The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-14
GENERAL LOCAL ITEMS.

The National Board of Health will, if
a quorum Of members arrived, hold meet
ing IN this city tomorrow
The New York Police News illustrates
the murder of Charley AFTER. The fidelity
to details is not very striking.
One dollar will cure the aguc, jaundlce
or fevers if invested in one Of those Forbes
pads, sold only by Geo, O'Iiara.
Capt. G. 0. Paticr, Ey-Mayor Winter
and Mr.. John McNulty leave this morning
for short visit to the neighboring town of
Carmi.
Buy one dollar Forbes Pad, from
Geo. O'Iiara and cure your chills, 1t is
certain to do it and no medicine need be
taken.
The City Clerks Office sports fine
new desk worth fifty dollars at least, but
cost less than twenty-five. 1t was made by
Frank Schoembs at his shop on CONNER
cial avenue.
The transfer steamer McComb is re-
ceiving a new coat of paint. The wheel
house lettering is being remodeled, and the
top of the wheel houses are taking on a
coat of red
General city orders to the amount Of
$l,961.4 AZ, were redeemed by the city treas
urcr, during the month ofJuly, Cancelled
by the treasurer, they were subsequently
burned by the finance committee.
City orders for the allowances made
Tuesday evening are now IN readiness for
delivery and the city clerk would prefer
to deliver them at once, and not distribute
the work all through the month
The presence of that alligator in the
river in this nelghborhood, has had the eff
feet of keeping all cautious boys out of the
water. Cooper, Bailey & Co., will pay
$500 for It's recapture, alive.
We hear 1t stated that religious ser
vices in which the convict Glass will be
permitted to take part, will he held by the
colored people in the court house, next
Sunday. 1t Is not probable that Glass will
lie taken from his cell.
"A Cairo gentleman who participated in
the Ferry benefit ball in Mound City, Tues
day night, says there was good crowd
present very considerable delegation
being on hand from Cairo. He heard that
the ferry realized nearly 5000.
The wrccker E. A. Woodruff was at
work. yesterday, on the wreck of that una
bateable nuisance, the barge Thorpe. By |
means of the huge grapplers thrown across
the remaining fragments of the wreck, por
tons of it were drawn to deep water, not
however, without giving the folks on shore
a goodbye Whit of its foul odors.
Della Ramsey bright mulatto, puts
on style; but Hattie Fuller whom she owed
for making dress, made up her mind that !
Della shouldn'trespond to the call to come
across the river and You shall live like a
lady without work" until the making of
the aforesaid garment was paid for She
therefore sued, and by attaching Deia's
trunk delayed the trip "over the river Ia
Ia"
Seven coaches constituted the passen-
ger train on the Mississippi Central, yes
terday morning, five Of them filled with
blacks and two with whites When brought
to the top Of the incline. on tins side, they
were jerked, at full speed around the curve,
before stopping. 1t is said that the negroes
were bound KansaSward, on an inspection
tour, They came from Mississippi and
Louisiana.
AT the depot Of the Illinois Central
railraod, yesterday afternoon, were two corn
stalks from the Kentucky farm of Capt. W.
p. Halliday, One Of the stalks was 1G |
feet inches in heighth, and the other
(Which was boycd) was 81 feet in hcigth. |
They were addressed to p. Daggy, ESQ.
land commissioner OF the Illinois Central
railroad company, at Chicago The last
described stalk is no doubt the tallcst ever
grown anywhere. 1t will excite wonder
wherever shown.
Only a few OF the negro men commit |
ted to the city Jail as a punishment for
crime, care cent for the disgrace. They |
are furnished "frcc lodgings. free grub" |
and reasonably cool quarters, during the |
hot weather, and consider themselves rather
fortunate than otherwise. Can't some kind |
of work be provided for such fellows? The
work would prove THE terror that would |
keep them out Of the calaboosc. Rock
breaking, wood -sawing--apy k nd of work
that might be pursued inside the enclosure.