The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-28
LOCAL NEWS.

House Ct
There are five hundred dollars here for
any Psducsh man who is willing to risk al
equal sum on the opinion that the Eckfords
| Of Paducah can beat the Cairo nine in q
| contest at base ball. both clubs to te con
stituted as they were last Monday, the
game to be played either here or At Padu-
cab and the Ecktords to select their own
umpire.
Tie very heavy rain which immediate
| ly preceded the fash of lightning that
| struck the Democratic pole last evening,
saved the lives Of several young men who
stood on the platform and were endeavor
| Ing TO take down the flag. They had sue
cecded in getting the flag half way down
when the rain drove them away, and few
minutes later the pole was wreck. Mr.,
John Haynes, of WilIiamsons boat store,
was one of the three, Had the young men
ItHAiICb Dul ICh IHiuulcS IpASNI NhO
lightning descending by the wire halyard
at which they were ,uggng, would have
killed them all instantly.
Of course, every body knows that the
Democratic flag pole was struck 10y light
| ming last evening. Those who saw it say il
was grand sight. A ball Of fire seemed 10
slight on the top of the pole, run swiftly
down the wire ball yard, and near the base
Of the pole explode, sha,tering the pole into
| splinters, and causing 1t 10 fall over towards
the European Hotel, IN the very door OF
which three or four large sections fell, af-
ter striking the telegraph wires and badly
dIssrrsnging them. The pole was about
a hundred and ninety feet high. Its srst sec
ton wss erected in 1872. The upper half
was torn off by lightning in lS76wh en-
Tilden WAS elected, and was replaced in
1880 AS its fall then was followed by q
Democratic victory, so now the Demo
Gratis may regard the fall yesterday as q
good omen.
-paducah News: "a big dredsc boat is
looked for every day now at Paduosh, to
| work on the river between here and Grand
Chain. The first work she will 10 will be
to blast and ircdge out rock 100 feet
across, that lays in the channel of the river
Brooklyn, opposite Paduc,h II is con
glomerstcd and can be easily removed.
the dredgc is also wanted Carico's Reach
which extends from the Little Chain down
to Grand Chain. The river is wider here
than at any point between Evansville and
Cairo, and the water is spread out all over
it. There is now only SIX feet on both
Chains and on the Reach, which is a fiat
sandbsr, but which did not give boats
trouble until after the upper or Little
Chain dyke was built. When it is length
ened 1000 feet the difficulty may be re-
moved. For the present the dredge is ex
peCted to do the work.
Will Herman, or some one protesting to
be he, favored The BULLETIN with a call
last night. Will Herman, that is, the Will
Herman we have in our minds eye and with
| whom our caller professed to be Identical,
is the man who ran the Okalona States in
| Mississippi some time ago, a red-hot rebel
sheet, which was supported in 1880 by the
Republican national committee, to sire the
northern heart" against the Democracy, by
uttering the tiercest verbal sentiments in the
most fantastic rebel garb. Mr.. Herman is
young man, black hair and mustache,
keen black eye, moderately handsome feat
ures, mild manners ard soft voice, about
five feet seven, straight and somewhat
sparley built. But he seemed to have seen
some rough times of late. His hair was un-
kempt, face unshaveu, clothes dirty and
seedy. He SAYS that since his Oklahoma
States venture in Mississippi he finds it
difficult to obtain anything to do on the
newspapers of the South, and WAS on his
way North again alter fruitlcss effort to
find an engagement at Memphis and other
Southern ciica. He is on his way to Pat
tersonville, Iowa, where he is promised a
situation on the Index. He went from
here to st. Louis via the Illinois Central
The rAducah News says, speaking Of
the match game of base ball played in Pa
ducah last Monday, by Cairo club and the
Eckfords of that city, tina! the umpire won
the game for the Cairo boys by his outrage
ously unjust rulings. That the umpire was
| An utter atrangor who know nothing of thu