The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-07

| noise and presenting spectacle that ar
| rested general attention.
Mr.. George G.. Witchert left for St.
Louis, last night, and will return in few
days with just such stock as is required
to meet the demands of the Cairo market.
He is determined to provide such cigars,
tobacco and smokers goods as the trade re-
Quires, and that of the very best that ready
money will procure. Watch out for his re-
turn.
George w. Norman, Esq, general trav-
cling agent and correspondent Of McGee's
illustrated Weekly, the only Catholic art
journal in America, is in the city soliciting
subscriptons,an and will remain several days.
A copy of the paper left with us exhibits
rare engravings, and is equal if not superior
in its typographical makeup to any other
illustrated journal published in New York,
The funeral train that is to convey the
remains of Doctor AFTER to Villa Ridge for
burial. will leave the loot of Tenth street at
half-past two o'clock this afternoon, the tu-
neral procession leaving the home Of de-
ceased on Tenth street, few minutes be-
fore that time. Services at the eouse at 2
p. M The friends of the family are invit-
ed to attend
We have heard it said that packages
Of cigar scraps-tobacco used as filters we
believe sent into Cairo from abroad, con-
tanned foreign substances that added more
10 the weight than the value. But there is
no cause for wonder in this. There is
gouging, deception, fraud or downright
villainy IN nearly all the business pursuits
oflite, nowadays the job-printing
and newspaper business.
| Capt. Hambleton was in St. Louis
the other day. and was called upon to un.
dergo the usual infiction of newspaper no
tees. twas he who purchased the Van
SAINT for the Illinois State Board of Health
If as the Times.Journsl says, the w. We:
started for her destination on Monday, sht
will doubtless be moored in the river above
the head of No. /, and in readiness for tht
reception of patients in few days.
MIR. Donnelly left his shop, Tuesday
evening, wearing his "in-door hat" Oh
serving the fact he sent his two little son
after his outdoor hat. Looking back, attel
the lapse of few minutes to see what hat
become OF them, he alleges that he saw Ma
Cox in the act of throwing one of then
from the sidewalk. He sued out warran,
for Coxs arrest, and the trial will probably
come on for hearing before Squire Coming:
to-day.
The regular annual meeting of the
members of the Widows and Orphans Aid
society, in the Reform Club room, was con
tinued over from Tuesday evening to yes
terday morning The attendance was very
fair and the proceedings harmonious. Mrs
P. A. Taylor president, presided Thirty
one directors were elected, and these di-
rectors elect the president, secretary and
treasurer and other officers-a duty that
will probably be performed at once.
-Tice and Mueller, in their forecasts of
the weather, fixed upon yesterday as the
hottest dayin the season--Tice unreservedly,
we believe and Mueller with the saving
clause, that if it didn't rain. And the day
set in with manifest purpose to verify the
the prediction. The score Of Tuesday was
81. that Of yesterday would scarcely have
fallen short of 100, had it not been for the
blessed rain that set in Just before one
o'clock.
The intelligence from Sproat's Arkan-
sas silver mines is confrmatory of that re-
ceived previously. Work upon the the shaft
has been suspended, and the force is busily
engaged putting up the machinery which
is arriving from New York. With crush
ing machine and smelling works ready for
operation, it is believed that Sproat will
soon send out true story about silver in
Arkansas that will excite establishment
everywhere. $50 mote 1t be-"
One of the deaths at Memphis Mon
day was that of Rev. Father Doyle, a Cath
olic clergyman who through all the terrors
of the plague had stood sturdily at his
post, nursing the sick, consoling the dy.
ing and ministering indefatigably to the
distressed Of the stricken city. AT last,
overcome by his noble labors, he fell vic
tim to the epidemic, and Monday his
martyr soul went to its reward, and his
worn out body was consigned to its last
resting place. The self-abnegation, the
devotion, the fidelity and the calm heroism
that we see in the life and death of such
man speak more for the halowinp influ-
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