The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-11

The city council viii meet in regular
session tonight.
The churches were all well attended
OH sunday.
The rivers will soon DO on the de.
cline. Selah.
The new le,ee was visited by at least
two hundred persons on Sunday.
The trial of DIR. HultZ. on charge
perjury, was commenced in the circuit
court yesterday.
"A negro and white man INDUCED in
a bout at fisti-cnfis on the levee on Sun.
day afternoon. Neither was badly dam
aged.
The Centennial Association will, we
are requested to state, give Large and
very pleasant "leap year party on the
2sth Of this MONTH" The affair will
take place at the st. Charles hotel.
Mrs. Kate Cooper offers her services
as nurse in sickness. She has had sew
eral years experience and can give the
best of reference. Terms S. yc: week.
Apply at her residence in Wilcox's block,
corner Of Eleventh street and Washing
ton avenue. l.9-4t*
The track Of the Cairo and st. Louis
railrood was removed from the top OF the
levee to the low grounds between Thirty
fourth street and the graveyard ridge OH
Sunday. 4 force of nearly hundred
men worked nearly the whole day in
making the change.
Officers Wooten, Sargent and Sliec-
han. will start for Springfield this after
noon, to appear before the United States
district court as witnesses against the
man Hayes indicted for attempting to
pass counterfeit money at Herbert's
saloon in this city in November last.
The Ladies' Centennial or Leap Year
party to be given at the st. Charles no.
tel next Tuesday evening will be grand
affair. The ladies will invite the gentle
men, who will meet at DR.. Wardner's
Office on Commercial avenue, where they
will be met by the ladies and escorted to
the hotel.
We understand the managers of the
Liberal Religious Association of this
city are negotiating for the use of Tur-
ner Hall as n place OF meeting for
the association. There was no services
at Liberal Hall on Sunday, and the usual
weekly sociables haye been postponed
for the present.
III you want an economical heating
stove for wood and one of the handsome
est stoves in the market. with illumina-
ted front, buy the improved Evening
Star which took the blue ribbon at st.
Louis Fair last October, over all Others
on exhibition. For sale by G. W. Hen
derson, 1914 Commercial avenue, Cairo.
Illinois. ll-2S.d-lm
The Wallace sisters--Jennie, Minnie
aud Maud--supported by their superb
company of twenty-five artists, aud one
of the finest orchestras in the country,
will give their first entertainment at the
Athencum Tomorrow night. They will
meet with hearty reception at the hands
of our theatre-going people.
The male portion OF Madame Rentz's
minstrel troupe-thc same that gave one
of their entertainments In this city ON
Saturday evening-got into q row with
some of the "town boys" at Hopkins
VILE kentucky on the occasion of their
recent visit there. The MINISTRIES came
out of the fracas much worsted and terri
bly, demOrallzed. They had not entirely
recovered from the effects of the row
when here, tor several Of them carried
black eyes and patched up heads.
Work OH the new lcycc was resumed
on Sunday morning, rs the BULLETIN
stated 1t would BE-. Mayor Winter went
to the works and assured the transfers
and labOrers that they would receive
their pay, and they at once went to work.
About forty teams were at work ut noon,
Sunday, when, IN consequence OF the
rain, they were compelled to suspend op.
eratiOns for short time. Yesterday the
number oftcams was greatly increased,
and understanding the intense cold
weather, Il very profitable days work
WAS done. 1t Is hoped and believed the
work will be pushed to completion with
out further delay.