The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-13
OUR LOCAL VARIETY.

former self, was in Cairo yesterday.
Steamboats, from below were not al
lowed to land at our wharf yesterday.
Judge Baker and family, lett the city
yesterday evening, for stay of few weeks
at Mt. Vernon.
Andy Cain, the new City Jailor had
his gang at work on Twenty-seventh and
Twenty.cighth streets, yesterday
County Court with Judge Yocum pre-
siding, will meet for the transaction OF law
and criminal business tomorrow
Tenth street, from Washington to Cedar,
is becoming eminent because of the wretch
ed sidewalks that skirt it on either side.
The funeral train that went out on the
illinois Central, yesterday, conveyed to
Villa Ridge the remains of child of Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Ghilchrist
The meeting of the Ladies c. 7. U.
yesterday, afternoon, was but SHINY attend
ed. After singing few hymns, and going
through other routine exercises, the Union
adjourned,
Mr.. Mum, formerly superintendent Of
the machinery department of the Cairo
Box and Basket factory, was in Cairo, yes
terday, circulating among his friends and
acquaintance.
The Fourth street sewer, between the
Levee and Commercial avenue, was filled
with black slushy liquid, yesterday, that
smelled internally. 1t may have been a
mere "gush," however.
The Board of County Commissioners
will convene, in regular session, tomorrow
morning. The chief business Of the term
will consist in the hearing Of objections to
the Assessors returns
An infants lace cap, picked up in the
park, is in the hands of the editor of THE
BULLETIN, and as 1t may 60 out of style
before he will have any use for it, he feels
Inclined to surrender it to the owner
The ice cream supper in the Reform
hall, was continued, last night, and the
crowd present was quite an improvement
upon that of the previous evening. Do
mand for the iced luxury was lively; but
supply equal to it.
"A number Of citizens, willing to per.
form their part IN the work of cleansing and
purifying the city, were engaged yesterday,
in scattering disinfectants about their
homes furnishing an example worthy of
general imitation.
Some folks wonder how it is that
blackberries pickers, bringing in only two
or three gallons of blackberries, can afford
to steamboat passage from Mound City and
return. The explanation is that the round
trip costs only ten cents,
A negro woman who came into the city
with u bucket of berries, toppled over, in
the vicinity of the New York store, about
II o'clocka H., yesterday, from the effects
ofthe heat, She was properly cared forby
the residents of the nelghborhood
The Cairo Jockey club will hold
meeting at o'clock this afternoon. One of
the purposes is to discuss the feasibility of a
horse fair in Cairo, some time in October,
or sooner. One of the members of the club
informed us that the project had received
considerable encouragement already.
The Springfield Argusputs the name
of Hon. Thomas W. Halliday, Of this city,
first on the listof probable Democratic can
didates tor the office Of Secretary OF State,
The nomination OF Halliday would betray 8
sound discretion of which political parties
are conspcuously innocent, in these latter
days.
The yellow fever topic was not even
spoken of, in our presence, as often as a
half dozen times, yesterday, The little
breeze occasioned by the first kilograms
from Memphis, seems to have subsidized. This
fact should not work relaxation of effort
on the part of our authorities. No risks
must be taken.
A woman, whose mind is evidently
deranged, created quite racket in the vi
entity of Twelfth and Commercial ycster
S day. Chief La Hue and officer Schucker
., took her in charge, and conveyed her foI
. safe keeping, to the county Jail, The con
| diton of her mind will probably be in
(; quired into before County Court, to-mor
, row.
Parties who may wish to effect pur
chases OF misunderstanding goods-fur
niture, table, ware, etc, are promised, il
the sale advertised by Tom Winter, to-day
a rare opportunity to obtain rare and extra
ordinary bargains Everything is as goo,
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