The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-11
CITY NEWS.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1876.
LOCAL MUD.

BUSINESS. --Business was moderately
active Yesterday.
For SALE.--A Seven Octave IIalct Il
Davis piano. j. FRICK, Seventh street.
| NOT FouND.-The body Of Frank Gil
man. the engineer, has not yet been
found.
The RIvTR.-The tall in the Ohio
river In the twcnty-four hours ending at
O'Clock yesterday, was seven inches.
TRY THEN. Thy TnEM.-ITa,i dime,
halt dime cigar, Havana filler, at
2-s-tf CowPERwAITE d PHILLIPS.
ScnrTTER.-We understand Mr.. W.
II. Schuttcr has purchased the bar on the
iron steamer Carondolet. and intends
giving 1t his personal attention. The
Carondolet was at this port yesterday.
CIRCUIT COURT.--In the circuit court
yesterday, Holcomb Murray was tried on
a charge Of hog-stcaling. and acquitted
\ negro by the name of Myers, was sem
fenced To the penitentiary for one year.
REPAIRING. -Trackmen are nj work
repairing the track of the Cairo and st.
Louis railroad around the Mississippi
levee, and we understand trains will he
running regularly again in very few
days.
SusrESDEp.-Work on the new levee
was suspended yesterday Oh account of
too much mud. A few men were en-
gagged in digging bitches to run the water
of from the pits along the leyee, but no
work was done on the levec.
The SocIABLE.--The Presbyterian Sc
ciable last evening at Mr.. Walter IIy-
slop's rooms over the City National bank.
was attended by very large number OF
ladies and gentlemen, and was very
pleasant affair.
MrssrNG.-Mr. vogle, a well-known
citizen of Mound City, has been missing
for nearly month, and his friends tear
that he has passed over TO the ''blue be-
yond." All efforts to ascertain his
whereabouts have been unsuccessful.
THoMs' PLAcE.-lt i said Mr.. Louis
L. Herbert has rented the store room on
Commercial avenue, near Eighth street,
lately occupied by Thoms' Bros, and
will convert it into saloon and rcstau-
raut. a better location for an establish
ment of this kind could not be selected.
a DIFFIcULTy.-A negro and a white
man had fight on the Mississippi levee
near the slaughter houses yesterday.
about a lot OF drift wood. The white
man was victorious aud carried Oft the
wood. though by right it belonged to the
colorcd man.
Police CouRT.--Mary Pettis. a colored
demiiep. was arrested night before last
by Officers Brown and O'Malcy for fire.
quentIng dram shops and lettering
about the streets at unreasonable hours
Of the night She was before Judge Bird
yesterday, and fine of five dollars and
costs assessed against her. She went
over.
LRvEE PAY RoLL.-Treasurcr Blake
was busy yesterday paying of laborers
and transfers for work done on the new
levee during the month Of January. The
pay roll amounted to SD. ZIG, and before
) O'Clock the last dollar had been paid
out. The pay roll for the present month
will amount to probably half what it did
In January, the number of teams and
laborers being greatly reduced.
Local BREvITIEs. The bar fixtures
OF the Delmonico saloon on Ohio leyce,
together with several billiard tables were
sold at auction yesterday morning.
The rivers are falling.
--Sipe water about on a stand.
Wood and coal dealers complain that
it is almost impossible to reach certain
portions Of the city owing to the sirc
water.
Remember the tobacco sale at the
Planters warehouse this morning. The
sale will be the largest OF the season so
far.
Street Superintendent German was
ut work on the sidewalk on Tenth street.
between Commercial avenue and Ohio
leyee, yesterday.
READ THIs,---Dan hartman is Seling
of at cost. This is no dodge to induce
people to buy, but Mr.. Hartman means
what he says. lie desires to go out of
the dry goods trade and will quit that
branch of his business as seon as his pres
ent stock can be disposed of. In this
connection it may be well to state that
his stock is not old or shelf worn, but on
the contrary is fresh aud seasonable, and
OF the latest styles, consisting of such
goods as are usually to be found In a
tirst-class dry goods store. His stock OF
notions and gents furnishing goods is
also large and select, and will be sold for
one.thlrd less than the same can be pur.
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