The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-26
Quite number of the young gentlemen's
friends will be present from Cairo.

Mr.. N. 8. Pennington, general freigh
agent of the Cairo and Vincennes railroad
left the city, Sunday night, for Atlanta, Ga.
on mission in connection with the bust
ness of his road.
Mayor Winter will take the Phillips
corner, when vacated by Messrs. Pettis d
Bird. and "open out" in such variety store
as has never been seen in Cairo. 1t is his
purpose, he says, to keep everything, from
a carcass of beef, down to a gutta- percha
hairpin.
THE BULLETIN office was honored by q
friendly call, yesterday, from Joe P
Robarts, late of the Murphysboro Era.Illin'
oisan, and John W. Grear, of the Indepen'
dent, of the same village. They made
themselves very pleasant and companions
able--as they knew they had to.
Mr.. George Lentz, of the Cairo City
FIGURING Mills, left the city yesterday morn
ing, to devote few days respite from
business, to the pastime of slaughtering
squirrel and deer in the Kentucky woods
and fiinging fish from the waters of the
neighboring lakes.
-Messrs. Pettis & Bird, commenced the
removal of their stock to their new
quarters, corner of Eighth and Washington,
yesterday morning. As they purpose plac-
ing the goods in order in the new house as
fast as they remove them from the old one,
several days will be consumed in the work
of removal.
Having lingering regard for the
opinions of Others, the "boys" of the city
play their Sunday Skinny" in the somewhat
secluded patch of railroad ground in the
rear of the round-house. Quite crowd
collected there last Sunday, and manifested
a much greater respect for the eyes than the
ears of the neighbors. They didn't want to
DO seen; put didn't care who heard them.
Harry Walker is constantly adding TO
the attractive features of his Crystal saloon
and restaurant, not forgetting brace of
crimson-haired bar-keepers, who are as
good looking as they are obliging. Lovers
of the fat things Of the land, can he ac-
commodated nowhere in the city in better
style than at Walkers. He has, for many
years been a popular feeder of the public,
and his establishments always grow better
as they grow older. For further particu-
lars, etc, see another column.
There was very near approach to a
sanguinary row, in an uptown saloon on
Sunday last Two young men disagreed
about game Of cards, end aggravated
each other to the fighting pitch, when the
smaller one of the two drew knife with a
manifest purpose of using it. At this juno
ture the bar-keeper interfered to eject the
man with the knife, who mistaking the
barkeeper for his antagonist, made rather
earnest efforts TO get his knife into him.
The bar-keeper received trivial wound on
the hand, and this is all we know about the
disturbance.
"A number of colored youngsters con-
gregated at the pecan tree, Sunday after
noon, and for lack Of other pastimt, COM
menced jumping from the foundation walls
Of the Baptist church to the ground-a dis
lance Of five or six feet. During the pro-
gress Of this sport, one of them, named
Maybcry, alighted upon the point of a
nail that had been driven through the frag-
ment Of a pailing, and completely trans
fixed his foot, just forward Of the ball. 1t
required all the strength Of a good sized
bog to detach the piece Of pailing. This
was so bunglingly done that it was a mat
ter OF some surprise that the sufferer was
not thrown into the lockjaw,
Our usually careful contemporary Of
| the Carbondac Observer, has misread THE
| BULLETINS figures. When we spoke OF
'our population Of $1,000 souls, we re-
ferrcd 10 the population Of Alexander
county, and not to the population Of Cairo
The county polled about $500 or 2,90C
! votes two years ago, which at an estimate d
10 would show population Of about
/ 1000 and as our colorcd population
owing to the great preponderancc Of womci
| and children, will not furnish more thar
vote out Of every 9, we feel disposed tC
insist that our estimate is very reasonable
one. At the city election of 1877, Cairo
pOlled l,G47 votes. Upon that basis W,
can, We think, very safely calculate upon
population Of 10000. The Republicans ar,
in the habit Of throwing few illegal votes
every chance they get; but the number i
fully counterbalanced by the legal voter
who fail to come to the polls
If everything were done in way t,
please everybody, we could argue the pres
cnce Of the millennium. But that era no
being at hand, little differences and un
pleasantnesscs are inevitable. Hence w