The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-22


tween Cairo and Charleston clubs, are spo-
ken of as additional features of the pro-
gramme
Somebody moved by an unconQnera-
BILE penchant for a pigeon pot-pie, or by
pure cussedness made raid on Roberts
pigeon cote Friday night, and robbed it of
all of the birds, old and young, even the
unAeged, helpless squads. A liberal sprink-
ling of duck shot, is what the fellow de-
scrved--not pigeon pot-pie, what he re-
ceived probably.
The sidewalk on Tenth street, be-
You'd DR.. Arters residence to Cedar
street is in a shocking condition, and as it
is much travelled it should be put in order
at once. There are holes In it from one to
five feet in width, and great danger is in
CURED by walking over it after night-fall.
Citizens in that vicinity complain of the
neglect, and certainly not uureasonably.
Isaac is colored man. He and his
wife Anna no longer ABIDE under the same
roof. At late hour Friday night Isaac
passed Anns's domicil, and detecting the
presence of colored masculine
holding a pleasant confab therein, he let
60 of brick he held in his his hand, and
the missile few through the window and
Isaac few down the street, and finally into
the clutches of officer Gladney. That's
the way the story is told, at all events.
A blind msn who had come over from
Kentucky with two horse wagon load of
leaf tobacco, lost horse collar and lot Of
harness from his wagon while his son was
driving the team down the levee on the
return Tip; snd the lost articles fell into
the h2nis of couple Of negroes. The ne
groes stubbo-nly refused TO surrender pos
session unless they were pald 8 half dollAE,
and no, until the police intertered were
the goods given up. Such happenings IS
this are 10, cA.cals,ei TO give our neigh
bo.s ve-y exalted opinion Of CairO, o: lis
ua,ke.. either.
-Ha-peI fo- July !: OF our table, and
We ind in it everything essential to { per
fec, mzgaI1e. lis ooaten,s snd illustra-
tons sre such s. can be found in no other
publication on earth, and il can be compared
with nothing save its own preTiou: NUM-
bers. Copies can be bought ST our book
stores, s1d in Whist way csn our people
more pleasantly or proftably spend this
blessed Sabbath day, thsn in perusal Of
the neat. the admirably filed and artistic
ally illustrated pages Of Harper, FOX July
1921
-Becarse the Cairo and Vencennes
rsii-osd company has given no tangeable
Evidence of purpose to 60 ahead WITH rs
urion depot project it must not be infer
red that the matter hes passed OFT ofmlnd.
The plans and specifications have been
completed. snd the company is gathering
data whereby il may determine whether
it will be the cheaper TO buy material and
hire labor, or TO let out the whole thing by
by contract. The force Of bridge builders
visited the city the other day. and looked
around With view 10 clearing the ground
Of its encumberance;.
Mr.. Z. c. Ford is the sole agent for
the manufacture and sale, in this section Of
the country, Of Browns patent Ironing
Board, the best thing Of the kind ever
brought TO our notice. II does away with
the chairs and other supports. II may lie
rested on table or ndow ledge and is
90 arranged that il braces and supports
Itself Mr. Ford has sold nearly two hun
drcd aud has reduced the price to one
dollar-about the same as that Of the
ordinary ironing board. No house lie
having once seen their completeness and
convenience, vii! do without them. They
are manufactured and for sale at the Var
iety Bracket Store. Commercial avenue,
between Ninth and Tenth streets.
"A good many amusing scenes grow out
Of the enforcement Of the dog ordinance
One Of the negro catchers brought in dog,
the other day that belonged TO a WOMAN
living in the upper pat Of the city. Lea AZ
ing what had become Of the dog she hast.
ened to headquarters and let herself out
The taking Of the dog was an out age.
1t was very usc.ul to her, as ii watched her
house when she YVES away, and she would
rather have gwen 'en dollas than have been
served such a scaly trick; and now she
wanted her dog to take home again. The
Chief Informing her that she would have to
pay S2.?j chalgcs, she chf1gcd her tune
Immediately. what! Two dollars and o
quarter for such a miserable. link, worth
less little brute as thatl--a creature that is
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