The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-28
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

BE careful Of what goes into m we'll
- OF what comes out Of your mouth.
southern hotel, No. 80, Ohio lcvco.
Day board, - 60 per week.
SHERMAN LYsDE, pr oprictor.
The Evansville and Cairo packets aro
doing only q moderate business just now.
They will do better after awhile.
The health officer has been ordered TO
disinfsct the slime lake south Of the cor
rel, BY the uss Of coal tar.
The new sidewalk on Fifteenth street
between Washington avenue and Poplar
street, Is completed. 1. Is good job.
Both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
are declining, and the low water season
will soon DO here.
Con. John A. MoClcrnand passed
through Cairo On route for Mound City
| the other day
Tho 81. Louis and Memphis packc .
are not getting rich ofrthsir present trade
They gro probably paying expenses but
not making much money.
Tho steamer jim Fax, Jr., Is doing
- good . business In the Cairo and Pa.
ducAh trade - can DO expected st this
season Of the year. Usually she comes and
COOS with moderate trips.
| Mrs. Purcell, tho woman who was
supposed to hAvo been sun struck on
Thursday evening wbilo passing along
Washington avenue near Tenth street,
wss much better last night.
For ssle--a large amount Of choice
fruit in the orchard, consisting Of peaches
pears apples end ounces, on Cairo and
vinoennes r. H., eleven miles from
Cairo. Enquire of J. y. HAWKINS,
6-27-2w Cross street.
1t 10 said that, on ono Of the steam
boats that arrived At this city . day or
two since, there vera seventeen. psssen-
gers whose pockets were cut open and the
contents extracted by thieves. II this lie
true, there must have been al unsopbis,i
Gated lot OF passengers on that boat.
Our police magistrates are not over
run with business Just now. Tho police
force of the city Is principally employed
abat,ng nuisances. When cool weather
comes again they will have to mako up
for lost time.
--Ycsterday morning when tho steamer
John Kyle was near New Madrid on her
way to this city, ono Of tho deck passen-
gers jumped overheard end was drowned
What induced the unfortunate man TO
commit the rash deed will propably never
be known.
There will DO 4 convention Of the
friends OF the Cairo 4 Huntsville narrow
gauge railroad At Huntsville, Alabama, In
. very short time. Will Cairo DO repre-.
ssnted, or shall we permit Paducsh to
steal our thunder without protest.
The stated semi- election &
Alexander lodge No. 22l LOO. r., was
hold last Thursday night, and resulted in
tho choice OF the following officers: A
Comings, N. O.. John IL. Robinson, v.
o.; F.s. Kent. Il. g.; w. .Hyslop, =. s,
--Cap:. Il. W. DugAu hes contracted =,
recover tho machinery Of tho Bolle 4
Pike, the iron ore from the barge Ma d
Lowry, and the iron submerged In Il q
Ohio At this city. A part OF the iron SUBJ
merged is in eighty feet Of water and tho
rest in forty feet Of water SO says tho
Evansville Register
There 10 considerable complaint be-
cause tho sidewalk on Walnut, between
Eighteenth and Twentieth streets, 10 not
oil put down to the now grade. Tho walk
has boon lowered in front Of ono or two
lots between the streets connected, while
the balance Is left high in tho air withou,
any mcans for psssers by to get upor down
"A petition praying for the pardon OF
Geo. Wilson, scot TO the ponitentiary from
this county, April term Of the c,rcui.
court, ia being circulated, at the reques, Of
his vito, through tho city. Wilson wa
drank, and laid his hands on another per
sons clothes. Tho clothes stuck 70 them
until he got TO where no could sell them.
That 10 all he was guilty Of. He Wal
sentenced 70 imprisonment for ono year.
--"Grace reigns and mercy endure,t
forever" says the devout Sleeper
This must be consolatory new
to Mayor Wood. lie may therefore hop,
10 be again restored to the favor of th,
irate Editor Davis, who secured Wood
election to the position he now honors
Davis will have mercy on Wood soon, ant
discontinue his crushing sarcasm.
The towboat Mary Alice, Capt Daw-
son commanding, on her last trip from 5
Loui. TO Now Orleans, made the run il
four and . half days. She had on board
aud in tow, four thousand Ave hupdr,t
: tons Of freight. This Is said to be tb
best time ever made by a towboat betwe.'
the points mentioned. The Mary Alic,
came back carrying the hnest pair O
horns on the riveS and Capt. Dawson l.
No happy ~ "big sun6ower"
--''6race reigns, says the Rev. Logan
Sleeper. We believe him. The old mar
tells the ruth, and IL may not DO per
tinsnt to remark that II 10 little strange
that man of his cloth should DO so fully
posted on such . subject. As Sleeper
/ says, Grace rsigns. II Law rsisned in.