The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-02

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sixty passengers tor Chicago yesterday
morning.
The market here il well supplied with
all scasonablc fruits, chickens, eggs, butter,
vegetables, etc,
Five hundred bushels choice northern
peach blow potatoes for sale by G. NJ. AL
den, No. rs Ohio levee.
The city Jail contains only six prison
ers. Of these two are colored women, two
black and two white men,
Farmers are nearly all busy now,
either blowing their corn or taking care OF
the wheat which is ripe and ready to cut.
"A party of ladies and gentlemen made
a very pleasant trip to Missouri and Ken.
lucky on the Three States yesterday, after
noon.
There was very little business transac-
ted in any of the police courts yesterday,
Magistrate Olmsted tried two or three
triffling cases.
The invitations are out for leap year
party to be given at the st. Charles Hotel
next Friday night by the Cairo High School
graduating class for 1880.
AT the meeting of the W. G. and l..
A., to be held this Wednesday p. M, the
life and writings of William Cullen Bryant
will be the subject Of discussion.
"A few loads of gravel, or little level
ing up would prove beneficial to certain
portions Of Levee street, particularly be-
tween Eighth and Fourth streets.
On Monday evening last an officer
from Ballard county, Kentucky, arrived in
the city, having in charge negro, captur-
ed at Metropolis, and wanted IN Ballard
county on charge of larceny.
The sidewalk on the south side Of
Washington avenue between Fourteenth
and Eighteenth streets, is in most diapi-
dated condition, and unless soon rebuilt or
repaired will fall Of its own weight
The work of repairing the new county
road will be commenced this morning,
when large force of laborers will be put
to work. limits present condition the road
is worse than no road at all--belng prac-
tically impossible for teams.
Wheat harvest is now in full blast in
Southern Illinois, and reports from every
quarter pronounce the yield large and the
quality of the wheat excellent The acre.
age to be harvested this year is said to be
fifteen per cent larger than in any former
year
The Central Archery club will meet
this evening" six O'Clock, at the old meeting
place. Locust grove, reorganize, appoint
officers, anu prepaIe -. cummar con.
paign. Members are all expected to be
present with their artillery and ammuni.
ton.
Captain Tom TAR received yesterday
from Gainesville, Penn, pair of Jersey
Red"pigS, of which he is justly proud, He
will take them to his place, at Wolf Island,
preparatory to carrying OFT the prize at the
Charleston fair next fall. The Jersey
Red" is new breed Of heavy hogs. Some
Of them tip the beam at 900 pounds, and a
700 pound shoat is not an unusual thing in
drove. Captain Tom is our authority for
this.
St Mary's park is not the place to
pasture stock, and by the time few more
persons are arrested and fined for turning
horses and mules into the park the fact
will be pretty well understood. The park,
with proper care and attention, will, within
a few years, be well shaded, for the young
trees are all growing nicely, but ii it is to
be used rs pasture before the season is
over there will not be q young tree left
standing,
Yesterday at about one o'clock Jack
Adams, a colored man who lives in one Of
the wooden buildings facing the railroad
strip" between Eighth and Tenth streets,
took his basket ON his arm and started. to
market When he reached the sidewalk
near Squire Comings' office on Eighth
street, he fell, and when those who were
nearest at the time went to him he was still
breathing; but expired before his body
could be removed to his home. He is sup.
posed to have died Of heart disease.
Residents in certain portions of the
city, notably on Washington avenue below
Sixth street, are moving with the veiw ot
cleaning out the bawdy houses that intest
that portion Of the city When the grand
jury meets next month we expect to see a
goody number OF the inmates OF these
dcns taken into camp. For years the PEG.
pie Of the locality have been annoyed by