The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-12-19

| WHICH tIle l'cltaS announce Dali, that the
affair will be one that our most heightened
and aristocratic ladies' and gentlemen may
attend without the least fear of encounter
ing any but persons whom they would
gladly recognize anywhere. OF precisely
that kind Of material was the crowd last
night.
Buffalo fish, twenty boxes of Them and
each box containing at least five hundred
| pounds OF fish. That's what we saw at the
Stone depot yesterday afternoon. They
were shipped by William Sickncy & Co.,
Gayoso, Missouri, and consigned to j. W.
Peters 4 Co., st. Louis, Mo. The Grand
Tower was the original carrier; but she
being compelled to halt at this "head of
uninterrupted navigation they were for
wardcd to their destination via Illinois
Central. While contemplating this i'm
mensc preparation for next Friday" a
boX-bed wagon drove up, piled high and
hcaped up with dead and frozen wild ducks.
There were ducks of rs many kinds as ever
Pat Kelly saw, which is equivalent to say
ing a sample of all the species known to
ornithologists. These thousand or more
assorted ducks were shipped by the fish
firm and were consigned to John Z. IIag-
gerty & Co., st, Louis.
We regret to learn land our regret will
be shared by one hundred thousand people,
that Joseph G. Cormick Esq, is no longer
n passenger conductor between Centralia
and Cairo, a post he has filled for more than
twenty years. No man in Southern Illinois
has more acquaintance than Joe Cormick,
and when we say that in that vast number
of men, wSmen and children, we do not be-
lieve he has a single enemy, the few outside
people who don't know him, can Judge
what manner of man he is. Warm hearted.
unselfsh, obliging, of most equable temper
and amiablc disposition, it is impossible to
know him and not like him. Indeed, if
such thing can be, Joe has too many
friends-scores and hundreds who don't de-
serve the friendship of so good man. His
retirement from service will be deeply re-
GREETED by all the old patrons of the road
and could their voice control. he would be
in his old place again the very moment that
he gets good and ready"
The Reform club ball, Tuesday night,
is deserving of a more extended notice than
it received Wednesday morning, for the en-
tirely sufficient reason that it was not only
well attended, but was one of the most har-
monious and enjoyable affairs of the season.
Our reporter, under instructions to report
at ten o'clock, left before the young folks
had all gathered in, and hence the "orli-
narily well attended" item. The hall was
comfortably filed, with the best people, old
and young, of the city, and from half past
10 o'clock until 3, the floor was filled with
as happy group of dancers as one would
wish to witness. Harry O'Brien's excellent
string band furnished the music, which
was good, whether estimated as a guide to
the nimblc feet of the dancers, or from the
artistic standpoint of the cultured listeners.
There was mo discount upon the ball.
taken AS a whole; and had vote been
taken on the question of its repetition under
precisely the same management the verdict
would have been a unanimous affirmative
Young men, engaged as clerks and
statesmen in our business houses cannot as
usual thing, make their appearance in
the ball room until 10 O'Clock or later. Of
course the arrival Of the young ladies who
accompany them is corrcspondingly late.
Other young men, and women too, by the
way-postpone their arrival until nearly
midnight, under the mistaken notion that
1t is fashionable rather aristocratc,"
etc. 1t is no such thing; and the stranger
present is apt to conclude that duties in the
kitchen, or behind the counter, or at the
sewing machine are as much to blame for
the unreasonable arrival as false notion
Of "propricty,' or of what is "arstocratic."
The habit is not TO be commended. If
participants in dances would gather as
early as eight o'clock, they could shake
themselves to utter safety by one o'clock,
and then have time before the ensuing
breakfast, to recupcratc exhausted nature.
Assembling at 10 or II o'clock, however.
the dance must 90 on until three or four,
leaving the participants no time in which
to sleep or recover from their exhaustion
We make this rcmonstrance in the interest
of such sprightly old men as Dunning,
Oberly Morris and Candcc, who ache all
over whenever their regular rest is broken;
and not because it is anything to U.s. indi-
vidually.
VOCAL CONCERT.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church