The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-16
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS.

MIR, VIM. Wolf, who has been i'll for
several days, as at his post of duty again,
ID. T. Linegar, Esq, is absent from
the city. Having left tor Ottawa yesterday
morning.
Ike Wilson, coored, was yesterday ar
rested for drunkenness and fined one dol
lar aud costs Squire Comngs assessed the
fine.
The burning of a tlue Of one of the
frame buildings on Tenth street, between
Walnut and Washington, accustomed the
fire alarm Sunday morning.
Mr. VIM. Holden, of Hodges Park,
writes us that he has just shipped hog
that weighed four hundred and ninety
pounds and asks "IIow is that for pork"
Squire Osborn, who has been quiteR i'll
for several weeks, yesterday paid his office
the first visit since his illness. He is yet
quite feeble, but hopes soon to recover his
usual good health.
"A jury was yesterday obtained in the
Mott case, but owing to the fact that the at
torneys in the case had important business
in another city, Judge Yocum postponed
the trial until next Friday.
Unless all rumors are false, the Illinois
Central railroad proposes to put in line of
steamers and barges from Cairo to New
Orleans to assist in the immense freight
traffic of that road to southern points.
The 10 puzzle is no puzzle at all, or at
least Is not near so great a one as that
which is now pulling smokerS-"How so
fine a cigar as the 'Faultless' can be made
and sold for five cents Smokers all buy
of F. Korsmyer, OHIO Levee, corner Sixth
stree.
Thirty reams of white and colored
sized paper for full sheet, quarter sheet,
half sheet and other sizes OF posters and
were yesterday received at
THE BULLETIN Job office.
The attorneys for Mr. Z. F. DAVIS
having received permission to argue the
matter Of writ of habeas corpus before
the supreme court, Mr. Davis, in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Omsted, yesterday left for
Ottawa, where the court is now in session.
Tobacco sales Saturday, at the Farmers
Tobacco warehouse, were twentyone hogs
heads, as follows: One hogshead, trash,
81 rs; Five hogheads, Tugs, So 40 3 70,
5 40, 3 20, 90; Fifteen hogsheads, COM
mon to medium leaf, So 90, 5 80, 8 90,
) 05, 50, 80, 5 80, 6 90, 4 IS, 6 SO,
) 30, 80, 6 80, Z 90, : 80.
The Massac journal learns from a gen
tleman who has inspected the hull of the new
steamer, now beng built at New Albany,
to take the place of the Fisk that the work is
rapidly, and that the new boat
promises to be all that could be desired in
the way OF commodlous and elegant
freight and passenger packet,
Nine hundred pounds of fiat writing
paper to be ruled INTO note heads, bill
heads, letter heads, bills ading, etc, were
Yesterday received at The BULLETIN job Of
fee.
The other day Squire Osborn was
agreeably surprised by the receipt of let
ter from MI Chas. Monroe, of Helderal,
Mich, who is his half brother and from
whom he has not heard forty years, and of
whose whereabouts he was ignorant. Nr.
Monroe, is an aged gentleman of means,
and will probably soon pay this city
visit.
We are glad to be able to announce an
in the condition of Mr. {.
lIanny, who was actually reported dead
yesterday morning, But while he is better,
he is yet too i'll to receive visitors and will,
for the present, not be apt to receive many,
since DR.. Dunning informs US that he
carries the keys for the front and back
doors in his pants pockets.
Mr.. W. II, Knowles, special agent of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society, did
not have II very pleasant experience in
Cairo Within three days after his arrival
lie was stricken with fever and lay for
ten days, until last Sunday afternoon, when
his friends placed him in the sleeping car
and sent him home to be nurScd back to
health. He hopes to return to Cairo in
about ten days and finish the business that
called him to this city.
A German named Free, or "aomding
like dat living III Mound City, was deter
mined to gain the benefits of the Cairo cat
tie market. lie had fine COW from which
he concluded to part a, u fair money con.
sideraiion, and finding all other routes IN