The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-30


night, which was well attended,
Mr.. VIM. McHale was engaged in SUI
pcrintending the surveying of some of Col
Tylors land, above the city, yesterday
Hence the scarcity of his handsome "phiz'
about town.
One of the greatest shows on earth
will be here to-day. Who does not know
old John Robinson, and who that ever at
tended one of his exhibitions and came
away Disappointed
Yesterday while the Gus Fowler was
on her way to this city, one of her deck
hands was drowned. The boat was stopped
as soon as possible, but he had sunk before
this could be done.
--Messrs Devore and Lame have finished
the construction of the sidewalk on Six
teenth, beyond Cedar, and are now recon-
structrg' the walk on Walnut, between
Seventh and Eighth streets.
The sacrament Of tho, lords supper
will be administered in the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath morning. Prepa-a-
tory services will be held on Saturday
evening.
The more ratification returns come in
the better the thing looks. The Hancock
boom, the people now find out, is the only
real boom that has ever struck the count. =.
All other booms have been mere aelusior'.
1t has been ascertained by actual count
that there are in this city titty-three young
men who will cast their first ballot at the
coming election. Of these fifty-three, only
four are Repubicans-the remaining forty
nine are rock-rooted Democrats.
The man who was stabbed in the back
by negro woman day before yesterday,
left for his home in Columbus, KY, yester-
day. He was unable to identify any of tie
women who had been arrested on suspicion
and they were therefore released.
The Atlanta Constitution doesn't agree
with the argument put forth by some Re-
publican journals that Garfield, because he
was honest when baby, is incorruptible
now. It's impossible to give the indepen.
dent voter enough of that sort of taffy tc
satisfy him.
Two white men named, respectively
John Carly and Joseph Smith, were arrest.
ed by Officer Wins yesterday for drunken
ness. They were found guilty of the
charge by Justice Olmsted, before whom
they were tried and fined the usual one
dollar and costs. They went to jail and
VIII work out their fine.
Cadet Whitaker and Col. Freddy
Grant attracted very large share of pub
lie attention few weeks ago. Freddy was
particularly conspicuous on account OF his
foolish chatter about his father. Both
Freddy and Whitaker are now almost as
completely forgotten as if they were dead.
Such is fame.
The members of kolloch's church in
San Francisco has declared, by resolution
that he Is "proper laborer in the Lords
vineyard" and they propose to stick to
him, however, many improper little love af-
fairs it may be shown he has INDUCED in.
Kalloch is fortunate In having such loyal
church in this his hour Of trial-in fact
Kaloch has had great deal Of luck.
The Republican convention, to be
held for the purpose of nominating con-
dldate to represent the Eighteenth con-
gressional district In congress, will meet in
Du Quoin on Thursday, July Goth. John
r. Thomas will be the man who will be
nominated on that day, and defeated on
the End day of November by our candidate,
the Hon. VIM. Hartzell.
The Mystic z 'ew, having been solici'
ted by the Hibernian Fire company to take
part in their procession on the 4th of July
has decided to do so, and notified the com.
pany, through its proper officer, 10 that eff
feet. In view of tits fact it is safe to con.
clude that the procession will be a grand
one and the entire Hibernlan celebration
the most attractive one in the city. Hence
it devolves upon all persons who would en-
courage home enterprise to 60 to the
park to celebrate the 4th.
Old John Robipson's model monster
entertainment invites criticism, and chal-
lenges comparison. There is nothing like
it on the road. Two exhibitions will be
gwen to-day. The grand pavilion in the
evening will be illuminated by the new
and wonderful Brush electric light" a
grand show of itself The troupe com.
prises 100 star artists, and the menagelit
embraces so dens and cages, containing
rare and wonderful animals, birds and rep
tiles from all paris of the globe. One Gu