The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-05

tremely colo weather. A lazy VINO Visi'eo
them yesterday sent them according to he
own meagre means-a mattress to SLEEP
upon and few dollars In money. 1t Ii
necessary that further relief should bt
promptly and sufficiently given.
Last evening before 8 o'clock the
thermometer stood at degrees above zero
at the signal Office. Toward o'clock 1t
fell to zero. and it was expected to 60 down
to below zero by this moring. At II &c
O'Clock fine snow was falling, the tenn
persture was little higher than it had
been, and strong gale blew from the
north.
"A small party of hunters came down the
Wabash road yesterday, bringing their out
fit, including fine New Foundland dog,
down in freight car. After arriving here
the dog got out Of the car and strayed away
and the owner, M. Rayould, living in the
vicinity of Harrisburg, offered reward of
$40 for the delivery of the dog to Mr.. L. B.
Church, of the Union depot.
Two men belonging to the crew of a
boat that brought load Of wood down
from Metropolis yesterday got into fight
on Ohio levee yesterday afternoon in the
course of which one Of them, named somers,
struck the other over the head with club
and inflicted bad cut in the scalp. Chief
Myers arrested the clubbist and Magistrate
Comlngs fined him IS and costs.
AT lts recent meeting In Springfield
the state board of agriculture resolved
''that this board recommends to the tax
payers of the several townships Of Illinois
the endorsement of the act of the last gen.
era assembly, entitled "Hard Roads,"
and approved June 10, 1888. The terms
of said law being that, to make it effective,
it must be adopted by majority Of voters
at the annual April town election"
The week Of prayer which begins to-
morrow will probably be observed in the
several churches of the city. The topics for
prayer are as follows: Monday, praise and
thanksgiving; Tuesday, confession of sin,
and prayer for cleansing and renewal;
Wednesday prayer for families aud instruc.
tors Of youth; Thursday, prayer for the
church of Christ; Friday, intercession for
the nations; Saturday, prayer for the mis-.
SION at home and abroad.
Last evenings weather bulletin gave
the following temperatures: Bismarck, 81
below zero; North Platte, Q below; St.
Louis, / f; Dodge City, Q above; Cairo, 10
above; Pittsburgh, 10 above; Cincinnati, 0
above; Louisville, 8 above; Nashville, SO;
Chattanooga, 80; Memphis, s.; Vicksburg,
81; Shreveport, So; New Orleans, 81. The
greatest fall during the previous "a hovr,
was 10 degrees at this point; the next was
IS at Louisville; then II at St. Louis.
For two or three days the transfer
steamer W. B. Duncan has been hard at
work removing the drift wood that bad &C.
cumulated at the foot of her Incline at East
Cairo and which constantly increased in
bulk. She had not bsen able to transfer
rains during all that tme but yesterday |
n0rning with the assistance of the tug |
Nontauk the drift was all gotten way aud
rains were tranfered as usual in the after.
noon. The only passenger train transfer,
red during three or four days was transfer
red last night
Mr.. Hussey, agent for the Southe IN |
Division OF the Illinois Central road at
Wicklitfe, died Thursday night, after some
weeks prostratiou with malaria. Wick
lift. is said to be very unhealthy, which is
one of the principal reasons urged against
it as the county seat. During the last year
there have been thirty-two deaths, and with
in the last two or three weeks the Illinois
Central road has had three different agents
there, two getting sick and leaving, and
the third dying.
Ice has been forming on the Mississip-
pi for several days passed and is by this
morning, probably strong enough to permit
men to cross to Greenaeld's landing. 1t is
eight or ten years since the Mississippi was
frozen over at this point, and it Mill prob.
ably DO number of years before the same
sight and opportunity for fun on ice will
presented to Cairo people again. It is
we'll, however, that those who viii! take I'D.
vantage of the present opportunity, will not
venture out too far until there is no longer
any doubt that the ice is sufficiently strong.
in spite of the cold wave that struck
this section Of country the rise In the river
predicted by General Hazsn manifested it.
self at Cincinnati, and that, too, within the
time specified by him. His prediction was
that rise would occur Thursdav eyeninu