The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-12-27
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boIii tlciShVurtf VIII kotV 81. isoulN
next Monday for new goods. Business
Is lively. and it keeps him busy 10 keep
the stock up.
Henry EdIlcman has returned from
the Commercial College at 1t. Louis,
br MA parchment. and Eddlcman
Is ~ are, thcrcfors, ready to settle
with their customers according to the
Italian invention
| 5 mon Alden has returned with his
family from Kansas, whittier he had gone
TO establish q new home. lie says that
the battle with chinch bugs, grasshop-
pers. and drouth is an unequal one, and
n little too much for him.
| Another marriage at Esq. Littlc's
office on the oath inst. This time 1t was
Enoch ID. Latham and Sarah Nance.
What an amount of happiness this young
couple would have lost If the world had
come to an end according to the Miller
prediction.
Ed. Davis has gone to Chicago with
a car load of sweet potatoes. The ear
was provided with a stove and fuel to
keep the temperature above freezing.
| Mr.. Davis is one of our working men,
and we wish him success.
The ladies of the Presbyterian Sew
ing Society will hold festival on New
Years Eve, December 3lst, in l.eaven-
worth's hall; the proceeds 20 be applied
10 sustaining the Dongola ministry. The
public are invited TO participate.
There are unmistakable signs that
Christmas is ON hand. Santa Claus has
materialized again aud paid his annual
visit, making little souls happy. The
big souls sympathiled with the little
ones, and are happy, too. Christmas
was grand invention.
Still they come. This time IL was q
spendid chibouk, presented by f.. NJ Barn,
well. The swearing-ofl has, of course
been indefinitely postponed, and our par
, Of the tobacco tax will continue to flow
into the public treasury.
The women just now are piou ,ly EN-
deayoring to preseve the vitality of thcii
oleanders. What u pity II is that thes
folks can't live where the shrubs are In
, digenous. Ii would save great deal o
care and anxiety; and their husband
: would not be required to carry big tub
full of dirt with little trees in them, bac
and forth rs the temperature changes
and could save their profanity for othe
, occasions.
, The Illinois Central will furnish fire.
transportation to Chicago and return T.
the members of the Southern lllinoi
n Fruit Distributing Association. A trai
will leave Cairo on the morning of tn
4th proximo, and will accommodate nc
, to exceed three hundred members. Tick
cts will be good till the 10th inclusive, an
the members will return, at convenience,
, on regular passenger trains. The rairoa
, company are quite generous IN this mat
, ter, and the members of the Associatio
will appreciate their generosity.
For some time the making of flou
9 barrels has not paid our coopers justif
ANY, IiohN' va o'touiit VI l'ic hiPu itt' VI
. freight to Cairo and market. The fac
was made known to the railroad CON
pany, and, with the prospect of in
creased shipments by lowering freights
the company made considerable RI
, duction I'm ratcs-ona - '"o sa'isidI
.o.J ~ tne c0opcis. Now, the Cairo mil
lers, knowing of the reduction, and afte
saying that they would take all the bar
rels that the Dongola coopers woul,
make. begin to discriminate against then
by '"ring pric', on their wares with
W .,dring oorrespondingly on tn,
Cmro manufactures. This seems to b,
AN ati"'l to pocket the advantage thai
W. coruCd to our coopers, to encourlp,
them and enable them to continue bust
less. If this policy be persisted in. Il
will drive our coopers into other employ
ments. or other markets, and the ten I,
'uteen thousand barrels that they hay,
heretofore annually furnished 10 the mil
lers and merchants of Cairo viii have I,
be drawn from some other point. Cairo
must play fair with our mechanics # sh,
wants TO continue the game with them.
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