The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-17

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Mrs. aud Miss Lansdcn will sing at
the NJ l.. sociable Thursday night.
The talk about grand narrow gauge
railroad celebration has all blown over,
and IL looks rs il the affair had gone
where the woodbine twineth.
They say that il you plant gcraniums
about your premises, you will not lie
bothered with snakes. There is fellow
in town who ought to have gcraniums all
over him.
Cal Wagner's minstrel troupe, who
are praised by the press and public Of
every city in which they have made their
appearance since their reorganization,
will appear st the Atheneum tonight.
Mr.. w. II. Morris will sing at the NJ.
+. sociable Thursday night.
If any ofour readers would save time,
trouble and money In supplying them
selves with ink, we refer than to the all
vertisemcnt Of Royal Purple" in another
columns
-Loafcrs are still very numerous In
this city, though many who were here a
week or two ago have taken up their
budgets aud set ont for other places.
having found that Cairo was not a healthy
locality for them.
Those Of our citizens who are lovers
Of sport afforded by hunting are now in
their glory. 1t is said that game Of
every Kind is plenty in this neighbor-
hood, and that 1t !, being slaughtered in
large quantities.
The Misses Steele will sing at the VI.
f. sociablc Thursday evening.
The request Of the editor of the Ga
s.tts, asking the Rev. Jacob Bradley to
lecture. has been refused by that gentle
man, on the ground that to do so at pres
ent would interfere with his sacred du-
ties.
The Bridges boys. who escaped from
the Johnson county Jail at Vienna. last
Wednesday night. have not yet been re-
captured, and it is thought that the Of
fccrs now in pursuit will have
lively chase before they come up with
the boys. if indeed they get them at all.
Prof Chandler Robbins will partici-
pate in the sociable at the NJ. T.. church
Thursday evening.
BY referring to another column Of
this issue Of the BULLETIN it will be seen
that the ladies Of the Methodist church
will give another concert at the church
tomorrow evening. which will be very
pleasant affair, and should be well pat
ronized by our citizens.
The first runaway that has come un-
der the observation Of the uptown folks
for several days, took place yesterday. a
horse attached to light spring wagon
started somewhere in the vicinity
Of the stone depot and broke the shafts, !
but nothing more.
The Knights Templar will give an
other sociablc Ia their hall on Friday
evening. The last one given under their
auspices is said to have been avery pleas
ant affair. These gentleman have a mack
Of doing everything they undertake in
first-class style.
Mrs. Monsarrat and Mrs. Wright will
sing at the VI. f. sociable Thursday even
ing.
Lafayette Denosthenrs Davis, editor
of the san. correspondent Of the 81. Louis |
Republican, a member Of the Methodist |
church add teacher of a Sunday school |
class, looks disconsolatc over the mess
he has got himself into with GENEVA"
and the "Woman's Club"
The calico party. given by the Cor
nucopian club of Mound City. at Stokes
hall last night, was the last party to be
given by the club this season. and it was
expected 10 be largely attended. Several
Of our Young people anticipated attend
Ing, but whether they did so or not we
cannot say.
There will be nice refreshments at
the VI. +. sociablc, at the church Thurs
day evening.
That birthday party, of which we
spoke some time ago, to be given by
three young men of this city. whose birth
days all come at the same time. will take
place on the second Thursday of next
month. 1t will be grand affair, n the
parties are OF the Kind who never do
anything by halves. One of the public
halls will be secured for the occasion.
~ little boy named Cary. while play
ing with couple of companions on the
high sidewalk, on Fourteenth street. be-
tween Washington avenue and Walnut
street, yesterday morning. was pushed
under the railing and fell into the water,
receiving from the fall bloody nose and
well scratched face, but nothing more.
The price of admission to the VI. L.
sociable Thursday evening, will be twen-
ty-fve cents, including music and refresh
ments.
The Jonesboro Gazette says that the |
Odd Fellows of that place are making !,
ample arrangements for the celebration /
on the Goth of next April. The festlvi-
ties, We are told, will close with grand |
dance at Masonic Hall. The affair prom !
ises to be one Of the largest undertakings |
of the kind that has ever taken place In !
this section of the State.
Misses Carrie Ungles AMI Lulu Pace,
in connection with M1ssrs. Arick, Hack