The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-16
LOCAL BREyITIFS.

Cairo public schools will close on the 23c
day of June.
Chris Hanny will start East some
time during the present week for his sec
ond stock OF Spring goods.
"A number Of workmen are puttinl
heating apparatus in the new custom
house building.
The trim little tug A. b. Stafford ha
been re-inspected, and snow doing service
in the feet of the Cairo City Coal com
pany.
The pupils of the Loretto Academy
will give picnic on Monday next. I,
will be held In the beautiful groves in the
rear Of Mound City.
City Attorney Pope is discbarging his
duty in fearless and conscientious man.
ner, being no respecter of persons in his
enforcement Of the ordinances.
A public examination Of all persons
applying for teachers certificates will be
held, we hear, in this city, on Saturday
next.
-R.member the meeting of all Baptis,
people IN Cairo, in the Presbyterian church
tonight The object is, the organization
Of Baptist congregation.
There are five prisoners in the Gala
boose, viz Three white men and two col
ored women. This is the smallest mum Der
that establishment has contained during
the past three weeks.
The Springaelders intensity the inter-
est Of their picncs by hot air balloon as
ceasion. Peoria, not TO be outdone, pro-
poses to give interest to her picnics by
regular Mississippi steamboat explosion.
Another Talbot in the field declares
that the solution to the COW problem Civ
en- by A. Comings is incorrect that the
COW sold for s3l.25, and not s36.25, and
this he stands ready to verify.
Everybody will visit the Atheneum
tomorrow night. ALI Burnett, the re-
nowned facial artist, the poet, reader and
accomplished gentleman, forms the prin-
cipal attraction.
Thomas Carleton was up before
Shannessy this morning 10 accept the
consequences of what the squire felicitous-
ly termed whisky fight Fined s. and
trimmings. Paid.
The enlargement Of the calsboose, re-
Gently ordered by the council, has been
commenced. 1t is the purpose to construct
cell for drunken prisoners, and to en-
large and improve the jailer's residence.
Burke, Of the Elizabethtown Mineral
has bespattered Lusk, Of the Shswneetown
Mercury with the heaviest discharge Of
bad English ever seen in an Egyptian
newspaper.
The examination Of the German school
under Prof. Wirsching, will commence on
Wednesday afternoon. Parents Of the pu-
pills and friends of the school are invited
to attend. The exercises will be sufficient.
ly varied 70 interest them.
An unusual press OF job work, inc!ud-
ing the preparation Of the State and county
delnquen, lis, for publication, necessi,a,es
the curtailment of our reading matter.
The list will make its appearance next
Thursday.
--Sipe-water has commenced develop
ing itself in the fats west OF the Custom
House. We mention this fact, not that it
is OF any consequence to Cairo, but to fur
nish our Paducah contemporaries some
thing to "harp' about.
An effort was made yesterday after
noon TO raise the body Of little Carl Thorn
as, drowned in the Ohio river last Friday,
about two miles above Cairo. At the
time Of going to press VIC were not in
formed as to the result.
There was 3 shooting scrape in st.
Louis, on Sunday night, between lawyer
and doctor, both of whom, we infer, are
late residents Of Cairo. The lawyer shot
the doctor in the side, and then, mounting
n passing street car, disappeared.
The marked appreciation of county
orders speaks we'll for the financial man
agement Of the County Court. The dons-
ton to the county of $4,000 State taxes
may have contributed something to that
result, however.
The Springfield atlas in an effort to
ridicule the effort of Peoria TO secure the
removal of the capital, has resorted to an
immense wood cut. The stupidity OF the
design is only equalcd by the exultation
Of the designer over his imagined success
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give strawberry festival in Thorn
tons hew building on Thursday evening
next. The names Of the ladies in charge
furnish an ample guaranty of the complete
success of the affair.
Mr.. William Martin is making an as
sessment of the taxable property of Alex
ander county, for the tax levy of 1871. He
has already devoted two or three weeks
to tho work but the beginning Of the end
is not yet visible.
Lyman james Fourth ward saloon
WAS opened Saturday night with grand