The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-03

greatly TO It's advantage, ana certainly 10
the improvement Of appearances.
- Ladies and children are especially in
terested in the matinee this afternoon.
Doors open at 9 o'clock, Prices are re-
duced to twenty-five cents to all parts OF
the house.
The collector will continue his rounds
among the members of the Taxpayers Asso-
ciatien to-day, on lookout for their
monthly dues. Collections are made bl-
monthly.
AT the hour of two o'clock this after
noon the Democracy of Alexander county
will meet in the court house to select SIX
delegates to the Judicial convention that is
to convene in Cairo on the 9th instant.
In stock speculation, a thousand dollars
are sometimes made from an investment of
one hundred Send to Alex. rockingham
& Co., brokers, 10 Wall Street, New York,
for their Weekly Financial Report, sent
free.
Leo Kleb is putting a thirty foot addi-
ton to the rear OF his brick residence
property on Sixth street. When completed
it will add considerably to the value Of the
property as we'll as to its convenience as a
home.
The victims OF the ill-fated A G. Don
nelly have all recovered and lett the hos
pital, except one man, who had his leg bro
ken in two places, and he has so far recov-
cred as to be able to walk out in the city
every day.
Caroline lewis, coored, was the sub
iect of second "LUNATIco INQUIRENDo,'
so to speak, before Judge Yocum, yester-
day, was adiudged, by the jury, undoubt-
edly insane, and fit subject for the insane
ASYLUM. She will be forwarded to Anna as
soon as room is made for her.
In answer to several parties who are
anxious to know, and particularly to
"Albata," who submits written inquiry,
we have to say that the effort to raise
money by subscription to aid the re-erec-
ton of the Loretto Academy building, has
been indefinitely postponed, Just when
our citizens will be waited upon in that be-
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half, we do not know.
johnny Lampert, who, after the death
Of his father, propretored barber shop on
Eighth street, is now n citizen Of Marshall
town, Wyoming territory. Prof. Hardy re-
ceived a reminder Of johnny, the other day,
in the shape Of some fine specimens Of
Wyoming gold-bcaring quartz, silver ore
and curious stones, which are subject to the
inspection Of the curious.
On the Sth day of the present month
the temperance people of Cairo will join in
an excursion to and picnic at Glen Fern, a
romantic spot in Johnson county, on the
line of the Cairo d Vincenncs railroad
The fare will be made so low that every
body will be able participate; and should
the day be propitious, single locomotive
will scarcely draw the excursion train.
1t was current on the streets yesterday,
that the car that plunged into the river
from the transfer steamer, was filled with
tramps, and that every one of them was
drowned. The rumor had no foundation
in fact. Three cars became detached, and
two Of them came to stand still on the
boat. In the third car seven tramps had
housed themselves, but all Of them escaped
uniniured
Yesterday morning, while the engine
was drawing a lot of freight cars up the in
cline, three rear cars became detached and
doshing down the incline at furious rate
one of them passed over the transfer steamer.
carried the bumper away, plunged into the
river and disappeared OF course, the cars
once detached, it was in therivcr in less
than half minute. The workmen there
had no time had they had the means,
either to check It's Roadway or throw it
from the track.
Gentlemen who sell patterns and take
subscribers to fashion magazines are, as a
rule, splendid judges of woman nature
They have winning story to tell; "Wc
have just taken the names of four or five
of your nearest neighbors, who declare they
are delighted, " etc. and that fixes" the
woman addressed. She gives her name at
once and in like manner he capturesall the
women who move on the same plane, in
the neighborhood. The impulse to "keep
even" with her ncighbors is one that few
women can resist.
Thomas Higgins, whose arrest and
confinement in the county Jail to await the
arrival Of an officer fWm st. Louis. we no.
ticed, yesterday, is manitestly bad man
As before stated, he escaped from the
charge Of an officer who was conveying him
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