The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-04

We are indebted to Mr.. Defue, "n
is in California, health seeker, for lat
files of Los Angeles papers.
MIR. and MIS-. Parsons returned yester
day from Godfrey, where they spent
pleasant New Year, visiting friends.
Full stock and complete sample bool
of wedding invitations, ETC., just received a
The BULLETIN job Office, No. IS Ohio
| Levee.
The tramp who kidnapped shoes and
socks from A. Roth Wednesday, was at
tendened to by Magistrate Comiugs yester'
day. He was sick and was sent back to the
city Jail for ten days.
A switchman in the Illinois Central
wards at East Cairo, named Robert Stovall,
got finger and thumb mashed yesterday
while engaged in the performance of his
duties. He came to Cairo to have his hand
dressed.
Mrs. Joseph A. Lee, sister Of Mrs. T.
B Ellis, died at St. Lonis Tuesday. She
had been taken there from here in the hope
Of mprovement, but the change seems to
have had the opposite effect. The remains
will be inferred at Villa Ridge.
Skaters were out in full force on the
custom house pond and other ponds outside
the Mississippi levee yesterday. The fun
will probably not last more than few days
and will accordingly be participated in by
all who can.
A force of men and teams has been at
work for several days raising Washington
avenue beyond Gross levee, so as to make
it passlble to farmers coming to or from the
city. The extension has been laid out by
Engineer Thrupp to point near the Porter
farm
WIN. Ireland, jr., who loft some months
ago for Texas intending to stay there and
make his fortune in business, returned q
few days ago and has again embarked in
business at Unity. He has come to the
conclusion that "thereS no place like
home" after oil.
The Louisiana lottery people demand
that the government will prohibit the New
Orleans cotton exposition company from
using the mails, on the ground thst the pro-
posed exposition i, branch Of the lottery
business and that the orginators Of tho one
are the promoters Of the other.
"A private dispatch received here yes
terday announced the burning ofthe furni-
ture factory and the Planters house at
Hickman the night before. The factory
belonged to Henry A. Tyler; it employed
over hundred men and boys, and was the
main support Of the town. No further
particulars could be obtained.
"A COW belonging to Mr.. McCander,
which had mysteriously disappeared nearly
two years ago, was heard from several days
ago in the county, where negro had her
and had kept her almost ever since she had
left home here. She was fine animal
when she left, and Mr.. McC. 10 very agree
ably disappointed to get her back at all.
The tug Nellie, which sunk at Wilson's
Point the other day, was one Of the govern
ment feet there, upon which Engineer
johnson, Of this city, was engaged. Mr..
Johnson was to have returned to duty on
her by the 18th instant. Mr.. W. J. Patter-
son, who went down with the boat and was
drowned, was we'll known aud popular
among river men generally.
The Psducah News of the st inst. is
a credit to the proprietor and his aids, and
big advertisement for the town. 1t is q
ffty-two column paper, cont.ining cuts and
sketches Of some Of the principal business
houses, of the public buildings and various
other matters and things interesting to peo-
pie At home and abroad. The proprietors
have an enterprise that deserves substantial
acknowledgement from the Paducah public
Trough on Tramps"is what the wealth.
or of the last few DAYS might be called.
Eight unfortunate fellows applied to De
putty Jailor Michael Fitzgerald Wednesday
night for lmittance to the county jail for
the night, and last evening early several
more came to him with a like request.
OF Course, the poor fellows had to be de-
clined admittance, except upon mittimus
charging them with some infrsction of the
law
As may DO seen from our river column,
last evenings river report gave no indica-
ton of the approach of the "big water"
predicted by Gen. Hszen. The Ohio was
falling at all points reported from, in
GLIDING Pittsburg down to Cairo, and here
the rise was only one inch during the
previous twsnty-four hours. There 10 little