The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-19
In AND AROUND THE CITY.

Dan Galligan is putting down new
sidewalk on Commercial avenue, near
Eighteenth street.
Old Joe Mckenzie, who is spending
his declining years in the quiet of Metropo-
lis, was in Cairo, yesterday.
Mr.. James Murin, representing st.
Louis Branch Campbell Press Co., was IN
the city yesterday and called on THE Bull
LETIN.
The soliciting agent Of the Illinois
Printing Company, at Danville, was in the
city, yesterday, laboring with our circuit
and county scribes.
The notice of the cooper's meeting
was not given as matter of news, by us,
but as paid notice. Its publication was
ordered by Mr.. T. j. Roberts.
The colored women of Rev. Mr.. Cald-
wells Methodist church, held fair and
festival in the colored Reform hall, last
night and will probably repeat this evening.
Frank Swoboda runs regular hack,
with stations at Hanny's corner, Eighth
street. Swoboda and Schultz store, corner
Eighteenth and Poplar, and the st. Charles
Hotel.
Frank Anderson, the colored boy who
is in custody for stealing Charley Hodges
casimeres, is very sick from an atrack of
bilious fever. He is receiving all due at
tention.
There were just enough people present
at the Hlbernian ball to comfortably fill the
hail. Everybody had jolly good time of
it. The dancing was kept up until o'clock
yesterday morning.
DIR. After has become so weak and
emaciated that it is feared that the end for
which he has so earnestly longed, is not
now, very far in the future. A change in
the weather, of any kind, affects him quite
seriously.
Through reliable private source we
get the information that but two new cases
have developed in Memphis within twenty.
tours hours, dating from p. m Friday
This is not good news, but could have been
much worse
t Again o train load Of people direct
from Memphis has been permitted to rur
into the city and unload, when steamboat
that left there the day before, could mo-
even take on coal and ice. This may be
all right, but
Nick Williams has no special fancy
for sunshine more especially when it is
heated upto 1870 degrees, Fahrenheit. Hence
his effort, through the erection Of new avn
ings or porches, to fence 1t out from famil-
lar contact with his meat shop.
Collector Hodges found purchasers for
about fifty town lots, at his tax sale, yester'
day. Many of these lots were improved
Parties who can borrow money, even at 10
per cent, should do so, and pay up, that is,
If their property is not already Sold
Our people still give and take in mar
riage. Yesterday the county clerk issued
marriage licenses to the following persons
Henry Nelson and Martha L. Brown,
Joshua Pennington and Johnna Coleman
and Thos. Handy and Miss A. Moore
The sudden change in the temperature
of the weather, Thursday, greatly facilita-
ted the development of diarrheas and dys-
; intcries among our citizens. An unusually
large number Of persons are afflicted in
that way, and, among the rest, the writer.
The Cairo and Vincennes railroad
company has the plank on the ground witt
which to plank their track, below Twentieth
street so as to admit Of the free passage Of
teams to and fro across the track at any
point where convenience may suggest ,
, crossing.
Joe Coleman, for himself, denies tina
| he ever agreed to separate from his wife
. although the preponderance of evidence il
:, against him. He says that he proposes t
: cleave to her as long as he lives and tina
J.; the family jar they had was only ga cir
y cumstance."
}; There has been very noticeable NOW
J. ing of Of whiskcrs recently. The barber
); who have advertised IN The Bullet,
made theprocess Of shaving soseductive AM
cheap that our whiskered citizens felt con
!, strained to submit their faces to tonsoria
}; manpulations.
' THE BULLETIN man who collects tn
weekly 25 cents from Herman Myers, has
:. no running cigar account with HIM, conse
= quently would not be likely to notice
: new brand as quickly as the Sun ma
y would, and should be excused for not S
y early becoming acquainted with "cor