The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-27
The Daily Bulletin.


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deltlte, a large number Of friends attended
it. A special train took the remains and
mourners to Villa Ridge in the afternoon
starting from the passenger depot. De.
ceased was very promising boy aged
about sixteen.
A horrible incident occurred on the
farm of Mr.. John Gates, up in the county,
Wednesday evening. A negro who was one
of party Of wheat cutters was at work
close to where bolt of lightning struck
the ground with terrific crash, and he was
torn into a trillion particles and scattered
like mist all over Cache bottoms. He
was picked up and water dashed in his
face, which soon brought HIM back to life,
but he is probably ncurably daft and will
vote for Blaine and Logan in November.
Next week Mr.. Louis Herbert will put
force Of men to work on his Commercial
Avenue property, below Eighth Street, He
Will have the first floor made new, the
walls repaired, q new iron front put in and
stronger supports under the second floor so
that the new press Mr.. Potter intends soon
to put up in his office up stairs may be well
sustained Other minor improvements are
also to be made. While this work is in
progress, Mr.. Paul II. Schulz and Mr.. Jas.
Coleman who now occupy the first floor,
will remove into the frame building Of Mr..
Reisser, on the opposite side of the street,
on the corner
Five coaches full of people attended
the Methodist picnic at Cherokee Springs
yesterday, Although the day was not as
bright as it might have been those who
went enjoyed themselves highly. There
was much good feasting on the ground
brought there IN baskets by the picnickers,
and all general invitations were extended
to who went without baskets, so that
there was happy comingling of all.
Capt. Williams was with the party and did
everything in his power to insure safety
and to avoid delay, The train returned at
the very agreeable hour of 4 80 o'clock,
without having encountered any mishap.
Now that "high toned colored society"
has sickened "the organs stomach and
been elected, so to speak, couldn't "the or
gan" be induced to take little Heather
Chinee by way Of experiment. The poor
Mongolian is also growing element in
this community, and il stands as greatly IL
need Of moral encouragement such as only
a bon ton society journal like the Africo
American Argus can give, as their darker
brothers do. The aspirations of the bes
| clement among them are as worthy of rep
resentation, since they also "patronizo the
paperhberally;' then why notprocure Mr..
Wan Dam Foo, who is also an educated
man and a good writer'-of hermaphrodit-
ic English. Come, take little Heather
Chinee first, you will then be better able to
stand the other.
One of the slightly disgruntled among
the Argus many thigh toned colored" pa
irons, being asked why, in his opinion, the
Argus had so unceremoniously amputated
its 'yaller buff" editorial appendage, re-
piled, "Well, you see boss, Mr.. GLADDEN. he
hab putty good brain pan, but den hees
prOgnostical fermentation don't zackly line
up to de high augmental decree OBJ de hu,
man paralax." Desiring to impress our
informant with the idea that we were per-
fectIy familiar with classic English, we
pretended to understand just exactly what
he said and with an "Ab, we might have
told you So we came away to beg of the
Argus, in strict confidence, to furnish us
with diaphragm" or something, by
which we may decipher our iuformants
mysterious vernacularism.
There have as yet been no further de-
velopments in the Nelson Howard mob
matter. Everything stands in statu quo.
Kttle, the informer, was hanging around
Commercial Avenue all day yesterday, but
went home on the Fowler. lIilburn, for
whose arrest Kittle had warrant is en-
ployed in the Wabash switch yards, pur-
suing his regular duties, without showing
any signs of fear. He is not easily scared,
any way, of which fact he has given ample
proof Kittle himself denied last evening
just before leaving for home that he had
made any disclosures concerning the affair.
But he denied too much. He has been
shooting off his mouth too freely and been
exhibiting legal documents sustaining
what he said entirely too loosely to make a
retractlon now that will have any effect.
lie will probably have to stand by what
he has done and take the consequences.
He has placed himself in an unenviable
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