The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-27

meeting Of the electors, try and determine
any controversy concerning their appoint
mont. The votes ere 10 DO counted ct .
Joint meeting Of the senate and house on
The second Wednesday In February suc-
seeding the meeting Of electors.
Misc Mary wslrly and Miss julia
young ladies from It, LOUIS, are
In the city introducing couple Of very 10.
teresting books. They will remain few
days and will call on all who they think
would like these very choice works. The
titles Of the books are American Orators"
and "On 9 Mexican Mustang through
Texas" The prices are such as to be with
In reach Of everybody, the books will CON-
mend themselves to the favorable of oil Of
literary turn Of mind, and the young ladies
are irrepressabls and almost irresistible and
deserve 10 succeed.
--Juo. McCarty owned, besides the three
frame shsuties, the little brick house front.
ing on railroad street and the lot on which
It stands. This house was not damaged.
He had . thousand dollars insurance on
the houses destroyed, but the policy ex-
pired several weeks ago. He estimates hrs
loss =, $4,000, blu, none Of the barracks de-
-troyed In the whole row was worth over
5000 and some OF them not $50. Il. A.
Harmon had his two hnuses insured for
$200 and $500 respectively. One Of these
was only damaged, and will probably be
restored to its former condition and occu.
pied BY the same brood Of moral sxcre.
scence that made II notorious before.
The Ore Of yesterday morning suggests
the question, "What v uld have been the
result It It had started In the Clark build
inv, that labyriathe of wretchsd deus, four
stories high, only one exit and packed with
people. mostly women and children, from
basement to garrett A fire starting in
the basement Of this stru ,ture, burning up.
wards through the floors and filing every
room with dense smoke, preventing those
crowded in the upper rooms from finding
heir way out, would insure the loss Of .
hundred lives. by either burning In the
house or jumping from the windows. It
would be holocaust agsiust which that Of
Bellsville would not be circumstance.
Probably upwards Of two hundred human
beings sleep in this wilderness OF dens
every night, and in case of . fire many OF
them would awake only to find themselves
In heaven or 10 hell most of them proba-
bly, IN the latter place, If the Christian doc.
trins be true. The authorities are probably
powerless to enforcs different condition Of
things, % tho institution 10 not hotel,
where the Law provides that ample
means Of escape and safety shall Ok.
ist. But it is worse than hotel, for there
10 no one on watch at night, to give the
alarm in case Of FIRE. Everybody would
sleep sou ndly until awakened by the heat
if awakened at all, and then would run for
his or her life and personal effects.
Yesterday Postoffics Inspector W. O.
Baird came to this city, having in charge
W. p. Aldrlch, q postmaster at New,Hsven,
Gallatin county, III. Aldrich has been de-
tscted 10 appropriating q registered letter
that was passing through the mails and
came to his Office BY mistake; aud be wai
brought here to be examined before U. 3
Commissioner Csndee. The letter In
question was sent bya lady in Ksarney,
Nsbraska, to some one In New Haven
Michigan. But the postmaster at Kearney,
BY mistake, put the letter In package in
tended for the Office at New Haven, ILL.,.
and thus the letter came into Aldrichs
hands. Instead Of forwarding the lettsI
on to ito destination, Aldrich kept IT.
forged the name Of the person to whom Il
was sent to Q receipt, and made an unin'
telligibls signature to another receipt anc
forwarded both to Kesrney, ono being fo
the sender and the other for the postmsste
there, - required BY the postal laws. Blu
the receipt Tor the postmaster at Kearne!
Was not stamped, as required BY law, at TIL
office where the letter should have been re
csived, and the postmaster at Kesrney
thinking that the letter had gone RICH
aBd that the receipt came from the post
master at New Haven, Mich, sent tho re-
ceipt there to be stamped. But the post
IN .stsr there, Of course, knew nothing abou
it, had not received the letter receipted 10
and had not sent the receipt. This b
write 70 the postmaster at Kesrney an
that started the investigation. The leto
Was sent ON the Gath VI December 1889 On
almost ever since then u government d.
tsctive has been tracing it until he 6nall
came to ito stopping place at New Hsves
Lis. When accused Of the theft Aldrie
III r At IL