The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-23
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Turney lectures Monday night in the ".
L. church.
Jack Winter will have this morning
large lot Of fresh oysters.
There Is but one ease of spotted fever in
the city. and only live smallpox cases.
a large amount OF. real estate changed
hands in this city last week. "rhings i.
working"
Jack Wnterha~ bought and shipped to Mo-
bile within the pasttw days fifteen thousand
six hundred eggs.
The Cairo Turner society have engaged u
professor of gymnastics who will give lessons
in the noble art of agility.
good many OF our citizens with ,urplu.
change in their po ket, are getting ready to
buh new houses-bu,ness and residence.
Parker & Blake are having a huge sign
painted OH the side of Bros building, cor
ner OF Commercial avcnuc and Eleventh
street.
Yesterday was n bleak. cold day. The
sun came out but didn't heat the atmos-
phcrc any more than toy stove would st.
Peters n Rome.
Mr.. Webb has been collecting money
whcrcwth to dciray the expenses o. legal
proceedings against the Cairo and Vincennes
Railroad company.
David Walk will lecture at the Athcneum
on Monday night. March 3. \ lecture on
travel will be refreshing after the Denton
| Turney shower Of religious controversy.
The steamer Idlewild will arrive at our
D n la.I .. tI,..,
ansylllc, Paducah and Mound City people
en- route tor Memphis and her Mardi Gras.
number Of laborer, and mechanics
passed through East st. Louis Friday last
en- route Tor the Cairo narrow-gauge railroad
which Is now being rapidly pushed forward
The Odd Fellows of Cairo are becoming
numerous and enthusiastic. TIE equip
ments for an Encampment will arrive in u
few days when an Encampment will be insti.
tuted.
The only patriotic Washington-rcspectin
buildings in the city We're the custom-house,
Rough and Ready engine house and the Iii.
nois Central wharlboat, which is not build.
ing. They flew their flags.
A large funeral c0rte0e accompanied the
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where they were inferred in the Catholi,
cemetery. The deceased was the mo,her-in
law of Deputy Sheriff Cain.
The temperance people of this city ar,
becoming alarmed. They anticipate ia,
repeal, by the present general assembly. o
the anii-get-drun >-and-break-things Law
The opponents OF that law are active. an,
are putting the water men to shame. .
At about O'Clock last night an alarm o
fire called out the engines, but they wer,
not needed The alarm was occasioned b,
the burning of chimney in Bill Caring,
house on Ninth street. That chimney i, il
the habit OF burning. II can't get over il
Bill ought, out of respect for the lire depart
ment. to take that chimney out of his hous,
aud put in one that won't burn.
Letters addressed 10 the following person
are held Tor postage at the Cairo postollicc
Edson Weld, Brighton, Illinois; j. II. iugar
Ottawa, Illinois; Josie Rutlidge, Caledonia
Hi OILS; Messrs. Wallace Il Co., Chicago
Miss Lily X. Lee, Norfolk, Virginia; W Han
Pennsylvania; W. &. Lambct, Benton. Ms
souri,; Taylor Faulkner, Cincinnati. Ohio
u. NJ, Luna landing, Arkansas.
farmer sold yoke of cattle in this city
on Friday last for which he got $50. IL,
left for his home on the Illinois that evening
and was ''shadowed" by negro. who hac
asccr,ancd in some way that he had money
When he got on the boat at Columbus h,
was followed by the regro, who garrote,
him before he got to the top ofthe bank anc
robbed him of all hi money. When III,
people of Columbus learned of the outrag,
they became indignant. and are pining t,
stretch that man and brothers neck.