The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-22

| SAuIolllOu VIII Dc returned lleb OF CUaIbe
up to November /.
Mr. W. Bayard Cutting has resigned
his position as director of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company. He has been in
the board for nearly eight years, and his
withdrawal at this time is looked upon as a
great loss to the company. Mr.. Cutting
is also President of the st. Louis Alton and
Terre Haute Q)ad, the st. Louis and Cairo
Short Line.
There was good attendance at the
Baptist church last evening notwithstanding
the rain and mud. "a good purpose car
ried out" was the theme on which Rev. Mr..
Shuck preached his opening sermon for the
week, making very favorable impression
on his hearers. Remember the prayer meet
ing at 8 o'clock this afternoon, and services
this evening at 7 80. All are invited.
The Vincennes lodge of Knights of
Honor turned out IN body to receive the
remains of the late H. H. Milburn when
they arrived there in charge of an
,scnt of the Cairo lodges, aud
more than this, the Vincennes lodge accom-.
panied the remains and their grievlDg at.
tendants to Princeton, and conduct the fu-
neral and burial there with lodge honOrs
and ceremony.
The Illinois Stats Zeitung complains
because no German American was put on as
delegate to the national convention by the
Republicans at Peoria. The Stats Zetung
says the German Americans were ignored
in this way because to the republicans in
the convention the QUESTION of personal lib
erty appeared so dangerous subject that
it not even dared to make empty words
about it," The workingmen of the State
cannot find this fault with the convention.
1t devoted two whole empty planks to them
as full of empty words as an egg is of meat.
Here is an item Of much intere st to the
tobacco dealers of this internal revenue dis
trict: Last evening Gen. W. c. Pavey,
collector for this district, mailed to the
proper officer at Washington, drafts amount.
ing to $40, 22790, to meet claims of tobac-
co dealers in this district on account of the
rebate authorized by the previous Congress-
1t should be borne in mind, however, that
these drafts will be only for claims filed on
1st of May, 1888, Claims which had not
been presented on that date, or which had
to be returned for correction, will not be
paid for several weeks yet.
The Arabs installed their new officers
last night with interesting ceremony. The
honored members were Mr.. T. J. Kerthy,
President; Andrew Lohr, Vice. president;
B. F. Bake, Treasurer; Harry Schulz, Sec.
rotary aud Charles Gilhoper, Captain. The
board of directors consists of Messrs. Andrew
Lohr, Calvin Neff, Chas. Gihofer, jeff NJ.
Clark and J. II. Rittenhouse After the
regulation ceremony at the hall nearly the
whole gallant company repaired to Charley
Bowers restaurant where the occasion was
celebrated by indulgen2es that made all
feel exceedingly good, the chief part of
which was feast of considerable elegance
and richness.
Three negro girls were riding in ca
noe, in the upper end Of Lake Edwards, in
this county, Sunday afternoon, when one of
them, observing that her dress was drag
ging IN the water, made q sudden move
ment to one side, causing the canoe to
turn over, and all the occupants to be
thrown into the water, which at that point
was probably eight feet deep. One of the
girls caught onto the overturned canoe and
held herself up until help came, but the
other two went down and were drowned.
The bodies were soon after found and TAX
en- to the homes of their parents. The
drowned girls were sixteen and eighteen
years Of age respectively.
"A meeting of colored voteas was held
down town Friday night, for the purpose of
taking some action concerning the maner in
which the Peoria convention treated the
colored element In the State. A committee
of five was appointed from each
ward--with instructions to draft resolutions
expressing displeasure at the contemptuous
disregard OF the colored voters by the
white Republicans at Peoris, in that not
cslored man from Southern Illinois was
honorsd with appointment to position Of
any kind in the party councils. The COM
mi,tee is to2report at future meeting.--If
one may judge from the past history of the
Republican party, it is entirely safe to con-
| clu1e hat the action of tho Cairo African