The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-21

day evening for Ashley, WHITTIER she was
called by q telegram, bearing the sad intel
lipcnce that her mother, Mrs. p. Berrett,
was living at the point Of death. Mrs. B. is
is in the 18th year of her age and is one of
Oldest residents of Southern Illinois. She
is direct descendant Of revolutionary
stock, her grandfathcrs, on both the ma.
tcrnal and paternal side, having rendered
heroic service during the whole of that try
ing period Mrs B. was taken sick on
Sunday last.
Mr.. Ike Ostrandcr, who has served the
Delta fire company in the capacity of presi
dent, so long and acccptably, contemplates
the removal of his family from that part of
the city. He will not sever his connection
with the company, because Of the removal
but then, although so near he'll seem so
far We hear IT stated that Mr.. S. V
Purse will occupy the building to be va
Gated by Ostrander, and maiu'nin therein
private boarding house.
When we mention the fact that Charley
Williams is confined to Tie city jail, the
reader of our Cairo police reports will be
apt to think we are communicating an oft
repeated story But Charley is not only IN
Jail, but, under the directions of Jailer
Cain is expending his skill as smcarer of
white wash, on the walls and partitions of
the building He is doing a job that will
commend him as lime-wash artist to all
who may succeed him in the calaboose fora
year to come
One of the wantons thar find shelter
with one Anna BalZel threatens 10 give
Cairo a sensational scandal. She has a
hold, she says, upon gentleman in high
social and business position in Cairo; and
she takes some trouble to noise ii around
that in certain contingency, she'll give
Cairo starter" All of which points to
the conclusion that the wanton is II
straight for money, and expects somebody
to buy her to silence-a little game that is
very apt to result in failure.
Alderman Petit, of the Fifth ward, has
built up a large and prosperous business,
and that too in neighborhood where 1t
was regarded quite impossible for him to
succeed. Naturally quick and very indust-
rious, his schooling in the New York store,
was of special advantage to him. To ac-
commodate his multiplied needs he will
proceed at once to the erection of a store
house. adjoining his present building, that
will be twenty-five by one hundred feet, or
the full size of Cairo lot. We congratu-
late him on the score Of this proof OF a
prosperous business and plethoric purse.
A respectfully dressed married couple
who live five or six miles beyond Mound
City, visited Cairo, yesterday, coming down
on the Paducah packet. The man was
foolishly drunk, and the women was
deeply mortified and Inundated. Inc
fellow insisted upon sitting flat upon the
sidewalk, then he thought it would he
quite becoming in him to dancc-f's wife,
meanwhile, using her utmost endeayors to
get him back to the boat. In this she
finally succeeded, but not until lie passed
from the exhileratcd to the maud''n con
dition--a reeling creature who should
have been abandoned to the police and
the lookup.
A Mr. Moon, of Memphis, was at the
point of death with the yellow fever. He
had had the black vomit, and his lucid in
tcryas were few and far between. During
one of these intervals he espied slice OF
water melon that had been brought in for
his nurse His desire for it became ire
presslble, and thinking the end would be
death in any event, the nurse gave the sut-
fcling fellow the melon, charging him to
swallow none Of the pulp. In less than an
hour his kidneys were favorably affected,
and brought to action, and from that time
forward he rested easier and by the dis
patches Of Monday we were informed that
the chances were largely III favor of his