as
sured, however, that it is not to be this
trip, but smothertrip.
The plank covering of what ha!
been the old city pump house was declared
unsafe year ago or longer and the street
has been fenced off ever since, over which
V there has been no little complaint by those
who would have occasion to use the stree
If it were open to travel. At the last meet
- ing of the City Council Alderman Wood
- ward called the attention Of that body L
- these facts and it was developed that tn
- Street Committee has for some time ha'
= under consideration resolution passed b.
the City Council, requesting the committe
" to take steps to have the evil compliance
Of remedied. But the old pump house
which has always been a sort of munclps
nc elephant, continues to be so still and til
~ committee has doubtless found tia Difficult
* problem to solve-diflicult to determin
re- how best to proceed to cure it permanently
us being troublesome. 1t is desirable, howeye
RS that it should heed the last protest comm
a through Alderman Woodward from Il
untnrr IF tho Snnnp1 ,por1 Thn,, al