The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-01-10
LOCAL REPORT.



ST. Charles Hotel has accepted the steward
ship of the Planters House.
We see from our exchanges that LEAF
year parties, given by the young ladies' are
just now exceedingly popular
Quite strong wind prevailed yester
day evening and it was very generally vel
coined, since it had tendency to dry oul
muddy streets
A letter from DR.. W. K. Smiths
family in New Orleans to the Doctor,
brings the gratifying intelligence that his
son is improving rapidly
A few of the members composing the
fire department met in the council chamber
last night, but no quorum being present no
business was transacted.
The king of cigars is the "FaultIess, or
may be it is queen, only ) cents for cigar
worth ten, sold by F. Korsmeyer, Ohio
LevGe, corner Sixth street.
A select social dance was held in the
hall of the Hibernian engine house last
night. twas well attended, and, AS might
have been expected, the enjoyment was
bOundless.
-Hoggarth. who gave quite an enter
tanning pantomime exhibition at the Athe-
neum some time ago, Is now in Cincinnati
in all probability following his old bust
ness.
That "butcher and dog and lawyer
story has started on its rounds again, sure
enough, and will be in all the patent in
sides" in the country before the month is
out
The Hibernian fire company will give
their annual ball on Wednesday evening,
February 4th, The executive committee
was appointed to make the necessary ar
rangement at the last meeting Of the com
pany.
When Il newspaper paragraph opens IN
language as soft a. the bosom Of love, and
AS sweet as the tinklc of woodland brook,
it is always safe to conclude that the virtues
of some patent medicine are harnassed onto
tho end
Mr.. NJ f. McCammon, the gentleman
who keeps the butcher shop on Washington
near the corner of Tenth. was been APP
pointed weigh master in Mr.. Sanders
stead. He will doubtless give the scales
proper attention,
Water, collected in the low places,
can be seen all over the city, but since the
river is still rising there is little hope Of
getting it out of the city for some time to
come. The river rose one foot and eleven
inches yesterday,
The BULLETIN job Office yesterday
printed the invitations for a hop to he gwen
at the lIibcrnian engine house next Thurs.
day evening, by the Egyptian Social Club.
This will be strictly select party and per
sons receiving invitations may consider
themselves specially honorcd.
jim Orange was on another Of his
crazy drunken sprccS last night and witt,
| Blddy under him, he felt like a man on q
'high horse" and acted accordingly. The
fellow is an ntoerabc nuisance when drunk
and his gift of CAB adds no agreeable
ness to his presence when Biddy and he ar,
out
We learn that Mr.. ii. BrllSter, an agree
able gentleman, who has for Il long time
been one Of the most popular conductor
on the Illinois Central railroad, and VIII,
has many friends in tins city, has given "
his old birth and entered the mcrcantil,
business in Centraia.
Mr.. Frank McCabc, brakeman on tn
Cairo and Ninccnues, who several week
ago had two Of his fingers mashed whil
coupling cars, carries his arm in Il sling
and, although the wound is rapidly heal
ing, he still occasionally suffers scverei
from pain
The Warden Of the Southern peniten
tiary reports to the governor that on De
cember I, 1870, there were $50 convicts i
the prison. Eight We're received and tiftec
= discharged during the month, leaving i,
the prison on December 81, BIB, of whicl
four are females,
1t was yesterday evening reported tina
Mr.. Joseph NorveIl, who was run over b,
the Illinois Central cars would not line I'm
til midnight Inflammation had set /,
and this morning he will in all probabilit
be numbered with the dead. This Is in
kccd hard blow to this young wife,
The December crop report of the d.
: partment of Agriculture places the acreag
Of winter wheat sown in the United State