The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-25
LOCAL BRgvIrIys.

pulpit last night, neat ana instructive lee
.ure on the pride of the human heart. A
large audience gave him an attentive hearing
The revival in the NJ II. church closed on
Friday evening last, having been protracted
for period of over three weeks. The mem
bership of the church (if those received on
probation finally enter the church) will be
nearly doubled, as one of the results Of the
meeting.
| On Tuesday evening Rev. Mr.. Coe, rector
of the church Of the Redeemer, of the city,
will lecture before the Academy of Science,
at the Atheneum. We bespeak for the rev.
erend gentleman largo and appreciative au-
| dience. ...rfI HJ .||.
Quite number of our citizens, members
| of the bar. ETC., are in attendance on the leg
islature. We hope they will unite in an eli
fort to press to a favorable result our applica-
| ton for the state taxes of the county for pc
| riod Of ten years. The claim is founded in
Justice and the legislature should recognize
it.
The new Catholic church, for which the
foundation is prepared, will, when finished,
be much the largest and most imposing struc:
ture in the city.
The colored population were out in full
strength yesterday, presenting more hues
than the peacock or rainbow. The pride in
dress, manifested by some of the more gaudi-
ly arrayed ones, was amusing.
A gentleman who essayed the task Of dri-
wing home young COW, with her "frst born,
yesterday morning, was lifted on the horns OF
tho animal and thrown an awkward somer-
sault for attempting to pick up the calf whose
weak legs were not equal to the weight of the
body Gentlemen in the vicinity heard sew
eral expressions from the lips of the tossed
individual that sounded wonderfully like "cuss
talk
True to what is now custom, fifteen or
twenty negro boys assembled on the vacant
lots on the corner Of Nineteenth and Poplar,
yesterday, and INDUCED in a species os gym
nastics, spiced with an occasional fight that
proved an annoyance and nuisance to the
neighborhood.
Coyne's ball-alley is in splendid order now,
and attracts crowds Of persons, as well those
who relish an indulgence in the invigorating
game as those who like to be lookers-on.
IHtEt u Just HO" I'A NNAN' -
beggars in the city-some Of them strong,
usty fellows that should be at work on the
railroad, whore they are wanted 1t would
be well for the police to ask one or two of
these gentry to dance attendance before Bross
or Shannessy.
If there are candidates in the field whose
names do not appear in the column of an
nouncements, we have no notice Of the fact
which we can regard ~ reliable. We receive
information Of this kind only through the an
uounccment.
II il about time now TO rcplant trees and
shrubs and do your trimming. Several fam.
lilies in town have already sown lettuce.
There were twenty-six dog. in one drove,
near the fourth ward markethouse yesterday
afternoon, and at one time nearly twenty Of
them were tangled up in promiscu0u. fight
| "Oh, for IL thousand dog killers.
Rod Galley, of Cairo memory is now liv-
ing in jefferson City, Missouri.
/, is II fact that ha, not escaped the atten-
ton Of amy old citizen that no person or fam
ily leaves Cairo permanently. They endure
their "banishment one two, and sometimes
iye years, but they are sure to return, and
nine times out Of ten, poorer than when they
| eft.
/ The widest stretch in the Ohio river is d.
rectly in front Of Paducah. At this point il
il only thirty-nine hundred feet from bank to
bank
"A. ;. b., Jonesboro' Yes, sir, there are
'sddler, in Cairo; but as none Of them ad-
ver,ise for it, IL probable that they are
wholly Indifferent about patronage from
abroad.
Northern Illinois has asked the legislature
for an appropriation Of $780, 900 to build a
hospital for her sick aud INDECENT people
There is a strong probability that the appro-
priation will be made. lit j., upon what
principle of justice can the petition Of Alex
andcr county for own state taxes DC refused
We have borne our own paupcr burden and
much that was not our own, without dollar
from any source except our own pockets
The stock Of winter clothing at Goldstin,
4 Rosenwaters is large, and contains ever!
article belonging to that line for which there
{, any demand in this market. The best anC
cheapest are what the people want, and G.. 4
l. Is the place TO buy them. jan22-3t
prominent Fourth Warder accepted th'
attentions of candidates. Saturday evening
with the almost inyariabe result. The TWEEN
ticth glass Of sold rye was get out, with tn
customary glass Of water, which was to sery
as the might cap Our friend, havinI
> grown somewhat misty in vision, grasped tn
glass Of water, aud with 'heres to 20
: boys threw the harmless liquid behind hi
countenance with relishing smack that il
dictated the intensest satisfaction. Shown
the glass of liquor toward the barkeeper,