The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-21

seriously i'll, yesterday, from a violent at
tack of cholera morbus.
On Sunday, the Goth instant, the l. NJ.
R. r, Co. will reduce the gauge of its road
to four feet, eight and onc-half inches.
Notice OF the Doctors convention in
Sparta. will appear tomorrow. Nearly
a column of local matter necessarily LAID
over.
We heard yesterday that Mr.. P saup
had purchased the building lately vacated
by DR.. Schulz, and now occupied by Messrs.
Burger & Co.
George Koehler, son of john and
salesman with Goldstine & Rosenwater, left
the city Thursday, for Hot Springs where
he goes for the benefit Of his health.
The first invoices of new -four received
in this city, this year, came in yesterday
morning over the c. & V railroad. The
lucky consignees are VIM. Lonergan and
Messrs. c. Pink & Co.
Cedar chests at the low price of 50
here in Cairo, is surprise 10 our citizens
as well as people from Nashville where
the lumber to make them is obtained, but
that is all Lancaster & Rice ask for them.
| The agents of the post office depart
ment who visited Cairo to listen to stories
pro and con about Cairo's postmaster, abide
among us no longer. The conclusions at
which they arrived, or the character of the
facts they gathered will not be made
public.
Il am using one of Lancaster & Rice's
Elevators and Purifng pumps in my els
tern. 1t improves the water very much.
perceived change inside Of three days,
and most heartily recommend it.
G. D. WILLIAMSON.
We are reliably informed that some of
customers of Alex. rockingham & Co.,
brokers, 10 Wall Street. New York, have
made $500 within 80 days, from an invest
ment of about 500. rockingham & Co.,
are thoroughly reliable. Send for their
Weekly Financial Report, sent free
For some time past number Of very
noisy and foul.mouthed boys have been in
the habit Of collecting, after night fall, in
the vicinity of Twelfth and Washington.
They became so intolerabie THURSDAY night
the police dispersed the crowd,for which act
all well disposed people in the neighbor-
hood give thanks.
We hear talk OF a new ferry from Mis-
souri, to Kentucky. 1t was our opinion
that the Greenfield ferry company controll-
ed the exclusive right 10 several miles of
the Missouri shore, and that. without tina.
company's consent, an opposition ferry could
not be established. In this however, we
may be mistaken,
From all that We can gather the exam
inatien into the postoffire affair, made by
the special agents, very nearly approached
the farcial. Nobody was put under oath,
and we Judge from the intimations we have
received, that there was not a tenacious
clinging to the truth, on the part of all het
witnesses, for that very reason,
1T is said that we are indebted to the
Champion AMI Fisk for the whistle music
of Thursday-that the noise signalized the
| termination of race that the officers of
OF both boats were anxious that everybody
should see. 1t wouldn't horrify US in the
least to hear that both these boats had
bowed up--their whistles, into thousand
fragments.
The first peaches and blackberries of
the season made their appearance in mar
ket, yesterday If people will have fruits
and berries during hot weather, when
groans from bilious collie and cholera NOR
bus victims can be heard in every neigh
borhood in the city, it is thought that ripe
peaches and strawberries are the least harm
less that can be obtained.
"A. Murphy is the name Of the individ-
ual who so far forgot his manhood and the
respect due the other sex, that he grossly
abused and vilifcd Mrs. OCallahan, who
keeps the boarding house at the corner Of
Fourteenth and Lcvec. Mrs. orc. caused
Murphys arrest yesterday, and Squire
Robinson fined him s. and costs, which he
will pay by nine days stay in the Gala
boosc.
Mrs. Grant, one Of the turbulent trio
that kicked up such rumpus Wednesday
night in the Breuchcr house, was brought
out for trial, yesterday; and the city attor-
ney being satisfied that the case was not
one that demanded prompt and vigorous
prosecution postponed the trial until some
future time. Should Mrs. G.. keep herself
on her good behavior the existing charge Is