The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-13


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MIR. L. NJ. Stockhcth Is said to be con-
fined to his bed by sickness in the neighbor-
ing town of Golden. As Stockfleth never
takes his bed for an attack that would kill
an ordinary man, we fear his sickness Is
serious.
The Cairo and Vnccnncs railroad is
moving considerable cotton that is shipped
from Memphis and other points south di-
rect to Liverpool, through bills-lading being
given by the first carrier. The time is not
distant when business OF this character will
assume such dimensions rs TO require great.
ly enlarged facilities for its accommoda-
ton.
--Paducah's chief industry seems to be
the manufacture of skiffs. A float of twenty
or more passed Cairo yesterday. 1t is not
at all unlikely that this industry is prose-
cuted among the Paducahians to the extent
of seventy-fve dollars a month, There is
groundwork in this fact upon which Padu-
cab editors will, after while, base claim
for another railroad
We announced, in yesterdays paper,
the arrival Of Prof Leon, with a troupe of
renowned acrobats, and animated that the
Professor would give an exhibition. The
Professor and his troupe arrived rs stated,
but as "the best laid plans Of men and mice
aft gang aglee," the Professor cannot, as he
intended give the exhibition. Two of his
best performers left him here, and returned
to st. Louis. For some reason (Which it
may be none of the public's business to
know the loss of these two necesstated the
Professors immediate departure for Mem
phis, for which point he left, the first oppor-
tunity.
We are learning so much about
slaughtering hogs, etc, that it is with some
difficulty We restrain ourselves from making
application tor the post of editor to q live
stock journal. But for the fact that THE
BULLETIN serves as an escape pipe to our
surcharged intellect, we couldn't restrain
oursclf. What we want to let out, now, is
this If you have hogs to kill or propose
to kill any Of your neighbors hogs don't
feed them during the three or four days i'm
mediately preceding the time fixed upon
for bringing them to the gallows. This
puts them in better condition for the
hands Of the gut-stripper, and renders them
much less 10th to part company with man
who starvcs them.
The Fancy Costume Bazaar opened to
the Cairo public last evening, was all, and
more, than the lady managers promised.
At an early hour the tbrong commenced
gathering, and so frequent, so continuous
were the fresh arrivals that, for time, it
seemed unlikely that the building would
accommodate the multitude. A descrip-
ton OF the fancy and character costumes,
the arrangement of the tables, the excellent
taste and good judgment displayed in the
studied effects produced, Is, within the brief
space allotted to u.s. impossible. We can
only congratulate the participants on the
score Of the uneXceptionably good time they
had, and the lady managers upon their sig
nal, but merited success.
Mankind, especially that portion that
has advanced to the meridian Of life, is
much attached to old forms and old ways
We do not know but we must plead guilty
to such IN impeachment ourselves in so far
as the modes of river transportation are
concerned. Years ago large magnificent
steamers served as our Mississippi freight
carriers. At intervals Of twenty or thirty
miles, the whole length Of the lower Mis-
sissippi, these great swift-watcr leviathans
could be seen, acting the part of freight
carriers for the people But now an ugly
stcrn-wheel boat, with from two to a half.
dozen uglier barges, takes the place that
was once filed by four or five of the afore-
said magnificent steamers. We were I'M
pressed with this idea while observing the
Gilmore, with her three monster barges,
pulling out from our landing, yesterday
evening. Piled away in those unseemly
barges was the freight which, half score
years ago, would have called into requisi-
sition an Uncle Sam, Great Republic and
an Alphonse de Lamartine, with their crews
of hundred men each But the new order
Of things--the necessity for cheap transport
tation, we suppose, is driving those "majes-
tic floating palaces" from the river. One
by one they have dropped out, until little is
left of them--a few to remind us of "the
times as has been" But we must forbear
The theme is becoming too affecting.
MILLINERY. S. Williamson does
not intend to be undersold. She invites at