The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-13
General Items.

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business. Linesar and Gilbert poured
eloquence into his ears yesterday in a
case between Thcobold and Major.
The street laborers have been dis
charged. All of the streets have been
put into condition satisfactory to the
street committee but much work re-
mains to be done.
Information Of Interest TO taxpayers
may he found by careful pernsal of the
City Comptroller's report, published in
the journal Of the City Council in anoth-
or column.
The State Register boasts that green
corn has appeared In that market. We
have had 1t here nearly three weeks, and
water melons are as plentiful as fieas in
pig sly.
The growing corn outside the Mis-
sissippi levee is in danger OF being
flooded. The river is rising rapidly. and
another foot will bring 1t over the banks
and flood all the cornfields.
Everybody says Mott is fraud, and
vet Mott is one of the most distinguished
mediums in America. There are those
who stick by Mott as some unreasoniDg
people OF Cairo stick by Mrs. Hollis.
The Gazette dcnounccs Mott rs an
.'unhcsitating cheat and abungling swim
der" and Mrs. 5. J. :. says that "his
best friends are disguised with him, for
he has. assurcdly, proven himself a fraud.
a fool and a coward
The Beautiful Rain has been very liz
dustrious in Cairo for several days past.
A flood of il has fallen. Yesterday morn.
ing the clouds cleared away. the sun
came out and drying Up process COM
mcnccd upon the streets.
The horrible cotton wood shade trees
that do not adom our streets, have the
same effect upon friend Of ours as red
flannel has upon bull. When he looks
at them, he paws the earth with his
hoofs, bellows and shakes his head from
side to side rs II anxious to gore some
body.
| John ii. Gossman, WHO has been of
at the South somewhere is back again
lie went as quietly and quickly as one Of
Motifs apparitions disappears from the
hole in the cabinet. lie was after some
bad body that Sheriff Irwin believes
ought not to run at large. At least W,
think he was.
The prevalence of cholera at Padu
cab does not alarm our people. The!
are proof against panic but at Anna
where the people have been in morta
terror of smallpox, the cry OF "Choler'
at Paducah" is making timid the Draw
and alarming the fearful. But is tn
cholera at Paducah?
The Memphis Avalanche says tina
"Dame Luna shines in that city bcyon,
the mid hour of the night before she goe
to rest. 1t entered its first quarter yes
tcrday." Very nice, but little mixed
Dame Luna also shines in Cairo bcyon'
the mid hour Of the night before It goe
to rest, and she Is also in her first quar-
ter here and it will continue so until sh
changes.
1t was the locomotive "Joln Il
Oberly' that RIM of the track Oh III
Narrow Gauge the other day. This
the second time this locomotive hi
played this trick, but 1t has received yer
little injury. In order to keep 1t Oh til
: track, the name will be changed, or II
Mound City Journal will be procured
e read II out of the Democratic party.
The Council proceedings occur
I much Of our space this morning. ri
+ Fathers are very long winded. The
can cover more space In paper with lie
business than any body Of men We ev
II saw. They do it probably because priu
;, Ing is so cheap this year. We mean |
v Ofense to any member Of tho council |
this, aud 10 not wish It to be taken as