The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-15

man, Mr.. Allen is very feeble and look
much older than Mr.. H., although, as h,
says, they were boys together.
Yesterday was another delightful day
with perceptible lowering Of the mercury
towards evening.
The return of Mr.. Oberly's family from
prouacted visit among relatives in Ohio, Is
looked for to-day. Mr.. L. C. Schuckers
will accompany them.
The new dwelling house under way on
Poplar street, near Turner Hall, is the prop
erty of Moses Tester, and will be occupied
when completed, by his family.
The newly elected sheriff, county cor.
oner and commissioner, will qualify and
enter upon discharge of their duties, on
the first Monday in December next
With few or no dwelling houses to
rent, and with the work of improvement
going on in all parts of the city, We can
safely argue that Cairo is not half as badly
hurt as It was supposed it would be.
Hiram Hill, the we'll known Cairo diver,
is still at work removing the dangerous
rocks from the Grand Chain. We publish
to-day very interesting account of the pro-
gress of the work he has in hand.
Country wagons, loaded with Irish po-
tatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, chickens,
ETC., are coming in quite freely. Not few
of them come from points in Union and
Johnson counties, forty or fifty miles dis.
tant
The members of the Excelsior Social
and Literary society, with a number of in
vited friends, will enjoy social hop, to-
night, at the residence of Mr.. G. w. Morse,
on Walnut street. The affair will be rech-
erche throughout.
Mr.. Frank Schuckers, who represented
THE BULLETIN on the occasion of Mr..
Joseph Luf kin's golden wedding, speaks of
the affair in terms of glowing enthusiasm.
For confirmation of this statement, "see
another column"
Mr.. c. o. Patier, Of the New York
Store, is improving his Twentieth street
home property by the erection of an iron
fence, of very handsome and elaborate
pattern. He is the first to adopt iron fences
in the upper part of the city.
--Messrs. Pettis & Bird will take pos.
session of their new store room on the cor
ner Of Eighth and Washington, in week
or two. - They purpose making such addi-
tons to their stock as will completely
dumbfound the natives thereabouts.
We gather rumors to the effect that
new evening paper will be started in this
city, in the course of week or two. As
there never was more propitious period
for starting third daily paper in Cairo, it
is scarcely probable that the rumor Is un.
founded.
Steamboat on fire." was the startling
exclamation heard on the levee yesterday;
and sure enough, those who contemplated
distant upward bound steamer with the
naked eye, felt rather certain that they saw
flames bursting through the hurricane
roof The aid Of glass being secured, the
lurid flames resolved themselves into red
chimneys.
With force of about twenty-five men
engaged at the work, breaking rock and
putting it IN place, and probably like
number engaged in quarrying and trans
porting material, the Cairo wharf is rapidly
becoming what it seems intended it shall
be; the largest and best wharf between
Louisville and New Orleans.
Miss Emma Graham, daughter of N.
". Graham, Esq, of Carbonate, is IN the
city on visit to the family of Mr.. Chas
Gallagher. Mr.. Graham was as our old
citizens will rccollect, a member of the
widely known firm of Adams, Graham &
Co.. and later, as almost everybody will
recollect, prominent aspirant for the
Democratic nomination for congress in this
district
Not unfrequently coarse, cross
grained tramp is Unexpectedly held to ac-
count for insulting women and children
whom he supposes are helpless. A customer
OF this character, on being refused lunch
by little girl living in the Fourth Ward,
commenced bclching out his coarse insults
upon her. What else he would have done
had not the heavily booted foot of the
father, impellcd by a shapely and very mus
cuar leg, lifted him clear Off the sidewalk,
we are left to conjecture.
The gentleman whom we substituted
IN our own place to take down the evidence
before the Coroner's jury in the Joe Wy
man case, neglected to take down the test.
mony given in by Mr. James Biggs, who
saw the shooting that resulted in Wyman's
death, and also the testimony of officer
A1ey, who assisted ia the
first aLLnmnt 10 arrest him Tho