The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-05-04

We yesterday received the first number
OF the Daily Boom, published in Muir
physboro by F. Weber Benton. The Daily
Boom will not assist the Grant boom o,
any other political boom, but will, as Mr.
Benton says, boom only for the business Of
the burg in which it is published. II is
small publication, but neat and spicy, and
being such, we hope that Bcnton's boomer
may safely pass through its childhood and
youth-rcach ripe old age and live on
after his death.
"A large number Of young ladies and
gentlemen partook of their first comnu-
mon in ST. Patrick's church Sunday last
They were those who have been recently
confirmed in the Catholic faith. A very
cordial invitation having been received
from Father Becker, the Catholic priest of
Mound City, to the effect that the young
gentlemen should take dinner with him on
Monday, Father MaSterson, with nineteen
of The young men went to Mound City
yesterday to fulfill the engagement.
Cairo is now about the most peaceabe
city on the continent. Thieves have been
arrested or ran out of town, drunkenness
has been checked and immoral characters,
of various grades, have been suppressed.
You can promenade unarmed all over Cairo
any hour of the night and not be interrupt
ed-not even by policemen we were about
to say, but won't. The time was when
| such an excursion was more or less hazard
GUS even when you carried on armory or
arsenal about your person.
Our esteemed friend, the republic of
Mexico, has just laid upon the tables of
some Of our countrymen u number OF dis
tinguished watermelons. This beats Latt-
ner, Klein, hendell, or any of our Cairo
gardeners. Our esteemed friend-the re-
public-can raise watermelons and reyolu.
tions earlier and oftener than we can-good
watermelons and bad reyolutions-un
the melons, nearly always picked before
they are ripe. But the sun is warm there
and everything must be done early in the
day.
Under the laws Of 1879, it is unlawful
for any person or persons to catch or kill
fish commonly known as game fish in any
of the small creeks, ponds water courses,
etc, in the state, with any seive, net, wire,
or any other device, other than hook and
line from the fifteenth day Of February to
the fifteenth day Of June Any one viola
ting this law can, on complaint OF any per-
son before a justice Of the peace, be fined
sum not less than five dollars nor more than
thirty dollars. This law will be the means
of preserving and multiplying the fish in
small streams, making it more of pleasure
to 90 on little fishing excursions occasion.
ally.
Tell it not in Gath! 4 Republican |
color line has been drawn in Georgia. |
Some Of the mgh-toned leaders OF the |
party in that state, opning that the dicta.
torial tone assumed by the colored element
was rather too strong diet for their delicate
stomachs, have started a little party of
their own, which will be free from the OBJ
jectionable negro rule The party will
undoubtedly be respectable. The quality
is assured; the lacking element, however,
seems likely to be quantity. Whatever
may be the outcome Of this new departure,
Republican papers will do we'll to say as
little as possible about color lines in the
south.
George Brown is the second cook of
the ST. Charles hotel and Willie Crump is
the bell boy of the same establishment.
Both are colored and both were before
Squire Robinson yesterday for creating a
Chief La Hue had brought
them into court and it came out during the
trial that the disturbance of which they
were accused was caused by the second
cook assaulting and striking the bell boy.
The assault having been quite Sc.
we're one, the bell boy had not sub.
United to it with the proper grace. The
The second cook plead guilty, was fined
five dollars and costs, and after paying the
same was permitted to depart in peace.
"A horse attached to q dray, both be.
longing to Stephen Bradley, and at the
time in charge Of Henry Britton, became
frightened near the Tenth street pump
about | o'clock yesterday afternoon and
dashed down the avenue at fearful rate.
In front Of Capt. Williams residence it
took the sidewalk, tearing down hitchng
posts, SCATTERING tree stumps and tree boxes
n its wild career and running madly down