The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-08-28


thousand hungry men are being made, and
the indications are that the thousand hun
CRY men will be there to do justice to the
arrangements.
Mr.. and Mrs, S. p, Bennett leave the
city, to-day, for a soiourn at the famed
Perry Springs in Pike county. They go
for the benefit of Mr.. Benefits health.
Perry Springs is a very popular resort for
nvalids, is a beautiful location, and affords
excellent accommodations to visitors.
The fact that all the Stops gathered
from the fifteen hundred homes of the city,
are hauled to the outskirts and thrown
away, ought to suggest to some cnterprisng
chap the establishment of hog.fattcnng
yard There is an abundance ofslop hauled
out the city to tatten two or three hnn-
bred hogs, Big thing, for somebody.
We heard it stated on the streets. YES.
terday, that Chrissy lIanny, whose financial
s'raight8 seem so unpromising, will pro-
badly work through his troubles, and have
a small margin left for himself. THE
BULLETIN, with his hosts of friends, hope
that these coniectures may prove well
grounded.
The Street Superintendent gang was
at work yesterday digging bitches and
banking up the earth so as to prevent the
"hooding ofthe lower levels of the build.
ngS on Commercial below Ninth street and
on Washington for few doors below
Tenth, All of which is very proper work
for the city to perform.
Thomas MCCabe, a steamboat hand,
WAS taken before Squire ComingS, ycstcr-
day, to answer charge of drunkenness and
disorderly conduct H. explained it all
away but one dollars worth, and that sum
was charged up to Inn. Expressing a
willingness to leave the city; the squire
gave him n reasonable stay OF execution to
enable him to do so.
Over three months ago John Haggi
koehlcr's Swiss sausagemaker, cut his LEG
with knife with which he was whiting
Not bcstowing much attention upon the
wound, at the time, il became infamcd,
and has kept HIM confined ever since He
is said to be improving now, but at one
time his lite was held to re in the most i'm
minent peril.
Another brace of wantons were
= arrested for street Walking. lsley
were able to mike it ap
pear, however, that they were abroad
to attend to family matters, and were,
therefore, discharged We have heard
much talk, of late, because of the bawds
that throng the streets and their
brazen bearing.
No steam was raised in the box
factory, yesterday, because Of the letting
down Of the engine. As the construction
of log way is in progress that would
soon have nccessitatcd temporary cutting
off of Steam the letting down happened
quite opportunely. Fnll operations will
be resumed in day or two.
Mr.. Geo Crosby of Troy, ONO, was in
the city yesterday, and called on the BULLE-
TIN Mr. Croslcy is travelling for DR., White
of indianapolis, taking oMers for medicines
and making contracts for advertising. He
is the right man for the Doctor--is about
the lvest agent that has struck the BULLE-
TIN office in long time.
One of the rules of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad excludes fourlegged dogs
from the passenger cars. In utter contempt
of this rule, large, broad.shouldcred bull
dog, with red, lolling under lip, entered the
cars at Chicago, the othe' day, and appro-
priatcd whole seat, near the center of the
car, and rode upwards Of hundred miles.
The conductor respected the animals mean
ing smile, and didn't attempt to disturb him.
From an exchange we learn that hug
. ging sociabcs are soon to be held in vari-
e Gus parts Of johnson county. 1t is pro-
posed to charge ten cents to hug any young
lady between 10 and 20 years old; fifteen
b. cents for any between 20 and 30; twenty
five cents for young widows; one dollar to
hug another mans wife; old maids, two for
i, a cent, and white female lecturers free, with
chrome thrown in.
"A negro boy, seventeen or eighteen
years of age, known by the cognomcn Of
General Grant fell ,afoul of small white
boy, yesterday, and beat him savagcly and
severely. The great inequality in the age
and size of the boys renders the affair pecu-
liarly appravatinU The mother of fine