The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-25
General Items .

FRANK Metcalf left on Sunday fof
Michigan, to attend school.
Judge Mulkey Is still confined 10 his
room, but is improving slowly.
Ward, the ice man, has al idea that
he would like to be coroner. Ward
would make a good man to set on a
cold corpse.
Deputy Sheriff Jack Hodges is at
home again after his trip to Joliet, with
some eight or ten persons, sentenced at
the present term of the circuit court.
". b. Gilbert, Esq, and family re-
turned to the city on Sunday morning
after protracted visit to Sheboygan,
Wisconsin, Alton, Illinois, and st.
Mary's, Missouri.
In the circuit court yesterday the
"Mound City railroad case" was on trial.
We do not understand the exact state OF
this case, but believe it involves the own
ership of the Mound City and Junction
railroad.
-lfyou select good and healthy food tor
your family you should also look to the
welfare of your baby. For all troubles
Of early childhood, nothing is better than
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. % cents bot
tie.
Treasurer Hely is now surveying
and laying off into twenty acre lots
about three hundred acres OF land in the
vicinity OF the Reno farm, some six or
seven miles above the city. The land
belongs to the property company, and
will be rented to settlers.
There is some thing peculiar and
sufierlngly suggestive In the word balls.
Many suffer with this exhibition OF i'm
pure blood which disigures the person
and annoys attendants and associates,
when they could be made clean and their
blood kept pure by using DR.. Bulls
Blood Mixture.
+: On the second page of this mornings
BULLETIN we publish an article copied
from the ST. Louis Journal OF Saturday
morning on the city of Cairo, in which
the writer attempts to give history of
the city from its earliest foundation. The
article is not as accurate as it might be,
yet it will be read with interest.
A train OF five coaches, crowded
with men, women and children passed
through this city yesterday for Holly
Strings, Miss. They all came from m
dianapolls, and 60 to Mississippi to make
1t their future home. They say to stay
in indianapolis would have been starva,
ton for them, as there is no work to be
had for one half Of the iders there now.
MIR. Charlie Buder, late with +. & W.
Buder, has rented the fine store room in
Winters block fronting on Commercial
avenue, where be will shortly open out
full line Of fine and elegant jewelry. Mr..
Buder is known to almost everybody in
Cairo as an energetic, enterprising and
strictly honorably young man, and in his
venture, if such it may be termed he will
have the well-wishes Of the entire com
munity.
Mr.. Pettis, late with Stratton q Bird,
and Mr.. Andrew Bird have bought the
stock and fixtures of the grocery store at
the corner of Fourteenth street and
Washington avenue, OF Mrs. j, II. Phil
lips. These gentlemen haye had long
experience in the grocery business, and
will be sure to do a big business in their
new establishment. They will put in
full and complete line of choice family
groceries of every description ut once.
In another place In this issue of the
BULLETIN we publish communication
from Treasurer John p. Hely, in regard
to the misunderstanding existing between
that gentleman and Sheriff Saup. There
has been considerable talk about this
matter, as both parties to the controver-
sy have many warm friends and adher-
ants. If Mr.. Saup desires to make any
reply to Mr.. Hely we hereby tender him
the use OF our columns through which
to do so.
Sugar