The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-14
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY.
Only Morning Daily in Southern Illinois.
IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

Twenty thousand doublc-extra envel-
opes-white, amber, canary, etc.--receved
at the BULLETIN Office yesterday.
Halliday Bros are filing in back of
their warehouse, to improve the facilities
| for the moving about of teams, etc.
Mr.. and Mrs, S. p Bennett returned
home from the Perry Springs, yesterday
morning, improved in point of health.
Rev. Sifferd, pastor of the English
Lutheran churcn at Anna, will preach in
the Lutheran church, here, tomorrow even
ing,
--"Faultlessn at f. Korsmeyer's, the finest
8 cent cigar ever brought to this market.
Smoke it and be convinced. Always call
for il, and smoke no other.
Visitors crowded in upon Glass, yester-
day, in an almost unbroken stream. The
amable Sheriff stood the strain upon his
good nature very philosophicallv.
Elder Wilson's answer to Elder Shores
card appears in another column, If soft
words turn away wrath, Elder Shores ought
to feel Modified Elder Wilson is extreme.
ly mild.
The entire quarantine police force has
not, as many suppose, been withdrawn.
Messrs. Kinnear and Powers continue to do
duty in the night time, and Mat P. Fulton
in the day time
1t is Dan Hartman's purpose to lay
down rock pavement both in front and
along side of his building-the full $50
feet. This is right-will be an example
worthy of imitation.
The denizens of the neighborhood of
Fourteenth and Walnut. having finally
agreed upon "the spot Charley Newland
has for the third time, we believe, com.
mcnced sinking driye-well there.
In the hurry and confusion attending
the removal Of the passengers and baggage
: from the steamer Annie P. Silver, Friday
evening, one of the passengers lost his
trunk, which had not been recovered. up
to noon yesterday.
The Hoggarth pantomimc troupe did
not open the Atheneum last night, the pros,
paes of q paying audience not rurruut,nu
it. The company was composed OF deaf
Z mutc,, and we hoped, for that roas,", that 4
good crowd would greet them.
Two or three Cairo boys caught box
= OF bacon that was tumbled from the Silver.
yesterday. Parties with skifis on the Ken
lucky shore did a Gland office" business
catching hay, etc, much of which has al
ready been hauled into the interior.
The gang of street cleaners, greatly
improved the appearance of Levee street,
from Twelfth street down, by the removal of
the loose dirt and debris from the surface.
When the trash piles are hauled away the
appearance OF Lcyee street will do to brap
on,
Nick Hunsacker, Esq, of Lake Mill.
gan precinct, will contend against the field.
We are told, for the right TO hold and
possess the office Of county treasurer from
and after the November election. Mr..
Hunsacker is good citizen and a popular
man.
The county scrip has been ready for
the Trcasurer's signature since the 10Th.
and az that officer was notified on that day.
and two days subsequently that it awaited
his signature, parties who have called for
tie scrip and were compelled to leave with
out, left in mood anything but amiable.
Rev. Il. f. Butler, of Princeton. Indi.
ana having recently returned jrom bis gen.
erM mission, attended the Mt Olive asso.
cla'ion, in session in this city, and partici.
pated inits proceedings He will leave for
the north, by the Illinois Central on Mon.
day.
Constable John Shcehan has heard
in an indirect way, that his brother Mike
was drowned at New Orleans. durino
the recent storm that prevailed there
He was IN the act of stepping from n
barge toa steamboat or vice versa. and
missing his footing fell between, and
passed under the surface.
"A warrant was sworn out Yesterday
Tor the arrest OF boy, living within a
stones throw Of TnE BULLETIN office. The
affidavit charges that the boy in question
assalled smaller boy than himself and
gave him severe humping. THIS is an
alarming commencement be brouch,
up as law-breakcr, when only few wears
IN the teens.
--one Mary Barnharlt caused the arrest
OF Ed. Carter, a salesman in an un.town
grocery, yesterday, for "chuckinr" poto.
toes at her; and to settle all doubts tho,
might arise as to whether the potatoes had