The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-30

butcher had stepped in during his absence,
mid s5O for the COW and took her home
with him. So the "boss beef" sold will not
be delivered.
Our reporter got things decidedly
mixed in an effort to name the parties to
recent marriage Instead of marrying John
Bauroisc to Miss Anna Gundschcr, he mar
ried Mr.. John Dcroscher to Mrs. Gundscher'
Mrs. G. was married sometime ago to Mr..
John Ogg. There is probably no John
Deroscher in the city. The information
was given to the reporter, IN part as pub
lished. The balance was conjecture, or
rather, conclusion drawn from faulty
premises.
A large steamer fire engine bearing the
name of the great rebel chieftain 'R. +.
Lee" was here yesterday, en- route for Chi
cago whore it will undergo repairs. 1t
probably came from Memphis; but where
ever it came from, a great mistake was
made in not consigning it to the Vulcan iron
works, of Cairo. Rennie could have re-
paired it as well, as cheaply and eXpediti-
ously as any OF the Chicago chaps, and
thus saved to the owners the cost of over
700 miles transportation.
The suburban gardening interest of
Cairo has become quite an important one.
At certain seasons as many as hundred
hands are employed, quite number of
families depend solely upon income from
that interest for means of subsistence. At
this time the shipment Of beans, peas,
onions, etc, keep two or three teams con-
stantly employed conveying the packages
to the railroad depots. Mr. William Ken
dali and Mr.. a, Deroscher are probably the
most extensive operators in that line of in
dustry.
An incipient fire was sQuelched the
other day by Hickson and Creighton, eng
ineer and fireman serving the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, that would, had its progress
not been checked, involved the destruction
of the elevator buildings. Seeing smoke
issue from the building, and feeling NOR
ally certain that harm was threatened they
fastened, to the spot. Being unable to
; gain access otherwise they tore a board
from the building, and eXtinguished the
flames, which were the results of criminal
negligence or carelcssness upon the part Of
some one, Or Of unfiendly design.
1t is reported that the employees of the
Mississippi Central railroad company, shar-
ing the fate of railroad men elsewhere,
have been subjected to "a quiet cut-the
cut being five dollars from monthly sal
airy of forty dollars, Still it is fact, we
believe, that the NJ. c. pays its men quite
as literally as any road in the country,
and always hands over the cash when due,
The road seems to be wisely managed, and
its steady increase OF business indicates
that it is destined TO become not only an
immensely popular road, but paying in
vestmcnt to It's stockholders.
Quite all Of the old natives Of Villa
Ridge are dead. or have receded before the
advance of a better civilization. The social
and intellectual status of the present popu-
laton is quite as elevated as that of any of
the Older communities Of Southern Illinois.
Good church edifces and school houses have
been erected; a horticultural society has
been maintained for several years; u credit.
able public library has been established, a
brass band organized, and night before last
the Villa Ridge Amateur Dramatic associa-
ton appeared before the public, and won
the applause and praise of everybody.
Hence it is plain to be seen that the Villa
Ridges social goose hangs at very con-
siderable altitude,
Lying in the house kept by Nancy
Mack, is boy named Joe Brown, in the
last stages of consumption He is a pitt
able object, and it is by the practice Of con
siderable self.dcnal that the women pro-
vide for his commoncst wants. While
officer Cain was in the act of passing the
house yesterday, the poor boy bcckoncd
, him to his bedside, and told the officer
that he felt himself near the end, and
r begged that he might have the mnistra-
tons of the priest The priest was sent
! around and made the poor sufferer feel at
greater ease concerning the future. In the
conjecture that his earthly experience is
about ended, the wrctched boy was evident.
r ly right. 1t is wonder, indeed, that he
is alive at all,
There is an immense amount of hypo-
critical gush about mature, when una
doined beng adorned most And follow
ing out this idea one of the leading news