The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-18

Tho probate side Of the County Court
Judge Bross presiding, Is still in session.
Mems Fine Seal Skin. Caters, and also
"Prince Alberts," at Elliott & Haythorn's.
II
"A serenading band went "tho rounds"
Tuesday night, RECALLING our citizens with
most delightful music. l.
Ladies' Serge POLISH Shoes French Kid
foxed, at City Shoe Store, corner of Gem.
mercial avenue and Eighth street. II
"A match game Of croquet, that ex-
cited a great deal Of interest, was played
in Mound City yesterday. The young
ladies, we understand, played against the
young men, and beat them badly.
Gents Oxford Ties, Prince Alberts
aud Opera Slippers, at tho "City Shoe
Store" corner of Commercial avenue and
Eighth street. . ..l If
Tho tickets in Mr.. Vineent's lottery
are going of rapidly. Everybody has
confidence in the honesty Of the enterprise
and the strict integrity Of the gentlemen
controlling it.
ALI Cutting Is now engaged in the
building Of four large barges for st. Lou
is, and q large wharfboat for Capt. Phil
lips, Of New Madrid. ALI Is a thorough
going fellow, and ought to live in Cairo.
"A gentleman in the vicinity Of Cob
den has slready. sold this season sale
worth of strawberries from q patch EN-
bracing less than quarter of an acre Of
ground. He expresses the belief that his
total sales during the season will reach
$1,000 We are informed. f
The initial number of Mr.. Joel G..
Morgan's new paper, the Gallatin Gazette,
will probably make its appearance in q
few days. Mr.. Morgan deserves well Of
the Democracy Of Southern Illinois, and
we hope his party will now assure him
that his labors are appreciated. &
Anthony Eschbach presents now one
of the contest and, best furnished barber
shops in Egypt. He has recently given
it a thorough overhauling, and it now
we~-s AN cir Of cheerful cleanliness that
is in exact keeping with Eschbach's genial
mindedness and general good nature. Go
see him.
The bulk Of sipe-wster west Of The
custom house has not increased any dur.
ing the past twenty-four hours. We
watch it with considerable interest, since
, its rise or decline regulates the volume Of
Paducah wit and sarcasm, and has some
Thing to do-with the production Of mos
, quitoes. .sg t ~
The citizens Of Commerce, Missouri,
regard the construction OF q railroad
bridge across the Mississippi, at that
point, as one Of the certaintiss that are to
be developed by the early future. In
consequence of this, tho "prospective
value of corner lots in that burg has nd
vanced to 500 per foot.
The rain Of Tuesday night, last week,
is pronounced one of the heaviest that
ever fell in this country. Creeks were
swollen, in an hour TO an angry hight
fences were swept away, bridges, culverta
and dams were demolished, and n damage
aggregating many thousand dollars, in
Aicted on the farming interests of South
! ern Illinois in single hour.
The San expresses the opinion tina,
the report that General Logan will be the
orator Of the day at Mound City on the
3Oth inst, is 'too good to DO true" Pooh
Gov. Dougherty, Judge Green or Judge
Brown would fill his place, should he fail
to attend, FIJI. Either of the gentlemen
named would make a more, scholarly adj
dress than Logan can. - O.
During the past fourteen months, Mr..
James Kynaston, butcher has supplied
tho Cairo Orphan Asylum with fresh
meat, free of charge. This, having been
done quietly and freely, forms total of
unselilsh generosity that certainly enti-
ties Mr.. kynaston to the thanks of the
public, and the esteem Of all those who
have in their hearts a warm place for the
young and helpless orphan. All honor
say we, to Jimmy Kynaston.
--One of the finest cakes we have ever
seen was presented TO our friend Hagoy ON
the wharf-boat by Isaac Cooper, clerk
Of the gay little james Fisk, Jr. Mr..
Hsyey intends to present It to the Episco-
Pal festival. 1t Is made in the shape of a
bot co nplste in every respect. You
my talk about Clerks, but Ike beats
III I'm all. He is . gentleman, a beautiful
m IN, q fashionable man, and the ladies
may hurrah for Cooper, the king Of the
trade. Z
"A gentleman who attended several
of Madam Ferris seances, and night after
night heard the same, msnifeststions says
that one of two things is morally certain,
viz: THAT the spirits Of Richard, Bell,
and Rosa are exceedingly stupid lspirita
or Mrs. Ferris Is an arrant humbug"
Since she refuses to permit any investiga-
ton into her mysteries" and insists upon
dense darkness as condition" to every
thing she does, the gentleman is inclined,
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