The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-26
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.


railroad was in Cairo yesterday,
Miss salie Rowlcy, of Metropolis, is
in the city, visiting the family of Mr.
McCammon.
Mrs. c. NJ. Howe and son left the city,
yesterday, for a summers soiourn in osh-
kosh, Wisconsin.
The locomotives loaned by the |. {. to
the |. NJ. road 90 over and will remain IN
charge of their usual crews.
The news from Sproat's silver mines
caused quite sensation in the city yester-
day. Further information Is awaited with
considerable anxiety.
Mrs. Matte Story, of Santa Fe pre-
cinct, in this county, died, last Wednesday,
in child bed. Mrs. Story was, we believe,
daughter of the late Green Massey.
Justice Comings was engaged all day
yesterday, again, in taking dispositions in
the Cundiff divorce case, No facts of
especial consequence were drawn out
The old force of dog-catchers having
become capitalists, have perceptibly re-
| Taxed their efforts. For that reason Chief
La Hue will put new force on duty this
morning.
There was a rousing crowd in attend
ance at Robinsons circus, last night, and
Old Dan displayed much of the spirit of
other days. He kept the crowd in con-
slant roar.
Minnie Glover, the frail creature whose
name became conspicous in connection
with an attempt to enforce quarantine, last
summer, died, on Tuesday last, in the city
of st. Louis.
A free hack will leave the corner of
Eighth and Commercial, at half-past
o'clock this afternoon, to convey persons to
Thirty fourth street, who may desire to at
tend the sale of Ed. Shannessy's residence,
Bear this in mind
Collector Hodges, in the sale of delin.
quent town lots, can be no respecter of per-
sons. He has sold the property of several
prominent citizens, and can't promise that
hell do so no more for he must sell every
lot upon which the taxes are not paid, and
that right speedily.
Ed. Shannessy's dwelling house, corner
Of Poplar and Thirty fourth street, will be
sold at auction, to the highest bidder at
at 3 o'clock this afternoon. This is, per-
haps, one of tie best opportunities for Sc
curing comfortable home, for small
amount of money, that will be offered dur
ing the season.
Morton c. Wright, the general superin-
| tendent of Halliday's salt works, coal
mines, farms, store and grain trade at st.
JOINS, was in the city yesterday. 1t is not
paying Marion an undeseved compliment
to say that he looks after more business and
keeps it better in hand than any other man
in Southern Illinois.
The Cairo eycursionists were warmly
received at Cape Girardeau, the citizens
there turning out and giving them a public
assurance of welcome 1t was o'clock
the Cape, and halt-past 10 when is returned
to Csirs. Everybody expressed himselt, or
herself, delighted with the trip and very
grateful to the clever people Of Cape Girar
deau.
M. James Hayde, travelling agent for
the house Of Halliday Bros has just re-
turned from thorough tour of Central
Illinois, and speaks in enthusiastic terms
of the crops just harvested. The yield of
wheat is believed to be far greater than
ever before known. The crop has met no
set back from drought, storms, rust or any
other cause.
Quite number of Miss Mamie Tay-
lor's young friends, male and female, join
ed, Tuesday night, in the celebration Of
Miss NAMES eighteenth birthday. 1t was
a very pleasant reunion, and one that must
have been most gratifying to Miss Taylor,
since it assured her of the respect and
friendship of those among whom she has
lived all her life.
The sidewalk, o, rather the want Of
one, on the east side Of Commercial from
Vincent's new building to Tenth street, is a
source of almost constant complaint. AT
some points there Is no pretense.o walk
at Others the way is cluttered up and OBJ
structed, and along the whole distance
there is not twenty feet Of good walk. That
the property owners are not making fuss,
is due to the fact that many Of them are
non-residents.
Instead Of street parade, as n means
of advertising, or the use of placarleC