The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-27
Only Morning Daily in Southern Illinois.
IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

Craps were peddled about the streets,
yesterday, at six cents pound They form
erly sold at s to 10 cents.
Doctor Paul G. Schu hand Philander
W, Barclay were passengerSon the outgoing
Illinois Central train, yesterday afternoon
Mr.. Jacob Walter returned home from
St. Louis aud Cincinnati trip, Monday,
nursing a post excrutiatingly painful bone
felon.
MFR. Mike Stapleton, who visited the
| Hot Springs in search of cure for his
rheumatism, writes home that he is improv-
ing rapidly.
Remember the Mystic hop Thursday
night The object is purely social, not
speculative, and promises to be one Of the
pleasantest affairs Of the season.
Quite large number Of Cairo people
are making arrangements to attend the bar
becue at Hodges Park tomorrow. A big
crowd and a good time are looked for
Mr.. John Schleck, superintendent of
the scales and water department of the Hi
nos Central, was in Cairo, yesterday, cast
ing his eye over things subject to his SUPER
vision,
-Twenty-onc tents were received in
Cairo, the other day, and stored with Capt.
T.. H. Myers, until such time as there may
be psa Gov them. They were sent here by
order of the National Sanitarians.
Mr.. Dan. Hartman left for St. Louis,
yesterday afternoon, to purchase the iron
front for his new building on the corner OF
North and Commercial. The structure will
be of brick 50 by 90 feet Mr. Nose Fcss
secured the contract for building it.
--Raiiies seem all the rage of late. Some
are the out-croppngs Of stern, pinchng
necessity; others are purely speculative,
Of the latter character is that engineered
by the boy who was abroad yesterday, sell
ing ten-cent-chances in Poland China
pig.
Mr. Walsh, Jr., vacated his tathcr-in-
laws dwelling house. Yesterday
fact that may be accepted as an in
timation of the early return Of Capt.
James Johnson's family from the farm
| beyond the classic Cache.
What think the readers of a pear full
eight inches in glrth-a full pint cup full Of
pear, and delicious as large! For one such,
all around, the editors family has to thank
Mr.. Samuel Waltes. The fruit was grown
on dwarf tree in the side yard to his resi-
| dence and is the finest we ever saw.
Masters Crawley and Whitaker are
aboutS to be transformed from prize
popcorn and peanuts vendors, to full
hedged family grocers. They propose TO
open out on Poplar and Twentieth. Should
! they oUa, sney will be the youngest opera
tors IN the grocery line in Caro-possibly
in the state Of Illinois
William II. Snow, Mr.. Rench's step
son, who returned home five or six weeks
ago, after an absence of seventeen years
ago, died at his step fathers house on Sew
enth street at o'clock YESTERDAY after
noon, He had been working in the swamps
and lowlands of Kentucky and Missouri
and died Of a severe type Of bilious fever
A grim looking, strange darkcy carry
ing whisky bottle in his pocket and a grip
sack from which six inches of the barrel OF
: horse pistol protruded, was quite anxious
yesterday evening, to get chance to ridt
with some body to Hodges Park He wa
not, in every respect, such travelling com
J panion as a stranger would choose, although
! he MAY be as harmless as a baby.
A gentleman on the Central cars, Mon
day night, being questioned as to his righ
to enter the city, had made matters vi
straight by showing he was from st. Loui.
etc, but gave himself away, Il minute Later
by voluntarily adding that he recent
reached ST. Louis, directly from Corintl
Mississippi. On receipt Of this informg
ton he was taken into quarantine at tn
guard line above the city
Alderman Yocum Is having scrioy
time with his wounded hand. An attcmi
q, to save a finger that was rather badl
crushed resulted in notification, and I'll
finger had to be taken off. We were il
formed, yesterday, that he is liable to los
his whole hand from the same cause. W
) shall be sorry, indeed, to receive confirms
ton of this conjecture. Mr. Y. is with NJ
al Nick Cantrell
= Mis-. Dan Foley, deserving wido
woman is in such Strengthened clrcur
stances that she is but yielding to ste,
necessity in disposing of her COW and cal