The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-18

has long been very popular among the
ruling citizens of our Lakeside suburb.
THE BULLETINS bag will be kept tor the
especial accommodation Of the several
sluggers, brulsers, hoodlums or footpads,
or their spologists, who have of late in
dulged in grstuitious offers, publicly made,
to "clean out" this Office, using the meek
individual above referred to for Q mop.
In the application made by the Cen
trail Trust company for the appointment Of a
receiver tor the Texas & St. Louis railroad,
at Keokuk, last Saturday, it was condi.
toned that the receiver should be ap
pointed pending suit in equity filed in
the United States circuit court, asking for
foreclosure of the first mortgage bonds.
The suit is being brought at the instance Of
a majority of the bondholders. The opinion
among some railroad men is that the road
can't escape being sold, and that there will
be q great struggle between the Illinois
Central and the Gould interest for its pos
session.
In the circuit court yesterday the jury
in the Linsey- Illinois Central railroad case
was discharged, after wrestling nearly all
night in vain for verdict When dis.
charged 1t stood ten for the plaintiff and
two for defendant; 1t had stood most of the
night eleven for plaintiff. The case of
Emma F. Knight vs. Thomas Wilson was
concluded yesterday before noon, the jury
finding verdict for defendant. After this
the case of DR.. G. R. Clark vs.. James Il.
Buckner was taken up, in which Mesars.
Liuegar, Lansden and Warder appear for
the plaintiff and Messrs. Wheeler and
Leek for the defendant This case was
pending when court adjourned.
AT Philadelphia meeting of the Sal.
walton army the other day, the eHhorter
discovered newspaper reporter among the
crowd, and tackled him 10 the following
style: I'VE have reporter hsre-s miser-
able reporters sinful servant Of the un-
holy newspapers good young man gone
wrong. Satan has him obstinate, and he
will not yield to persuasion and be saved.
0, help the wicked reporter The devil
holds the fort in the reporters brainl He's
gong to b! Hallelujah! OH may
10 join the salvation army. Oh! give
him repentance, He 10 type Of all re-
portsrs, and they are all wicked LOTT
The exhortsr must have had in his minds
I'VE the reporters Of evening papers only,
Who, everybody knows, are, without excsp-
ion, an awfully wicked lot"
Mr. Jeff N. Clark returned yesterday
rom Memphis, where he had been for sew.
raj weeks directing the decoration Of Mr.
Harry Walkers new theatre. The theatre
'pened Monday night with packed house,
md during the three nights that Mr.. Clark
smained to see if nothing further was
.eeded OF him, the audience was very large
sch night Mr.. Walker felt much en-
at the success Of his enterprise,
md hopes to do we'll, in which hope be
vill be joined by his friends here. His
,airo business will not be interrupted in
he least, but viii! receive his undivided
PERSONAL attention after the Memphis insti-
ution is thoroughly under way. That
Mr.. Walker is a good manager is amply
proven BY the fact that be has so long
maintained bis business here, after several
before him had failed. Mr.. Walker is ex.
pected home Sunday.
The war upon petty coal thieves con
tinues, and now that a number of the
small 6sh have been "done up nice and
brown" the larger game is coming to the
front. Chief Myers yesterday had four ne.
gro men up for stealing coal from cars to
sell again, and one of them was a constable.
Sidney Robinson, elected last year in
the Fifth ward, without opposition. Two
swore that they met him about
ten lays ago going toward the coal cars
with sack. They told HIM jokingly that
he couldn't steal coal that night, but he re.
Piled, drawing his pistol, "ef ANYBODY in.
terteres wild me- III fix 'em wild dis" and
went on. They saw him mount a car, fill
his sack with coal and go leisurely home.
But the witnesses differed as to the time.
one saying it was about week ago, the
other that it was two weeks ago. Sidney
was, therefore, discharged, the court,
Magistrate Comings, remarking that the
grand jury would soon convene anyhow,
and might find further evidence that would
justify an indictment, The other three
were each fined upon different charges, and
either given stays of execution or sent to
Jail. One Of two who were caught by the
chiaf in fha Wohaoh x.-l.