The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-20
LOCAL REPORT.
In AND AROUND THE CITY,

Al. Antrim is now member OF the
large and entirely respectable red ribbon
gang,
A new sidewalk is in course OF con-
struction on the north side of Eleventh, be-
tween Walnut and Cedar.
Among those who danced attendance
upon Probate Court, yesterday, we noticed
W. J. Milford, and Wcimeyer, Of Unity.
Ten dogs partook OF their last supper
in the pound yesterday evening. Thell
food was strongly seasoned with strychnine
The Illinois Central pay-car was in the
city, yesterday, and left several thousand
dollars for the use of the roads employees.
Squire Comings fined Charles Brown
81 and costs yesterday, for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct. 1t was not an
aggravating case,
"A well attended and very enjoyable
sociable at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sproat, was one OF the social events
OF Monday night.
"A prominent saloonist was arrested by
Officer Duncker, yesterday, for selling
liquor to minor, The trial will probably
come off to-day.
Little Miss E,oise Jorgensen, after a
very severe and protracted attack of typhoid
fever, is again on her foot, bat very much
emaciated and exceedingly weak.
The masculine members Of the Central
Archery club will meet at the postoffica
at half-past one this afternoon, to arrange
for means of conveyance to the clubs pic
mic grounds, etc.
Mr.. Hanny's household effects were
destraired, yesterday, for rent. Hanny was
absent from the city. We sincerely hope
the little fellow may be able to weather
the storm
The barbecue at Elm Grove called out
quite large number o. people, yesterday,
and at night the grounds were thronged. 1t
was gotten up for the benefit Of the Colored
Women's Temple.
We are told that Hogan will have no
preliminary examination. The September
term of the circuit court is so near at hand
that it has been thought advisable TO await
the action of the grand jury.
Cattle for the Cairo market have b?en
coming in quite freely of late, from Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, as well as from the
neighboring territory in Illinois. There has
been demand for all offered, so far, and the
prices paid proved entirely satisfactory,
Thirteen volumes Of the History of the
Times of Frederick the II, of Prussia,
written by himself, law binding, ninety
years old, in complete order, will be sold AT
an extraordinarily low figure. Enquire Of
the writer hereof
Thomas Johnson and, Rosa Back, both
colorcd were unitcl n marriage yesterday,
by Squire Comings. Thomas and Rosa
form the seventy couple that the
Squire has married during his COMPARE
lively short term of service as Justice of
the Peace.
Morgan and Bowman will be in Cairo
in few days, We hear, with a new show.
Bowman was ut one time connected with
the Theatre Comique. Frank Herbert is
with the troupe, and has developed into a
veritable Blondin. He will give perious
rope-wakings free.
A petition was in circulation among
our lawyers yesterday, praying the Prcsi
dent to appoint Judge Marshall, Of Padu
cab, to the seat in the L. ). District Court
OF Southwestern Kentucky, recently made
vacant by the death Of Judge Bland Bal
lard, The petition was signed by all at
torneys to whom it was presented.
Z - The wharf boats, the levee bushes,
houses and every object on the river bank
animate as well as inanimate, was literal,
covered, yesterday, with those long coupled
harmless insects known rs willow flies. |
is fortunate that they are short-lived an,
migratory, else they might resolve them
selves into stupendous nuisance.
"A negro man who lives in the yIcinit
of Fourteenth and Walnut, was engaged a
the work of transferring railroad iron frol
|. {. to NC. cars, at East Cairo, Monda
evening, when bar slipped and struck hi
right foot in such manner as cut off tw
or three of his toes. lie will be laid up be
cause of the mishap, several weeks,
We are told that railroad trains max
the four hundred mile trip from Edinburgh
Scotland, to London, England, stoppin
four times, in ten hours. This is equivaler
to 40 miles IN now DO long runs in III
United States exceed thlAy miles an hou
The Harlem railroad makes 40 miles a
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