The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-26

turn him over to the authorities and re-
ceive the 800 reward offered for the mans
capture. Mrs. Smith was in the city yes
terday to look after the welfare OF her
husband,
Mr. Louis Herbert returned yesterday
morning from st. Louis, where he had been
to select the plumbing apparatus for the
Stafford Memorial Library building, to fur
nsh and put up which he has the contract
He found everything he wanted, and it is
on the way here now, Mr.. II. expects the
material to arrive tomorrow and will pro-
coed to put it up in the building at once.
lie has just engaged Mr.. Frank Lee, an ac-
complished plumber, who will have charge
OF the work of putting up the machinery.
Mr.. Lee will be kept in Mr.. Herbert's en-
ploy permanently and the latter will be
better prepared than ever to accommodate
people who may have work of this char
acte to do.
For little while much excitement
was created on lower Ohio Levee yesterday
about noon, by the report that fire had
broken out in the hull of the steamer Belle
of Shreveport, lying at the Illinois Central
warehouse down town. The alarm was
sounded by the tug lying near by which
brought people in crowds to the bank, and
other tugs in the harbor came hurriedly
to the rescue. But 1t was soon proven that
there was no fire. The cause Of the alarm
was a little steam issuing from a leaky
pipe under the deck floor of the boat,
which was mistaken for smoke. The boat
was heavily laden, and she had also on
board an excursion party of twenty-fiv or
thirty round-trip passengers, among whom
there was brief panic.
1t is likely that the revenue receipts
from distilled spirits in this district will
soon be materially reduced, for time, at
least There is but one distillery in the
district and the collections from this have
been on an average about nineteen thousand
dollars per month. But last Thursday an
association composed of the owners of dis
tilleres north of the Ohio river met in Chi
cago. They resolved that after next month,
the distillerles shall be run to only twentyper
cent of their capacity. This action is rem
dered necessary, by the large amount OF
surplus whisky on hand, and in bond. For
a long time only thirty per cent. of the
capacity of the distillers has been worked,
yet this has resulted in surplus of eight
thousand gallons of spirits.
"A short time ago Mr.. Maurice F. Tes.
sier, publisher of the East St. Louis Herald,
was in this city, to see about recovering
the body of Engineer Smith, drowned on
the Texas & St. Louis Railroad near Birds
Point. Incidentally while here he made
o tour of the city, and his impressions of
the city during this tour he gives in last
weeks issue of his paper, in the following
very complimentary manner: Last We'd
nesday we had occasion to 90 to Birds
Point No, and we made it an object to
stop on our way at Cairo, Ill. While we
| found the place had been considerably sur.
rounded by water, still, to the credit Of the
Caroites, be it said that their safety lies in
the levee system early inaugurated by The
citizens themselves, and that, owing to
their efforts, they have thus far escaped Sc
rious injury. In course of cur preamble
we had the good fortune to meet the genial
city clerk of Cairo, Hon, Dennis Foley, and
States Attorney VIM. G. Mulkey, son of
the learned Supreme Judge, both school
mates of the editor of the Herald We
visited THE BULLETIN office, and are
thankful for favors received. Mr.. Coleman,
the enterprising stationer and bookseller,
and Mr.. Frank Healey, druggist, was also
visited. With such an escort as above
mentioned, we visited the United States
Custom House and Postofice, and We
must say it is the finest building of ITS
kind in Southern Illinois. The celebrated
Stafford Memorial Building-built by the
widow whose name it bears-wIll be dona
ted, when completed, to the city for pub
lie library. The Halliday Hotel was mex
visited, and presents a fine view from either
of the three states from which it can b,
viewed A visit to the several fire engine
houses, public schools, some six or eight il
number, made US actually feel ashamed
, that East st. Louis, with all its natural ad
vantages, its revenue, its resources from
other sources is not one hundredth part a
well equipped. The process of changing
the guage of tracks from the narrow to tn
broad for the different cars was not explain
ed by the master mechanic of the lllinol
Central Route. A branch Of the SINCE
Manufacturing Company has established
fine place at this point. We were surprised