The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-21
SHORT ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS.


Water "mullions" by the load in all
the streets.
-THB SUNDAY BULLETIN Is Q moral
threshing machine.
Several advertisments and other mat
ter crowded out to-day.
Mercury 9Oo in the shade at nine m,
yesterday, with . stirring breeze.
ant-Radicals, bloviated at two PM,
yesterday. See report in another column.
Churches all cool and we'll fitted.
Take TIE BULLETINS advice and attend.
-Swoboda is putting up stable in rear
Of his store, corner Of Eighteenth and
Poplar streets.
Tho Hibernians are building . large
cistern at their engine house. II will
cost $3.50.
w. J.iCary, undertaken, has removed
TO the old P. q. building on Commercial
avenue. 7-2l.dlw.
In our local item Of Messrs. Halli-
days place, Saturday, it should have been
To Kalon, instead Of 40 Kalon" grape.
Eugene Fitzpatrick is reAtting 9
large frame building on Twentieth street
between Poplar and Washington avenue
for a dwelling house.
1t 10 under consideration whether 1t
would be advisable to give few dis
courses on Sabbath evenings at Winters
block, to non-church goers, skeptics, etc.
The old shanty on the east corner Of
Poplar and Eighteenth street has been
pulled down to make room for a frame
dwelling house about to be built for Mr..
w. NJ. Cshill.
-Would't II be q good notion to take
some of the municipal wheels to pieces
and give them cleaning, or replace them
by new ones. The handspring is badly
out of order.
Some callow mooney talks Of street
cars for Cairo. Let us have railroads GEN.
tering here first, and then perhaps late
this Fall, or early next Spring, a street
omnibus would pay.
Next week we intend to note city i'm.
provements, street by street, until finished,
and then, perhaps begin again, We hope
every one will feel good natured, and fur
nish us with all needful particulars when
required.
There's a Grant man in Connecticut
who adorns the neck Of Grant "bull
purp" with a S. collar, but can't send his
children to Sabbath School for want Of
clothes. There's number of persons not
a stones throw from Cairo who cant send
their children 10 Sabbath School on &C
count Of the whisky jug.
For the encouragement Of the Rev.
Mr.. Shores, we desire to note that Mr..
A. j. Chambers, colored, is speaking and
writing in Kentucky in the interest Of
Greeley and Brown. There is q large
missionary field open to Mr. Shores in
Cairo and who knows, but that by proper
sxsrtion, he can yet take the "horns' from
Brother Mum.
Our friend Sheldon, whose genial face
greets the travelling public in the ticket
office of the III. Central, is moro genial
than ever since Friday last. The fact is,
Sheldon rejoices in his possession Of baby,
big baby, baby whose "a pounds
warrants it in being called after its
father, James, if James is so inclined.
Our pen overfows with congratulations
to Sheldon, to Sheldon's baby and to all
the babys relatives.
There are few dealers who are try
ing to make their stores pay expenses,
who have never advertised in and seldom
have seen Cairo paper. They can easily
be distinguished from other business men,
being generally seen Waiting about in
front Of their premises, or sitting down
whiting pine stick and complaining of
dull times. We recommend the following
to their Oh eerful perusal:
Ny success is owing to my liberality in ad.
Advertising has furnished me with COM
petency.-Amos Lawrence.
I advertised my productions and made
money.-Nicholas Longworth.
Constant and persistent advertising Is q
sure prelude to wealth.-Stephen Girard.
He who invests one dollar in business
should invest one dollar in advertising that
| business.-A. 7. Stewart.
| With the thermometer at go we
chased local to the Ohios brink It there
eluded our grasp. Caught glimpse Of it
up street-caught the outline Of its vanish
ing figure came up with it finally, and
succeeded in embracing it, Hgurstively.
We give it as announced to u.s. As the
str West Wind was hacking out from
the wharfbost on Friday evening, a col
ord man, who had committed breach of
good morals, by means Of the unruly
member to the great disgust of one of the
mates, the latter, terrified the offender by
showing him the sharp end of stick
some say knife,-and the pursued, In a
panic, cooled of by jumping into the
river. A rope was thrown him and he
returned to his quarters, safe, but bleached
with terror, and damp.