The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-25
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

Ostrander.
Temperance is the subject for consld'
Grafton at the Presbyterian prayer meeting
this evening.
MIR. J. Z. Spiller is fencing out the
morning sun from his store room by the
erection of an "awning"-so called.
Our Mr.. Burnett was too unwell to APP |
pear at his post yesterday afternoon lie
hoped to be all right this morning how
ever.
Mr.. B. F. Thistlewood has a contract
for unloading a snnken barge load of coke,
that lies in the river near the point, and for
delivering the coke at the foundry OF Mr.
J. B. Reed.
Mike Higgins, man about fifty'tive
years of age, died in this city, about
o'clock yesterday afternoon, of hemorrhage
of the lungs. He leaves a wife and three
children; but all the children are grown.
Mr.. James G. Martin, of the late Padu-
cab Daily Kentuckian, accompanied by his
wife and several other Paducah ladies,
came down on the Fisk and explored the
city. merely as matter of recreation.
Pat Clancy, who, has suffered severely
for several years from an attack of rheuma-
tism, left Cairo yesterday, for the Hot
Springs, in the hope of finding relief. Old
Billy Daily, also out of sorts, accompanied
him. They will probably be absent
couple of months.
The section of sidewalk on Twelfth
street, between Poplar and Commercial,
now being supplied, was sadly needed.
Had the old walk not been lying fiat upon
the ground, it would have been wholly i'm
passable, and pedestrians would have been
driven to use OF the street.
1t was Justice Comings who passed
upon the tangled mass of testimony drawn
out in the Bailey-Thompson shooting
scrape. From parties present at the trial
We learn that the stories Of the different
witnesses were as tangled and crooked as
the animated hair of a Gorgon's head.
A number Of our merchants are en-
gagged in taking their regular semi-annual
account of stock. Conspicuous among
these are Mr.. J. B. Reed and Herman c.
R. Woodward. As the stocks of these houses
are made up of million different articles
everything from an eighth OF an inch
screw to an eight-foot circular saw, the
work of invoicing seems almost lntermin.
able.
Quite number of the steamer Robert
Mitchell's lady and gentlemen passengers,
left the boa. about o'clock yesterday
evening, for a promenade in the city.
When they regained the levee they dlscov-
cred the Michel out in the stream. The
CONSERVATION of the women was but poorly
indicated by their screams. The pilot fin
ally caught their frantic signals, and landed
for them.
| While little Miles Gilbert, son OF vii.
liam B. was passing along Fourth street
yesterday, vicious spotted slut, the pro-
perry of Willis Parker, pitched upon the
little boy, bit him quite severely Mr..
Gilbert being informed Of the occurrence
repaired to headquarters and obtained an
order for the dangerous brute's destruction.
1t is said that the dog was terror to all the
children OF the neighborhood.
Mr.. George Coriss, recently from
Memphis, says there has been no yellow fe
yer in that city this season, and the author
tiles are doing all they can to keep out the
bronzed visitor; but the number of citi-
zens leaving for the watering places and
summer resorts north, is far greater than
ever before known. If the hcgira contin.
ues undated until the first of August, half
the population will be out of town.
1t is said that Prof. Friedrich, who is
teaching school in Turner's hall, is much
annoyed by bad boys who congrcgate about
there, Yesterday afternoon he went out to
demonstrate with the boys, and at sight of
him they fled to safe distance, when they
commenced pelting him with clods What
such boys need is a liberal application Of
the Profs. hickory. But as he can't catch
them, he should invoke the protection
Of the law
Many ofour citizens whose hair is
now literally sprinkled with gray, will, as
they see Dan Rice in the ring to-day, re-
member how, full thirty years ago his
matchless drolcries and inimitabe take
offs convulsed them with Laughter. There
is a warm place for old Dan in every heart
in all this scope Of country, and the greet
ing that will be extended to him tonight,
will give the old fellow most grateful as.
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