The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-29
IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

The change in the weather has served
to improve DR.. Artcr's condition very ma
terially.
Three cases of yellow fever have de-
veloped among the crowd that passed up
on the Coahoma. How many will follow
time only can determine.
Mrs. PA. Conant gave birth to twins,
Sunday. Only one of the little ones sur
: yiycd the ordeal of birth and that only Tor
few minutes. The mother is doing well.
John Petrie having failed to respond
to inspector Wooten's order to dislniect and
fumigate, the inspector did the work him
self, yesterday, and did it very thoroughly.
Marshal La Hues family is in Vim
cennes, and will remain there during the
balance of the Summer. Miss Kate Sulli-
van will also spend her summer in Vincen-
mes.
The I. c. r. r. has issued new time
card, that went into effect yesterday. Pas
senger trains leave Cairo at 40 p. m. and
8 10 a. m. The time of arrival is 400 p,
m. and 4 :05 q. IN.
Mr.. Thomas Lewis, secretary of the
Widows and Orphans Aid society, of this
city, made the assessment yesterday for the
18th death, second class, that has occurred
among the members since the organization
of this society.
In stock speculation, thousand dol
lars are sometimes made from an invest
mcnt of one hundred. Send to Alex.
rockingham g. Co., brokers, IL Wall
Street, New York, for their Weekly Finan-
cial Report, sent free.
Capt. Jim johnson, recently danger
ously sick man, has so far recovered as to
"be about again." and is expected in the
city to-day. His ailment is said to have
been a severe attack of inflammation of the
stomach and bowels
The language of 'Strct Quarantine"
whose communication appears elsewhere,
is strong; but he is only one of the great
multitude of people who hold that the sit
$ uation IS one Of great peril, and that our
s means for protection are wholly insufficient
: The alarm of fire was sounded, Sun
day. because of the discovery of an incipi-
ent confagration in the residence of Mr.
), Gibson, nearly opposite the Catholic
church, on Washington avenue. The fire
n was communicated to the building from an
+ impcrfectly protected stove pipe.
S Among other reports current, yester-
day, was one to the effect that a purse of
500 was being provided, and, in due time
it would be given to the man who, in ten
mile match should prove himself the fleet
, est pedestrian. Such a prize would develop
Westons and O'Lcarys without number.
The suspicious CASE in the vicinity
of Fourteenth and Walnut, that created so
much uncasiness, yesterday, was case in
which no fever Of any kind was involved.
The woman had suffered about four weeks
from an attack of bloody ux, which finally
brought on miscarriage. This is the
whole story.
Mr.. NJ B. Hester, better known as
Bony Hester, has effected the purchase of
Touring mill at Wingo Station on the
Memphis and Paducah railroad, and will
leave Cairo for that point to-day, with the
view of taking immediate control. Mr..
Hester had, for a long time, been connected
with the mills OF Messrs. Green, Wood and
Bennett, of Cairo.
4. Thirteen new cases and three deaths is
the report sent out from Memphis yesterday
Twenty cases and nine deaths the day be-
fore There is certainly nothing in such
news as that to disarm vigilance or alay
apprehension. The danger is as grcatns 1t
ever was, and must be guarded against
with increased care and watchfuness. In
, our case unhagging vigilance is the price
of life.
Something over two full car loads OF
Cairo folks made the Sunday excursion to
Ninccnnes. 1t was delightful trip, save
h in the fact that the return of the train was
| delayed five or six hours beyond the fixed
X time. The delay is said to have been &C.
!. casioned by the continued heating of the
boXcs--a fact that put veto on lightning
time. The train returned about daylight
yesterday morning.
: The negro man, Henry Clay, to whom
We allude elsewhere, confessed to officer
Schuckers, that he is an escaped convict
and owes the state Of Missouri eleven
r months and twenty seven days service.
c "lou dropped down on. u S75 chicken
0 when you dropped down on me- said Mr..
| hat y,,I l.