The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-10-21
IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

Builder is getting things in shape in his
new business place and will be ready to
open next Thursday.
The great St. Louis circus Is rapidly
perfecting an organization. 1t will give
its enitial exhibition, we hear, in the town
Of Charleston. 1t is organizing on an ex-
tensive scale,
There is fortune in store for the pub
Usher of paper who can contrive to give
every mans advertisement position at the
head of column next to reading matter,
and trouble for the one that can't do it.
DIR. Kane, an old theatrical agent, well
acquainted with the Caro- newspaper men
of Hull's and Marshalls and Bradsby's
time, called at The BULLETIN Office yester-
day, for the sake "auld lang syne."
Why do men smoke more IN cool, than
in hot weather. We are led to make this
inquiry by the enormous quantities of the
"Faultless" cigar sold by F. Korsneyer. II
may be only because everybody buys the
"Faultless" now.
DIR. Gibbs OF Thebes, is in the field as
a candidate for county commissioner. He
is gentleman of education, good practical
sense, and would make most efficient, an
entirely honest and conscientious commits
sioner. His announcement will appear in
to-morow's paper.
j. E. STEELE, colored, proven guilty of
disorderly conduct, yesterday, Squire Com
ings fined him IS and costs, and consigned
| him to the cooler. Pete Dickerson, also
colored, for the same offence, was subjected
to the same punishment by the same officer
Daniel Franklin and Benjamin Web
ster got drunk and Squire Comings fined
franklin 81 and costs, which Mr.. Franklin
paid Webster was fined So and costs, and
immurred in the labyrinthian confines of
the CAIRO calaboose.
The Pomeroy troupe will have a rous-
ing house this evcning-one that will incite
the troupe to its best efforts. At supper
time last night over a hundred re-
seryed seats had been sold, and the proba-
bilities are that as many more will be sold
to-day. To be numbered among the ELI
gibly seated, secure seats this morning.
The attempt to burgarlize county
clerk Humms dwelling house, early yester-
day morning, was not a success. An old
blunderbuss that scattered about quart of
squirrel shot about the head and ears OF the
would-be burglar, was the chief obstacle the
rascal encountered. He might have stood
the quart, but he didn't know but that the
next shot would let fly bushel.
Charles O'Conner was escorted to
Squire Robinson's Office, yesterday, to an.
swer the charge Of drunkenness. He had
no excuses to offer; no eXtenuating circum-
stances to plead. He had been drunk, and
the cursed drunk, being of the tenacious
kind, showed for itself, Charles was fined,
but cvincing willingness to shake the
dust of the city from his feet, he was given
stay" and availing himself Of It, lit out.
Our information to the effect that
Koeher had insurance on his sausage fac
tory, was, We are sorry to say, erroneous.
He didn't have dollar Of insurance on
anything, and has nothing in the world to
show for his building and its contents, but
pile of ashes. But Fred is one of the men
who are not crushed by misfortune. lie
declares purpose to rebuild at once, and
to have his establishment operating again
at the earliest possible moment. There is
nothing of the "letting- down or "giying-
up" element in Fred's composition.
The railroad trains running from Pa
ducah to the fair grounds, about one mile
and quarter out from the city, practlccd
a gouging game that should be guarded
against IN the future. Visitors to the fair
grounds, we are told, were charged fifteen
cents each way, or at the rate of twelve
cents mile. The citizen Of Metropolis
who visited the fair, paid the packet 10
cents for q 10 mile ride to paducah
Reaching Paducah he was compelled to pay
the same amount for riding by rail, one and
a quarter miles to the fair ground. This
was denounced as cxtortion, and is not de.
serving, in our opinion, of mider dcsig.
nation.
The Louise Pomeroy troupe will give
the people Of Cairo, this evening, the full
dramatizatlon of SOLVER Twist" the full
five acts, excluding nothing that adds to the
completeness of that most interesting and
moral-pointed drama. Mrs. Pomeroy will
assume the role of Nancy sykcs-a charac.
ter in which she is sad to excel any lady on
the American stage. Mr.. W. II. Leake, an