The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-24
The Daily Bulletin.
Local News.

iIom INC sthte Oi tOfpOr into which IL nad
fallen were arrested by Officers Mahauny,
ughnsr and Hogan Monday night and
are now repenting at leisure in the city
Jail.
The little blizzard that started In so
gradually yesterday and broke loose with
energy during the nigh, dryed up the side
walks aud streets little anyhow and made
walking and driving less laborious and un-
pleasant. 1t will probably last oil through
to-day, as last evening the temperature at
Bismarck was still nine degrees below zero
1t was the opinion of Sergeant Ray last
night that the mercury would drop to
eight above Zero here b,fors this breeze
blew over.
ALI day yesterday was again
taken up by the circuit court in
tn. argument of motions in several
cases. The argument in the case of Ma
haffy vs., the Wabash road was concluded,
as was also that of Howard VS.. Hill; and
the court 'ook both cases under AMUSEMENT.
Court adjourned then until tomorrow
Judge Baker will g to Joncsboro to day,
to give his attention to some business Of
importance there, and will rsturn to.mor-
row to conclude the business Of the term
here.
An item in yesterdays g.. Louis pa
pers attracted much attention here. 1t
purported to be q special dispatch from
this city, and detailed the killing and rob-
bing Of prominent citizen named w. B.
Malone, shortly after dark Tuesday. The
dispatch was probably wrongly dated, as
no such occurrence took place here, and
| no man OF the name mentioned above lives
here. Another dispatch in the same pa
psrs, dated at Mt. Vernon, gives the par.
ticulsrs of 9 similar occurrence as having
occurred there, the victims name being
Bush Malone, and the particulars Of the
killing being almost identical with those
given ~ the first item. The special cores
pondsnts here Of the papers named know
nothing about the dispatch dated Cairo.
The Cairo dispatch 10 fraud, or it is the
result Of one Of those inexplicsbls muddles
that every now and then prevail in even
the best regulated printing offices, and that
can only be satisfactorily accounted for by
"the devil"
Some Of the old settlers 10 the city m "
be able to render great service to Mr..
Thomas Nichols, who came here yesterday
to look up traces Of brother who was in
Cairo in 1881, and enlisted in the Union
forces here. Mr.. n. has been making 4
long and dillgent search for his brother
and tounl evidences OF his presence in vari-
III, parts of the country; but the last heard
Of him was 10 or near this city. The brother,
Charles B. Nichols, WAS fond Of horses
might have been teaming while here, OF
been keeping sn es.ing house, for be also
had some qualifications and inclination
this way. Ia his last letter, written from
Cairo, he said be had enlisted in the federal
forces, but q search Of the records OF this
and other states does not reveal his name
hence the probability that he changed his
mind, had his name stricken of the list
and remained hero awhile. There are
quite q number Of citizens here now who
were here during the first years Of the war,
and some one Of them may, by trying, re-
call the man wanted, and could do the
searching brother great service by i'm
parting their knowledge to him.
The negro, Samuel Powell, brought
down here from Beech Ridge some days
ago to be tried for insanity, was tried yes.
terday by County Judge Robinson and ad.
Judged insane. In the course OF the trial
some incidents were related that will ex-
cite wonder and amusement in spite Of
ones natural inclination to be serious.
Powell had been suffering from bis malady
only about three weeks before being
brought here, when he suddenly became
possessed OF the hallucinstion that he had
been ordained by God to preach to the
angels, and he would send forth a string Of
the most incomprehenslble verbal jargon
for hours at . time, anywhere and at any
time of day or night. At other times he
would be under the impression that he WAS
in the internal regions and was burning up.
Then no would divest himself of every ar
ncls Of clothing and run wildly about
among the neighbors or in the woods. On
one of the coolest days Of last month be
WAS found in this state and chased for over
a mile before he was captured and con.
| fined to bis house. Another time, being
confined in the garrett of his house, he tore
q piece of timber loose and broke hole
through the roof and got out on top Of the
house, where, in bis simple, natural garb,
ha nrncaodad IN delirrY a feryent eYhorta-