The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-12

ana FURNITURE uesUOyou III tno icoout uio
was $500 with company represented by
Mr.. Charles Cunningham. Mr.. Keohlers
friends will bs glad that he did not lose
everything, for he has gone through much
trouble Of late.
B. F. Duncan, sawmill man, we'll
known in this and adjoining counties, died
at his home in Pulaski county from the
effects of knife wounds received BY him in
quarrel with q young man named George
Hillman, on tho 1st of this month.
An old citizen says that the winter Of
1854 was worse than this for cold. Then
the Ohio river was one solid mass of ice as
far as they could see both ways from the
levee and remained 90 for eight or ten
days. The thermometer reached "a below
zero. Other parts Of the country were sim
ilarly afflicted.
Probabilities for to. day here are warmer
temperature and light PRECIPITATION of some
kind. There was a strong rise of the Their
mometer at Bismarck, North Platte and
Dodge City according to last evenings re-
port, 40 1e and II degrees respectfully.
But the wind was not favorable to bringing
the wave down here and at all other points
reported from Z fall occurred.
During Thursday night one of the
boats tied up at the East Cairo bank, the
Alice Brown, was broken lose oy the float
ing ice and taken down stream. She had
no steam up and could not blow her whistle
for help, and her bell failed to make itself
heard on this side Of the stream. So she
got up steam and when some distance be-
low the city started her wheels md came
back all right.
Constable Haz Martin took the Jail
gang out yesterday morning and put them
to work on the root of the jail and jailor's
residence pouring water down the front and
sides. But for this, both these buildings,
which stood directly opposite the burning
building, weuld probably have been de-
stroyed, for even % it was, the heat crack
ed about dozen panss of glass in the front
windows Of the buildings.
The absence Of gas fixtures in the cir
cult court room ct the court house causes
the court to lose nearly at hour every even-
ing, Or compells it to sit in the dark or by
candlelight. By 8 o'clock everything in
the room is dark. Little by little the light
shed upon the scene by the last rays of the
dying sun, reflected from the several bald
heads of lawyers and Jurors, grows less and
weaker until iuky blackness envelopes all.
When the court room was reconstructed"
some time ago the old fixtures we're taken
out to be replaced by new ones which we're
ordered some time ago at tho direction Of
the county beard. But the new fixtures
have not yet arrived.
"A young man named L. r. Silcot,
night telegraph operator for the Texas and
St. Louis railroad company at Birds Point,
has been missing since Monday night. He
walked over on the ice Monday and was
seen here for the last time about II o'clock
Monday night, somewhat "boosy" with
liquor. He was about twenty three years
Of age and has mother and sister living at
Birds Point, who have been here for sever
al days, lsmeutiug his mysterious disap.
psarance. They say he has not been in the
habit of going out nights, but remained
steadsly at home or At his post of duty
1t is supposed that be started back over the
ice Monday night, in his dizzy state, and
either WAS lost in the cotton woods below
the city and frozen, or fell of the ice in the
river. A search Of the city by the officers
yesterday brought no new facts to light.
The persistent efforts of Postmaster
Murphy and Congressman Thomas, to have
. system of mail boxes established hero and
men appointed to collect the mail from
them daily have finally been partially
crowned with success. The postmaster
general has ordered that ten boxes be put
up and an extra man employed to give the
collection Of mail that may accumulate in
them his special attention. The boxes will
be put up, Csptsin Murphy informs Us, by
the lst of February. They will be put up
in the business part of the city and so dis
tributed - to DO most convenient where
they will be most used-probably from
Tenth street down. Judge ]. ]. Bird has
been appointed, at the suggestion Of Capt.
murphy, as assistant mailing clerk, and
ne will attend to tho collection Of the mail
and also assist Mr.. Thomas Sloo in the
ofhcs. or oil the colored men in this con-
gressional district no better man
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