The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-09
There will be n regular meeting of

| -onOW Dalllnp was ule Orut' Vi j
day yesterday. Everybody had IL hand
in it.
The civil rights bill having been
passed, it is said that the price Of razors
will advance.
The Rev. Mr.. Gilbert's sermon on
Gambling" is said to have been very
fine effort
The editor Of the Sun is the recipient
Of lively shaking up at the hands of the
lady who signs herself Mrs. 5. }. 5.
Remember the lecture to be delivered
by the Rev. Mr.. wallar at the High
School building tonight.
Or Thursday night the Berger Fam
lily, Swiss Bell Ringers, will appear at
the Btheneum.
Mrs. 5. J. 5. declines to lecture, be-
cause she thinks that her ability as pub
lie speaker is "wofully lacking"
The Rev. Mr.. Wallar, pastor Of the
Methodist chuch of this city, will deliyer
a lecture in the High school building to-
night.
The snow of Saturday night is
said to have been the heaviest that
has taken place in these parts for many
years.
DR.. Cunning enjoyed himself Sunday
by driving about town behind fiery
team of little nags attached to a neat little
cutter.
Everything is quiet hereabouts. No
dog fights, no chicken fights, no man
| flghts.no nothing has occurred within the
past two days.
The regular weekly sociable of the
Liberal Religious Association will take
place at their hall tomorrow evening. A
| cordial invitation is extended to all.
One Tom llonard has been conduct
ing himself in manner that did not
please his mother-ln-aw, and she had him
taken before Judge Bross and fined five
dollars and costs.
From Deputy Sheriff Shcchan. we
learn that HOWE Brothers. pork packers
of this city, are again in trouble. Some
one has been going for lneir hams.
1t j. said that not more than three or
probably four of the present aldermen Of
this city will stand for reelection. Mr..
McGauley. we are informed. insists upon
| retiring. % do several others.
MIR Alfred Comings. of this city. hay-
ing secured the endorsement of large
number Of the most influential men in
these parts, will be an applicant for the
position of postmaster of the Forty
Fourth Congress.
Mr.. Soloman A. Porter had three of
his fingers sawed off last Friday, at Wal
bridge Brothers saw mills, at Mounds
junction. Cause, the usual one. getting
ones fingers in the way of the saw.
The Rev. DR.. Thayer, accompanied
by his family, will leave this city next
| Saturday afternoon for Vincennes. where
he will enter upon his duties as paster Of
the First Presbyterian church of that
city.
During the heavy wind and snow
storm which visited this city last Satur-
day night, the main stay of this institu.
ton engaged in tussle with a pair of win
dow shutters, in which the said shutters
came near getting away with their man
The people of this city are becoming
very much interested in literary societies.
Two clubs ofthis kind have been organ
lied in Cairo within the past week.
namely: The "Woman's Club and Liter
airy Association" and the Taylor Liter
airy Society"
-Messrs. Edward Buder, Charles
Schoenmyer, and VIM. Alba. constitute
a committee appointed by the Turner'S
society OF this city to perfect arrange
ments for an Easter Monday ball, to take
place at Scheel's hall on the 29th of this
month.
--IIarrell. of the Ga;,tte, has, for the
benefit of his readers, had cut made
which he thinks is a perfect picture OF
the editor of the Sun when bordering
over the articles of the Gazette and bull
LETIN, and which he inserts in recent
issue of his paper.
1t now comes to light that the honor
of the capture of Ed. johnson. the Mem.
phis mail-car robber, does not belong 10
detective Pinkcrton. but to Ben. EchOls,
of Caledonia, who tracked him to Me
tropols, and then to Cape Girardeau
where he was the first to identity and
seize hold of him.
Mr.. William Wet2el, present proprie'
tor of the ST. Nicholas hotel, has leased
the Perry House, corner Commercial
avenue and Eighth street with the inten-
ton of relitting and furnishing it, and
starting iirst-class hotel The house vii
be called the Grand Central
Mrs. 5. J. S., in her last letter to the
Gazette. asks somebody Of this city to de
liver lecture to the children. She say
the lectures which have been offered II
the high school building up to the pres
ent time, have not interested them, FOL
the reason that they possess no adapta
bility in manner and matter to the agt
and intellect of the majority Of young
folks who go TO hear them
From the Gazette we learn that DR.
Honnard, late ofthis city, was recent
= " sentenced by the Jackson county cir
! cult court to threeycars' Imprisonment II
the penitentiary, under am indictment FOL