The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-30

themselves lie has secured some OF the
best actors, actresses, musical
talent and tricksters in the
country and will this evening open his
place of amusement to the public,
AS will be seen from notice in an
other column Rev. A. Mann, a dcaf.mute,
will hold services in the Episcopal church
on Monday, the 10th proximo, in the Ian
guage of the dcaf-mutes 1t being the first
opportunity ever offered our citizens here to
witness something OF this kind, and the OBJ
jcct being in part to draw forth q small
contribution to- very worthy cause, we
have no doubt that our citizens will turn
out in force,
We desire to apprise the public Of the
fact that the programme at the Reform club
tonight will be one OF unusual interest.
The ladies will conduct the meeting and,
although they are capable Of furnishing
very entertaining exercises, they will be as
sisted by the Reform club which has pro.
cured several able speakers for the occasion,
This being the case the exercises will be
doubly interesting, and the meeting should
be alarge one.
We regret exceedingly to hear Of the
serious illness of Mr.. Frank Mctcalf, son of
our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr.. James II.
Metcaf. He is at Ann Arbor where dur
ing the past three years he has made re-
markable progress as medical student
and has gained many honors. His aiIment
is neuralgia and so very serious is it that he
will, if able, return to this city next week,
with the hope that the change of climate
may, in part at least effect a cure.
1t is with pleasure that we this morn
ing surrender space for Linwoods poem.
1t is, as her poems always are, full of the
choicest thoughts elegantly expressed
and evinces-but we will say no more, tor
we once undertook to do her justice by be.
slowing deserved praise and thereby fright
ened her off, and hereafter we propose to
"lay low If thereby we may be more fire.
quently favored with her productions.
The little unpleasantness which occur.
red in California the other day was not
such as to deter Mayor Kalloch, the father,
from indulging In his usual relaxation
While the body Of the slaughtered De
Young was being taken to the grave, tins
Official of Frisco was dashing
along the drives behind spanking team
with his wife. And the son was lying in a
cell. Surely it is in that glorious climate,
and not in Southern Illinois, that man
can enjoy life.
Mr.. Jim Greaney, the gentlemanly pro-
pretor of the saloon and boarding house
on the corner of Nineteenth and CONNER.
cial, day before yesterday received through
the postoflice, from St, Louis, package
containing sixty tickets for the rafting of
a valuable black mare. The amount which
will be realized by this scheme will be sent
to the stricken Irish in the old country, and
this being the case, we give publicity to
the fact that Mr.. Greaney has the tickets
for sale, free gratis and without being re-
Quested to do 50.
Not having been present at the enter
given for the benefit OF the Ia
dies Of the Library Association. last night,
we cannot speak from positive knowledge
Of the affair But one who did attend, and
who is a competent Judge Of such things,
nhcsltatingly pronounces it one of the best
entertainments OF the kind that has ever
been given Judging from the talent that
to it, we cannot help but believe
that or informant spoke the truth, and we
have no doubt that the affair turned out
to all concerned.
-"Rclatvc to physical beauty, our
American women possess merely beauty Of
face, almost never Of form Unfortunately.
the drying, irritating effects of the climate
and of American life cause the carly loss Of