The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-31


wig & Co. This firm has lately added a
general assortment Of trunks, etc, to their
business, and call especial attention to tho
Novelty, a new patent trunk that will take
the lead Of all others
On the 10th to 10th of next month
the annual fair will he held at JonGsboro,
Union county. 1t is expected that it will
surpass all previous efforts, and prepara-
tions have been perfected for nm unusual
attendance. Our people could not spend a
day more pleasantly or protilably.
The workingmen of Pennsylvania are
being pauperized by the importation of Poi
es, Hungarians and lalians, who work, it is
said, for sixty-iive cents a day and repay
thier passage money out OF thier wages.
American labor must compete with these
terms or be squeezed out. The workingmcn
hold the remedy 10 their own hands, and
are intelligent enough 10 use it. Why they
allow such ills to come upon them is inscru-
table.
-- An engine on the Wabash track, the
one that was to take out the early passen.
ger train yesterday morning, when backed
down from the round house, came in con
tact with n freight train on the Illinois
Central that was just going over the cross
ing, and knocked four cars from the track,
two loaded with coal and two with flour.
The Wabash engines tender was also de
rallied, The wreck delayed the passenger
train about two hours. No one was injured.
Justice Robinson dealt out law to sew
eral indignant citizens yesterday. VIM.
Ii. Franklin complained that he had been
slard ered and struck three times over the
head with broom stick 10y down town
boarding house mistress, and demanded a
warrant, which WAS granted. A young ne
gro named Mitchell wanted his uncle,
VIM. Cur,iss, arrested for wrongiully with
holding SEQ from him and threatening TO
shoot him If he did not leave the city.
The warrant as Issued. The cases will
proba bly, be tried Tomorrow
Prof. Henry Ra,b, State Surerlnten-
dent of Public Instructions, arrived ut The
Halliday last evening. He will remain till
Tuesday and attend the Teachers Institute
to be held in this city that day under the
auspices of Mrs. J. A. NJ. Gibbs, our Coun
| ty Superintendent. Prof. Raab has attend
ed thirty institutes in thirty different
counties in the State, within the last thirty
days He is doing more work than any OF
his predecessors in Office ever did. He will
| probably deliver a lecture to the teachers
and public here, as he did in every other
county he has visited.
Mr.. VIM. OehIer began Yesterday &c
have the material placed upon the ground
for new brick house, which he intends t,
have put up on the vacant lot just below
Mr.. Frank Kratky's Union Bakery, on
| Commercial avenue. The house will be
twenty-five feet wide, seventy feet deep,
and two stories high. Mr. Oebler will &C.
cupy the building himself, the second story
rs aresidence with his family, the first as a
store-room for vehicles o. his own manu-
facture. The 0ehler is doing thriving
business and is acknowledged to be one OF
the best wagon builders in this section of
the country.
"A young man, about IS years Of age,
named Thomas Dunuipg, called at this Of
flee yerterday. HIS mothers name was
Nancy Dunning, and his fathers name was
Dick DuDning, died when be Crhomas) was
an infant. Himself, his mother and two
sisters passed through Cairo ten years ago,
when he was years old While in Cairo
he got separated from the family and stray
| ed away or was taken to johnson county,
where he has been until yesterday. He
has not heard from his mother or sister
| since he was takea from them ten wears
ago. He is now on his way to Dallas,
Texas, IN search of them, and asks all the
help he can get from the newspapers of the
country, by their giving publicity to these
facts. Any information addressed to him
at Mt, Pleasant, Union county, ILL.,, will be
thankfully received.
The county board me, in clerk Humm's
| office yesterday afternoon and disposed of
various matters of importance to the peo.
pie. Chief among them was the question
OF taxing the Illinois Central elevator,
against which the company had entered u
protest. The board decided that the eleva-
tor was taxable, which decision may be re-
garded as a triumph for States Attorney
Leek, who had commended long and ener
getically for the people in this matter. But
the attorney for the company, Judge Green,
took an appeal, which the board granted .