The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-28
THE BULLETIN.
Publication Once. bulletin building
Washington Avenue.
LOCAL BREVITIES.


LOCAL BREvITIES.
Water melons in immense quantities.
MIR. Greeley reports crops up country
good.
Musk melons have made their APP
pearance.
The rains Of Friday evening were
very grateful.
The great sins of tho nation are
smothered by the rustic of greenbacks.
Splendid Concord grapes in market
rs cents per box of three pounds weight.
Thermometer indicated $50 in the
shade; go in the sun, at noon yesterday.
Business, we are credibly informed, on
the levee, yesterday, was commandment.
We are informed by person who has
been living in tho tobacco region Of Ken
lucky that the tobacco crop promises
fine yield. Corn is also reported as being
very fine.
If you want your house moved or re-
paired, go to J. w. johnson, No. II, Sixth
Street, between Commercial and Wash
ington avenues. Orders left with S. w.
Carrico promptly attended to. 7-27ml
Mr.. Gossman this morning is an
nounced as candidate for reelection to
the Office of Coroner. Mr.. Gossman was
made a frst-rate officer and we hope he
may be reelected. We believe, too, that
| he will be.
The evening luminary thinks "that
the correspondence of The BULLETIN is
written by one and the same person."
Poor fellow he cant see through mile
stone. He thinks, however the cores
pondence "evinces great versatility of
talent" That's an opinion as is an
opinion. Hem
We have seen children, some
of them school girls belonging to Mr..
Ballireys school opposite The BULLETIN
printing house. playing in the sun with
out anything on their heads. Parents
should not allow them to be thus exposed.
1t is very dangerous.
On Twenty-frst street, Immediately
opposite the Loretto Academy premises,
Mr.. Greeley, formerly one of the partners
of the New York store firm, is putting up
new cottage for himself Mr.. Greeley
has been sometime absent from the city.
This is another Instance Of an appreciative
old citizen returning to Cairo to stay for
good. Mr.. G. informs US he is going into
the general store business, and will
build Immediately.
Tho Mocking Bird Band is peculiar
1t is composed Of four boys, as follows, the
Oldest of whom is not over thirteen years
Charlie Parker bones Eugene Ellis,
mouth organ; John Keith, triangle and
Willie Scott, whistle. The band serenad-
cd THE BULLETIN lately and astonished
Us by its proficiency. 1t makes splendid
music, and Willie Scott as a whistler is
really wonderful. He beats Phil. Hew-
ards shell almost blind.
Campaign anecdotes being now in
order, we give the following, vouching for
its accuracy, having been present
when the circumstance related occurred {:
During the campaign Of 1850, in Marion,
a lawyer, better versed in law than in
theology, in declaiming against the con-
duct ola Williamson delegate, thus wound
up: IF he was my brother who had acted
towards us as he has done, would say to
him as the Lord said to the aooman Of Sa-
maria, get thee behind me Satan The
roars that followed may be imagined !!
The Grafton was squelched amid general
stampede.
1t is with sincere regret we have to
announce serious accident which occur
red on Friday night, 10 a worthy and in
dustrious mechanic, Mr.. Fry, to whom we
alluded short time since as building a
house for himself on Twenty-frst street.
While engaged, quteate that evening" in
putting up the rafters Of Mr.. Greel0y's
new cottage, in some way or other he
slipped and fell from the height of
eighteen or twenty feet to the ground.
dislocating both Of the right wrist bones,
and sustaining severe and painful bruises
on the right arm and other parts of the
body. We saw him yesterday morning.
at which time be was suffering much pain
DR.. Dunning is attending the suffering
man, 1t will be some time before he will
be able to resume work.
1t is with much satisfaction we learn
that the Arab Fire company is about to
erect a new engine house on tho site of
the present building--on Commercial ave-
nue.. The plans were drafted by our city
architects, Messrs. Hauenstne and Phuly,
and were shown to us by those gentlemen.
The building is to consist of two stories
Dimensions, twenty-five feet frontage, by
sixty feet depth first story, fourteen feet
heigh in the clear, and second story fifteen
feet with Norman cupulo twenty feet
heigh. The work is, VIC understand, to be
commenced Immediately. Tho above
named gentlemen also presented us with
beautiful photograph design of DR.
Brigham's new house to be built on the
corner Of Eleventh and Cedar streets. 1t