The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-01-28

City Jailer Mahoney works Oh an
average Of eight men daily on the new
levee.
-Eggs in the Cairo market are scarce.
The retail price is thiriy-fve and forty
cents.
The passenger train OH the Narrow
Gauge now leaves Cairo for 81. LOUIS, at
$50 am.
The ferry boat Nellie Thomas has
been raised, and will be put in running
order at once.
Cairo gardeners and vegetable
growers are getting their hot houses in
order for planting.
The Ohio river was Oh stand still
last evening, and will probably CON-
mence to fall to-day.
All the Cairo flour and corn mills are
in full blast, and turning out their usual
quantities of flour and meal.
Prof. Browns writing school is ia a
flourshing condition. The membership
ia increasing, and the professor is happy.
The passage of the compromise
bill'' by the house was a cause for rejoic-
ing among the friend OF the bill here
Street Superintendent German was
out repairing the sidewalk on Commercial
avenue above Fourteenth street yester-
day.
Haywood Brothers, gymnasts and ac-
robats. are posted to exhibit in the Athe.
neum in this city on the evening of Feb
rnary 9Th.
There is considerable sickness among
the small children Of the city. We hear
of number of cases of scarlet fever and
acute bronchitis.
Remember that Rev. DR.. Morri son,
Of Bloomington, will preach in the
Church OF the Redeemer this morning
and evening.
The little steamer Lizzie Baylss got
away from the wharf here yesterday
morning with a fair trip for Cape Girar.
deau and way points.
business on the leyee was fair yes.
terday. The day being an exceedingly
pleasant one, the street was crowded with
people from morning till night.
As danut,- ooup+,, oIorl. Co.., II,,.,~,
is the right man in the right place. He
is obliging and afiable, and makes friends
of all who have business with him.
No change of diet is required, nor
need any danger from exposure be feared
when taking Maguires Cunderango Bit
tiers. Z. G, SCHuH. Agent.
Small blank books kept in stock at
the City Bindery. Sold as cheap as any
book store in the city. Books of every
size from two to ten quires, or more. If
The X. II. X. e. are: making grand
preparations for their turn OUT on the
18th OF February. Within the last month
the "krew" has taken in more than fifty
new members.
Owing to the indisposition of Rev.
Mr.. George, there will be preaching in
the Presbyterian church this morning
only. The evening services will be dis
pensed with.
There will be the usual Sunday SER
vices at all the leading churches in the
city to-day. Rev. DR.. Morrison, Of
Bloomington, will preach in the Episco-
pal church this morning and evening.
The Cairo box and basket factory
company have put into their establish
ment machine for making a new style
Of basket. The basket is octagon in
shape, and ranges from two quarts to a
peck in size.
MIR. Candee, president of the Cairo
and st. Louis Narrow Gauge railroad
company. is in the city looking after the
interests of that road here. j. A. Wentz,
general ticket agent for the same road,
was in the city yesterday.
The Cllin temperance war is at an
end for the present. Taprich, the saloon
keeper, bulldozed the county commits
sioners into granting him license for six
months, at the expiration of which time
the fight will break out again with re-
newed yigor.
The physician attending Charlie Ba-
ker yesterday informed the friends and
relatives Of the wounded man that there
was no hope for his recoverys1that his
death might be expected at any moment.
Baker was still alive, though uncon-
scious at nine O'Clock last night.
Quarterly meeting is now in pro-
gross at the N. L. Church, corner Eighth
and Walnut streets. Presiding Elder B.
Il. Pierce is conducting the services.
Communion will be administered at the
close of the morning sermon. A Love
Feast will be held sometime during the
day.
Coroner Able is in hard luck. He
has been in Office over two months, and
so far nary a cold corpse has turned up.
Floaters have stopped floating, tramps
have stopped dying,a the railroads re-
fuse to kill. "These are hard times"
says the new coroner, "and there's no
money In the office"