The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-02

The friends Of our public schools will
be pleased to learn of their improved and
improving condition, financially. The fund
will be ample to meet NIL the requirements
of the current scholastic year, and there
will be no borrowing, as has been the case
in preceding years.
Mr.. Thos Lewis, formerly our "boss'
in the printing business, bcamcd upon us
yesterday. He entered the composition
room with all the buoyncy of 4 young man
Of twenty-onc, admired the new types, and
asked lis TO insure our life in his Cairo
society.
The cry is beginning TO run about the
city, from mouth to mouth; "Lct there be
light in the street lamps. Gas! Not nee
essariy; but light Of some kind. Give us
oil lamps if Gas is too expensive. For, in
fact. it is a shame that Cairo continues to
stumble along in the darkness.
We saw light, watery green nccktic
| displayed around the swan-likc throat of
young lady-killcr yesterday. Next to II
vivid blue. the pale and cadcavcrous green
seems to be the most fetching thing in the
way Of nccktieS. The wcarcr was II skater
and member of baseball club.
Use Holders Patent Blottcr Pads in
your job printing. The newest thing out.
A negro man passing along Eighth
street last night, while in front OF the store
of Chas. r, Stuart, lifted" couple of bolts
of calico and was making off with them, when
a negro woman who saw the theft, raised an
alarm. The thief ran, dropping the calico,
which was recovered The thief has not
been caught.
Holders Patent Dlottcr Pad--thc latest
and best method for putting up job printing
and stationery. It'll rapidly growing muse
all over the country. Mr. Jno. H. Obcrly
owns the right Of Alexander, Union Pulaski,
jackson, Randolph, Williamson, johnson
and Saline counties in Southern Illinois, and
! Mississippi county in Missouri.
Mrs. Elizabeth Branton IIurbert. of
Evanston, Illinois. will lecture at the Athc-
neum on Tuesday evening next. The lee
turc will be made for the benefit of the IL
linois Industrial School for Girls. in which
our Mrs. DR.. Wardncr is so much interested. |
Mrs Haybert will tell Us what she knows,
or thinks she knows, about Mems Rights"
The city authorities should look after
dangerous hole in the street about two
hundred feet west Of Commercial avenue.
on Seventeenth street. The old sewer that
ran under the street has fallen in. leaving
an abrupt pitial Of II foot or eighteen
inches. If this piece OF street is not
speedily amended, serious accident will
inevitably result
If Alderman Halliday could he Undue
ed to believe that Cairo is rich enough to
invest in oil or gas; and if the other alder
men could be persuaded to believe the same
thing; and if Mayor Winter could be
coaXcd to endorse the street lighting propo-
siton our streets would soon be illumnat-
ed, and nccks would be far safer at night
than they now are.
An old strabi,imus-cycd offender of the
weaker sex, made the ncighborhood of the |.
custom house hidcous at an early hour
yesterday morning. She fairly strealcd
the atmosphere with equal parts Of ben
zine and blaSphcmy. and delighted the
youthful colorcd hoodumS who constituted
her audience. She richly deserved cooling
of ut municipal expense.
We arc now making arrangements for
81 complete rcmodcling Of the BULLETIN
job Rooms. With the addition OF the
latest style. Of job type OF beautiful design
and finish in the hands of workmcn who
thoroughly understand their bussincss, We
hope TO turn out work inferior to no other
Office in the State. on the most reasonable
terms, and shall cndnavor to keep II promise
when madc--is to time OF delivery and
character of work,
The new dress in which The BrLLE-
TIN appears this morning was furnished by
Maydcr, LuSc Il Co., type founders, Of Chi
cage. |, speak, for t.cf--wc are too
modest 10 brag of it, II will be of interest
TO printers however t. know that. with
few triNng exceptions, the order, "a, made
OH, in thc beginning, was promptly and very
correctly filled The rarity of such IN
occurrence is worthy OF especial mention,
and Messrs. W., L. & Co., deserve ngticc
and credit for it,
A party OF horsc-racc lover. are max
ing up u purse borrowing money from
their friends for the purpose Of dcirNing
their expenses while they yisi, Louisville
on the Fourth Of July to Witnc>, the great
iour-mic heat race between the Gait
iornio mare Mollic Mccarthy, and the
great Kentucky racer, Ten Brock
AT the church entertainment at the