The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-16

ont of his own mouth and the record of his
own party, in clear, concise and logical
sequence of fact and argument, and prov
ing himself thorough master of his sub
ject and torciblc and eloquent speaker
There is the making of statesman Of the
good old school in Mr.. Townshend."
About the happicst man we saw about
the Fourth ward polls, yesterday, was the
| individual who boosted that he was too
sharp to be shut off from his beer by
Mayors procamations or saloon-keepers
pledges. Learning of the purpose to close
the saloons at s O'clock he purchased
whole keg of beer at o'clock and con
veyed it to his room. About every
twenty minutes" SAID he, II go to my beer
and drink my six or eight glasses, and
have my fun by my own self. If my brother
should beg me for glass wouldn't give
it to him. paid my own money for it
and every drop of that key I'm going to
drink by my own self and have my own
iun, which paid my own money for An
hour or two later the fun" seemed to be
giving way to sleepy tcrpor, and finally
the funny fellow disappeared from the
streets altogether. This morning, racked
and maddened by terrific headache, the
fun" is scarcely worth mentioning.
The Centralians have a way of their
own by which to keep Objectionable stran
gers from locating in their midst. A GER
tain surgeon dentist dropped in there few
days age and declared his intention 10 To-
cate, and at once commenced extending in
Quiries concerning persons whom he knew,
personally or by reputation He asked for
John Smith. John Smith was dead-died
in December, of pneumonia. Was
Sam Jones still in Centralia'
No. Sam Jones died the week before
of typhus fever. Joe Cormick- was he
alivei No; Joe was dead-died Of pneu-
monia Was Pete Williams alivel Pete,
poor fellow, died the previous Sunday
OF bilious tever-and so on to the end.
Every person the stranger had ever heard
of, had died of diseases peculiar to the
locality" And yet while recounting the
details of such fearful mortality, the i'm
perturbable Centralians insisted that the
health of the city was splendid" The
dentist, concluding that he would find
some place where the splendid" health
was not maIred by so many deaths, came
on south by the first conveyance.
The 18th birthday of Miss Annie
Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Meyer, was celebrated in grand style, on
Monday evening last. At an early hour in
the evening Miss Annlcs friends and school
mates had gathered-a whole housc-full of
them; and merrier, lighter hearted crowd
Of young folks never congregated in Cairo.
Many OF them brought handsome presents.
Indeed Miss Annie was quite overwhelmed
with the tokens Of friendly regard her
young friends showcrcd upon her, and was
no doubt the happiest young lady during
Monday evening in all Cairo. By-and-by
young Charley Frank and Mr., Borstadt
dropped in, and to their really fine music,
the young people "kcpt measure the live
long evening Mrs, A, A. Alyord, Miss
Fannie and Miss Annie Alvord,
were there, and under their watchful su.
pervision everything passed off happily
and harmoniously as could have been wish
ed. And now that we have told all we
know about the party, it would never do to
close our notice without getting into the
paper the names of every lad and lassic
who was there to see and participate, so here
they are. Our reason for using the name
we do use, first, is that both her names
commence with an "A"--so having justified
ourselves in that particular, We commence,
and 90 right ahead. Addic Antrim, Viola
Antrim, Emile Smith, Maud Loflin, Annie
| Wilson, Florence Williamson, Mamie STRAIT
ton, Bella Phillips, Ella Belle Mckee, Alice
Halliday, Gussie Taylor, Minnie Worthing.
ton, Stella Ayres, Bessie Alden, Maggie
Boyle, Mary IIunsakcr, Kitty Kane Minnie
Smith, Daisy Ellis, White Dunnng,
Lizzie Riley, and Maggie lIowley. And
now come the names of the boys
Louis Ayres, Lee Stratton, Oscar
Williamson, Bert Smith, Seymour Antrim
Charles Nash, G.. TAR. John TAR, Ben
Tabcr, Woodie Rittcnhouse, Willie
Feuchtcr, Walter Bristol, Willie Bristol
Gus Smth--"and,' so the list that was
furnished to US, says "many others" We
have only to add that if any Of the little
people are deprived Of immortality" by
the miss.spelling Of their names, the fault
is not ours; but another mans
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The cheapest method to cheat the under.