The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-12

factories, your purchases will I've apt to
lack what is SO essential TO the upbuilding
Of our commercial affairs confidence.
The Arabs Ball Christmas night, is
already attracting the attention, MS well OF
the young folks who take delight In the re-
creation of the ballroom, rs of the people
Of maturcr years who wish to encourage the
company,
The track of the Illinois Central above
Eighteenth street is being put in good order
by the substitution of heavy sawed ties for
the dccaying hcwcd ties now in use. 4
force of eight or ten ,racA-repaircrs are en-
gagged on the work.
Two barge loads of salt, each contain
ing five thousand barrels--a total of more
than three millions of pounds, were at our
wharf yesterday, having been towed from
the upper Ohio. The consignment will, we
hear be taken to Belmont and from thence
shippeu To 81. LOUIS
Only few months ago, the coal screen
ings which accumulate in piles mountain
high ut our coal mines, were thought 10 be
useless, Now they are used by most, if not
all the mills of Cairo, and extensively else
where, in the production of steam, in which
they are no, surpassed by The coal used for
merly.
-Mcssrs. Hinkle, Thistlewood Il Moore
find that by slaugh,cring only scven'y.ive
to eighty hogs per day, they can work oil
the trimmings, such as the feet, bacSboncs
and spare-ribs without sustaining any loss.
For this reason, which effects saving of
twenty or thirty dollars y day, they are no,
slaughtcring as extensively as formerly.
The present rise in the Ohio furnishes
the Paducah editors the opportunity for
saving for at least the hundredth time, that
"thc people of Cairo are caulking their
houses in anticipation of a flood This.
from a town whose front row Of buildings
stand mark. under water-twain,' has more
of cxasperating audacity about it than
humor.
The Reform clubs assembly room
should be crowded tomorrow evening.
Mr.. Robert Lowcry is to be the orator of
the evening; and we need not tell those
who know the gentleman. that he is one OF
the most eloquent and effective advocates
Of the temperance cause now in the field.
Though not as successful a "rcvivaist' rs
Reynolds, he has twice the brains
AS ten per cent. of our population are
suffering from colds, more or less acute, and
as forty per cent more is likely to suffer in
the same way, We publish, as an aimoni-
tory hint to the careless, the following
lines:
Across the world,
The wind did blow,
She kotchcd cold
Wat laid her low.
All the hogs yet slaughtered in Caro-
have been furnished by the country imme-
diatcly tributary, and the supply is far
from being exhausted. An increase of
cent or two per yound, would bring to
the Cairo market. from the hills and bot
toms surrounding us, such an army Of
porkers as is rarely seen outside of the
stock yards of the large cities,
The lady managers Of the Fancy Cos
tune Bazaar must bear witness, hereafter
that the editor of THE BULLETIN is NOT
one Of those cXasperating newspaper men
who ALWAYS leave advertisements out of the
paper on the very day, Of all others, when
it would do the most good. The regular
notice is not only in its place, butwe throw
in voluntary" the preparation of which
cost us mental effort that was simply pro-
digious.
The 200 feet of hose on board of the
steamer McComb, and the pump attach
mcnts, are Of a size to admit OF ready con
ncetion with the 500 feet of hose belonging
to the Delta fire company. In case of fire
in any of the mills or the depot, the Nc
Comb and Delta companycould furnish 700
feet Of hose, and the McComb's Worthing-
ton pump would, il occasion might require
throw stream of water on the top of Cali
/ gher's smoke stack.
A certain steamboat captain made in.
quiry at an undortakcrs, yesterday, for "a
wooden ovcrcoat' that would fit the editor
OF The BULLETIN, Being compassionate
man, and finding none that were chinchlla
lined, he passed on without ciiccting pur-
chase If the belligcrent captain only un-
derstood with what readiness, with what
exquisite grace and extreme facility the
editor of THE BULLETIN can apologize, he'd
stay his murdcrous pursuit of US.
We were introduced, yesterday, to Il
Mr.. Tilden, of Chicago who is the purchas.
ing partner for large cotton seed oil fac.
tory. The firm receives its entire supply of
cotton seed through Cairo, 1t is now using
about thirty tons, or eighteen hundred
bushels Of cotton seed daily, and expects to