The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-20
THE BULLETIN.
Published every morning. Monday g,
cpntell.
CITY NEWS.
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The weather report man, or rather
the signal station man, and the SIN, have
kissed again and made up.
An attempt was made on Sunday
night to burglariously enter the resi-
dence of Mr.. T. w. Halliday.
We have received the first number Of
the Pulaski Patriot, the new radical paper
published ut Mound City. 1t is a very
pretty sheet geographically, and spright-
ly edtorially.
The members of the railroad commit
tee who do not attend the meeting to-
night at the council chamber will be fined
s. EACH the money thus collected to be
appropriated TO dcfray the expenses Of the
canvass.
Judgment was rendered yesterday by
Judge Bross, in the delinquent tab-list
for 1870. Sale Will begin next Monday.
Sheriff Irwin made n very close collection,
and takes county orders at pa. for all
taxes.
We see by our exchanges that the
tickets to the Grand Gift Festival, ut Oma-
ha, are being rapidly taken. 1t seldom
happens when one has an honest chance
to win fortune in n legal enterprise, like
the one in aid of public library at Oma-
| ha.
Capt G. ID. Williamson received nfor-
nation on Saturday of the death Of n
| brother in California, and that he had i'd
hcrited a large fortune. The Captain left
for California yesterday noon, TO settle
the business of the deceased, and perform
the other duties which this sad event has
dcvolvcd upon him.
! We regret to announce that the
! United States sigral officer at this station
( has been slightly i'll for ~ few days, and
his superiors at Washington giving this
ETY. the dickens" We hope he may he con-
v.l,sccnt soon. and with returning health
learn how TO appreciate II good thing
when he has it.
To have made the Midnight Burial,
in Sundays BULLETIN correct, it should
have read For Cora Stacy Margaret
Ann Jones, daughter of Guy and Susan
Caroline Jones, of Tennessee. The villain
who contaminated her ruin was Harvey
Revclls, carpenter on her uncle's honse
and not an army officer, The lody, by
the mistake of Coroner Cary, missed the
noon train, and was taken to Villa Ridge
at midnight by Lizzie Walbridgo and Il
Mr. Galliher,Swho seeing the desolation OF
- the deceased volunteered his Kind Offices
and was inferred with respect the mex
day at / O'Clock.
TIM "Irper goes tor the gentle Ger
oald, superintendent of the gas works, aEC
defends Mr.. Burnett the comptroller thus
'rhe san says that there is adisposition t.
saddle the blame for the darkness tia
ehshrouded the city one night last week
upon the shoulders OF the comptrollei
We have observed no such disposition
On the contrary, the darkness co m
planned of has very generally been as
.. crlbed to the precipitancy of the superb
tendent Of the gas works. The comptro
= Ter note to the superintendent plainly il
cheated desire, on the part of the city, t
continue the use OF the gas, but on tern
Cn"' would be satisfactory to both partie
PLAINLY expressed wish TO enter into
# h'" contract With this note in his hmm,
We" 'p'''n"haeht cut oil the gas.
what way,,hcn, has the comp,ro,lor .u,,ioc
,l"i'el' 10 eehsure' We don't asee it
ou' ne'ghbor forgets tina, Mr.Gerou,I !.
-, n g"'''Ne gentleman and that Mr.. Burpcr
''h "''s was we'll calculated TO nl,u.,,,. :,
q good. 'uo-'o'i Of sensitive na,uro On, w
INTO rashness. '"PeI
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It's gs-. :, DN''i'' EsIlNAL.--The Iadie, or
~, n"p'si society have in con,e,o,,,,,.
" FESTIVAL, to be held in the new L.t,',.
EAmcs X Co., now near comn,r,ia, "
necr. 70 Tie putting in Of the machino,, !,
James johnson, the ACCOMMODATE, ~,
by and oil thei illinois Central railroad h,. !, !"
bnlie,,n offered the USE of train Of car. ,rom
one day aspot Tenth street, and other noin,,
ehsasa. Wv "so passage of all who may wis