The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-15

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The Argus learns that Judge O'NIel-
venys daughter, Emma, who was to have
been married on the cath of June, was at
tackled with diphthcria on the 21st, so vio-
lently that the family feared that they
would be called upon to mourn death in
stead of celebrating wedding. She
passed the crisis, however, and will get well.
The Judge lives IN Los Angeles, Califor-
MA.
Three or four hundred persons gather
ed in the park Sunday afternoon, expecting
to witness Che walking contest between
Sites and Brown; but the intensity of the
heart or some other cause suggesteda post
ponement of the walk until after dark. The
crowd after supper was a considerable one,
but not so large as in the afternoon. The
walking match came off, and Brown was
the victor.
Circuit Court convened in this city yes
terday morning, with Judge Harker on the
bench. The most of the day was given to
the work of putting the machinery Of the
court into full operation. 1t is quite likely
that, by the next term of court, the circuit
will be apportioned among the Judges, and
each Judge assigned his particular coun-
ties. In that event it is probable that
Judge Baker will fill the bench in his, own
Alexander county.
The Board of County Commissioners
convened in regular session, yesterday
morning. The Board will probably remain
in session several days, during which time
parties aggreved by an oyer-assessment of
their property will be patiently heard OBJ
iections should be stated in writing and
filed at once, that the Board may act upon
them when time best serves that purpose,
Minutes of the proceedings will appear in
THE BULLETIN, in due season, in official
shape.
We shall never have the difference
settled until the walking match of Sunday
evening is repeated. B, started in 100 feet
, ahead of s. and came out about 500 feet
ahead. The walk came off in the shadows
of the evening and the friends Of S. claim
that BIS victory was accomplished by run
= ing BIS friends deny this and declare he
is the better walker OF the two. Where
there exist such dametric difference, how,
without another contest, can the public
! form satisfactory conclusion?
= The Massac county horse fair will be
, held on the 9Th 9th, 18th and sth Of next
month. Purses are offered for running,
trotting and pacing ANIMALS, mules and
horses, all ages, and different distances.
The purses are necessarily small, but the
man who wins them will be nothing out Of
pocket. and will have oceans OF excitement.
We take it that O'Donnel and Robert
Smyth will enter Harlem and Harry, and
bring to Cairo all the purses offered for
trotting animals and mile and half mile
runners.
Our fellow citizen, Mr. Moses Foss,
has an undue share of domestic Affections.
Within comparatively brief space Of time
he has been called upon to mourn the death
of his wife, then his youngest child, and a
day or two ago he received in
teligence Of the death of his son
Lewis, an exceptionally bright boy,
who died in Gayoso Mo-, on the last day Of
June, from an attack of brain fever Scy-
era weeks before Levy had received Sc
we're blow on the head, and to that cause
his sickness and death arc ascribed.
The total of improved farming lands
in Alexander county is about three thous
and acres greater this year than it was last
but the aggregate valuation Of lands re
mains about the same as it was in 1873
Upon Cairo town lots there has been
reduction of about one hundred and twent,
thousand dollars The aggregate of tn
taxable personal. property is also diminish
cd greatly. But all these reductions vii
not bring the total within half millioj
dollars of the cqualized valuation of las
y, year. rs fixed by the State Board Of EQuali
" cation.
!, Considerable alarm is felt in those POI
tions Of Kansas where negro eXoders d
plcntifully abound, lest the germs of ycI
IS low fever carried thither in bedding an
IN otherwise become active and cause an ou'
'r break of the yellow fever The alarm
'd certainly not causeless. To germs ker
n alive in bedding the recent outbreak of tn
)e fever in Memphis Is ascribable, and it is no
t. at all likely that the refugee from Vicks
lie burg and other infected localities were care
full, before starting out, to thoroughly dlsin
OF feet their old bed.ticks. II is not practic
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