The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-28
GENERAL TOPICS.
Stafford is absent at st. Louis.

The salutation among children now is
"How's your arm p They have all been
vaccinated
The sun dominates ID. T. Linegar,
Esq, of this city, for Acknowledgement of
the state. Why not?
The lawyers of Cairo have become
very passive. The explanation is that
business is dull and the political situation
is decidedly mixed.
The choir of the Presbyterian church
will sing at the Athcneum, Thursday eve
ming, April 4th. The concert will be
given for the benefit of the church.
The Sisters of the Holy Cross have
been employed by the board of health to
take charge of smallpox patients. The
trouble is, the fact was kept dead secret.
Len Faxon, of the Paducah 'Kentuck-
ian was lately assaulted by a member of
the town council of that village, and got
the best of the fight. Len learned what
he knows about fighting in Cairo.
The police are advised to put on their
armor and prepare for business. The
steamer, "Great Republic" is on her wind
ing way to Cairo with one hundred cabin
passengers and two hundred deckers.
The Sun has q correspondent who
asserts his belief that the Sun should be
selected as city printer Our little neigh
Dor has Of late assumed the airs Of very
big boy, and under the constant urging of
Of the Secretary Of State for the City of
Cairo-the privy councillor and very astute
leader of the radical cliqne-is beginning
to buster. Well Lord bless its dear little
soul, let it bluster!
The overgrown steamer, Henry
Ames, butted against the little steamer,
Jim Fisk, and mashed in the guards; bu.
Mallory, who is par excellence steamb boat
agent acquainted with the business
through its entire alphabet, for her agent
at this port. Mallory will answer all
question in reference to business, give all
information in his possession to travellers,
and is just tie man for the position he &C.
cupes. If, therefore, you wish to learn
anything about any steamboat, or to pro-
cure information that will be useful to
you in making either a down.the-river
journey or an up-the-river trip apply to
Mallory, on the levee.
While train, on the Illinois Central
railroad, was approaching st. Johns sta
ton few days ago, the locomotive struck
the body of woman and pushed it from
the track. The engineer did not stop TO
inquire about the result of the butting pro-
cess, but drove on to the station, and then
informed the conductor of what had hap
pened. The conductor, Cormick, promptly
ordered the return of the train to the
scene of the accident, and ascertained that
the woman had fallen on the track UNI
conscious, while in u state of intoxication,
and that her husband, who had been her
companion in the fatal drunken spree was
lying within foot or two Of the track
also stupidity drunk.
The printing correspondent of the
SUM- who has on his garments the odor
of the chief executive Office, and whose
platitudes are recited in the style of the
! mayors inaugural, asserts that the San is
entitled to as much credit as The BULLE-
TIN for the success of the reform move
| ment which has placed Caro- on such IA
vorable ground. The Sun is entitled to
no credit for the success Of that moye-
ment-none whatever. The only part
enacted by that sheet in the canvass was
to make money out of the candidates IL
supported for office. 1t was for every
candidate who had no opposition, or very
little opposition, and decidedly wishy-
washy in its advocacy ofeither of the can
didates who had an opponent worthy Of
his steel. Davis is very good sort of a
man. We like him. He would be an or
nament Of II front seat at q revival. and
could, no doubt, WELD the sword of the
Lord and Gideon with considerable
ability-in heavy sermons but the
truth Of history requires us to say, that, in
a canvass, he is feather weight and his
Sun shines without heat, giving but
sickly light.
The City Shoe store, the popular re-
sort for boots and shoes, has just received
the largest and finest stock OF boots, shoes
ana slippers from the renowned Brolaski
factory, ever brought to Cairo, and are
now fully prepared with their truly mag
niheent stock to supply the spring trade,
beyond all competition, with a Grst-closs
article, cheaper than lower grades of boots
and shoes are sold elsewhere in the ci,v
Their stock consists in part, of ladio.'
misses and children's shoes and slippers
Of velvet, lasting serge satin, french
kid, morocco, goat etc. gentlemen,
youth and boys morocco and
calf-tongue boots, prince, Al
berl., oxford ties, etc, etc.