The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-03
In AND AROUND THE CITY.

uenCe properly on SeVcnLeentn slIeet ID VI
tered for SALE Call on NJ. j. Howley.
In day or two we expect to resume
our usual line of editorial duty, from
which, for several days, our attention has
been seriously diverted.
There was dash Of rain at Hodges
park yesterday. 1t extended but a shor
| distance Cairoward, and didn't amount tc
much anyhow.
Read the communication signed /. A.
M. 1t is we'll written, and deserves a
reading at the hands OF every mother and
incautious young lady in the city.
Hon. John r. Thomas, our member of
Congress, and his family, were passengers
on the outgoing Illinois Central, yester-
day evening. They were ticketed for st.
Louis.
The evidence is all in, the testimony
all taken, and the verdict is that the
"Faultless,' sold by F. Korsmeyer is the
best 5 cent cigar ever brought to this
market.
w. G. jackson, late with Stratton &
Bird, has gone to st. Louis to take position
as travelling salesman for the great house OF
| Joseph Garneau & Co. He will travel
through the south this winter.
Tonight is the time fixed for the regular
monthly meeting of the Cairo Taxpayers
ASSOCIATION. BE on hand at 7 o'clock at the
Office of Squire Comings. Free lunch fol
| the members.
Quite number of Cairo people visited
Hodges park, yesterday, to meet theil
country neighbors and to make merry over
TIE fat things prepared for the occasion. A
large crowd was anticipated, and was there.
The Reform club meets this evening.
AS the newly elected officers enter upon Il
dischage of their duty, there will be inau-
curative ceremonies of an interesting char
acter, besides the regular programme OF
specch-making, singing, etc.
Our old friend and felew citizen, John
Fulton, is, we are pleased to observe,
comfortable settled in Columbus, Mississip-
pi, at the head of the Planters Mills--one
of the largest establishments of the kind in
that portion of Mississippi.
Capt. James Johnson, southern agent
of the Illinois Central, has moved his fami-
ly in from his farm, and taken possession
of the building recently vacated by the
family of Judge Baker. The moral atmos-
phere of the neighborhood attracts him.
An uptown shoemaker is manufact-
uring new pair Of patent leather boots.
The only thing remarkable about the cir
cumstance is the fact that, instead Of a
last, he is using bag of hickory nuts
Otherwise the maker couldn't accOmmo-
date the boots to the customers bunions.
"A couple Of gentlemen from Paducal
arrived in Cairo. yesterday, in search Of
d horse-thief. AS McCraken county has
suffered considerably from the RAIDS o.
horse thieves, of late years, 1t is not a very
congenial soil for the thieves who happen tC
be captured.
Capt Bird Of the Champion will keel
his boat at the landing tonight to give tn,
people of Cairo, old and young, an OPP
portunity to enjoy the last of these magniii
cent moonlight nights in a grand excursion
on the river. A general invitation is ex
tended to all.
/ Dick Young was dlsorderly becaus
he was full of whisky, as he is not an i'll
behaved man when sober. The whisk,
not being at hand to stand the brunt
| Richard was held responsible in person
and subjected to fine Of 81 and costs
He was sent over, in default Of payment
for seven days. Squire Comings did it.
--W.P. Smyth, ESQ., piloted by the famou
duck-shooter, Kelly, is securing the wood
and skirting the lakes Of Mississippi couu
| ty, on tramp for game. He promised t
detail his experience for the edifcaton of th
readers of THE BULLETIN, and upon tn
fulfllment Of the promise we are dispose
to insist, right along.
Mrs. Calvin Hawlcy, quite recently Mis-
Lizzie L. Lane, was thoughtfuly of I'll
BuLLTrEN in distributing her wedding cak,
Not on that account but on Miss Lizzie
own account we hope that she is most har
PLY married--.that she has won as good
husband as she deserves, and that he an
she may live long and prosper.
The G. g. V. company is constantly
= work lettering the condition of its roac
|, All along the line there are evidences {
substantial improvement in that respec
The new rails, now being put down, with