The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-25

bed, and was not reached by the officer
having the warrant, but his assistant, Mr..
James White, was arrested and brought
into court. Plaintiffs witnesses were ex-
amined ard the defendant was dis
charged.
A letter received yesterday by Chair.
man T. W. Shields, of the county central
committee, from Chairman Oberly, of the
state committee, states positively that Car
ter Harrison will be in this city on the
10th instant, to address the people. Chair
man Shields will take immediate steps to
have a grand rally on the occasion. Let
everybody join in and make the affair a
success in every way. We should have ten
thousand people present at the meeting, Of
which Cairo ought to furnish six or eight.
Prof. and Mrs. Hagan have opened an
art school IN the building just above Mr..
Daniel Hartman's establishment on Com
mercia ave ne. They have fitted up their
apartments very neatly, with all cOnven-
fences for teaching free hand drawing, ETC.,
aud numerous attractive evidences of their
own work are displayed. They have come
here from Louisville, not with the inten-
ton of locating here, but for The purpose
of introducing new system in drawing
and painting that has many advantages
and will commend itself at once to the
would he student. Their studio is open
all day, and the public will be welcome.
Tuesday Maj. Mitchell, in charge of
the work on the Mississippi here, had
about six hundred feet of mattress snnk in
its place at the bottom of the river, along
the base of the bank. The work was a
particular one and WAS entirely successful
The mattress held together firmly and went
down in its place without any hitch. A
large quantity Of rock was used in the
work. About two hundred feet Is still out
VI "atSl suu luis viii OS ouuh as Ilo COu-
struction proceed. down the river, so that
the whole will be one continuous mattress
three or four thousand feet fong when fin
i.hed. So far the work reflects credit upon
Maj Mitchell.
The license question, which was so
long disturbing element in the local poll
tics Of Decatur, has st last been settled, at
least satisfactorily TO the liquor or anti
temperance people. At recent meeting
Of the city council Of Decatur il vas decid-
ed thu. prohibition WAS failure that
while the saloons were closed and the cor.
pDrs,ons deprived of the revenue formerly
derived from The license system, the rosy
noseE-:he bows who look skywsrd through
ts+2 bottom Of glasses. seemed to have 10
trouble in obtaining sll the liquor they
wanted, and drunkenness was more prevail
ear than under the license system The
council voted to grant license, and the rate
was fixed A. $500 per year. Eighteen sp-
pEcstions for license were granted a. the
meeting OF the council st which this act
ion was taken.
One of the Thirteenth street courte-
sans, known as Claude Stuart, died yester-
day between ~ and / o'clock, from the ef-
fects Of morphine taken by her the night
before with the purpose Of committing sui
eide. DR.. Parker, who was called to attend
her about 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
found her too far gone to help her She
was unconscious aud breathing irregusry
and heavily. She had sent out for the poi
son the night before, and taken it about
midnight. She had also made preparations
for the disposal of her property the even
ing before, saying that she intended to kill
herself which was not believed, however.
She had been on spree for a week or
longer because of some trouble unknown.
When found yesterday morning she was I'M
conscious, and she did not regain her mind
at all. She was about forty years of age:
came here from Paducah about two years
ago and established herself in what is
known as the white House She is said
to have been the daughter Of respectable
people in Ballard county. She has three
children living in Danville, H., all grown
two boys and one girl. The real motive
for her rash act is mystery, though
there is some reason to believe that "there
is man at the bottom of it," Coroner
Fi'zerald summoned jury and held an in
quest, the verdict being in accord with the
circumstances as given above.