The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-15

DOtn young ioihs anu oHu uoh tHc IlooI, ant
kept up the dance until o'clock in thu
morning. A young gentleman who partici
pated, informed us that ii was one of tn,
pcasantcst affairs he has attended in years
About the only use to which the hulls o.
cotton seed have been put, hitherto was thai
of fuel. BY subjecting them to certain pro
ccsscs, Il Chicago chap is abou. to Civ,
them considerable value Ms packing fTrail.
road machinery, etc. The processes, what
ever they are, have been patented.
--Chills and fever ore prevailing to a
very considerable extent in the surrounding
bottoms. Two Missouri neighbors, brothers,
were in Cairo yesterday afternoon and both
Of them were shaking with all the vgor OF
young manhood They informed Us that
they never take to bed for the aguc.
The very clever editor of the Carbon
dale Observer says that although MEX caig
is Il very nice man, he has not u sue thing
on retaining the Cairo post-ofIicC. The
contest, the Observer says, hes between
McKcaig, Wright and Hughes, AMI one of
them will get the Office The lash of
Yost and Close is thus settled
-lIughey Doyle, for period Of fifteen
or twenty years the engineer Of tie Cairo
City Mills, and more recently Il Union
county farmer, has placed his son .n-hw IN
control of his farm; and is now in Cairo en-
gagged in what he has always been used to
- the hardest kind OF work. lie is an en-
ploye, just now, of the Illinois Genital Raj
road
-EIarpers New Monthly Magazine for
January comes to us full us usual of tie
best literature. The leading article is
Englands Great Seaport with illustrations
followed by a chapter in the History Of
Ants; Reporters Romance; Ramblcs n
the south of France; Home, with illustr,-
tons; the conclusion of the serial Mcleod
of Dore; and continuation of The Return
of the Native, with many other good thing.
We saw an appliance for moving loadGl
cars yesterday, that is not only new, bit
possesses considerable merit 1t is a sell
biting crow-bar, that seizes and holds tie
fanges Of the wheel, and the greater tlp
power exerted upon it, the tighter become
its grip. \ single man, with this bar, i
equal to five or six men exerting shoulde
power.
--Denizcns Of the Fourth ward who con
template the purchase OF holiday goods.
should not forget that the Phoenix Drug
Store is stocked with a line OF articles
adapted for that trade, never before kept in
the upper part Of the city. In the matter
OF stationery, the beauty and uniqueness of
the packages, the Phoenix stands ahead of
all competitors.
Boys with chalk in the day time, and
human beasts at night, by other means, rem
der the west side Washington avenue
sidewalk above the post-ofiice, SO
foul that ladies have begun to
avoid it, The blackguards who are
guilty of this business ought to be kicked,
for full hour. by the biggest mule in
Cairo-and, give us the chance and We'll
kick EN-!
Barton says that Judge Bird, Of Cairo,
is prominently spoken Ofin connection with
the secretaryship Of the Senate. The Judge
has earned better things than that at the
hands Of his party; but if he gets crumb
that falls from the bounteousIy laden table
Of the Republican party, the fact will be
entirely out Of keeping with the previous
policy OF the party, in its dealings with the
colorcd element.
The editor or the Carbondal, Free
Press says that the expectation Of TIL: Bull
LETIN that there will be hair-puIlig be-
tween him and the editor Of the Cain Re
publican, is doomed to disappointment.
With characteristic, but most cXasprating
the first mentioned editc says,
I'VE administered to Davis just wat he |
deserved, a pretty severe castigatin, and |
then laid our rod away for the not evil
docr.n
Dan. IIagan, the county clcrk5f Pul- .
ask county, paid into the country treasury |
the other day, the sum Of $ij4.Gj, hat sum
being collected by him as fees, DUNG the
year past, in excess of his saar. Most |
county clerks report earnings in Xcess Of
their salary; but the number who, ike Dan,
report an excess of collections, areas scarce
as Cairo gentlemen who would refuse an
as postmaster inMcKeaig's !
place.
F. M, Ward evidently has is eye on
the communistic vote of Cairo. We saw
him yesterday, the most conspicuous object
on the Ohio levec, with coat q, sleeves
rolled up, face and arms all beglmed with
SCOT, shovelng coal with vigor in one so
old. that was astonishing. He WIS harden
ing his hands, that, about spriu election