Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-06
EVENING. EMES.
BUSINESS OF CAIRO.

CAIRO. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 8. 1865.
BUSINESS OF CAIRO.
In transcribing from tho Assistant Assessors
books the Income List, which We published
yesterday, we took the pains to enumerate the
number of representatives employed in the diff
ferent important branches of trade in this city,
which we give below, promising however that
there are many important dealers whose names
are not upon the record, not yet having made
their returns to the Assessor.
WHOLESALE DEALERS.
OF general wholesale merchants we find the
names Of 81. We think this speaks pretty well
for Cairo and to the outside world will give
some idea of the amount of business transacted
here. And in no place in the Union IS better
or greater inducements offered to capitalists to
embark in trade and swell the number of our
wholesale dealers than in Cairo. This is fact
which those already in the trade will readily
admit.
WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS -
Of wholesale liquor dealers, the Assessors
books show the names of proprietors Of twenty
establishments A very large amount of the
liquor consumed on the boats Of the Ohio,
Mississippi and Tennessee river is procured
here.
large amount of money is invested in this
city in the liquor business. We could wish
that it wore in our power to present figures
approximating the amount yearly realized from
the wholesale traffic in this city by our dealers.
RETAIL DEALERS. -.....
Of general retail dealers in Cairo there arc
two hundred and fifteen. This number indi-
Gates large local trade, and there is yet room
for more. 1883.
KxTAIL LIQUOR DEALERS.
OF the 2l5 retail dealers mentioned above
ITO Of them arc engaged in the retailing of IL
quor. This number will doubtless appear
large, but it should be borne III mind that the
retail liquor business OF city is not always an
indication of the amount OF liquor sold to resi-
dent citizens, yet We freely admit that nearly
all our people arc judges of the article and
take a little for the stomach sake" In this
connection We feel constrained to remark en-
sale Of liquor presents great Inducements to
those anxious to realize fortunes to engage in
the business. Take for instance the article oi
lager beer, which is bought by the retail dea'
ler for Sl3 per barrel. Each barrel holds 5l2
half pints or glasses, which, at ten cents per
glass-the price charged by several Of our
principal dealers-nnd $5l 10. or at cents pei
glass and $25, ,55 per barrel, is realized, and we
know Of one dealer who, not unfrequently,
sells two barrels per day. But We must pass
on to
Of these we regret to notice there arc bu,
twenty-four, whereas there ought to be two
hundred. A finer field is here presented FOL
the investment of capital in establishing manu-
factories than i'll any other place in the United
States. Actual necessity cries aloud for theil
establishment. Rolling mills, cotton mills
paper mills, tobacco factories, coopering fac
tories, and numerous other enterprises, here
present themselves with promises Of large re
turns for the morey invested, and if reared
what nature designed it should be, the mar
and entrepot of the West.
HOTEL KEEPERS
Ofhotel keepers there are ten registered
upon the Assessors books, and nearly all O
them are alike creditablc to the city and salts
factory to the guests.
PHYSICIANS.
Fourteen physicians, representing ever,
school of practice, have nailed their shingle
upon the outer walls, and are prepared to xii
cure with dispatch and in the most improves
manner.
LAWYERS.
OF this necessary evil,'' there are twelv
prepared for pecnniary consideration I
send man to the penitentiary or gallows, c
remove from his character spets before SUI
posed to be indellible
BUTCHERS.
Only IS butchers are registered, though
is well known that there are more engaged
the art of killing ''crttcrs' for our tables tia
nineteen.
EATING HOUSES.
OF eating houses there are only nine pr
sented, but we think there is greater numbt
in the city.
billiard TABLES.
There are q billiard tables in the city ov,
which the lovers Of the tcue'' can and 4
practice, and ''shove up the buttons
We regret that the books do not speci
more fully the other branches of business al
also the representatives of the various trad
as their enumertion could not fail being
teresting.
NALUABLE ACQUISIyIOS.-A valuable acce
sion has been made to the population al
brains of this city, in the person of DR.. JOSEF
n. Mcdowell of 'McDowelrs College, G
Louis,) fame. There is not in the ULit
States physician or surgeon whose nsme
more familiar to the medical profession til
that of DR.. Mcdowell, and as a practitioner
lecturer he stands in the first rank. Tic Do
tor has settled in Cairo and Joined teams wi
DIR. Dunning. He designs establishing c.
lege here and has about concluded negotiatio
for the site upon which to build it. He W
also deliver lectures here some time betwe
this and sprinp We welcOme the DE-