The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-11-26

man of great literary requirements, whose
only drawback is his radical Repubiicanisn'-
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. II is your
duty TO lay in enough of the "Fautlcss'
cigar for your own use, and to supply all
your friends. The best five cent cigar this
side of Cuba, sold by F. Korsmcyer, Sixth,
near Levee.
MIR. A. Black, who bought large as
sortment Of boots and shoes before the late
rise, is offering them at the old figures until
the LIST January. His stock is the most COM
plete in the city and the quality is of the
best, and always found as represented.
Counterfeit silver half dollars are I'M
usally numerous in this city Just now. They
have the same appearance as the genuine
and have the same ring. The only way
they can be detected is by their weight
they being much lighter than the genuine
Up the Cairo and Vincennes road, we are
told, the counterfeit silver dollars abound.
Mr.. G. W. Smith, brother of Major
Smith, for short time the acting cashier
of the City National Bank, has taken up
his residence in this city with his family,
and will, we believe, make Cairo his perma-
nent home. He comes from st. Louis and
is connected with the Iron Mountain rail
road at this point.
In one of our police itemSof yesterdays
issue, it appeared that one of the proprie-
tors of our feather renovating establish
ment had twelve dollars snatched from him
on Fourth street This is a mistake. The
man who lost the money was an employe of
Messrs. Eatherly & Reid, and not one of
the firm
The Committee of the Delta City Fire
Company, in charge of their Grand Chair
Ball, to take place Thursday night, are
working early and late to make it success,
and success it will be, for they are gen.
temen who don't know the word fail. Sup
per will be served in the engine room of the
company, for which an extra charge over
the price of rheticket will be made
--Messrs. Watson & Walbridge have
nearly completed the canvass of the city,
and are now canvassing the county pre-
cincts tor information for the City Directory
and County Gazette, which they contem-
plate publishing at very early day. Any
persons who have changed their residence
or business location since the canyassers
were around, or who have reason TO believe
they have not been properly reported, will
please notify either S. A. Watson. j. G..
Lynch or Casper Yost at once.
Last Saturday, Mr.. Serbian, who was
busy near the wreck of Rev. Jacob Brad
Iey's church. which was blown down by the
late storm, heard noise under the pile of
timber, and, his curiosity being aroused, he
proceeded to remove portion of 1t. He had
not worked long, when faint grurt came
forth and soon he disclosed the emacated
form of a good sized hog, Itappears that
the animal was under the church when
it was blown down, about ten days ago and
has been without food and water during all
that time. 1t could hardly move when dis
covered aud must have been in prime CON
dition when the accident occurred in order
to live as long as it did.
Mr.. Hiram Calvin, of Caledonia, was IN
the city yesterday in search of a mule
which had been stolen from one of his
neghbors one mile above Caledonia, on the
Grand Chain road. The mule is large
black one and was first missed Saturday
morning, and in his stead was found an en-
tirely broken down horse with saddle and
bride marks on him, which had evidently
been driven great distance at a rapid gait.
The supposition is that some tramping
scoundFel, finding his horse broken down
and seeing the animal, transferred his bride
and saddle to the mule and drove off there
with, leaving the broken down ''critter" in
stead. Mr. Calvin's search was not crown
ed with success.
In another column We give space to
protest against the double time" plan now
in use in the public school on Thirteenth
street. We may be mistaken but We think
our correspondent is on the wrong track
that Prof. Avcrd is not the responsible
party in this case. As we understand it.
Cairo either has too many children or too
little room in her school buildings, and the
double time" plan adopted after due con
sideration, was considered the best way to
tide over the difficulties presented BY over.
crowded rooms and o2cr-wOrkcd teachers
Our correspondent says there is considera.
bic dissatisfaction existing. That being