The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-09
Local Brevtties.

to five dollars. If
The young ladies Of our city have
inaugurated private leap year parties.
Several very enjoyable ones have been
held within the past week.
The finest stock of holiday goods ever
brought to the market can be seen at
Phil. II. Saup's, who sells them at rock
bottom figures. II.
The ice in the Mississippi river is
thinning out considerably. and unless
another freeze-up comes soon, navigation
between here and st. Louis will again he
open.
The ice in the mississippi river has
been of much Inconvenience to the gov
eminent men who are at work on the
busted bank, but there are prospects that
the stream will be clear in q few days
again, when the work will 20 ahead as
rapidly as heretofore.
Merchants can buy goods OF Inc at
barely city prices. Bring your bills and
save drayage and freight on candies.
win duplicate any order. II.
Col. Fisher feels highly jubilant
over the notion that Rutherford b. Hayes
has been duly elected president by
the majority Of the electoral vote, and
yesterday Haunted TO the breeze two
flags on the pole in the custom house
yard How our greatly interested friends
do catch at straws.
Music, periodicals and magazines Of
all kinds. bound in excellent style and
cheaper than the cheapest at the Cairo
City Bindery, BULLETIN building.
III YOU want to hear a fine lecture go
to the Atheneum on Monday night and
listen to the lecture Of the coloreu man,
Stokes. Give the colored man ga chance
for his white alley" Go and listen to
his lecture, and our word for it you will
pronounce it most excellent.
i have now over four thousand
pounds Of choice candies. wholesale and
retail. Dealers can get bargain by cal
ling at Saups, Winters block. II.
Stokes, the colored lecturer, will dis
course on marriage at the Atheneum on
Monday night. Stokes is not so much Of
an orator as Brutus is, but he is pleas
ant talker, and his lecture is really a fine
piece of literary work. There are pas
sages OF 1t that are prose poetry of the
best quality.
Remember this is no blow, but
mean business: will sell at retail, at
wholesale prices. The exclamation of all
is, Il think you are selling az such low
prices" Remember the place, Phil IL
Saup's. If
The police picked up party by the
name OF Gibbons, on Washington ave-
nue., Thursday night, who was un-
usually drunk. He was given bunk in
the calaboose until yesterday, when
he was taken before Judge Bross, fined
five dollars and costs, and given ten hours
to get out of town.
Miss Thompson, teacher in our pub
lie schools, who was called to the bedside
OF her sick mother last week, has endured
the grief occasioned by her mothers
death. Having performed the last sad
rites ofdaughterly affection, Miss Thomp-
som will return next week to her place
among us, by whom she is highly re-
spected, and who sympa.hise with her
in this bereayment.
The question as to whether an agri
cultural society could live in Cairo has
often been raised, but never has
a very strong effort to organize one
been made. There is now, however, a
slight prospect that we will have both an
agricultural society and trotting: park
association in Cairo next summer, as some
OF the most influential and wealthy citi-
zens are agitating move OF this kind.
The "next war;" now close at hand,
will give renewed prosperity to Cairo,
which will again become an important
military point. Speculative people should
therefore be getting ready for the con-
flict. They should commence to buy
cheap goods, and hold them tor the rise
in prices that must follow the firing OF
the first gun. A bushel of greenbacks
will be given for bushel Of potatoes.
The celored lecturer, Stokes, will
lecture at the AtheIeum on Monday
night. His theme will be Marriage
Possibly we are not good Judge OF a
good thing, but our judgment of Stokes
lecture is, that it is one of the most ele-
gantly written lectures we ever listened
to. Parts Of it are eloquent; all of it is
fine. We have heard it, and we are
anxious to have the good judges of good
lectures who live in this good city OF
ours also listen 10 it.
DIR. Cummings told on Brother SAT-
ford the other night-told on him with
considerable ability. The doctor is now
gazing with longing eyes in the direction
from which he expects Col. James John
son and Capt. Hambleton to come. He
longs to lay his detecting hand upon
their heads and read to them the little
story of their good characters. As a
head-reader the doctor is success-what
the boys OF the street would denominate
in their expressive vernacular, "old
lightning, you bet.''