The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-09

painting business in Cairo for tue 'as' ~
yeats, to superintend the painting and pa
per hanging department, and all "ork CHI
trusted to him, or for which he may con-
tract. will be duly acknowledged by them,
and will be executed with neatness and
di.patch. Sign writing, plain and fancy
painting, paper hanging and decorations,
c,lsominng, gruin,ng glazing, etc, done
at reasonable terms. 3 6tf.
SOLD ouT.
Mr.. Joseph Mendel has sold his grocery
store, at the corner of Tenth street aud
" ashington avenue, to Mr.. Joseph Bross.
Mr.. b. has taken possession and will inn
mcdiately stock the concern with full
and complete assortment Of the freshest
and choicest groceries and provisions,
which he guarantees to sell at prices as
low as can beobtained from any other estab-
lishment in the city. lilo solicits a share
of the public patronage and promises in
return prompt attention and courteous
treatment. 3.9 dim.
TOBACCO SALES.
The sales at the Ballard tobacco ware.
house yesterday were well attended by a
good board Of local buyers. We also no.
tied among those present quite numb Der
of buyers from foreign markets. The
bidding was lively. Sales were
Lugs... .."........... ......,....s6 900 Z 30
4
Good ........................ W "a III w
Illinois Shippers'........."... ~ 90
Three hhds. bright Kentucky fnc-cur.
ell rejected at SIS 81.
There still continues to be good de-.
mand for sound old filters. The market is
active with an upward tendency.
REPLY OF THE HIBEsSIASs.
The following is the reply of the Hiber-
MAN fire company to the note of Mr.. Jo-
seph Veirun, published in The BULLE-
TIN OF the 9th inst:
Cairo, H., March sth, 1872.
Joseph NJ. Veirun. For the Rough aud Ready
| Fne Company:
DEAR SIR:-Your note published in the
BULLETIN Of the 9th inst, purporting to
oe an acceptance of challenge from the
Hibernian fire company, was brought be.
fore II meeting of our company on the eve
ming Of the 7th inst am instructed by
the company to inform you that we hav,
offered you no challenge whatever, and
any newspaper squib that may have beer
published lately parttking of the natur,
of II challenge, has been wholly unauthor.
lied by US. However, when the "Roughs
beat the throw of the Little Hlbernian,
made at the match in November, 1869, vi
will be pleased to engage in anothe
throwing contest with them ut al oh tim
and under such arrangements as may
mutually agreed upon.
Respectfully, &c,
NJ. j. HowLEY, Sec'y.
BIO THING,
The following item will be read with II
tercst, as 1t is an evidence of The imme Il
quantity Of freight that may be handled b
u single boat
CAIRO, ILLs., March sth, 1872
, Editor Bulletin
, An item Of importance has escape
your notice. A few days since the to-
boat Crescent City" took from this pc
to Now Orleans tho largest amnunt
fr ignt ever handled by one boat, viz
sir thousand ntne hundred tons--or II
amount equivalent to sir huadred an
, ninety ordinary 'reight car loads of mel
chandise.
There were only seven laborers on ii
boat two pilots and two engineers,
eleven men in all, to make the trip. Tt
freight was Carried ut fro
, four to eigh. dollars per ton
averaging six dollars per ton-making tt
handsome little fortune of forty-one thou
J and four hundred dollars for the tri
down.
This is n problem for railroad men
solve: Can artificial channels compe,
with the great natural channels a, N
above rates-thirty cents per 100 pound
= for t1Celre hundred miles OF transit
INQUIRER.