The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-22
Items In Brief.


centennial last Monday.
Sim Taber and family returned home
from Canada n few days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. Axtcll, returned from
their trip to Kentucky, on yesterday.
Read The notice Of constable's sale 10
day, OF furniture, dentists tools and fix.
lures
The portly form and senatorial brow OF
Captain Reese Dugrn is again visible on
our streets.
Tomorrow Hodges park will swarm
with the friends and supporters of the re-
form candidates. Tiden and Hendricks
Tho first venison OF the season was
received and gold 10y Stratton & Bird
yesterday. The carcass brought nine
cents per pound.
The st. Louis fair begins on the second.
| From present appearances. Cairo will be
well represented. The fair promises to
be great success.
Mrs. John q. Hartman, who accom-
panied her daughter to st. Mary's, Mo. g,
where she will complete her education,
returned home on Tuesday.
j. Burger has just returned from New
York. Anticipating an extraordinary
! fall trade in dry goods, he bought an i'm
nense stock. His new goods are arriv-
ing every day.
There will be a meeting OF the Sweep
ers at their hall this friday evening at
1870 O'Clock. Important business to be
transacted. WIZ. Q. MCGEE, Sec'y.
Cairo, Sept. 22d, 1876.
The alarm OF fire sounded last night
was caused by the burning of one of the
rear buildings of the Arlington House.
The flames were extlnguislieI by the fire.
men before much damage was done.
Mr. Fenner Eldrid. who has just re.
turned from Kentucky, and is spending
few days with his many friends in this
city, will shortly leave for Paducah,
where he will take charge OF the books Of
Fisher & Co.
Mrs. Captain Robert X. Riley, after
spending nearly two months with friends
and relatives in Alexandria. No., and
other places, is at home again. Misses
Annie and Lizzie, who accompanied
their mother, have also returned.
Capt. j. NJ. Phillips and wife who have
been adjourning in tue cool
glades OF Wisconsin for the last two
months. returned to their home in
this city on Wednesday. Mrs. Phillips
has been greatly benefited by his trip.
The weather In the south is cool and
pleasant, and darkeys by the hundred are
flocking from this aud other cities to the
cotton fields, to make stake" Every
steamboat that passes this port, bound
south, has them slowed away In every
nook and corner.
II Grant were only in Cairo now, to
hear the pretty pet names that many Of
our property owners lavish upon him,
how happy and battered lie would feel.
Several Of our wealthy citizens are talk
ing OF making the president a present of
a pony or dog, or both.
The Hayes and Wheeler scalpers met
in Phillis' hall on Wednesday night.
There was good attendance of the
members, and the meeting is said to have
been very enthusiastic one. Judge
Bird made quite e lengthy speech and
was followed by Demosthenes Davis
alias Sitting Bull, who sounded loudly
the praises of Hayes, the tax dodger. and
Wheeler.
Among the arrivals at the st. Charles
yesterday were r. L. Dobson, Knox
vile, Tenn; w. B. Arlington, Norfolk,
Va; w. ii. Morton aud w. f. Dunn
sevoy, Tenn; f. Warner, st. Louis: w.
c. Reifords, Columbus, Miss; Mrs.
Sloan and family, Mrs. j. O'C onor and
Miss Emma O'Conor, New Orleans j.
S. Baldwin and wife. New York; James
Gaff, st. Louis; Thomas II. Phillips.
Anna; T. J. D'Hena, Philadelphia.
Elder F. Meyers. who for the past sey-
ersl years has been pastor of the African
Methodist Episcopal church OF this city,
took his departure for his new field OF
labor, Keokuk, Iowa, on Wednesday
night. Elder w. F. Davis, for several
years pastor Of Little Bethel church
of Chicago. and who is said to be a
preacher of much ability, will arrive in
Cairo Oh Saturday. and preach his first
sermons to his new congregation on Sum
day morning and evening.
There was rumor afloat in Cairo a
few days ago that DIR. Gercke was dead
again. The doctor, under date of Sep.
TENDER 20. writes to his former partner,
DR.. Wardner, that the thing is getting
monotonous that he is as much alive now
AS ever, and this is the third or fourth
time he has been compelled to enter a
protest against obituaries written before
his mortal coil was shuffied. The doctor
is in the enjoyment of splendid health.
We are receiving direct from the
packers of Baltimore, five hundred and
forty cases of newly packed can goods,
consisting of pine apples, Strawberries,
blackberries, whortleberries. peaches,
tomatoes, oysters, jellies, pears ETC.,
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