The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-22
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

htu-uOt Yesterday.
Nothing doing on the levee.
Business lively in police courts.
Remember the sale Of tobacco at the Plant.
| ers' warehouse tomorrow.
Who has Barney Cranes breast pin, Re.
turn IL and get twenty dollars for the
trouble.
Joe Arnold yesterday disposed of all hi,
household furniture. Everything sold a
] good prices.
Mr.. Z. III. Wheeler viii soon be rea I v 10
| receive orders for all kinds OF wood and
coal at his new yards, on Tenth street. be.
tween Commercial and Washington
avenues.
The trustees Of the Caro- City Propertv
company have contracted with Mr.. James
Ryan Tor the filling aud grading of Ohio
ie'ee between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets Ryan thinks it is an all summers
job.
Al O'Clock yesterday morning Judge
Bross adjourned county court until to-mor.
row nj D o'clock am. The criminal busi.
ness has nearly all been dispensed with
ana the remainder OF the term will be de.
voted to probate business.
The knights Templar of this CITY "a n, !,
picnic exclusion to-day. We believe but
three persons outside OF that order have
been invited TO attend-the occasion being
inten' ed especially for knights remplar and
their families. Where the picnic is 10 be
held, we were unable to learn.
Inc fence about the Fairbank scales on
Washington avenue at tn. Intersection n,
lenth. Is In such dilapidated condition rs
10 nave become perfect eyesore to per.
sons residing or doing business in that H..
calty. We suggest that either repairs no
made or the present troublesome debris be
removed at once.
Although our streets are disfignred b,
many uncouth structures and correspopdiny
surroundings, there are some redeemins,
features which the pedestrian meets with on
MS travels. We refer particularly to the
many pretty flower gardens which form the
setting to handsome cottages and other
dwellings. Now that the rose. are in full
ploon, their beauty catches the eve and
hoids IL like spell, and awaken che erful
thoughts. We only wish our citizens gener.
aty could be induced to place more of these
moral attractions about their premises.
i"o many disastrous CONGREGATIONS
which have marred the ecord of the mas,
year, ought to serve as q warning TO those
who persist In pilng up inflam able material
about their premises. The rear of tbe
stores on the levee are disgraced nv
heterogeneous masses Of old boxes barreIs
ooards, etc, rs dry as finder, and which
only await spark TO set them in n bIoze.
II 1t is necessary for these Accommodations N
DC 'here, we suggest that they be decently
hsso'pod' ana phed up IN such a manner that
u they do catch fire 1t will be an easier mar
Ter Tor the engines TO extnguish IL. than
It would be now.
Inc colored population about the CITY
yesterday We're generally engaged in dis.
'usslng the recent hubbub in the First Mis-.
lohary Baptist church. Everywhere ltto
Ahots were gathered, and the IL dun tole |
YOU SOS and "we's gwine to stan by, any.
io",' ana various other characteristic M.
'erances were given vent to. Not unfre. |
luently the debates waxed warm and
"rathy, and came near ending in an incini. |
htrepetition of the late fracas.
dealers In those little sphericles so scien.
lliically manipulated by the dirty d,yits O,
sarralous gamins just now, and which are
cleptmarbes, must we opine. be driving a
'risA trade in the article, IL the countless
congregations of earnest debaters can he
my indication that they bought their mar.
Jles.
We, of THE BULLETIN, are not mncb
'Neh 10 Boosting. but when we remark TIM,
|alro Is the home OF the cbampiop house.
never OF the United States, we mean ms,
Vhat we say. II there are those who doubt
ne truth OF this assertion, we would ask
mem to reserve their judgment until thew
AVE read the following, and then saw
Whether we are right or wrong Mr.. James
Of this city, proposes TO re.
move the large two-story frame house situ.
ted on the Missouri side of tbs Mississinni
i'er, anu known as the Fall property.
caro- The modHs operasdi by which he
Npects TO accomplish the voyage across the
iVer Is by pontoon RATS. The house viii
rive in this city within few DAYS, and
'ili be taken past The BULLETIN ofl,ce at
bout noon on Monday next. 1t will be 10.
ated on lots in the upper part of the city,
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