The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-02
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

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A number of our colorcd people Will
excurse down the Mississippi on the steam
or Nashville, on the 4th instant.
The family of Mr.. Corliss was called
to Metropolis, Monday, to attend the fun
oral of Mr.. Corlss' brothers child.
The wharf-master's Office has been re-
moved to the rooms recently vacated Dy the
NJ. V T Co., over Wood Rittenhouse "
Bros store
"A little child of Sheriff Hodges fell
from the court house porch, yesterday even
ING, and as we are told, hurt itself quite
seriously We failed to learn the particu-
lars
Mrs, George A, Chnstman will leave
in few days, for Chanute Kansas, where
with her son Willie and his wife, she will
spend the summer, in the hope OF recruiting
her health.
-Ahorse, with its hinder parts paralyzed,
remained in the street, in the blazing sun
shine Just above the court house, all day
yesterday. In mercy to the suffering ami
NAL, it should have been killed.
Mr.. Samuel E. Wilson felt so seriously
indisposed, yesterday morninS, that he had
to haul or temporarily from active busi-
ness. He was suffering from an attack OF
dysentery which seems to be unusually pre-
valent this year,
AT the Monday nights business meet
ing of the Center Archery club seven new
members were received, swelling the total
membership to about twenty. The club
expects TO receive its supply OF bow, next
week
With the consent of the Receiver and
under the sanction of the |. 5. Circuit
Court, the Patterson, n. j., Locomotive
company will sell four of the narrow
gauge engines, as the telegram says, "to
pay debts"
The St. Charles ladies parlor has been
supplied with a new and elegant kinkel pi'
ano, of magnificent tone and seven and
third octaves Of compass. Experts who
have fingered it pronounce it splendid
nicely finished instrument.
Five of the ten locomotives sent tC
Cairo from points in Iowa and elsewhere
by the Illinois Central, for the use of TN
Iron Mountain Company, were recalled
home Yesterday. They left during the da!
for Du Buque and other points north.
The Central Archery Club neglected t.
furnish us the scores made at their regular
practice of Monday evening. Of the gen
tlemen present Frank Van Dorn's A was the
best score and Miss Annie Alvord led the
ladies by a score of S-shooting twenty
yards.
Charley Gayer secured an extraordinary
bargain in the Ed. Shannessy property TIT
other day. The building is two story
frame, recently painted, and in good order
and supplied with necessary out houses. 1t
was sold at auction, the highest bid being
about 80 per cent of its original cost.
THE BULLETIN job Office is supplied with
the very latest styles of sectional type, and
always keeping master workman at the
head of that department, we are prepared
TO do work in the way of business cards,
letter heards and business circulars in a
style that no other printing Office in South
ern Illinois can even initiate.
The chills and fever, or the "ague," as
it is commonly called, is now prevailing
quite generally in the Missouri bottoms
from Commerce to New Madrid; but sin
gularly enough there is conspicuous alb
sence of the bilious fevers that prevail to
greater or less extent every year All othe
kinds Of sickness has been put aside, Nj
Tanner says, to give full swing to the aguC
e Judge Birds resignation took ctfec
=, yesterday evening, and from this time fort
d until the special election is held, Cair
5, must get along without police magistrate
ct 1t must not be inferred, however, that tn
d machinery for the enforcement Of the ord
a nanCes is thus brought to stand still. W
l. have q full complement Of Justices of III
n Peace, all of whom have jurisdiction i
city cases.
Conner the Egyptian pedestrian,
II subecting himself to rather severe an
IL rigid discipline. DR.. Leach is his medct
Z adviser How many walkers are to contc
B. with Conner or who they are, doesn't scc
y to be generally known-ncither has II
i public been advised, through the propt
y channel, where and between what points
time, the contest Is TO take place. Let
have "more light"
Bear IN mind that the substanti