The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-05

DR. Wood is in St. Louis.
between the acts" cigarettes, whole
sale and retail, at F. KoIsmeyer's.
Judge Olmsted was in st. Louis yester-
day.
MIR. f. D. Rexford is in the city, from
Centralia
Mr.. r. W. Wheatley of DuQuoin, was
in the city.
Capt. Shields took the Narrow Gauge
for st. Louis Sunday,
DIR. Taber, father of Sim. Taber, is in
the city visiting his son.
Mrs. T. W. Halliday is Ill with an at
tack of chills and fever.
Between the acts cigarettes, whole
sale and retail, at F. Korsmeyer's.
Mr. VIM. Gholson and BRIDE arrived
on the Fowler, yesterday, from Louisville
Mrs. Harry Lcntz, of Paducah, came
down on the Fowler yesterday, to visit rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. H II. Candee is stopping at the
Park avenue hotel, in New York-where
he will remain for month.
All the school rooms with the excep-
ton of the high school were in full opera
ton yesterday The high school opens to-
day.
Paul II. Schulz. G. II. Jackson, j. Yer
non, Claude Winter and many other Cairo
young folks have gone to ST. Louis, to at
tend the fair.
The Cooking Club meets at the resi-
dence of Mr.. G. Close to indulge in a
social hop and the other pleasant past
times tonight.
The spiritual entertainment given at
the Atheneum Sunday night was well at
tended, and the audience tolerably well
pleased. The performance consisted en-.
tirely of slight of hand tricks.
The funeral of Henry Nc Roe, colored
barber, took place Sunday afternoon. 1t
was headed by cornet band and conducted
by the colored Slasons of the city, who
turned out numcrously and performed their
duty admirably,
Several tramps have been laying
around in the bottoms, near the point, for
some time and lived miserably. Yesterday
one of them, who had been sick for some
time, died from exposure, and the other is
also sick and likely to meet the same fate.
On Sunday, while Mr.. Frank Metcalf
and Miss Minnie Worthington were out
driving in the upper portion of the city his
horse became frightened and ran away, up
setting the buggy, breaking it,and seriously
bruising Mr.. Metcalf, Miss Worthngton
was uninjured.
MIR. VIM. Casey, an employ at Halli-
days warehouse, yesterday morning, recov-
cred the body of Mr.. Edwin Wood, who
was drowned few miles above the city
last Thursday night. His step-father, Mr..
L. p. Wilcox, of Anna, H., was notified
of the finding Of the body, which will be
taken to Metropolisfo for interment
Last Friday evening, in compliance
with the urgent and oit-repeatcd request to
the mayor, of the fire companies the new
hose, which had been lying in the Arab
company's engine house for some time, was
tested by Mr.. Charley Newman and found
to be unsatisfactory. 1t was guaranteed to
stand pressure of four hundred and fifty
pounds, but the first section bursted
at pressure of two hundred pounds,
and the others did likewise at a pressure
of two hundred and ten pounds, which
fact City Clerk Foley telegraphed to the
manufacturers Of the hose, but has not yet
received reply. The hose have been
allowed to lay in the engine house INFESTED
long time, and now that II il found
not to be wha, it should be, il is TO be
hoped that other hose will be speedily
obtained.