The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-15

MIR: A. Nackle ana ianlly VIII ieav
this city tor Chicago.
Mrs. Mat. Fulton aud children left 70
Alton by steamer last night.
The Ayers case was yesterday dis
missed for want of prosecution.
The electro vapor baths of DR.. Marear
are sure cure for rheumatism.
County Clerk sam'l Humm was very
suddenly taken ill Sunday evening.
S. Z. Wilson is the lemon man Of
Cairo. See notice in special column.
Illinois is entitled to twenty-one cleo
toral votes in the approaching presidential
election.
Mayor Thistlewood is absent from the
city and will probably not return until
Wednesday.
John Clancy has been an active men,
Der of the Hibernian fire company tor
twenty years.
Read the new advertisement of the
Women's Club and Library association in
our special local column this morning.
The choir of ST. Joseph's church visited
Mound City Sunday and, we are told, in
nocently and thoroughly enjoyed itself.
The Alexander county Sunday school
convention meets in the Methodist church
this afternoon.
1t is expected that Prof. G. W,
Jerome, the president Of this, the Sixth
Sunday school distsict will arrive here this
afternoon.
Mr.. Newton Rice of Lancaster t. Rice,
lumber dealers, left the city yesterday for
Holly Springs and other southern cities on
a business trip for the firm.
Mrs. L. B. Church and her niece, Miss
Abbie Daniels went to Memphis on a pleas
ure trip last Saturday, guests of Capt.
Wise, of steamer James w. Gait
The Illinois Central will soon run an ex-
cursion train to Chicago 1--WE have forgotten
the date for which tickets will be sold at
the remarkably low price of $3.50 the
round trip.
A special meeting of the city council
will be held tonight for the purpose of
opening bids for the filling of certain
streets as well as bids for the furnishing of
sewer pipes.
Halliday Bros. will again start up their
mill as soon as a supply of wheat is re-
ceived. The damage which was done to
the mill by the late fire has been almost
entirely repaired.
--Ex-Aldsrman Kynaston has intro
duced the patent fans in his butcher shop,
near the corner of Twentieth and CONNER
cial and by keeping them in constant mo-
ton his shop keeps clear of flies.
The street committee,to which was refer
red the petition asking that the city put the
drive in st. Mays park in good condition,
have duly considered said petition and will |
comply Herewith by commencing work on
The drive to-day.
By reference to the time card OF Hi
,os Central railroad in another column
our readers will find following changes:
Express arrives at Cairo 1915 p. N. and |
accommodation at 400 p. IN. The time of |
Laying is A: 20 p. NJ, :l5 a. m. and 3 100 |
4. IN.
The prospective candidates Of the Na-
.ionsl party can repeat these lines with a
pathos that is sublime;
Howdy, howdy, howdy do:
How is your wife, and how are youy
All 1t fltsmy fist as no other can,
The horny hand OF the workingman.
-Messrs. Crane and Thistlewood, two of
.he committee appointed by the Hlbernian
ire company to solicit subscriptions, called |
ipon number of down town merchants
and succeeded in raising one
hundred and twenty-five dollars. BY thus
literally subscribing our merchants show
proper appreciation Of tie company and |
is intended undertaking. So mote it be.
Since the Alexander county Sunday
school convention meets in this city to-day,
and more or less OF our readers are inter.
ested in Sunday school work, the following
bit of news may be of interest: ILL
nois has 1919 Sunday schools, G5,804
teachers, and 566,9l1 scholars. In these
schools there are 10000 volumes, and
here are 1881 ,573 papers distributed an
nually.
Sheriff Hodges has begun the sale Of
lots and property upon which the taxes
have not been paid. A number of lots
were sold yesterday and the sale will con-
tinue to-day at o'clock and until all delln-
quent owners shall have been deprived of |
property worth hundreds, perhaps simply
because Of their failure to pay few dollars