The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-05

a A REGULAR commune ation Of Delta
~ Lodge, No. 66s, r. and A. NJ, will
b held IN the Masonic hall this
lrharsdsyl evening, Dec.mber 8, is,2' A.
L, ses1. Visiting brethren cordially in.
vitsd 70 attend.
JANIS A. PHILLIs, sec'y.
NorIcs will b . regular meet.
log Of The Qui vivs Coterie, 81 their rooms
tbis evening ct nine o'clock. Every MEM
bss Il especially requested to attend.
J.B. MASSEY, PRrsiprSr.
CsAs. r. KRIS, SEcRHrARr. la.s-lt
DssvrrlHs. The rain last night At IL
o'clock was failure.
The soriss 10 70 Be the big thing Of next
week.
Major Linegar 10 at Springfield.
Yesterday he cast . vote for Presiden,
Grant In the electoral college.
-Msjor John J. McCord Of St. Louis,
10 here on business, -steamboat business.
A. . distance he looks like . good humor.
ID man.
Major Winter will sell fresh oysters
during the season At forty cents per can
20 families only.
Tho testimony Was not sufficient to
convict John Hemp Of the crime charged
tho high crime and misdemcanor Of as
saulting Lissie Arman, q vag Of the low.
cot kind. and he was discharged.
-Insbriated Ike Fleming, tipsy Frank
Capsll, drunken Tom Forrest and elevated
Bill Norris, we're yesterday led into the
presence of Judge Bross. Cspell had du-
cats, but the other gentlemen are now
earning their bread in the sweat Of their
faces, and Major McHale, Of the city Jail,
furnishes the bread.
Major W. P. Halliday has been ap.
pointed 10 represent Cairo in the CONNER.
eial convention at St. Louis on the 18th.
A better selection could not have been
made.
Tho people Of the city will be re-
quired 70 vote on the question OF new or
old charter on the 7th of January.
"Ring in the new, ring out the old |"
Major George W. R.arden and
Major R. o. Dixon, contractors on the
Mississippi Central railroad, left here
last evening to join their working force
on the line Of the road in Tennessee.
Major Cummings literally dropped
In 10 see Us yesterday. Cummings and
TEE BULLETIN 60 "snooks" now in poll
tics.
-Yssterday WAS . melancholy day,
gloomy and depressing. 1t was Greeley's
burial dayi
The horse disease has not been spread
ing very actively in this city, but there 10
enough Of il to make many Of our horses
feel uncomfortable. A number Of Major
Powers horses are sick sbed with II.
Tho city authorities arc using every
possible precaution to prevent the small
pox from getting foothold in Cairo.
-Msjor Gerould made Us storm yester.
day with one Of his gas bills. He 10 now,
NO doubt, being denounced all over the
city. The long nights are coming, and
who can endure such bills2 OF course
their largsness must all be laid at Major
0srould's door. Would that We owned an
oil we'll
Work cattle were selling yesterday
at good price. They will take the place
Of horses IL the episootic goes on with it,
show.
Our neighbor on the leves can have
his curiosity gratiasd this morning, by
reading the advertisement in the BuLLE-
TIN, headed SoIsIE.
Major Abel 10 . wag. Yesterday he
informed u, with all the serionsnsss of
Dr. Hulss participating in q revival of re-
ligion, that An engine, l6-horse power, had
'csassd to run" in one Of the factories in
this city. Whom We innocently asked the
cause, he assured Us shat eight OF the six.
teen horsepower had taken the spizoot.
iep
Major Wood very properly suggested
to the council, that the public cistern,
should be alled with water. II the coun.
cilmsn would 60 further and induce the
council to construct more cisterns to b,
allied, he would deserve the praise auc
votss Of . large number Of ars.dresdins
sitissns.
Major Obsrly 10 in receipt Of . certia
cate from the department Of state, q
Springfield, declaring him entitled TO
seat in the senate from the Hftieth senator
ial district. Senator Ware has certiHcat
which entities him to the same seat in th
senate. A clerical error, that 10 all.
Rev. VIM. Jackson, pastor OF tn
African Methodist Episcopal church, il
forms Us that the bishop will visit h
church again soon and lay the corner stor
Of the new place Of worship, the csrsmon
having been postponed last Sunday on q
count Of the ipclsmsncy Of the weather.
Major Dick Fitzgerald says he h
not blamed u a. some Of his friends hsv
They say, he says, that Major Pope al
Major Obsrly had arranged to have Il
Republican procession stop in from.
THs BULLETIS Office 90 that the militia
editor, who never saw squadron in Il
tsld, might ali his cheeks blowing b
Bsdiesl trumpet; but Fitzgerald sa
hs never believed that Of John. Richsr