The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-26
Local Brevtties.
The rivers are falling.

careful.
The city council will meet to.mor.
row night.
Vegetables are becoming plenty and
cheap in the Cairo market.
Remember the sociable at Mr.
| walkers, on Twentieth street this even
ing. All are INVITED to attend.
House cleaning time has come, and
the good housewife may now be found
with sleeves rolled up and scrub.
brush In hand.
Hon. A. II. Irwin arrived home on
short visit to his family on Tuesday az
ternoon. He will probably return to.
day.
II. F. Potter, enrolling and engross.
| ing clerk Of the Senate, who Is at home
on short leave OF absence,to Springfield
was in the city yesterday.
The corn doctor is about again, and
declares his ability to extract all the
toes on ones feet, and that too without
causing the slightest pain.
The colored girl Martha Davis, who
was so seyerly burneda few weeks ago
While assisting her father in burning
brush, died yesterday from the effects
! OF her injuries.
business men and real estate dealers
are of the opinion that Cairo il about to
take fresh start, and that within two
years her business will be greatly en-.
HANGED.
"A. Marx, the popular clothier has
gone East to purchase a complete new
stock OF goods. The goods damaged by
fire at his old stand are being closed out
rapidly at very low figures. 4-2+lw.
Mr. Egnew of the st. Charles starts
tomorrow morning for the south to ar
range for supply Of early fruit and ber-
ries. Mr.. +. is bound that no table in
the state shall surpass that of the St.
Charles for good things.
Applicants for the various Offices
thN Ght vi w are De-
coming more numerous each day. His
honor informs us that he has had at least
one hundred applications for positions on
the police force.
Jake Ackerman, the notorious tibet
and confidence man, Is in the city again.
He was out riding yesterday in company
al ~
man Alderman be induced 10 '.jump the
town. lie is dangerous
man and should not be tolerated.
Among the guests at Herbert's yes
terday were f. F. Western, Bardwell,
KY; A. w. Thomas, Blandville; +.
Homer, and family. Hickman, Ky; sam
hanback,, Cincinnati; AL. II. Watman,
Chicago; +. V. Atkins, 5. G. Heating,
A. Mailman, Memphis; w. Cass st. Louis.
There is being made tor the dining
room OF the st. Charles, new door and
window screens, and when the room is
complete with its many improvements as
Mr.. Egnew contemplates, no dining
room IN the state will excel it 70 COM
fort. During the. hot summer months
there is.nO cooler room in the country
than the 81. Charles dining room.
There are those in the city who as
sert that the police force should either
give the city ample protection, or that il
should be abolished altogether. One
thing is certain, the force is now too
small to be effective. Four night police.
men are not enough to patrol Cairo and
do effective service.
The body of drowned man wal
found floating In the river on the Ken
lucky shore near Fillmore on Tuesday
afternoon. 1t is believed that the body is
that Of man named John Dalzell. mate
of the Charlie Mcdonald, who fell over
board from that boat while she was lay
ing at the Kentucky bank opposite this
city some two or three months ago.
Carl Peters, the blacksmith, whose
shop was destroyed in the great fire on
| Commercial, has erected on the sight of
| the old building one OF the finest brick
blacksmith shops in Southern Illinois
where be is prepared to do anything in
his line at the very lowest price. Mr..
Peters is one of the best workmen in his
line, and horse-shoeing is one of his
specialties 4-24-tf.
Arrivals at the Arlington yesterday
were: J. c. Dewett, &c. Collins, Anna
H.; A. T. Peeler, Belknap, H.; j, d
Capron, st. Louis, Mo-; f. Oppenhei
mer, Louisville, Ky, A. d. Graham
Memphis, Tenn; o, NJ. Bell. st. Louis
Mo-; Ii. w. Goodrich, Chicago, ILL.,.
j. W. Kennedy, New Orleans, La; A
c. Brown. Paris, H.; Il. c. MeClur
and wife, Clear Creek, H.; John Mick
ems, Chicago, Ill.
The Methodist sociable to take plac'
at the residence OF Mr.. Walker this even
ing promises to be attended by yer,
large number of the friends of the Nj. Z
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Walker hav
gone 10 considerable trouble to make az
rangements tor the reception and enter
tainment OF their guests, and it is to b
hoped that they will not be disappointe
in their expectations of large attend
ance.
H. c. Harpending, hailing fror
Dongolla, was taken in for twenty do
lars yesterday on the three card mont
game. Harpending fell in with on